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”.

I didn't know that either, but I've only ever read the word.
I read Swarovski as OP did too. Have prosaid it wrong out loud once or twice, but again it's not a word I'd use.

Tar-jey is a joke, like Primarni for Primark. It's obviously Target.

Also I would valet a car without a t, but a manservant is a valet with a t.

DH and I have the same argument, sadly he witnessed the TV ad and now sees it as him being right. I just refer to it as the Swedish shop now for ease 😂

I think that's a piss take.

Valet, I think depends on whether you're taking about the parking (not common in the UK) or the male dresser/assistant as per Downton abbey!

A lot of these words have one acceptable pronounciation in English and a different (correct ) one in the orginal language. E.g. latte is not pronounced "laa- tay" . It's actually pronounced with a short A sound and ends with a short E ( like the initial E in "elephant".

Thanks, Enko! Wouldn’t have got that one, gotta say.

Me too

I once had to go and greet a new doctor in our team. as a lowly teenage admin girl. She was called Persephone I said "morning percy phone how was your journey" fml

Yes. I was only thinking about the car one when I posted but you are right.

Aha! It’s now Tar-Jey forever for me!

I thought the "Tar-jay" thing is a joke to make it sound classy, the same way people here call Primark "Primani"?

There are a couple of brands I know for a fact I pronounce incorrectly but if I started saying them properly, I'd stick out like a sore thumb here. For example, I know that it's "Nikey" but 99% of people around here say "Nike". Similarly Ah-DEE-dis instead of Addy-DAS. Or PYOO-zho instead of peu-zho (Peugeot). I'd be written off as a try-hard

I did this with Hermione 😂 Herm-ee-own was how I first read it 😭

I think it’s Moet rather than Moey ?

Is it lo-wev-ay? That's how I've been saying it?

low ey vay

My dad spent several weeks calling his new colleague “Penny Lope”.

And there is the famous AskAManager thread about somebody who thought she had two colleagues, the guy called Joaquin who she emailed about stuff, but had never met, and the other guy Wakeen who sat opposite her….

I think a lot of this shows that Brits would be better off if more of us spoke other modern languages.

is what I say i think, hard to write it down 😆

I always thought misled was pronounced mizzled so never understood what it meant till I asked someone 🥴

I heard an east coast resident pronounce it Tar Jay once some years ago and questioned it, she told me that’s how it was said but west coast is Target. Clearly she was winding me up 😂

anyway, here’s one I always love, The Chaos by Dr Gerard Nolst Trenité. A wonderful illustration of how mad our language is.

monologues.co.uk/004/Chaos-The.htm#:~:text=Gerard%20Nolst%20Trenit%C3%A9%20(1870%20%2D%201946,So%20shall%20I!

I say -

Per-Jho
Le-Vay

@felded wow, I was completely off!

@amusedbush
i thought the 2 adidas versions are one English and one American.
its definitely addy-dass for me!

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