Pronunciation - would you correct?

[Dipsydoodlenoodle]

I'm aware this isn't the right place to post but I wanted some advice about what you would have done.

We were out with friends a few months ago, they have a 6 year old dd. Friends are foreign. Let's call them Adam and Eve lol. I'm Friends with Adam and have met Eve on several occasions but don't know her well.

Eve says to Dd6 "what does this say"...Dd6 read it perfectly and pronounced it perfectly. Eve corrected dd6 for saying a local place wrong...(Eve pronounced it as it reads, rather than as its said). Obviously as I don't know her well I didn't want to interfere...but would you have corrected her (OK maybe not on front of dd6, but quietly to the side)?

I have several foreign friends and all are happy to get help with pronunciation or phrases...I just felt as I didn't know her very well, that it would be rude. I did consider trying to drop it into conversation, but I couldn't.

I work with someone who corrects people's "proNOUNsiayshhin"

There are place names on here that I've never heard of 😂

Do you mean Belvoir and Featherstonhaugh?

OP Yes I would have corrected it.

I was on the tube once and someone with a very strong accent was asking me if it was the right line for “et-ero” and i couldn’t figure it out and then she wrote it down for me; Heathrow! I guess Heat h row
i felt like a fool though as it’s not that different. So yes I would have corrected. Even native speakers get it wrong, my parents have only just started referring to “Melbun” instead of “Mel bourne”.

I heard an American on the tube talking about Action Town.

Fowey, Cornwall
Definitely correct them, it’s how we learn.

I would have just told her the correct pronunciation. Actually DD would have.

I would have corrected and made some jokey comment about how English place names can be a nightmare for pronunciation

So a few months ago, something was pronounced correctly, but someone said it wasnt..

Odd thing to still be thinking about "a few months" later, but yes, in this context, as others have said, in a light-hearted way, no problem with correcting it.

So rather than correct the adult getting it wrong, you allowed her to tell your 6 year old she was wrong, when she wasn't? I hope you told your 6 year old later she was right.

I think it was 'Eve's' 6 yr old dd, not the op's.

Wildboarclough?

Yes I would've interjected that 'Actually Eve, locally it is known as x' Not really a big deal, she's not from the area. More awkward is when someone from the UK mispronounces ordinary words like specific, saying pacific instead. I would feel rude because actually I would inwardly be a bit judgy.

Is anyone else desperate to know how to say all there names?

I'll start
Cowbit said Cubbit (s lincs)
Boscastle said Bo’csle
Woolfardisworthy well I can’t recall but think it was Woolsery? It was so different it was in brackets on the road sign 😀

Last week in Cornwall I asked someone if we were on the right road to PENT ee wun (Pentewan). They told me that yes, this was the road to Pen CHEW un. We had a chuckle at my expense

Also in Cornwall there is a place called Mousehole, pronounced Moossle.

I would have corrected her but I really wouldn’t still be thinking of this months later!

Yes! They are two of my favourites.

I would have said right there and then “oh no she was right it’s X” in a conversational manner. I think pulling her aside to have a quiet word would be far more embarrassing.

I lived in Australia for a while and would occasionally correct peoples pronunciation of UK place names. Likewise I distinctly remember being corrected when I said I was going to Hervey Bay for a few days and was told that it was pronounced Harvey Bay and not as it is spelt (as I had). Very good natured conversation and I was happy to be corrected.

Maybe my 6 year-old is just gobby, but she definitely would have spoken up about being corrected when she was right.

How do you pronounce it please ?
I don't live in the UK.

I would have corrected it subtly, something like "There's a lovely castle at X" and hope Eve would pick up on it.

Loughborough?!

Yes, I would correct Eve. As a fellow foreigner, it's incredibly annoying when you find out 10 years later that everyone was too "polite" to correct you. I only found out via Mumsnet that "albeit" is pronounced "all-be-it". I wish someone had told me sooner rather than letting me sound a bit stupid