To say it's NOT pronounced like this?

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Cutlery.

Cut-le-ree
Not cuttle-ree

Sets my teeth on edge. What pronunciations annoy you?

I give up. I can only assume some people are being deliberately obtuse.

Or and awe sound exactly the same

Neatly proving that actually an r isn’t required when writing it out

"I can only assume some people are being deliberately obtuse."

Something we can agree on.

Drawer as in drawer in a cabinet is pronounced draw!

SoupDragon it wasn't til MN that I understood non-rhotic accents. Even watching tv programmes with English actors and hearing words pronounced sometimes I could never understand why it sounded different eg drawer, poor example from me but I hope you get the gist.
Same with the phonic spellings that English people use, look and sound different to my Scottish phonic spellings and I'm sure for other Scottish and Irish posters as well.
It wasn't pretence that I couldn't understand why an 'ah' sound would be 'ar' in English it was I suppose ignorance, but thanks to posters like yourself and others it's finally hit home and I find myself listening to the different accents on tv more and the subtle nuances of words. I find I try to guess where posters come from on threads like this if they don't say their general area

Cuttle ree sounds like something a crab would do.

SoupDragon Fri 12-Oct-18 12:27:58

Unless people are actually, intentionally saying "orction"

That is how auction sounds. Or and awe sound exactly the same.

Dumbfounded. Genuinely.

yetalkshitehen you spelt library the same both times! People say libary a lot

Your views please on lug-zhury or luck-shury?

This came up quite a long way into our thirty-odd year marriage or I might have had to LTB.

SoupDragon, do you pronounce it awe-kshn?

Oh sorry didn’t read a previous post about library!

Your views please on lug-zhury or luck-shury?

Definitely the latter!

When people say someone's "got another thing coming" rather than "got another think coming" - got another thing coming doesn't make sense!

tigercub50 I know, because that’s how I say it. As it’s spelled

Myimaginarycathasfleas I’d say lux-uree, no g or zh.

Juells aye I used to be, but now I get it. Still am but now I understand the non-rhotic v. rhotic explanation it makes sense!

When people say someone's "got another thing coming" rather than "got another think coming" - got another thing coming doesn't make sense!

That's interesting, I always thought it was thing! A quick suggests that thing is overtaking think in common usage though, and I'm a forward-thinking kind of person, so I'm gonna stick with it :) Don't get stuck in the past!

That is how auction sounds. Or and awe sound exactly the same.

If people can tell the difference when someone actually says it, they don't sound exactly the same though.

Up until a couple of years ago I'd spent my life pronouncing Plaid as Played (not Plad). I took a lot of convincing that I'd been saying it wrong for 45 years. Even today I still have to read it as Played in my head as the correct way doesn't sound right.

I’m just going to hurl this gastronomic grenade in -

It’s choree-tho.

Or, in some parts of the Spanish speaking world, choreeso.

But never choreet-zo, or chor-it-so. Leave that to illiterate chefs and idiot voice-over arteests.

Rick Stein at last started pronouncing it correctly when he did his series on Spain. Took bloody long enough.

And. Breathe....

THANK YOU! I love you people.

Butterfly005 Fri 12-Oct-18 12:40:07

When people say someone's "got another thing coming" rather than "got another think coming" - got another thing coming doesn't make sense!

File it with "I could care less"

and "it begs the question", which interviewers and presenter love to use (incorrectly) when they're trying to sound pompous and learned

Myimaginarycathasfleas

Haha, we've had whole threads on chorizo before.

You're not wrong, but just to note, it's choreeso for significantly more of the Spanish speaking world than it is choreetho.

Myimaginarycathasfleas that’s exactly why I never say chorizo out loud, in case I make a twat of myself!

Even today I still have to read it as Played in my head as the correct way doesn't sound right.

Comes of solitary reading as a child I have a whole list of words that I mentally mispronounce - awry is top of the list, closely followed by mishap

That is how auction sounds. Or and awe sound exactly the same.

I give up. I can only assume some people are being deliberately obtuse.

I'm a Scot and I'm not being deliberately obtuse at all, but I genuinely couldn't make Or and awe sound exactly the same.

'Orkshon' would sound very different to the way I would pronounce 'Awkshon'.

Us Scots see an 'r' in a prononciation and our years of training tell us to say it - this means it comes out as a hard 'rrr' most often.

We tend to say what we say, which, to be fair, makes sense.