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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?

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YeTalkShiteHen · 11/10/2018 22:50

I was taught to say J to rhyme with I by my teachers at a good primary school in Edinburgh in the mid 80s Hmm

Now in Lanarkshire.

Lindy2 · 11/10/2018 22:56

Titilated, I also have no idea how to say chipotle. I'd quite like to try chipotle sauce in Subway but I can't because I don't know how to say it. 😂

NoParticularPattern · 11/10/2018 22:59

Ooh I love these threads. I always sit here trying to figure out how other people must sound. Fascinating!! So we’re North Yorkshire and we have:
Wensdee
Feb-you-ree
Lie-bree
Most of my husbands family say jags not jabs
Cut-le-ree

However my husband weirdly pronounces plaster as plarster. It’s the only long vowel he gives anything, the rest are short vowels (ie glass not glarse.....)

Scone is contentious. I say scone but my husband reckons that a proper Yorkshire woman would pronounce it scon. Not sure how I get to be mor Yorkshire when I’ve never left the place but you know....

Ooh I tell you what my husband always picks up on (which I’ve picked up from my mum) is that I say saw (as in “I saw Edna at the shops yesterday!”) as if it has more of an O rather than an A. So it isn’t pronounced “sore” but more towards sow (as in ow that hurt!) but still with a slight hint of the A in there. Dialect is a funny thing!!

Lindy2 · 11/10/2018 23:01

Vintage, thank you. I will be asking for Chippotay sauce on my next sub. Let's hope there are not regional variations on how to say it. I need the London/South East version. 😀

dawnacorns · 11/10/2018 23:01

I believe it is pronounced chip-oat-lay ?

Goldmandra · 11/10/2018 23:02

FEB-REE boils my piss too. It's FEB-YOO-ERRY.

No. It is Feb-roo-arry.

tolerable · 11/10/2018 23:02

yetalkshitehen n scabbybabby- am scottish. I dont object to jie. but pronounce it jay. ..@awlookit... NOT Pry-mark???? Prymaddonna? pry-eest? ...

DoAsYouWouldBeMumBy · 11/10/2018 23:03

@YeTalkShiteHen really??? Ha! Sorry Grin Maybe it's just where I grew up, then, that j-eye was a bit common non-standard Blush

dawnacorns · 11/10/2018 23:03

noparticularpattern do your in-laws say, for example
'have you had your flu jag?'
Shock

YouOKHun · 11/10/2018 23:04

‘A Belgium’ when the person means ‘a Belgian’ - surprisingly common error.

StoneofDestiny · 11/10/2018 23:05

starzig

definitely

BlackForestCake · 11/10/2018 23:05

The other Scottish one which gives me the rage is sanGwich. There’s no bloody G in it.

That's even worse as the proper Scots word for it is “piece”.

StoneofDestiny · 11/10/2018 23:07

That's even worse as the proper Scots word for it is “piece”

Yep.

GinZing · 11/10/2018 23:08

Quinoa - I’m still not sure how to pronounce this. I read the kee nwah version was created as a big piss take and Kee Noah or Kwi Noah just sound wrong to me. Anyone?

ferrier · 11/10/2018 23:08

Thee-etta instead of thee-a-ter. Triple grrr*

For theer-tuh? Mad, just mad!

And what's with this foreign stuff. How should we Brits be pronouncing chateau and paté?

GreenMeerkat · 11/10/2018 23:08

Only when MIL pronounces my daughter's name eve-Lyn instead of ever-Lyn. I'm aware both pronunciations exist but she's her grandmother and DD is 3.5 so you'd think she'd know how to pronounce her name correctly by now Hmm

treaclesoda · 11/10/2018 23:08

Someone upthread said they hated Preeeemark but that's what the shop used to be called. It's what was on the TV ads when I was a child. I know they announced last year that its Pr-eye-mark but if you've been used to saying Pree-mark for 40 something years it's kind of stuck there.

JellieEllie · 11/10/2018 23:09

My partner says ex-a-ray instead of X-ray. Pisses me off no matter how much I correct him.

whiskeysourpuss · 11/10/2018 23:09
RomanyRoots · 11/10/2018 23:10

Bangin

Bockle annoys me, I'm in the East Lancs area.

GinZing · 11/10/2018 23:10

Ps I’ve heard hospickle and bockle in East Mids.

GreenMeerkat · 11/10/2018 23:10

Bold instead of bald too.

Midlands thing apparently (I'm NW)

StoneofDestiny · 11/10/2018 23:11

Piece = sandwich in Glasgow (and any other part of Scotland that wants to claim it)

To say it's NOT pronounced like this?
AdaColeman · 11/10/2018 23:15

YY YouOKHun I even seen "We sell Belgium beer"!

BlackForestCake · 11/10/2018 23:16

People who say J to rhyme with pie most likely also say “therty” for the number after twenty-nine. Very Glaswegian that one.

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