Croo-sont

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Lighthearted! In laws are going home tomorrow but not before they’ve annoyed me by pronouncing croissant as ‘croo-sont’ for the millionth time.

What’s the minor annoyance from your house guests that has been bothering you disproportionally?

(I’ll say it again - a light hearted thread! I love my in-laws really)

My mil calls espresso ‘expressa’ and rubbish ‘rubbidge’ love her lots though!

My late MIL would always pronounce Christmas with a (clearly) audible t and berated anyone for saying Chrismuss. She also had a bee in her bonnet about the plural of sackful being sacks full and not sackfuls, and would goon about a bloke on Radio 2 saying “we’ve had sackfuls of mail on this subject”.

@astralpiano Mozzarella cheese

My MIL and FIL do this. I find it infuriating and patronising. I assumed it would stop once our DD was no longer a toddler but she's 19!

They never say we, I or me, it's "Granny and Grandpa are...." or "pass Grandpa the cheese", etc. No one else does it, but they are oblivious.

They have always spoken to het as though she's younger than her years. I keep referring to her as an adult/woman but it doesn't help!

Oh right thanks!

Also I Wales I've been asked for directions to
Ew- loy.... Ewloe which is you-low.

And the brilliant Pooly woolly- Pwllheli - which is sort of puth hell e (but with the ll sound made by tongue on roof of mouth as you both out rather than tongue on teeth as you both out to say thhhh).

Best was the fact we are 2 miles away from Ewloe but 80 miles away from pwllheli so no idea why they were asking directions from our town.

MIL always said Bootses for Boots.

And round here it's the Asda or Tesco's. And one scouse colleague called asda The Azzie.

This is how I always pronounce ambience 😄because of the comedian Micky Flanagan- its in one of his shows. Its not a word I use massively often though.

Hilarious.
Could be a scene from The Royle Family.

My lovely late MIL pronounced profiteroles as profit-ear-roles, still makes me smile whenever I see them on a menu or in a shop. 😀

Ahhaaahahhaaaa!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's is hilarious

I once asked an upwardly mobile woman where she'd been on holidays.
"We went to Carca-so-naay, my sons love to practise their French".

Our satnav in Spain directed us to Foo-en-Jai-Rolah.

My mil says really odd things just got something to say
Eg she'll offer to take the baby for a walk at 10. I'll say brilliant but if you could hang on till 11 he'll be more likely to sleep. She says fine. I took him upstairs at a quarter to 11 to change his nappy. Came back down. Mil said "oh did he have a sleep?" Now, it took about ten minutes to wrestle him into his nappy but Wtf?

Another example - she left a small bag of clothes here she wouldn't need until her next visit because she didn't want to be overloaded on the train. Like a supermarket sized bag. Maybe 2 jumpers and a pair of boots.
I said that's no prob, I'll getDH to store them in the attic. She said "or just throw them in the bin if they're in the way, it's fine" . Me again WTF I just said we'll put them in the attic.

Most conversations have a little helping of Wtf

I started a thread about this a couple of years ago - it made the weekly round up <preens>
How DO you pronounce croissant or even pan au chocolate or paella or similar when you speak the relevant language competently but don’t want to sound like a twat?

I knew someone who thought a duvet was a doove.

There used to be a brand of kitchen roll called Dove. Someone (different person) used to get shopping for me and would happily arrive and say I got the Dove (pronounced like stove).

Penguins maybe

Yes, ping-wings are penguins.

We have absolutely no justification for talking about ping-wings. Ever. We always do if we can 😁

Thank you all for the cumberbatch clip - I've sent it to my kids who appear to be asleep still. They are gonna love it!

She does pitsa too. And yo-got

She also has Taah-hini paste and sezaahmee in that recipe.

Mozzarella?

I think of the Harry Hill episode everytime I think of houmous! 😂

Who moose?
Me moose?

How do other people pronounce hummus? It has several different spellings and one I've seen is houmous so maybe Delia wasn't so far off. I say HOO-mus (caps indicate stress). Is HUM-mus more like the Arabic pronunciation?

My PIL (long, long gone now) would occasionally reminisce about the area where they grew up. They mentioned Pepys Road and pronounced it Peppies, and Avignon Road, pronounced Av-IG-non, both of which made me blink at the time.

Oh dear. DH and MIL pronounce croissant as cwaZont, with a very strong Z sound

Not guests but my husband says 'KWA-SSOH' in an accent more French than the French and I want to bash him over the head with a frying pan!

Harry Hill's Who-moose?

MIL pronounces pizza as pizz-ah.