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 don’t know how else to pronounce pate, chateau or gateaux. Unless I should say pureed chicken liver, castle and cake

I'm Scottish and I say "Jay". But there again, I am posh was brought up in Bearsden/Milngavie and went to Bearsden Primary and Academy.

Dh was also taught Jay and he's not as posh as me - he's a true Glaswegian unlike me - brought up in Priesthill and then Cessnock and went to St Mungo's Academy (when it was still selective).

Ds was never allowed to say Jeye taught Jay - brought up and schooled in the Southside of Glasgow.

@Yabbers I totally agree, it is cringe to pronounce things with an accent. But you don't say las-agh-ne. Just say it normally but without the G. Arrrrrrgh! Huge pet hate. Also agree with eXpresso. There is no X.

Yes there are multiple accents and dialects in Scotland. I have always said JAI (west central). I also say JAG instead of JAB. It's definitely more jaggy than jabby.

JAI instead of JAY is how I say it, it’s how I was taught in school because I’m Scottish.

It's not because you are Scottish. It's because your teachers were bloody idiots.

Saying jai for jay really sets me off. It's not Scottish, it's wrong.

Err it would be pretty odd NOT to say shatoh unless you mean shat..........oh which is most irritating I agree! (choreetho anyone?)

I’m slightly dubious about the claims that ‘everyone I know pronounces J this way’. You must all spend a lot of time spelling out words to each other.

As someone has already says ‘newkular’ annoys me. As does lar-tay for latte (should be latay) and expresso for espresso.

Bo-ul for Bottle particularly grates.

I say lie-bree.

Wednesday is Wenzday. I read somewhere that pronouncing the d is a relatively recent thing from people "correcting" their pronunciation to fit the spelling.

How about Tuesday? I grew up with the 'Choose-day' pronunciation. I moved less than 100 miles away and here it's pronounced 'Tooz-dee'.

Used to work in a call centre - postcodes!

SciFiFan2015
Me too - I'm Scottish and say Jay (to rhyme with Kay, or like the bird the blue jay) rather than J-eye
I wonder if it's a West Coast thing as I'm from the NE/Highlands and had never heard it til I met people from Glasgow. The J-eye thing irrationally annoys me!

I like regional accents though and on the whole I like hearing how different people from different areas pronounce things. It's very very rare that a pronunciation is so unusual that you can't understand it in context!

Foreign foods and drinks can be a minefield.

Eg Chorizo - should that be choreetzo cho rit so, choreezo or something else entirely?

I am never sure how to say chipotle.

A tutor on a language course told me not to teach my students lib-ra-ry as a pronunciation because no-one pronounces it like that- it's lib-ary he said. Also gar-arge as opposed to garr-idge. Almost everything I said he wanted a more 'sloppy' pronunciation taught. Not that I have anything against people who speak that way, just didn't see why I should be to change my perfectly acceptable pronunciation 🤨

I’m Scottish too - Aberdonian - and I say Jay. To me, Jai is the posh English way to say it!

I’m from Glasgow-ish. I remember the one kid in my class at primary school who pronounced it “Jai”, she was also the one who said “sequences” instead of sequins.

Defiantly instead if Definitely,drives me mad, want to scream its wrong,doesnt even sound the same

Pleece for police

Sec-u-terry for secretary

Aaagghhhhh

fYnance

should be Fi-nance

I interchange Jai and Jay. Depends on the flow of the sentence. Would say H, I, Jai. But say Jay in my postcode.

I'm Scottish, from Lanarkshire/Glasgow and now live on the east coast. I say J to rhyme with "day". No one, IME, says J to rhyme with "eye" on the east coast, and I don't really know how to say it politely, but the people in Glasgow who did say J to rhyme with "eye"...they were not taught to do so by their teachers...

And it's definately sequences.

Tittilated - heard it recently (I was like you!) And I'm sure they said chip-oh-tay.

Aberdonian/Highland/islands roots, now central, ex Glasgow - still this jai is new to me.

People who pronounce the place Westminster as westMINISTER. Grr.

Chippo-tay - emphasis on second syllable.