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

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Notsurehwhattdo · 12/12/2023 20:25

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!

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Jifmicroliquid · 13/12/2023 06:56

My dad calls Primark Preemart.
Gives me the rage.

Imfedupwithallofthis · 13/12/2023 07:00

Mull · 12/12/2023 20:47

Brew-fen for Ibuprofen. Although I know a couple of older people who say that so maybe that was an old brand name?

Brufen is a current trade name. Just Google it.

Lochness1975 · 13/12/2023 07:08

Cousin had a daughter and named her Kirsty, grandma insisted it was curtsy.

Katemax82 · 13/12/2023 07:18

Not my mum as she isn't as annoying (although she says "EXpresso)
My mother in law says "it was 5 YEAR ago" instead of "years". And puts an s on the end of every shop (think "tesco's" etc). And a d on the end of everything that ends in N (mataland and decland are 2 of the worst). Also "gattay" for gateau. Of course everyone in the family rips the piss out of her over it to her face so it's a running joke (only the mataland and gattay though, only I get annoyed at the others)

DitheringBlidiot · 13/12/2023 07:19

Mull · 12/12/2023 20:47

Brew-fen for Ibuprofen. Although I know a couple of older people who say that so maybe that was an old brand name?

My mum does that!! I assumed it was because that's what it was called when she was younger?

Katemax82 · 13/12/2023 07:19

Oh and another, my now grown up stepson used to call coronation Street "coron" because his maternal grandmother did. Of course that got banned in our house because it's awful

Imfedupwithallofthis · 13/12/2023 07:20

DitheringBlidiot · 13/12/2023 07:19

My mum does that!! I assumed it was because that's what it was called when she was younger?

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Brufen is a current trade name. Just Google it.

DitheringBlidiot · 13/12/2023 07:29

SALWARP2023 · 12/12/2023 21:48

So sorry theses good people who fed and clothes you all for decades are so stupid and embarrassing. Hope your kids publicly shame you in 20 years too.

I don't have any kids so that won't be an issue

ProfYaffle · 13/12/2023 07:29

Veggy-tubbles instead of vegetables
Crusses instead of crusts (of bread)

On the flip side, Radium instead of radiotherapy. I quite like that, comes across as positively Victorian.

AngelsandAliens · 13/12/2023 07:32

ProfYaffle · 13/12/2023 07:29

Veggy-tubbles instead of vegetables
Crusses instead of crusts (of bread)

On the flip side, Radium instead of radiotherapy. I quite like that, comes across as positively Victorian.

This veggie - tubbles had me laughing , I was saying it like that out loud 🤣

Katemax82 · 13/12/2023 07:33

MrsRetriever · 12/12/2023 20:50

Waffles with a high ‘a’, like baffle or raffle. It makes me rage.

A couple of managers at sainsburys restaurant just to call latte "latty" made me rage too

Polis · 13/12/2023 07:36

Kee-no-wa for quinoa!

My husband calls it kwin-Noah.

FatMumSlimDad · 13/12/2023 07:38

bananamangoes · 13/12/2023 06:43

Tuth paste
Tuth brush

It's tooth. Two oos make an ooooh sound

Not in Wales. Always Tuth.

IrresponsiblyCertainAboutSexualDimorphism · 13/12/2023 07:42

JudgeJ · 12/12/2023 22:30

Bratford is correct if you're from Yorkshire!

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Yes, exactly. As is “tret” instead of treated, and “dreatful” for “dreadful” as previously mentioned on this thread. They are colloquialisms, not mispronunciations.

marshmallowfinder · 13/12/2023 07:45

IrresponsiblyCertainAboutSexualDimorphism · 13/12/2023 07:42

Yes, exactly. As is “tret” instead of treated, and “dreatful” for “dreadful” as previously mentioned on this thread. They are colloquialisms, not mispronunciations.

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But they can still drive you crazy with irritation, as the thread asks!

TerfTalking · 13/12/2023 07:49

Coffeeandcrocs · 12/12/2023 22:42

My DF pronounces it Cov-id, makes my skin crawl.

Mum calls it, and has done for the last few years, Covitt.

marshmallowfinder · 13/12/2023 07:55

The emphasis on fine-tooth comb being in the wrong place, as in fine TOOTH-COMB, when it obviously is FINE-TOOTH(ED) comb.

Jacfrost · 13/12/2023 07:56

My mum says mean-opause for menopause

nothingcomestonothing · 13/12/2023 08:04

CrOY- sont, for croissant.

And tuth for tooth and forrid for forehead both grate on me, though I know they're not wrong.

enchantedsquirrelwood · 13/12/2023 08:22

DappledThings · 12/12/2023 21:14

Another pronunciation thread with unhelpful, nonrhotic-centric use of "r".

Some people say cinemah, it isn't cinemar.

My post made it clear that it was in the context of southern [English] pronunciation like lartay, sorry lahtay.

Some people in the west country pronounce their r's differently but not in the rest of the south of England. And not in the north-west of England either, though they don't have long vowels so they wouldn't pronounce cinema like that anyway.

Also, putting an h in there might mean that people pronounce the h! A bit like laughing when they say latte.

enchantedsquirrelwood · 13/12/2023 08:23

maddiemookins16mum · 12/12/2023 21:38

Our neighbour says Covis, has done since March 2020.

When Covid started the MOOC platform Futurelearn did a course on it and the course leader pronounced it co-vee.

Theunamedcat · 13/12/2023 08:24

Uldi not aldi
Ruffs not roof
CanEl not canal

johnworf · 13/12/2023 08:25

WiddlinDiddlin · 13/12/2023 03:49

@johnworf is closer, @soundsys nope too far out (and thats hardly a town!)...

Bury (though, she was from Radcliffe originally, as she was keen to point out at all times!)

We've just moved from Bury! It's the old dialect though...not many speak like that now.

johnworf · 13/12/2023 08:27

My nana who is no longer alive used to say kwicky for quiche, corned creet for concrete, and doovet for duvet. Oh and the Co-op was the quorp.

Bobcat246 · 13/12/2023 08:31

This is cathartic.

Dee-JAY
Ga-TWICK (big emphasis on the T)
Ho-moss (for hummus)
Iss-you (issue)