Irritating pronounciation

[percheron67]

I have just seen the Tesco steak ad and wish that the woman talking would not use a glottal stop in the middle of words. Perhaps this is regional but it sounds very lazy.

[AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight]

FFS. Meant 'mispronunciation' ^^

[AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight]

In my first paragraph!

[crazycolour]

I don’t usually mind accents but my children have picked up “We've went...” from my ILs and it gives me the rage

[AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight]

Crazycolour, that's not an accent (or a feature of one), that's an ungrammatical usage - and I do think it's ungrammatical rather than regional. I never used to notice people mixing their tenses but conflation of present perfect and simple past forms are really creeping in on here - I see a lot of 'he done (instead of 'did') his homework', 'I seen' (instead of 'saw') that programme last night', 'she's went out' (instead of 'gone' - as above). I don't know why. Also 'go' seems to be losing its preposition.

[StealthPolarBear]

Not one that irritates me but I was surprised when I heard someone with an Irish accent say "mirror" for the first time. In the ne of England we say mirr-or. She said "myrrh".

[vampirethriller]

I say arl-mond. Everyone I've ever heard say it, said it like that. (Except one woman who said Oll-Mund and that was a bit distracting.)

[Powerless]

As this video explains, it is also common with the Cockney accent

[crazycolour]

It is! They live in the Wirral and everyone talks like that! I seen, I done well, she’s went... just like that! Everyone!

[Bramble71]

If you don't like the glottal stop, you'll never cope living on Teesside in north-east England.

Broofen is Brufen, a brand name for Ibuprofen so not wrong.

[Powerless]

@Bugjune Who, who?! Please tell!

[YaLoVeras]

which words in English should have a glottal stop @percheron67 ?
I thought this was like an east end accent ''button'' in a cockney accent with no t in the middle. Which word OUGHT to have this pronounciation? i googled tesco steak ad. None the wiser.

[CharltonLido73]

If we're talking shifts in grammatical usage, the one that gets my goat is the use of the double conditional perfect instead of pluperfect plus conditional perfect (imported from the US, I suspect).

E.g.:

If she had told me about the problem I would have set off earlier. (Correct usage)

If she would have told me about the problem I would have set off earlier.
(Incorrect usage)

[YaLoVeras]

Ok, I think I found the ad. Sarah Millican is it??

What words should have had glottal stops? The OP has gone I think but can anybody shed light on this?

[MuggledOff]

@crazycolour my DH (a professional high flyer with two degrees and an eye watering salary) says 'i've went' 'we've went' etc. It drives me absolutely crazy. I don't know when he started doing it or where he picked it up from but I find myself correcting him constantly. In a fit of rage I told him he must sound stupid in meetings and he'd probably get sacked

My 2yr old has now started saying it so I'm hoping that DH will finally change his ways now he can hear it from the mouth of a babe.

As for different pronunciations of words I couldn't care less. There is at least one of these threads every week on MN and they all each different conclusions

[crazycolour]

•YaLo• Don’t know if it’s standard but words like “Scotland” and “nightly” are often pronounced with a glottal stop...

[YaLoVeras]

@charltonlido73, yes I noticed that, that Americans do something different with that tense. I couldn't explain it so thanks for writing that down.

[crazycolour]

MuggledOff I said similar to my DH! He wanted to change because he was getting sarcastic remarks at work, he rarely says it now.

[YaLoVeras]

@crazycolour, thank you, so is the woman Scottish? I thought that was a north of england accent. And she is pronouncing the words as though she were English?

Sorry to be like a dog with a bone but I don't get it at all.

[RadioDorothy]

My DH says "owl-mund".

I have to stop myself shouting ARMUND ARMUND ARMUND

[Ethylred]

DD says aLmond.
I have to stop myself from shaking her. I blame the posh school we sent her to, it didn't come from me or DH.

[MikeUniformMike]

Brush Etta bugs me too. And Choritzo.
Usually said by celebrity cooks and chefs.

[bluebeck]

I really love a Geordie accent.

I am from South coast and have RP accent but that doesn't mean I can't bear to hear other accents.

The only things that really rile me are "haitch" and incorrect grammar such as "We was going to the shops" oh, and somethink.

[bluebeck]

I say ahl - mund

[liz70]

"It is! They live in the Wirral and everyone talks like that! I seen, I done well, she’s went... just like that! Everyone!"

I am Wirral born and bred and neither I, my family, nor anyone else I've known from Wirral say that. Always "I did/I've done, we went/we've gone, he came/he's come" etc. That's not a regional variation; it's miseducation, ignorance or downright laziness.

On the other hand, I now live in Glasgow, and "I've went", "We've came" etc. is bloody endemic. Everybody seems to say it.

[ToadOfSadness]

Priti Patel made me want to smash the radio up the other evening, pronouncing some words with correct ending of 'ing' and others with 'in as in walkin, talkin, livin. She knows how to speak properly so why not bloody do it.