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.

Btw "The Wirral" is incorrect. It's either "Wirral" or "the Wirral peninsula". Just while we're being pedantic.

It’s a pronunciation quirk that means you sort of miss a hard consonant and replace it with a break in the word but no real discernible sound.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop
As always wiki is brilliant for describing linguistics and phonetics but no one will read my link.
A glottal stop is produced by closing the glottis. In butter there is the phoneme /t/. Some people produce a 't' sound for the /t/ and others substitute a glottal stop for the /t/. We all close our glottis at one point or another when we speak. Using a glottal stop is no more lazy than using another vocal tract movement.

"He'd went to..." etc. seems to be very common in the US too. I hear it all the time on podcasts.

It must really irritate you that the Geordie accent has been previously voted the best, sexiest and friendliest accent in the UK.

H. It's spelt 'aitch'. So when you say "HR" it's not "haytch are" it's "aitch are".

Secretary. The word is meant to denote someone who keeps the confidential work of their boss - the secret part. It is therefore "Sec-ra-tary" not "Sec-a-tary".

In the same way that "nuclear" is pronounced "nuclear" if you would. Not "nu-killer".

Priti Patel does say in for ing and I find it annoying.

Why do so many people pronounce turmeric as tumeric?

Ah, didn't know Brufen was a brand name, never heard of it! I stand corrected.

I was accused of dropping my Hs because I say “aitch” 😂

'Haitch' is a regionalism. Rooted in an overcorrection, is you like (see post above re dropping Hs).

I'm uncomfortable with anyone being labelled as not 'speaking properly' because of a regional accent (as opposed to an ungrammatical and non-regional usage).

And FWIW my accent is as RP as they come.

And people using the chube, you know the underground/tube.

That is somefink that annoys me like nuffink else does.

Secretary. The word is meant to denote someone who keeps the confidential work of their boss - the secret part. It is therefore "Sec-ra-tary" not "Sec-a-tary".

FIL says sekkiterry- any woman who works in an office is a 'sekkiterry' according to him.

”'Haitch' is a regionalism. Rooted in an overcorrection, is you like (see post above re dropping Hs).

I'm uncomfortable with anyone being labelled as not 'speaking properly' because of a regional accent (as opposed to an ungrammatical and non-regional usage).”

Absolutely, but there are lots of people who say haitch as ungrammatical and non-regional usage, rather than as a genuine regionalism.

Lots mentioned already that make me wild, but the worst one is people who say apricot wrong.

it is ape-ree-cot, like a monkey in a baby bed not bloody APP-rhi-cut like a phone app and cutting things.

*Iruka

Wasn't brufen a brand name of ibuprofen? Its like saying hoover instead of vacuum cleaner.*

^did not know this.

it’s Sarah Millican narrating. I’m failing to see the problem OP? What is it that you don’t like about the way she speaks?

I'm going to take a stab in the dark that it's because her accents Northern.....

There's nothing like a MN pronunciation bashing thread to separate the commoners from the posh twats

Most of the posters on this thread would fucking hate us Cumbrians - I drop my aitch's, substitute t's for glottal stops in every word that has a t in the middle and never pronounce the g in ing, and yes Almond has an L in it, if you said Ohl-munds where I live you'd get your arse handed to you in between fits of hysterics

Oh gerraway! I'm from Brissle (or Brissell) and pronounce those nasty nutty things aLmond, and the place in Wiltshire where they have that posh school, Mallborough, not Marlborough, etc etc. It's a regional thing called dialect.

Ammond? Is that someone talking about the present Chancellor of the Exchequer or a nut or what...?

Newkiller for nuclear gets me.

How do you pronounce
"resurrection"?

My boss says reece-urection"
I say resurrection (almost a "z" sound for the "s", but certainly not a " see" sound! )

I pronounce the l in almond as I'm Glaswegian and I just can't pronounce it otherwise! It comes out like aaa-mund, not ah-mund. I'd end up putting on an English accent to say it!

Absolutely, but there are lots of people who say haitch as ungrammatical and non-regional usage, rather than as a genuine regionalism.

According to the BBC Pronunciation Unit, "haitch" is standard pronunciation in Irish English, whereas "aitch" is regarded as the standard pronunciation in British English.

According to the BBC Pronunciation Unit:

"Haytch is a standard pronunciation in Irish English and is increasingly being used by native English-speaking people all across the country, irrespective of geographical provenance or social standing. Polls have shown that the uptake of haytch by younger native speakers is on the rise. Schoolchildren repeatedly being told not to drop Hs may cause them to hyper-correct and insert them where they don't exist."

Laughing at the gratuitous brag muggledoff slid in there.mn bingo
DH (a professional high flyer with two degrees and an eye watering salary)..
And this is relevant,because?oh wait it isn’t relevant. Accent is geographical not employment related
Surprised she didn’t say he is top of his game✅

This thread is unbelievable. Many of this so-called mispronunciations are simply regional. It is little use quoting some source or other to "prove" one way or other is right. Many of the posts are contrary to my beliefs about the correct way to say a word, there is a certain snobbishness coming out that some ways maybe sound less educated. Climb down off the high horse

Hilarious to quote the BBC pronunciation unit, these are the same folks that invented a whole accent of pronunciation entirely for the media, crackers