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?

I’m not talking about subtitles, I’m talking about threads like this when the Scottish people always say “why are you putting random Rs in words?” when a non-Scottish person puts a phonetic spelling.

I may not understand Rab C Nesbitt but is do understand that The Scottish accent is a rhotic one.

Of course, I now can’t think of an example!

I don't know what you're trying to say. English people don't put random r's in words except, for some inexplicable reason, in drawring.

Or do you mean a linking r between certain phrases like 'Asia and Africa' when Asia has an r sound after it?

Actually makes me feel sick.

Oh FFS. This place is getting more ludicrous by the day ... 😂

I’m not talking about subtitles, I’m talking about threads like this when the Scottish people always say “why are you putting random Rs in words?” when a non-Scottish person puts a phonetic spelling.

I don't know what you mean? If the spelling was phonetic, surely you only say the letters that you see?

I’m not talking about subtitles, I’m talking about threads like this when the Scottish people always say “why are you putting random Rs in words?” when a non-Scottish person puts a phonetic spelling.

Except, for example, this one, where no one's mentioned it except you, to general bafflement whereas there has been quite a bit of disparagement towards some Scottish variations!

When I was a young thing I was working in my first job. A lady on the phone was giving me her address and it was in Surrey. I'm from N Ireland and in my accent that would be a definite 'U' sound. She said what sounded very much like 'sorry'. So I said 'it's ok, do you want to give me that line again?'. She was so furious that I couldn't understand her accent that she shouted at me until I cried.

I suspect I'm going to be accused of being unfair and stereotyping etc and I stress that Not All Southerners but it's something I've come across repeatedly (although I soon toughened up and didn't allow it to upset me) and it has only ever been people from the southern part of England who have reacted with anger if I don't understand their accent. I assume because there is a belief that it is 'correct' and other regional accents are not. Other people seem to be more accustomed to having to slow down or repeat themselves etc so it doesn't bother them in the same way.

And my apologies to all the perfectly lovely people from the south of England, I do appreciate that this is a small minors of people that I'm talking about and I'm sorry if I'm tarnishing everyone with the same brush.

My sister says ardvert for advert

I'm spared the cutlery thing-everyone I know is too posh to use the word at all.......

What do posh people call cutlery?

I am Irish therefore the posh speech thing is a mystery to me!

If any Scots remember The Scheme tv programme, I confess to howling with laughter when it was subtitled in England (late night reruns) when I was staying with a friend.
Although to be fair, Marvin was fairly unintelligible

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.

See, I'd fight you on both of those. Definitely jewel-er-ree and Wensday.

I've remembered the one I really hate - nucular. I'm sure people who say it would have no difficulty reading a phrase such as "new clear windows" so how hard can it be to say "nuclear"?

This reminds me of my first shift in a cafe when I was 16. I was sent to get some “breid” and wandered around with no purpose until someone asked what I was looking for and then handed me a loaf of bread. Same thing with “glasses” and glasses - ironically a huge chunk of my advanced higher English was written in Scots 😂

It's "new-klee-ar" not "new-cue-lar" (history of science lecturer who used to drive me to distraction).

River city’s/Still Game’s subtitles are in English despite them frequentlyconstantly speaking in Scots. It drives me up the wall - subtitle in the language it’s spoken in unless it’s fixed subtitles!

'Haitch'. Every time. It's fucking 'aitch'.

'Island' instead of 'Ireland'.

Mirrow for Mirror (obv pronounced Mirrah)
Tong for Tongue (Tung)

Thatstheendofmytether I loved him! I always wondered how he is now, he seemed such a lovely guy despite his demons.

I cried buckets when Bullet got sent away and he found out!

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

How else would she say it? Qatar =cat-ar.

A Lebanese friend of mine lived in Qatar and pronounced it more Cutterr with a slightly rolled r.

it has only ever been people from the southern part of England who have reacted with anger if I don't understand their accent

So she said "surrey" but you had not heard of the county so understood it as "sorry"? The problem I'd have with Irish counties/placenames is not not knowing where they are, but not necessarily knowing how they are spelled, or conversely when written down, not knowing how they are pronounced.

But yes, some tolerance generally. A slightly different point, but it annoys me when BBC presenters are interviewing people from overseas, who speak very good English (or not so good), but are not native speakers, and the presenters use so many colloquialisms. It's well known that second language English speakers can generally understand themselves better than native speakers and it's because native speakers won't modify their language to use plain English. I cringe at times. Some people will understand colloquial English but it's better to assume they don't on a short interview unless you already know otherwise.