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”.

@Jyn That reminds me of Chester drawers 😀

Chester draws, surely?

Surely what?

Oh draws! Yeah obvs . Sorry I missed that.😂

I thought it was Lockitan

No it’s Loxy-tahn .

Many years ago a Scottish news programme was covering the recovery of The Scream by Edvard Munch, pronounced Munch as in eating. Maybe a bit snooty to laugh but it was funny. And an English sports reporter pronouncing Tannadice (Tanna dice) in Dundee as if it were Italian, bringing some unexpected glamour to the city . You just don't know what you don't know sometimes.

This has been a fascinating thread that I’ve actually learned a lot from despite being heralded as a bit of a wordsmith ☺️

My contributions are:

Only a few years ago I made my Mother fall about when I read out the word “gaol” as “gay-ole” ….. I was in my 40s and didn’t realise it’s pronounced “jail” - as in - well, jail.

The other one that confuses me is archipelago. Is it archipelago or ark - ip - el - ago if you see what I mean?

And I was irrationally irritated by a Picasso presenter the other day over the pronunciation of Todmorden …… lived close to there for a short while, and remember the locals pronouncing it Tod- Morden” but this guy kept calling it Tod - moor - den and it just sounded so wrong!

Podcast presenter. Not Picasso. Damn you autocorrect.

@MistressoftheDarkSide , I did wonder.
I don't understand how Tod-Morden and Tod-moor-den differ.
Isn't it TODD-mer-den

Yes, I was trying to emphasise the TODD then the Morden all being sort of Mudden - you did it better !!

In school studying English poetry for my inter cert ( 👵🏼 ) I can’t remember the poem, but it was maybe by Siegfried Sassoon. A WW1 poem anyway. Set in Ypres.
I recall our English teacher announcing that she couldn’t be doing with French pronunciation and during our discussions the location would be known as WIPERS.

TODD-mud-dun it is.
I couldn't get over the Goorick castle location of I'm a Celebrity. It's Gwrych - one syllable.

Few on here would know what an Inter Cert is but I do 😂

Yeepers indeed !!!

Wipers not Yeepers.

Wipers is what the English soldiers, the Tommies, called it so in studying WWI poetry, there is a certain authenticity to it.

Grösse just means “size” in German…. as I am sure you know since you provided the Wiki link, but if she happened to bring you large tights it was through luck not judgement.

It’s pronounced with the t as it is Dutch not French. When I was 19 I was in the Savoy hotel for a valentines meal. I had a waiter try and embarrass me by saying “you mean Moway’.

They had a newspaper called the Wipers Times.

I always thought it was atchio before the films came out. Italian style cc as in Gucci

Arkansas is just Kansas for pirates 😊

Arrrrrrrrrr 😂😂

😂 I'm going to use your French version from now on. Much better.

Someone mentioning studying English reminded me of a high school English teacher telling us about "synecdoche", and pronouncing it sin-eck-doch (with a ch as in loch). My friend discovered he was following the York Notes guide, but he should have checked if he didn't know! My mum (a former English teacher) laughed when I mentioned it in passing!

Should be sin-ECK-duh-kee!

Fair enough, it looks like I should have picked "Groß(e)" and not "Größe"?

Small, Medium, Large = Klein, Mittel, Groß
large size(s) = große Größe(n)

I think it's a forgiveable error :)
Jo

ABBA is an acronym.

By definition a word is formed from some of the letters in a phrase, usually the capitals. So NASA is an acronym, as are several programming languages (well third generation languages BASIC, COBOL).

BMW and FBI are initializations so are pronounced as leters.

MNHQ why do you call the initializations on here acronyms?