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)

Pittsuh for pizza
Sintsano for Cinzano, if anyone remembers that

Ibitsa for Ibiza

Choritso for chorizo

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggg

Indeed. She is in fact bilingual (French/English) but still cant pronounce crossonts as kwasonn despite eating them most mornings. And she also pronounces nougat as nugget (as mentioned above by another poster)...

Mind you, it's colonial Belgian French from her childhood in the Congo but it's definitely her very own way of pronouncing it 😁

Look up “Benedict Cumberbatch penguin” 😂

Fortunately I don't have to spend much time with his pronunciations...

My dad says PIT-sa and also huh-TEL, but not, more like h'tel, as if omitting the o entirely.

Amusingly, he is also of the opinion that pit-sa is some wondrous exotic food that hardly anyone ever eats at all - strange as he is also aware his youngest daughter has worked delivering it to the local townsfolk for the better part of the last ten years! He has also travelled extensively, so I really don't know where this comes from.

No idea why, he's West Yorkshire bred but you'd have to be really good at picking up accents to get that after the better part of his 82 years spent in the midlands.

My sister does stuff on purpose, KOMP-u-terr as in 'are you at your KOMP-u-terr to google something for me as I can't google shit for myself, far too busy, you do nothing all day anyway...' (not quite how she phrases it but that's what she means).

DP mostly just gets words wrong - differ/defer springs to mind (he'll say 'I beg to defer' and that is NOT what he means at all!). But that's ok as I can shout at him that he is making my teeth itch.

I shall refer to profiteroles as peripherals from here on in though, I like that.

My MIL did exactly the same. Can't remember what we were trying to watch but we got the full rundown of her Christmas inbox.

She's also guilty of hassling FIL to take his gill-et (rhyming with skillet) off and she kept going on about that storm in the states which was affecting HOO-STON. Her and FIL must have said hoo-ston about 10 times each over the course of Xmas day and Boxing Day

I used to work in a small 'refained' cafe many years ago, before readily available coffee chains on every corner (yes, I am old innit), and we served those individual coffee filters that were filled with boiling water and sat atop your cup to drip down - giving you a one-cup serving of fresh coffee.

They were called Rombouts coffee filters, if anyone remembers them……and were very popular, but our lovely clientele could not get the name right, and we collected lots of great alternatives. My personal favourites were 'Romboo-ee', and the immortal 'Rumbelows' (the name of an also-defunct chain of electronics retailers).

PS Just googled, and you can still get Rombouts filters! Well, I never…. 😂

My lovely late mother used to annoy me with her pronunciation of breakfast.
break fast. Two words.
now she wasn’t wrong, we’re breaking a fast, but we’re very much northern and ‘brek fast’ was said as one word rather than two.

She also used to have DS climbing the walls in frustration at her offering him an ‘egg omelette’. She was to omelets what Mrs Doyle was to tea, but DS could never get past the egg omelet. One day he asked if she had any other variety. She did not😂

she’s been gone a few years now, but egg omelet will always be a thing.

Waitrose and M&S did versions of them as well very recently. DH used to take them to work rather than drink instant coffee.

Is he from the Black Country? We say tuth, musstosh and in reply to a PP, buzz. Even if I completely lost my accent, I’d never be able to pronounce them as tooth, moustache or bus!

My mum, who was raised in Shropshire, always pronounced it Shrews-bry. News readers and the like tend to go with Shrows-bry.

Croo-sont. WTAF?

It's KWOSSONT!

I find people who live there (or nearby) say SHROOOSBURY, but people who are NOT local, say SHROHS-SBURY @Sparklfairy

Some people say 'there's no O in it, so it's obviously SHREWSBURY,' but then LOADS of words are not phonetic. So that argument holds very little water really. There's no right or wrong really, but I say SHREWSBURY. (I live in North mids and not a million miles from there.)

Haha yes! I was about to say the Gilet (pronounced Gillit) is my MIL peeve. And ‘Theee A Ter’ instead of Theatre arrgghhh! Yet calls napkins serviettes, oh the misplaced affectation….

My mother used to say reservore instead of reservoir, drove me potty.

Gosh yes, my mum always said only people from outside Shropshire said Shrows-bry! I mean, the footie team is nicknamed The Shrews 🤷‍♀️

My colleague said she'd been to a froonerul the other day, took me listening to a couple more sentences before I realised she meant funeral.

Agreed but most of the posts have been laughing at older people so that's OK on MN

Oh yes!!!!!!!
Although he mysteriously pronounces bus correctly
Not like Buz if you come from Lancashire!
How do you pronounce Solihull, out of interest?
This debate resulted in years of arguments, as did hard or soft "c"s (Latin), Tridium versus Triduum(Easter Octave) and Wigan Kebabs versus Faggots.
Its exhausting 🤓😂..especially when we start disagreeing about constable/cunstable 😂😂😂

Love this, even if if is third hand! The clickwot is the best bit (I've heard voovay before, I think courtesy of my father).

I now have an urge to go to the supermarket and buy croissants.
I really really want a croissant.
even if supermarket ones are a bit shit, will be OK if I heat it in the oven, or they might have frozen ones.

My Nan grew up in a children's home, but always referred to it as a private boarding school.
Very refained - all the girls used to walk to church wearing bloaters🙄

That's my mil 😂

My dad says lie dell for lidl because he insists thats how it's correctly pronounced in Germany, he's not Germany don't think he's ever been to Germany, drives me mad just makes him sounds so pretentious.

DH is German
According to him it’s “Lee dl” with an almost non existent D