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To say it's NOT pronounced like this?

718 replies

DaanSaaf · 11/10/2018 21:31

Cutlery.

Cut-le-ree
Not cuttle-ree

Sets my teeth on edge. What pronunciations annoy you?

OP posts:
buscaution · 11/10/2018 23:40

I think it's misheard from a piece 'N' jam

StoneofDestiny · 11/10/2018 23:40

thisneverendingsummer - we were sent to school with a 'play piece' for break!
We put money inside it on the way to our Christenings and gave it to the first child we met who was the opposite gender to our baby - a Christening piece!
(Can't imagine the problem with that now with multiple genders being declared 👀)

PrimalLass · 11/10/2018 23:41

ScabbyBabby aye that’s exactly it! The letter J is called J-eye rather than J-ay in Scotland.

NOOOO. It's a west coast thing AFAIK. I'm from Fife and would never say J-eye.

whiskeysourpuss · 11/10/2018 23:42

Maybe that's just how we say it here... but the most important thing is usually butter or no butter with jam Grin

thisneverendingsummer · 11/10/2018 23:43

Nothing wrong with 'garridge' - it's a regional thing.

PrimalLass · 11/10/2018 23:43

My IL's say 'jags' when they mean jabs (as in injections) that does my head in

No they mean jags 😂 as in injections. Jaggy.

Bowerbird5 · 11/10/2018 23:45

Eugenie.

BlackForestCake · 11/10/2018 23:47

Well, I’m going to get technical here. A sandwich is a butty. It’s only usually a piece if it’s cold, like a jeelie piece.

Well that's nonsense because you can have a piece and sausage.

Butty is Yorkshire/Lancashire isn't it? I've never heard a Scottish person call it a butty.

buscaution · 11/10/2018 23:47

We staple call it a play piece Grin

ClinkyMonkey · 11/10/2018 23:47

Filum instead of film. Hate that.

Not that I want the last word or anything buscaution but I'll see your Prime and raise you Prima. There's a double 'e' sound right there.

buscaution · 11/10/2018 23:47

*still

buscaution · 11/10/2018 23:48

clinky

Ooo I never thought of Prima Shock

cheesemongery · 11/10/2018 23:56

Ooh he's been having terrible trouble with his prostrates - that's nice.

Cut-la-ree here.

Wends-day - does anybody say Wed-nes-day.

How would you anglicise Chateau etc anyway?! Shat-oh is how it's pronounced, prob less pronunciation on the oh (esp with my accent!) Cat water.

Yabbers · 11/10/2018 23:58

BlackForestCake
In that case it’s a Doric thing. Definitely butties where I’m from.

AmIthatbloodycold · 11/10/2018 23:59

Cut ler y

Lie bra ray

drawr

Scon and jam
Soon palace

Oh and I say jay, not j-eye. I know people that say both though

pallisers · 11/10/2018 23:59

round here the word supposedly is "supposebly". Used mostly with "come to find out"

Used often in the following construction:

"supposebly the bus was free, come to find out it was five dollars"

I hate it but it has a strange allure

AdaColeman · 11/10/2018 23:59

All those mentioning piece, do you not have snap or bate?

Yabbers · 11/10/2018 23:59

buscaution
Yes - playpiece here too.

MrsGollach · 12/10/2018 00:02

Mat-rass is pronounced like that in Scotland because some of the language originates in France

buscaution · 12/10/2018 00:03

ada. I have heard bate, but I assumed it was bait, from the fishing

Itslookinglikeabeautifulday · 12/10/2018 00:09

It’s Brexit, as in Brex-it. Not Bregg-zit.
Drives me barmy.

StrumpersPlunkett · 12/10/2018 00:11

This !!!!!! 😡😡😡

“ Yesterday 22:45 Underthefur

Pleece for police

Sec-u-terry for secretary ”

buscaution · 12/10/2018 00:11

OMG yes to brexit - not literally Grin

My DH says Eggs-it instead of ex-it. Drives me nuts.

Graphista · 12/10/2018 00:13

Haha! Timely thread for me - a tv announcer regarding a programme starting on 26th October - keeps saying "twenty-sicth" no! It's "twenty-sicsth" that's an X not a bloody c!

"And JAI instead of JAY for the letter j" Jai meaning rhyming with I? As in scots pronunciation? Sorry as a Scot I think jai perfectly acceptable.

"So J is pronounced to rhyme with eye not way in Scotland?" Yes

I'm with chandler on "supposably"

Non-scots always wrongly pronounce my name, but I understand why as it's spelled same as the name they think BUT what I do object to is when they try to tell me I'M pronouncing my OWN NAME "wrong" - no I think I know how to pronounce my own bloody name!

Marklah (and bershet) - generally agree with you but aks/ask is dialectal, I think Caribbean pronunciation.

"I love that there are Scots words for things that would take 4 or 5 in English, some there are no literal translations for and we use lots of Scots words regularly in our house and local area." Me too. But I feel it's only fair to point out this is true in other parts of the U.K. Too.

Although I still struggle to not correct the scots pronunciation of

Poem, poet, poetry which seems to add a y to the middle - my mum particularly guilty of this one.

"My IL's say 'jags' when they mean jabs (as in injections) that does my head in" they DON'T mean jabs though, they mean jags as in something sharp and stabby in feel.

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/jag

Newkewlar - yes that one annoys me too.

"I have always thought it odd that Brits pronounce crepe "krep". It's "crayp" here" where's "here"? The accents on both are grave not acute, therefore the tone descends not ascends.

"I absolutely hate it when people say should of / could of / would of instead of should have / could have / would have" I don't mind them saying it too much I DO mind when they bloody write it as it's absolutely wrong then!

"When people say ‘generally’ when they mean ‘genuinely" another one I see FAR too often written too!

Draw/drawer - again no biggy pronunciation wise, but in writing? Not right.

My answers
Library
Wenzday
Cutt-le-Ree
Scown

Re jai/Jay Scotland J - I'm in south west Scotland, where are the rest of the jai people?

Pacific, hospickle, bockle and similar - sorry but are you 3?!

Sadsongs - trowma to my knowledge is American pronunciation.

Brisklady - even experts not yet agreed if it's text or texted.

And we're not even yet discussing truly tricky ones like epitome, hyperbole,

"Yes - jags not jabs.
Slidey not slippery
and Bawbag instead of Trump" 😂😂

"Pleece for police" oh bloody hell! DEFINITELY never go to glasgow - it's pronounced poh-liss there 😂😂

"That's even worse as the proper Scots word for it is “piece”." Exactly! We have jammy pieces caught from being flung oot a windae, on a day oot where we try to avoid the jaggy nettles 😂

I get stuck trying to explain Wellington boots to non Brits! What are they called in USA? Aus?

louella99 · 12/10/2018 00:13

Where I live some people say redchester instead of register. Has always driven me wild!

Also as PP said.. fillum instead of film.

Pacific instead of specific.