To not realise I was saying this wrong...

[HelloBunny]

Stopped on the street today by a lady looking for a shop. She asked for the nearest “Shrov-Ski”.
Explained further that it’s a jewellery shop. I eventually cottoned on that she meant “Swaa-Rov-Ski”
Bit like “hyper-bole” with me as well... (until I heard it said on the News!) And the name “Beat-Rice”.

Wee.

@Benjispruce4 , yes, I was well aware, thanks - so that would translate as ‘Ready to animal-feed trough’. Er…..

Correcting them might have prevented them from feeling like tits if someone else did later, but at the time I guessed that they didn’t have Pret in Australia - and they were heading home soon - so perhaps it wasn’t going to matter.

I love Eggyput!! 😂

Thank you 😊 @TwoLeftSocksWithHoles 😅

I would pronounce Dilettant without the final E because I would spell it without the final E - there's contentious for you!

Wiki tells me this is a perfectly acceptable alternate spelling in English, so it means everyone gets to be right - you Dilettantes and Dilettants.

@HelloBunny, a dilettant is a dabbler, someone who has a broad surface knowledge but not an expert. Comes from the verb to delight. Often used sneeringly but I think it's a nice thing to be.

My childhood mispronunciations were CHasm for chasm and OR-Y-ON for the constalation Orion. I was very disappointed by the latter! It sounded like an Irish surname, not a mighty hunter.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER I added my second post because read mine back and realised the tone could be misinterpreted. Obviously not a direct translation of manger but was having a joke.

I had an email from a friendly colleague asking “What’s the crack?” 😂

That's exactly how I am going to pronounce it from now on - glorious.
I learnt to spell it by saying 'Egg-wipe-t' in my mind.

Can anyone confirm how you pronounce gesso please? As in artists’ materials?

@Flanaganstrousers768 , Jesso

I'm always surprised by how often people type "should of" instead of "should have". In speech I'd have assumed they're saying should've.

When the Normans came over there developed a three tier system of languages. Latin was still the language of the Church, Norman French became the language of the aristocracy, the army and the law, while English (which back then was not like our English but an inflected language with case endings and totally different grammar, resembling modern day Icelandic) became the language of the common people.

When a language is widely spoken, but not widely written down, it changes more rapidly (look what happened to classical Latin in France, Spain and Italy). The interaction of medieval English, Norman French and ecclesiastical Latin (itself a different beast from the language of Virgil and Ovid) led to a massive expansion in vocabulary and a complete breakdown and transformation of English grammar, so that the English of Chaucer is unrecognisable from the English of King Harold.

What’s the crack? Brilliant!

To pronounce it the French way, you would have to say "dee-ye-tont". Do you?

But, either way, the root of the word is solely Italian and the final e should therefore be sounded.

In my day it was "after dinner I did a 💩"

Nice.

My favourite is my manager saying canopies or my MIL saying 'can-apes' for canapés and there's a few sports reporters who say 'making their day-boo' for debut.

Oops @Benjispruce4I didn’t mean spelling. No idea why I said that. Pronunciation. Always been spelt Adidas.

Where is your husband from? In Bourgogne we do not make the liason.

There's definitely an age element here.

I always thought Moët was pronounced moway because that's how Freddie Mercury sang it in Killer Queen (which I first heard as a teenager in the 1970s).

The 1970s television adverts for Anaïs Anaïs used to pronounce it Annay Annay.

And back then Nestlé was always pronounced Nessles.

Of course pronounciation isn't always consistent. I was surprised to find that in Hastings there is a Beaconsfield Road that is pronounced beacons field rather than beckons field.

My daughter had a friend whose surname was Featherstonehaugh. He pronounced it as written, rather than as Fanshaw.

And Charles Powell pronounced his surname Pole whereas his brother Jonathan pronounced it Pow-ell!

I have a friend with surname Powell pronounced Pow-ull .

@Iknowthis1 , I suspect a lot of people don't understand what the words they are saying or writing actually mean. Whereas 'rest bite' makes some sort of sense, 'in tack', 'in title', and 'high rate' do not.

Don't get me started on 'going against the grain being used to mean 'going against the flow'.

My Cabbage Patch doll’s “birth certificate” came with the name Marie Renae. So to six year old me, Mare-eeee Ree-anne.

There was a presenter on an Australian awards show who referred to a singer making their ‘de-butt’.

How odd! Back in the day we said Sweb, not S W E B. Also, UNICEF, Nasa, radar, scuba ...
Has he never heard of acronyms?

I used to have an old banger of a Citroen car. It’s model name was Debut and it was an old rust bucket we affectionately referred to it as the De-butt.