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)

@MavisMcMinty - Eng-er-land ather-letes gets me raging.

DH says 'avercader'. Every sodding time I do avocado and prawns.

I know someone who always refers to the "horse piddle"
It infuriates me, they will be a hospital in patient as a result of it one day.

And "FaceAche" = Facebook

OP here - name changed at MN request

love all these replies!!

C-wah-sant
is actually the closest to French pronunciation I've seen on this thread - but the t is silent.

Agreed.

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

A couple of years ago there was a fascinating Radio 4 book of the week, the memoirs of an amazing woman who was in charge of emergency planning and coordinated disaster responses to major events, and the person reading it pronounced 'nuclear' as 'nucular' EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It was unbelievable.

Oh yes @Cedilla - even BBC newsreaders say it sometimes, although it’s usually more of a US thing.

I’m still puzzling over this one.

Don’t worry, got it!

My DH just can't pronounce croissant no matter what he tries it's his nemesis, so somehow they've become crocodiles in our house. This is fine until some kind soul is bringing some groceries when everyone had been ill and dd1 decides she wanted crocodiles, it was all she could face eating. Her Aunt was slightly confused to get a text asking for Lidl's crocodiles.

Ex MIL (thank god) pronounced so many things incorrectly. Doritos-“Dor-ee-TOS, despite everyone else constantly saying it the correct way 🙄 Achilles heel was her Acker-Lees. The DC would side eye her when she said them, like wtf granny!

I pronounce Nougat 'nugget', for no other reason than to annoy DH 😆

Someone in my family pronounces ‘garage’ ‘ga-RAAAH-je’ (as if trying to say it in a very exaggerated French accent), no idea why it winds me up as it’s only a word but it does.

Was in Martinique and clearly I’m superior with my 3 years of French, so I sent husband in for drinks at the little cafe/bar with the correct phrase to order order. Next thing I see him and the bartender running out to the outside so he could point to the drinks we we wanted. Bless him, he tried. It must have we worked they were hugging at the end, he got keys to the toilet, and the Brits that didn’t try were pointed to the public ones.

I was once pointed to a very tasty Italian wine. I asked the wine guy hoe to pronounce it and he said “not sure, I just think of it as the Alligator wine, come in and ask for it that way, we’ll know what you mean”.

I moved away, and hadn’t really thought about it until I saw on a wine list at a restaurant. I was so excited and happily ordered a bottle of ‘the alligator 🐊 wine” much to the confusion of my server 🤣

I prn it floffell

[tee hee hee, the purists hate me]

The snooty lady went to Carcassonne for their hols. The poster went to Fuengirola. (not sure of the spelling of this place)

Bilingual what, because she sure as heck doesn’t sound French.

It’s not pronounced cross-ont, that’s ridiculous. It’s CROIS-SANT. Similar to how we pronounce ‘croix’ in French, then ‘sant’.

It’s definitely a regional thing - especially around here. My grandma from Stoke always used to say break-fast. I saw someone upthread say about bus being pronounced buzz, that’s also quite common around here and is an accent thing.

I say hum-mus, with no particular stress on either syllable, as do most people I think (?), but my Arab friend pronounces it more like hom-mows, as in mows the lawn, but not as dragged out. Like Mose? I don’t know how to spell it out phonetically!

Try being married to someone who says noow-killer and tuth-paste and mussss-tosssh
Despite the 5 of us writhing on the floor screaming STOP!!!!!

winker 😂

Houmous pronunciation does depend on accent. My family is Greek and we all pronounce it hoo-moose (but with the Greek X at the front, so more like a back of the throat sound like the end of ‘loch’ than a British H.

Middle Eastern friends (Lebanese, specifically, may be different other places) pronounce it with the same loch H but say it more like hum-muss.

This is amazing 😂