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.

I love a mn pronunciation thread,the sheer bombastic responses.
Accents are interesting they add character and depth

I once had a harrumpher correct Karl Marx. To Caaal Marx.removing the rolling r. substituting the r for a long aaaa
I fastidiously ignored,obvs

It’s not an “r” sound in “almond” it’s just the long a: sound, which is how people in the south pronounce their “r” sound.

So the first syllable of almond rhymes with bar and car and far.

ba:
fa:
a: (m-nd) - can’t find the schwa vowel on here

Ethyl - surely a posh school would teach your DD that there is a silent ‘l’ in almond?

I say ahmund and aitch

”Schoolchildren repeatedly being told not to drop Hs may cause them to hyper-correct and insert them where they don't exist."

Not just children, several of my (northern as it happens) ILs do this for some, not all, of the time. It depends who they are talking to at the time.

The most memorable was SIL who promised to “love, honner and hobey” at her wedding.

Has anyone mentioned scone yet?

@RedDwarves are you talking about the Scone in Perthshire just that it's pronounced Scoon as in spoon but where I'm from the food is pronounced scown to rhyme with own/lone

Uhven or oven?

putonyourdancingshoes

I once got told off for pronouncing the place name of Ovenden (W Yorks) like the kitchen appliance. That one is apparently O - venden, not Uhvenden.

My pet peeves....

Specific - Pacific! I pacifically asked you to do that? 😳 wtf!

Asked - axed!

Escaped - ex-caped

Arghh!!!!!

The BBC style guides carry no weight with me since they started insisting that data is singular. As for Angela Rippon's gay-rillas... . Eff off, BBC.

Scone palace in fife , pronunciation Skoon
Scone the baked good, scone rhymes with gone

Asked and arksed are mixed up a bit round here - think it’s some patois link

@ScreamingValenta maybe the capital letter?

The most memorable was SIL who promised to “love, honner and hobey” at her wedding.
That really made me laugh...cheers

Onvalope/envelope?

Hopefully I get the MN thread prize. Female relative says "vag-een-a".

I'm
A French speaker and don't think bag-et sounds that wrong.
More accurate is ba-get with emphasis on the get.

One my dp and I always argue about - how do you pronounce Boulevard? He always says boo-levard and I’ve always said bow (as in bow tie) levard.

He’s got a strong West Country accent and mispronounces pretty much every single word on this thread. I’m so used to it now I don’t even notice it.

It's boo-le-vard

He always says boo-levard and I’ve always said bow (as in bow tie) levard

Your H is more correct.

Oh bollocks. I’ll never tell him that though

Karl and Carl are a nightmare for many of us Scots. Mostly indistinguishable from Carol without linguist tongue twisting gymnastics.

I say bool-var.

Scone Scoon and scone sgon