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”.

Something vaguely related...

The philosopher George Berkeley pronounced his name as "Barclay" (think 'Berkshire') but the city named after him in the USA is pronounced "Burklee." The Scottish philosopher David Home got so fed up with people mis-pronouncing his name that he changed the spelling to "Hume." And Halley, of Halley's comet, was "Hawley."

I haven't read the whole thread, but chipotle is pronounced chip-ott-lay in Spanish. The "oat" sound in the middle is very much American pronunciation of Spanish to my ears.

@sentientpuddle

Worcester is pronounced Wooster
Worcestershire is pronounced Wooster shuh

People usually pronounce Worcestershire sauce as if it was Worcester Sauce, which might be cause of the confusion!

Quinoa ... just leaving that there

No it ain't.

my Late FIL always called Loughborough Loogie Baroogie. Amused me so much that’s pretty much what it’s called now.
(he did know how to pronounce it I add)

A girl at my South East England secondary school was called Siobhan. A lot of people lazily called her Shawn...which she hated! Siobhan is a pretty name but written so differently to how it is pronounced.

it's not, s followed by 'i' or 'e' is a sh sound, and bh is a vee sound, and then the fada makes the vowel longer. So.............. it's extremely phonetic.

However, have a friend Siobhán and her nick name is Siún (shoon) so kind of not a million miles from shawn!

‘Lowbrow’ University was how my parents used to say it - tongue firmly in cheek I may add. They also used to joke about their friends’ hothoused sixth-former kids applying to ‘Uxbridge University’.

That’s an accepted variant (well, eye-ann-thee and ee-ann-thee are anyway). I’ve met a couple and neither pronounced it Yanthy.

Ian-th, like the female version of Ian, would be wrong.

As a child I read ‘chaos’ as cha ooze
hahaha!

Persiphone - per-si-phoney. Best I can offer I’m awful at phonetic spelling.

It could be worse. Not until I was 49 did I learn that deciduous wasn’t written and pronounced decidious and I was/am a professional woman with two degrees 😳 I guess for some reason I had never seen it written and didn’t need to say it often 🤷‍♀️

@Livinginanotherworld

Lol

It's Per-sef-oh-nee

Just because you’re surrounded by knuckle draggers doesn’t mean you have to drag your knuckles too.

Er, no it’s not ee shing. Actually it’s ee jing.

I'm confused? Why is this funny.
In the NE of England that just means what's the news, what's happening etc. Craic in Ireland.
Have you got any crack? Have you any gossip, any news etc.

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The social worker in The Incident with the Dog in the Nighttime was called Siobhan. I did a book report presentation on it in my early teens, pronouncing it as Si-obb-han. My bitch of a teacher then made all her feedback in front of the rest of the class about this and marked me down immediately from the starting score of 100 to 20, for this one mispronunciation and another 20 down to a fail for my speed impediment.

Hideous woman, ruined what is a lovely name for me too.

*speech!!

Both forms are correct.

See, "what's the crack?" originated in Scotland and northern England first and migrated over to Ulster where it was used in this form for a long time. From Ulster it spread south from where it came back to Great Britain as "craic".

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/nelson-mccausland/the-irish-word-craic-it-sure-isnt-all-that-its-cracked-up-to-be-34463086.html

But it is NOT incorrect to write it as "what's the crack?", in fact.

@TheWordHu88yIsMyPetHate you're perfectly correct there's nothing funny or incorrect about the original phrase "what's the crack?".

This is a Scottish and northern England originated phrase which went to Ulster (today's Northern Ireland). It was used in this form well, well, well before it became "craic" from about 1968 onwards.

That other poster is clearly ignorant of the long history of it. Craic is just a Gaeli version of the English word crack and both mean the same thing! Another example of how closely connected the people of the British Isles really are.

Gaeli meant to be Gaelicised. 🤦‍♂️

Here's one I'm not sure of - can any Cornish MNers help? Yesterday I bought a lovely St Eval candle.

Is it...
EE-val (same emphasis as evil)
ee-VAL
EV-al
ev-AL

..or something else I haven't considered?!

So, MNHQ isn't pronounced muhn-huck?

Steeval! Like Stives.

There's a place in East Anglia called Garboldisham pronounced Garblesham (unless the locals were taking the piss).

I always thought you could tell how posh a family was by how little the pronunciation of their name resembled the actual spelling, like Saxe-Coburg-Gotha(sp?) which is pronounced Windsor.