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”.

East Anglia, and particularly Norfolk, has some extraordinary pronunciations.

Stiffkey is 'stooky' or 'stewky', depending on whom you ask.
Happisburgh is 'hazebro'.
Postwick is 'possik'.
Wymondham is 'windum'.
Deopham is 'deepum' but Reepham is 'reefum'.

Poughill near Bude in Cornwall is pronounced Puffle (I asked in the Tourist Information).

I grew up in Norfolk. Your post made me smile.

There are very many others!

I've never heard anyone say Stewky though.

Whrn my daughter was small, she pronounced Egypt as Eggwipt. This name has stuck and the whole family say it like this - she is now18.

I knew a Sian who pronounced her name See-Anne not Sharn.

I don't pronounce Sian as Sharn.
I pronounce it as Shan

Brilliant 🤣😂

@LadyEloise1 , Siân isn't Sharn or Shan, it's Shân.
The â sound in math or cath isn't the same as in english maths or bath.

I mean someone saying bath with a long a sound.

I'm in the Midlands. Sian is usually pronounced Sharn here, probably very differently to how it would be in Wales. But I've only ever heard this particular person pronounced her own name See-Anne.
In contrast we say bath not barth and laff (laugh) not larf.

How would you say 'my car has been valeted'?

In the UK we pronounce the T in valet - as in valit- but in America they pronounce it vallay

I used to think bank 'cheque' was pronounced 'cheh-cue' ( to rhyme with bus 'queue') when I was young!

My dad has always pronounced ‘picturesque’ as ‘picture-skew’ as a deliberate cacoepy. Very confusing as a child!

Similarly to that, my gran always said ant-wax for antiques. It was obvious she was joking. Whenever I say it like that DP looks at me as though I'm nuts.

Ha ha at picture skew 😅
My dad says thee-ayter for theatre, and he can't seem to say mirror either 🤔

@Papergirl1968 , Siân is like Sharn (without sounding the r), but the aah sound is flatter than in 'sharn'. It's difficult to describe it, but the way non-Welsh speakers say it is slightly off.

My family do this as well. 😂 And on the same subject - how is ‘cacoepy’ pronounced? (My spellchecker doesn’t recognise it either!)

I’m not a Welsh speaker but the a sound is usually phonetically transcribed as \ɑː, which is the same as the a sound in ‘father’.

ka-CO-eh-pee

It’s one of those words which archaically would have a diaeresis, like coördinate - cacoëpy.

@YippieKayakOtherBuckets , that is how it is transcribed, but that's an approximation. If you imagine someone with a broad northern accent saying aaah, or the A in Are, that is the sound.
The transcriptions aren't the actual sounds.

Siôn is transcribed as Shawn, but they don't sound the same. Siôn sounds more like Shown, without the w bit
Coed is transcribed as Koid, but It doesn't sound like that; it's like Co-ed but only one syllable.

If you only speak Welsh, there are far many vowelly sounds that you can't transcribe into Welsh. Paul and Hole (pôl and hôl) would rhyme, and they don't really do they

How ?

@HeatwaveToNightshade HeatwaveToNightshade · 20/11/2022 00:19

In the Uk you should (as in it’s standard) as in eg Downton Abbey.

Oh, here we go again. Assuming everyone in the UK pronounces everything the same way. In NI we don't pronounce the 't' in valet. Most of us don't care how it's pronounced in a fictional TV series. Are we 'wrong'?

Eh...ironic you're presuming everyone in Northern Ireland pronounces "valet" the same way!

I don't know anyone in Northern Ireland who doesn't pronounce the 't' in "valet"......🤷‍♂️

@nannykatherine , how was her mind blown apart, or how is L'Occitane pronounced?
The pronunciation has been posted many times already, but it's Loxy-tan

So, it's Loxy Tan
Not Lock ih tan or Lock ih tayne as I pronounce it.