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)

I have a question. Is Shrewsbury pronounced shrews-bury or shrohs-bury? My ex corrected me, but he often used to correct me wrongly and couldn't spell surely (surly?!) while bragging about his impeccable SPAG so I didn't take much notice

my uncle knew a very well spoken lady who said she lived in Coke-Fosters (Cockfosters). It was all very Mrs Bucket!

Reminded me of this 🤣

From MIL we have had
pee-zer (pizza)
crow-songs (croissants)
and chee-err-bat-zer (ciabatta)
She tries...

I have a question. Is Shrewsbury pronounced shrews-bury or shrohs-bury?

Yes.

@ZellyFitzgerald - do you mean accurate pronunciation?

My MIL does this. We had a bread maker for a while, in factthe exact same make and model as their own bread maker. Despite the fact that making bread in it required no skill whatsoever and that it tasted exactly like the bread they made in theirs, MIL insisted DH's was the best bread she'd ever eaten and that he was "so clever" for having managed it.

Luckily DH sees this habit as a sweetly amusing quirk of his mother's and not proof that he's marvelous at everything.

MIL also pronounces it "moos-lee" for some reason. I do love her very much though.

Not a house guest as I was the guest. DM lives alone and has a lot of animals including birds that talk back. You can be mid sentence and she will hear a bird say something and move to a conversation with it over the current conversation. She also narrates everything she does and the animals do. I think she went a good five minutes at Christmas just telling the animals what they had been doing.

Both parents also seem to have set their home up to only have seating for one guest which is shit when DC and I go as I am awkwardly left standing in the middle of the room.

When I was at school and taking French lessons I'd sometimes teach my late Mum the odd word. One day, in Boots perfume section, she saw "Poison" by Dior and proudly pronounced it pwɑːsɒn, the French for fish (poisson) 😂Err, good try but not quite Mum 😆Fish eau de toilet anyone?

@Twattergy MIL once asked me to make her ‘some of your Dolphinoise’. We never corrected her. She likes upmarket restaurants so I like to imagine her ordering it 😂

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😁Correct pronunciation or not, he sounds ridiculous especially because the rest of the sentence is said in a broad Essex accent.

The ribbing is good hearted honestly, and he finds it funny. I think he now over pronounces it just to annoy me.

We inherited an old double oven with the house. One side is large, but uneven and I was doing some stuffed chicken breasts so wanted to use the smaller more trustworthy oven for it. My mother would not let it go that it was a waste to heat up both ovens and that it would be perfectly fine and kept turning the small oven off when it was heating up while I was busy doing other things. Every time I protested, I was apparently causing unnecessary drama.

So Christmas Day, for the first time in my life, I have a Russian roulette of whose chicken breast is uncooked.

“You should’ve used the smaller oven”- my mother.

I’m still irritated.

😂 We call it 'Dolphin Wise' in our house when we are being daft. (Me and 10 yr old DD)

My lovely DM - who is just the tiniest bit pretentious at times - says art deco as "arr deco" in a French way, and something inside me screams in pain. Particularly frustrating as I live in an Arts and Fucking Crafts house, NOT an arr deco house.

I would try something approximately like

Qua (like quack without the ck) - son (rhymes with on, or like sob with an n)

in case that helps!

My mum used to talk about the N suite, and my FIL would pronounce balcony as BAL-coney. It took me a while to work out what he meant.

Of course! Thank you.

This thread has me LOLing!

My MIL who doesn't speak good English was describing what 20 month old DD was saying.

What MIL said 'baby suck dudu (milk)'.

I thought oh well DD sees me breastfeed DD2 that must be why she's saying that.

What my DD was actually saying 'baby shark dudududu'

Hahahahaha

I speak French too, but still prefer English when I go on holiday.

When DH and I went to Marrakesh I would always ask the locals if they spoke English before I asked my question.

We booked an excursion and my hubby received a call from the taxi driver, but I was in the loo.

All I heard him say was 'Par-la-la anglais?' to the taxi driver. Luckily he understood what DH meant

FIL pronounces muesli 'MER-zlee'. Tbf it's probably closer to the German pronunciation than 'MYOO-zlee', but he isn't German and doesn't speak it. It drives me nuts (haha).

MIL also pronounces chipotle 'chip-OTTLE', which also makes me wince.

My mum used to pronounce pizza pizzer.

OMG our father's must've separated at birth. When I started washing up I was accused of taking his job!

The best one I’ve heard (I think I saw it on here) was voovay clickwot - the champagne 🤣 I’ve referred to it as that ever since!

no particular mispronunciations from in laws although they do make the most almighty FAFF about the smallest of things and contingencies

MIL takes anti-flammables for her Arthur-itis and serves peripherals (profiteroles) 😄

I can’t bear people who say “ather-letes” and “nuculer”.

Could you not say 'Being vegan, are you sure you want to eat a Moose called Hugh?'