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!

Do you say th-ee-yetter or theer-tuh?

My mother in law and profiteroles; profit as in money you make, small pause and then eroles. Why?!

My mum deliberately? Pronounces a lot of words completely wrong, but the one that grates is her constant use of ‘liaise’ in contexts that are far too casual whilst pronouncing it Lie-ayse. Such as “I’m meeting (friend) for a coffee so I will liaise with her to find out when”.

Not my parents but my DH pronounces Dunelm as Doo-nelm. He is absolutely insistent his version is correct.

My mum says Moon-chester instead of Manchester. My dad Is honestly the worst, Say-mon = Simon ; Ett-RACTIVE = Attractive; Gear-den= Garden ; Plow-riel = Pluriel.

OMG... slightly outing but I'm a Helen and I HATE when people pronounce it like that!

My mum can never say Waitrose properly, it's like she can't pronounce the T in it, like a Bristol accent or something, which she doesn't have, and she pronounces the T well enough in other words!

No longer here DGrandma: very RP.

One of her DDs is a Hel-lin. (Helen)

Ko-righ-zo (chorizo), which should be cho-ree-tho.

Moo-sli

Wai.rose, with a hard stop after the wai. And said in a slight East Anglian RP accent!

Spanish friends say pick-sa for pizza, it's a regional thing in this area.

I usually say Ee-kea now, as I live in Spain

My Cumbrian friend says Proh-ject, dJAY

I love them all really, I just have a little giggle.

DM still insists in calling in her 'pussy' for dinner from the garden...

I know someone who calls it corvid. Nothing to crow about, I know. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

My daughters told me off for saying Generation Zed. Apparently it's Generation Zee. I argued that we are in the UK, so it's Zed, but I've never heard anyone else say it out loud so I don't know if the US pronunciation is used by those who work with demographics.

We all pronounced it like that in the days of UCCA and PCAS. Maybe he is my age.

Hooosten instead of Houston

My Mum said that for about the first two years. I was permanently ARGH!!!!!! Luckily something clicked and she suddenly got it right.

Says Uber instead of oober

I used to have a boss who said Arch Lever file, everytime. I've listened to presentations where people said "pacifically" all the way through, meaning "specifically".

Ah, the Waitrose thing isn't just my mum then. It's not her accent to use a glottal stop with Ts, so I don't know where it has come from.

My great aunt used to say satchit for sachet and pisa for pizza. And buzz for bus, though that was her accent.

I remember reading out from a book at school and saying Pree face for Preface (prehfuss) - to be fair it's not a word you hear often out loud and it does look as if it ought to be pronounced that way.

Also makes me cringe when people who aren't French pronounce 'restaurant' with a French accent (sort of like 'rest-raw'). Always sounds so pretentious.

Ugh
Says ‘Ker-is-tee-yun’ instead of ‘Christian’. Puts me on edge.

Aren't they Arch lever files? ???
Pacifically is terrible.
The leading Covid specialist in Australia for those years ( and yes he is British), still says COV id, like rhyming with horrid. Years we have all put up with this and he does not stop. How can he not know?? Norman Swan I'm looking at you.

Veg e tables
Choc o late
Like Two separate words

Tuth paste
Tuth brush

It's tooth. Two oos make an ooooh sound

Seizure - mum pronounces every single letter but adds an extra 'I' so it comes out 'sEEzee-i-yre. It drives me crackers. My aunt was quite ill and one point and this word was used a lot for a prolonged period of time. She also does the same when the name 'Fraser' by adding 'ier' at the end instead of 'er'.

The area we live in ends with 'argh' but the 'gh' is silent - she pronounces it as 'f' because grammatically this is correct. But it isn't the name!

My mum is very particular and hates to lack etiquette, she doesn't realise that adding these extra syllables makes her sound bad.

I say nego-she-ation too. It's perfectly correct to say it like that.

My DM still says ‘covit’. You’d have thought after 4 years of it being rammed down our throats, she’s bloody pronounce it correctly.

Also is one to shops in ‘Asdas’ or ‘Tescos’ or ‘Matalans’

Gives me the rage!

I know Scottish people (inexplicably) sangwhich.
inexplicable to you, there are countless regional accents/pronunciations. I'm mystified by many English people shoving R into lots of words 🤷🏼‍♀️

Lever arch files, it's always written like that, not the other way round. It didn't matter, I knew what she meant, but I did find it funny.