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”.

@SquirrelRed , in my 2nd year at school I saw a very weird name on one of the new first year lot’s coat pegs. Fancy being called Peen-lope!

It was quite a while before I actually heard anyone say Penelope.

I say a ‘Sv’ sound instead ‘sw’, because Daniel Swarovski was born in what is now Czechia, and so I just assumed the W was pronounced like a V.
So I assumed Sva-rov-ski.

OH had a disagreement with a barmaid over this pronunciation. How do you say Sauvignon?

Showing age here but can't get this out my head now:

Any better?

It's not Shrovski! It's is definitely Swa-rov-skee.

It's working, you've posted it 3 times! 😆

Same as valet and fillet I guess, we pronounce the ts, but Americans don’t

Sew-vign-yon?

I can say it, it’s hard to write it phonetically!

But you knew what she meant..... so why question it

PortalooSunset, what I’m saying is that I never thought about it until now!

Sorry @inappropriateraspberry ! The first two don't work for me so I thought there was a fault. I'm glad they did for others.

Currently baffled over IKEA. Uk adverts say ICK EAR. Yet just come back from west coast USA where the ads called it IKE EAR.
See also Tar get and Tar jey for the Target stores in the USA.

SO-veen-yon

Yep. Italian. With the "e" at the end pronounced.

I wouldn’t pronounce the T on valet for sure.

Chick-Fil-A

I say Ick-ear, not Ike-ear. It drives my dh and kids insane!
i say to them ‘but that is how the Swedish say it’ and they say but in the Uk, we don’t go round saying Paris like the French say it.
I don’t care - I say Ick-ear. 😂

I used to work with a lady and when she was pregnant she said if it was a girl they liked Chlow. They’d seen it in a baby book and really liked it. She was Indian and I thought it was maybe an Indian name so asked her how it was spelt and she said Chloe 😂

I wouldn't say the t in valet but assumed fillet was an English word. Filet on the other hand ...

Tar-Jey? No!!

I read the name Hermione in a book when I was much younger (pre-Potter) and thought it was Her-me-own.
My (posh) brother-in-law put me right.

Loewe confused me years ago

Yeah, I heard of a Sean in the US known as See-Ann. But like Sharn / Cyan, I guess...

That Seann guy, as well... Why?!