To say it’s “cliquey” not “clicky”

[Fortunesmiles]

Just that, really. I keep seeing things like “the parents at school are very clicky” - no! They form cliques, not clicks. Not normally one to comment on this stuff, but that one really makes me cringe!

Clicky is the US pronunciation so presumably it's from watching US shows programs.

Chorizo isn’t the best example. There’s 2 broadly different ways to pronounce chorizo and both are correct depending on where you learnt to speak Spanish. Not all accents use a “tho” sound for z.

Maybe "click" is a special
Mumsnet word for "group of people who have made an effort to be friendly to each other and chat how very dare they anyway I can't stand small talk so I'm better than them they are just mundanes and anyway I prefer the company of men they are so much more interesting." Yes, I can see why a short form would be convenient.

People genuinely believe the word is “click”. They’ve never heard of the word “clique”. That comes with never having read much

Clique would be pronounced “cleek” and not “click”

Apparently reindeer make a clicking sound when they walk. Tendons snap over bones in their feet, and that's what makes the click. Experts think the clicking helps the members of a herd stay in contact, especially in snowstorms or, say, when it's foggy.

'We was' instead of 'we were'

Grinds my gears

I personally refuse to pronounce anything with a foreign accent. Hence I get my clothes from a booty-cue and go dancing at the disco-the-cue.

There are so many examples on SM -
I don't no what too do.
The nobs on the cooker
And as for all the apostrophes sprinkled in plurals...
Yes, people don't read, but also they're ignorant because they're not taught. I worked in a school and the school reports had to be proofread because half the teachers couldn't spell. I blame autocarwreck too - it just wanted me to put teacher's.

I find this fascinating. So you don’t like how some people pronounce it. Why? Because it’s irritating to you that they don’t know how to pronounce it ‘properly’? Looking underneath, what’s that about? Would you feel ashamed if you mispronounced it? Why is that? What do you think it would say about you? Presumably it’s misspelt through ignorance. Well, whose fault is that? Should we judge people because they didn’t have the same education as us? Or because they pronounce it as their friends do and that’s annoying because maybe you don’t like that demographic? Or maybe you don’t like change.

I say all this as someone who used to HATE people replying to ‘how are you’ with ‘I’m good’ instead of ‘I’m well’. In the end I got over myself because communication is important and I figured that as long as I understood what they meant, that’s what mattered, rather than shoving my prejudices and judgements in the way.

Shocking but unsurprising. Makes my blood boil especially when correct spelling and grammar used to be so important

@Lemme

I have never ever heard of "I'm well" being the socially correct answer to how are you! If you're good you're good- what's wrong with saying that?!

Earlier this week I saw on MN a post in which the writer was temporarily short of funds & decided she would have to "porn" something...

Makes me want to ball.

English people saying 'choritzo' really grinds my gears! Where does the 't' come from???? You can say chorreezo or choreetho depending on what kind of Spanish you want to use. Do they think it's Italian, like 'chorizzo'?

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I saw that!! What a sign of the times, alas

I love a hard g and T. Bit early in the day yet though.

Growing up I thought nougat was pronounced nugget because that's what my parents said. I think probably they had only seen it written down and never heard it said by anyone who knew the correct pronunciation. We only had it at Christmas anyway do it wasn't a big deal

Hasn’t that words morphed though? I know people used to say clique but now all I hear is click.
language change, it doesn’t bother me

I've heard chorizo pronounced a couple of ways (by Spanish people) — chor-eeth-o and hor-eeth-o. (On the second one there's ever such a slight soft digraph (is that the right word) emphasis on the start, so it's not a pure H sound. But close enough and definitely not a hard 'tch'.)

It bothers me because I know they’ve never seen the word written. They’re just repeating what they think the word is

Nnn duja

With some people it's low confidence I think. I used to know someone who spent a lot of time in Barcelona, but would pronounce all the areas and metro stops Englishly and literally the way they were spelled. Verdageur and Eixample were both particularly mangled.

The DC pronounced quay as kway for the longest time because they had only seen it written and never heard it pronounced. It was always port, harbor or dock in the US so it never came up.

I don't know what they made of 'queue'. I think they just backed away in horror from that one.

English is a tough language to learn.