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Actually, I KNOW I am, but it really annoys me that my mum pronounces the name Rachel, 'Racial'

207 replies

VeniVidiVickiQV · 25/09/2007 14:05

thats it really.

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Middleclassbutchlesbian · 25/09/2007 21:04

I know, I'm 'ard.

mytwopenceworth · 25/09/2007 21:07

In that case, I'll go back in and you can be my bodyguard.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 25/09/2007 21:07

yes, that'd be it hunker......

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melpomene · 25/09/2007 23:42

Another one is skellington (for skeleton)

WaynettaVonSlob · 26/09/2007 08:05

VVV you have had me crying with laughter at this!!!

Lorayn · 26/09/2007 08:47

burgular it's burglar!!!

bozza · 26/09/2007 09:03

My MIL says per-jee-oh for the cars discussed below. And DD's swimming teacher calls her Cait-land - sounds like she is a small country and she is really quite a petite little girl.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 26/09/2007 10:07

Indeed, if I didnt laugh Waynetta..I'd be crying

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LaBoheme · 26/09/2007 10:22

My late Nan used to say "Cuddle-de-see" instead of Cul-de-sac

snowleopard · 26/09/2007 10:37

Oooh I love this thread - my posh MIL drives me up the wall - toilit and choclit of course, also fammlee (family) and proplee (properly). She also adds non-existent extra ts into "it isn't"/ "isn't it" so that they come out as "isn't tit" or it tisn't - aaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhh

I once worked with someone who said pacific instead of specific, and pronounce automobile "or-to-mob-i-lay" ! (and not as a joke - that's what she thought it was). This was in a publishing comapny and she was a book editor! The same woman had to be off work with burns after trying to iron her jumper while wearing it - so she was a bit odd...

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 26/09/2007 11:16

Smurf girl if you're Helen though.. doesn't it annoy you to be called "HelERN"? I think even "Hellin" sounds better than HERLERN but then I'm not a Helen so....

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 26/09/2007 11:17

Snow Leopard, how can you TELL MIL is saying "Isnt tit" because when you say them together they both sound the same?

I am picking here..

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 26/09/2007 11:20

Oooh ohh I've got one (I've stopped picking ).. Bloody Will Young singing that bloody awful song.. think it must be called "Think I'd better leave right now.." or something..

He says.. "I'm a little more caaful.. prehaps it shows.. (but if I lose the highs at least I'm spared the lows.. blah do blah"

Caaful and prehaps! arggh!

snowleopard · 26/09/2007 11:36

You can just tell there's an extra t in it. It's like she lingers on the t. It's like the difference between "hot air" and "hot toddy" - try it, you stay longer on the t to show there's a second t. So if you say "isn't tit" out loud, it does sound different.

I admit it's a tiny thing bu that's how these things work.. Once you hear it, it gets you every single time...

Ilovebuttons · 26/09/2007 11:36

my dh says he needs a Vermeer on his bad tooth

bamamama · 26/09/2007 12:19

awww - I'm liking 'Roley-voley for ravioli' can we have this for lunch???

woodenchair · 26/09/2007 12:32

If you have called your dd Rachel she will spend the rest of her live being annoyed and astounded at peoples stupidity.

It will be mispelled constantly, even if they are replying to an email where she has just signed it with the correct spelling.

Unfortunatley I have a surname that is also commonly mispelt.

happystory · 26/09/2007 12:32

My great gran used to have a 'cizzano' at Christmas

Lorayn · 26/09/2007 12:32

lol @roley voley, DD (nearly7) still says wriggler for vinegar.

worzsel · 26/09/2007 12:36

This would annoy me a lot !

I have a Dog called Hugo who my Dad calls Hugil and my mother in law calls Ugo

Drives me bananas, i'm sure the poor creatures got an identity crisis going on.

muma3 · 26/09/2007 12:38

another rachael here , i hate it when i get called Raquel fgs

chopchopbusybusy · 26/09/2007 12:44

This thread is very funny in a sort of painful way! My Mum say omm y lette. My SIL says sangwidges and restrongs. When I go to Hell they will serve sangwidges and omylettes in restrongs!

Limone · 26/09/2007 12:56

I say me instead of my.

And t' instead of "the" or "to the".

I'm proper northern me

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 26/09/2007 13:02

I'm wondering.. do the people that mispronounce things so weirdly (not in a dialect way.. just weirdly.. as in restrongs) all have a problem with spelling? They can't all be dyslexic or thick can they? ( I KNOW dyslexia is not the same as being thick.. which is why I've specified..)

Only.. surely if you knew how the word was spelt you wouldn't say it like that.. would you?

Lorayn · 26/09/2007 13:04

shinyhappypeople, that is what is most frustrating about dp saying 'accreutt' instead of 'accurate' he knows perfectly well how to spell/say it!!