To say it's NOT pronounced like this?

[DaanSaaf]

Cutlery.

Cut-le-ree
Not cuttle-ree

Sets my teeth on edge. What pronunciations annoy you?

People who say “Shrowsbury” for “Shrewsbury”.

The American pronunciation for vehicle “Ver-hear-cul”.

With "garage" I think I would use two different pronunciations. Garrarje for the one you put your car in, and garridge for the music genre. Saying garrarje for the type of music would be hilarious.

@shearwater David did in “Cold Feet” 😃

Ekonimy .... eeeconomy

My mum used to go spare at all the ‘drawrink’ on art programmes on TV.

Jewellery: it's pronounced jewel-ree. Not jewel-errr-ree

And I'm sorry but Wednesday is pronounced - wed-ns-day. Swallowing the N sound. Wedn-sday.

February: Feb-brew-ary. A small 'brew'

Something, not somethingk. Anything, not anythingk....

Feb-yoo-ery instead of Febroouh-ree.

draw-ring instead of draw-ing. Laura-Rashly instead of Laura Ashley.

Mischeeveeous instead of mischuvus

Haitch instead of aitch.

Don’t get me started on “excited FOR”

Garage is an interesting one. Strictly speaking, the Americans have it right, it’s closest to the original pronunciation. Brits found it uncomfortably foreign so we settled on gar-ahj, equal emphasis on both syllables.

Other US pronunciations I struggle with - alloominum, newk-you-ler - just, why?

DH says thee etta for theatre. No idea why it annoys me as it probably just a regional thing.

Aloominum isn't primarily a pronunciation, it's a different spelling (aluminum).

Fillum is regional, again. Presumably came about because the 'lm' sound is tricky in those accents.

I say 'garazh' with the emphasis on the first syllable.

Not pronunciations, but seeing as someone brought it up, I'm afraid 'excited for' (an event, rather than a person) annoys me too, although I try hard to be a descriptive linguist. As does 'pregnant to' or 'has three children to', as opposed to 'by'. It doesn't make a great deal of sense and makes me a bit uncomfortable from a feminist POV when used of a woman.

Oh, and (having just seen it on another thread) 'alone time'. I think, though, that it's not quite the same concept as 'time alone' - it's somehow specially-emphasised time alone (on your own or with someone else), an indulgence that's precious and jealously guarded. A lot less neutral than 'time alone'.

Tongue - I'm from Yorkshire and pronounce it tung never thought it could be said a different way.... but live in the East Midlands and every here pronouces it as tong?!??

Everybody is pronouncing something wrong. I used to live in London where English people pronounced a lot of things incorrectly would correct me oh ha ha ha

Beauchamp - it’s pronounced Beecham
But people say bowchamp which is the French pronunciation and it annoys me

I had a student from Qater but she said catar almost like guitar

Reminds me of

Jewellery being pronounced jew-la-ree rather than jool-ry.

Jags

Feb roo arry

Definitely jags.

Nego-see-ate
Appre-see-ate
Uh zach ly
Shedule

All annoying

When did homage, as in homidge, become hommarge?

My accent is South London but using a fake Northern/Newcastle/Yorkshire ish accent (I can’t be specific!) cuttleree sounds perfectly right.

These threads are mad really. (Apart from Pacific/specific type pronunciations which aren’t accent related).

Have we had the complaining about extra Rs in the middle of words yet where Scottish people pretend not to understand non Scottish pronunciations?

soup I love to say pacific literally just to see that it sets people's teeth on edge.

And, being Scottish, I actually don't understand a lot of what Southern English people are saying, especially if the word is at the end of a sentence. Something like 'oar' or 'snore' is often pretty unintelligible to me unless I'm really focusing. Given that it seems perfectly acceptable for people to say that Scottish accents are unintelligible (even having to put subtitles on stuff like Rab C Nesbitt), I'm not really sure why you wouldn't think it works the other way too.