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

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

thats it really.

[ClaireVerityIsAWitch]

True story time;

2 blokes I used to work with were driving down the A1 and pulled over for a snack in Wyboston. They were arguing over whtehr its Yboston or Wibberston.

So they asked the guy behind the counter "how do you pronounce the name of this place?"

The young lad looked at them like they were stupid and very slowly said "Bur-ger-king"

I still giggle.

[chipmonkey]

Claire!

[giraffeski]

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[kickassangel]

hospical
gets me every time, particularly as many of the people who say it seem to be females who think it sounds 'nicer' bleurgh

[mytwopenceworth]

empen - when you say 'horse' do you say horse or horsh?

That is a nice.....horse or horsh?

Because if you say horse then don't try to say horseflesh (one word in your mind) just say horse and then pause. plan to say horse and to end the sentence there.

Then breathe in and say flesh.

Of course, if you always say horsh, then that won't work at all!

[empen]

MTPW - I do say 'horse' thankfully as it is combining it with flesh that gets my brain confused - same theory as Par Cark I think!!

Luckily I don't have to say it very often but I will try Gareth Gates type advice next time.

[empen]

Claire LOL - do you actually know how to pronounce Wyboston properly cause it is not actually what you may think.

There are a whole load of place names that are not pronouced as they should be - it is a minefield.

Towcester - Toaster
Harwich - Harridge (sort of)
Manea - Mainy
Bicester - Bister

to name a few

[EffiePerine]

plarstic

yuck

[worzsel]

I used to live in Bicester once upon a time and was approached by an Americal chap one day asking for directions to Bitchister.

oh how i laughed

[Katisha]

Can't cope with Gordon Brown and his "vollues"...

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

LOL!

A guy I used to work with couldnt say "ask" it was always "arks"

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

Americans struggle to say "Leicestershire"

Li cest ter sheer.............lol!

[UnquietDad]

It used to annoy me that Tony Blair always said "weld" for "world".

Don't forget Americans and Bucking Ham Palace!

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

Yes, but they're proud to be a merkin

[harrisey]

Racial for Rachel would really annoy me as this is dd2's name!

I say Po-yem for poem, which dh laughs at. People from Perth (in Scotland - which I say P-e-rth but people not from Perth say Purth) do that!

[harrisey]

and place names in Scotland!

Kircudbright - kircoobree

Strathaven - straven

etc

[corblimeycharlie]

My Dad cannot say pizza - it has to be pronounced pisa as in the leaning tower of.
Drives my poor mother to distraction.

[ChantillyLace]

dd3 says chibben instead of pigeon but as she's only 3 I think it's quite sweet

tho DH says turnt instead of turned and that winds me up!!

[FromGirders]

Treacletart, I sympathise. My FIL pronounces my name just so I hate it.

Had a friend who told me all about how she was redecorating her room in teracotta, cream and fox-suede. Took me quite a while to work out she wasn't talking about the colour of the suede-ette material, and by that time it was too late to do anything other than try not to smirk . . .

[NicknameRemovedByMN]

Empen - no I don't think we ever found out the proper pronounciation, I always think its Wibberston. Am I right?

[moondog]

Brilliant thread.
These neologisms appeal to me greatly as a salt.
Terrific

My lodger used to talk about 'badmington' which made me want to beat him and i bought a tie form a (very nice) shop for dh in which the manager was complaining about the 'torrienshal' rain while the other staff crammed their fists in their mouths and shook with silent mirth.

I also know a woman who caused a near diplomatic incident while playing Pictionary with her insistence on describing/writing (dunno which as have never played it) 'mawn lower'.
She was of course referring to the machine which cuts grass.

[moondog]

Absolutely lmao at Snowleapord's mad woman who was hospitalised after ironing her (worn) jumper.

[louloulouise]

H works in the library - a borrower came in and was chatting to H about sending her daughter to creech, she meant creche!! Still giggle when I think of that one!

[filthymindedvixen]

my dad always called sausages saucyminges - which was funny the first time