Words your parents pronounce/use that drive you CRAZY!!!

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My parents say ON-velope. Rather than EN-velope. Cin-a-MAR, rather than Cin-a-ma.

Slightly differently, they also say 'trod on' rather than 'stepped on'. I know it's not incorrect, I just hate the posh way they say trod and think it's a horrible word!

All the above drives me crazy! Aaaaarrrghhhh

Inspired by the theatre thread!

I was born in North Staffordshire so my parents, both pottery workers, had quite heavy regional accents. ‘Costna’ meaning can you, ‘ow at’ for how are you etc. If my Dad met another man when we were out he’d slip into a language I could barely understand. Funny when I think about it now.
My school teachers did not have the thick twang and it’s diluted it down over the years I think as the older ones have died and the ‘young uns speak a bit mower proper’.

I agree though, language fascinates me, regional especially and a lot can be traced village to village, town to town through old trade routes. Of course today almost all of us have the internet at our fingertips so language is evolving again to become worldwide.

Would ‘chase lounge’ bug you for ‘chaise longue’? It was like an episode of Only Fools and Horses.
My father deliberately used to say ‘destructions’ instead of ‘directions’.
When I’m tired I can’t say ‘colonel’.

The "en" in "envelope" is pronounced "on", as is the "en" in "en route" and "en suite". These words are from the French language.

My MIL says lidl instead of little. It's 'a lidl bit annoying'. My kids started with it and I nipped it in the bud straight away.

Haha, bless our parents! So many on here.

My mum describes absolutely everything as 'lovely' constantly. She also says 'stoopid' for stupid, which I know is a valid pronunciation but it doesn't chime with the rest of her accent so it's annoying.

On television on radio and in ordinary daily life everybody pronounces bouillon incorrectly. They all say "bullion" but it's pronounced BWEE ON.

Croissant with an r sounds so dumb and Little Englander.

Buzz instead of Bus

Fil-um instead of Film

We are Lancashire based though, so it's pretty standard 😁

Not a parent, but I used to work in a events centre where the woman who ran the kitchen pronounced "onion" as "ung-yee-on".
Made my teethy pegs itch 😉

Mine used to say marziPAN
One Christmas someone laughed at her so now she says almond paste

The drug is ibuprofen. Brufen is a branded variety of the same drug costing triple the price. Just like panadol is an expensive brand of paracetamol.

"We was"
shudder

Snob.

Yes. My mother says MAC-Don-ald's (with a lot of emphasis on the hard C) and I have to dig my nails into the palms of my hands.

I can't say 'linoleum' 😂

My English dad is fluent in French, with a perfect accent. But inexplicably, when speaking English, he pronounces 'restaurant' as 'rest-rong'. It's baffling and sets my teeth on edge!

What is a spinchter? That’s actually quite funny, given the thread😂

Ex MIL shops at The Asdas and went to hospickle.

Mum says (whilst watching tv) "oh he just fisted her" as a pp said, rather than punched.

DM and DF are old and have a dialect that is dying, proper Cheshire. They say mon instead of man, schoo instead of school. When it's cold they are froZZen not frozen. We have 'oses in the fields and wasps (rhyme with clasp) in summer.
There are loads of things they say and it's wonderful and sad that the accent is dying.

Brexick (BREXIT)
Jaytee-oh (J2O)

My Dad... born and raised in West Yorkshire if it matters.. in the 40s/50s..

PIT-sah (and it is a foreign food to him he would eat v rarely and generally only if its free which it often is as my sister delivers pizzas)..

Huh'tel (short 'huh'). I don't know what the O in 'hotel' did to offend him but clearly it needs to be rushed through or missed out.

Bradford is 'bratf'd' no matter how much else of the yorkshire accent he has lost.

None are nearly so annoying as DP who will actually use the wrong word, he says 'differ' as 'defer' and it makes my teeth itch!

Omg I say ON-veloce and cine-mar 🤣 I am young-ish and decidedly not posh. Must be a regional thing.

Language evolves faster today than it used to, and unless your parents are scrolling Tik Tok on a daily basis, or watching content made in the recent past, they are likely to hang on to the pronunciations they were taught growing up. That you are getting more influence on your pronunciation is a sure sign that your influences are more varied… It doesn’t make their pronunciation wrong!

Reminded now of my Other Mother, the lady next door and by god I miss that woman... anyway, by the by but..

Bokkle - bottle
Ster-reh - sterilised milk
Hospickle - hospital
Buzz - bus
Th'Asda
T'Tesco (not often, she was a staunch supporter of th'Asda)

AW-RITE COCK, GERRUS A BOKKLE OF STERREH AN TEN BENSONS... bellowed out of her window as I tried to sneak to the shop in a morning.

Prize of smugness if anyone can narrow that down to a town.

I think my mum does most of these knowingly to wind people up, because no one can possibly go through life and not know they're wrong.
One foul swoop
Cwa son
Heinz 49
Cuttle le ree
Pas weery naan
Hugh muss
Bee root
She also drops hs on words with them, but adds them where there isn't one. So she pronounces "air" as hair and "hair" as air. How? So annoying - my poor brother had friends at school called Hannah and Anna and having a conversation about them was impossible.
She also calls a child we know Alex, when his name is Alec. And then anyone called Alex she calls Alec.

Also anytime she says "Yorkshire" she tries to put on what she presumes is a comedy Yorkshire accent. "YAK SHA".

It was! It was marketed as Brufen.

Ugh just remembered my dad saying Breg-zit instead of Brexit.

DH has an odd long vowel in gas, bit like garse, that's an accent thing I think. Doesn't stop it annoying me though.

Slightly poncey one but DSis says semifraydo instead of semifreddo