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!

See-a-batta instead of ciabatta 🤦‍♀️😂

She was one of the old guard and a dying breed back then, she'd worked in the mills as a girl. The thing I really loved though, was her switching from broadest Bury, peppered with expletives of the WORST kind as she made her way to answer the ringing telephone, questioning the parentage of the caller etc..

Then switched into her version of posh 'Oh Hello, Mrs XXX here, who is calling pleease' like butter wouldn't melt!

Many a cup of tea came close to exiting via my nose!

There is a lot I don't miss about having moved, but I do miss her, she died about 6 months after we'd left and before we'd had chance to pop back and visit.

Oh and she could say 'laaaaaaaaay-deh!' in a tone filled with such venom and ire, it'd turn you to stone!

Why would you do that though? You’re unlikely to be using the brand, and it’s prescribed as the generic.

Not something either of my parents do/did, but it drives me mad the way 'England' gains an extra syllable when used in a football context.

Inthebleakmidwinter2 it's definitely not a southern thing to say "tret". I'd never heard it before until that daft woman from MAFS this year used it and I'm pretty sure she was northern. I think she just made up the word tbh

I went to uni in Lancaster and used to hear it a lot there, also my mum is Lancastrian and uses it. No idea how region-specific it is, but definitely seems prevalent there.

My Irish mum says blather for bladder and it drives me mad

My (perfectly pleasant) MIL is currently mis-using the word 'Allegedly' as a way to indicate that she considers something to be unacceptable and/or amusing. For example- 'Bob next door's got a new car; it's bright green. Allegedly', 'Tesco baked beans are now £1 a can! Allegedly', or 'Ha ha look, you've got your cardigan on inside out! Allegedly'.

Every year or so she seems to hear a new word that impresses her and she uses it as often as she possibly can without checking what it means. My favourite was the time we had to explain to her that Twat is not a cross between Prat and Twit but not as offensive as either!

@IrresponsiblyCertainAboutSexualDimorphism the same way we always call paracetamol Calpol. We do have the branded stuff.

A lot of people say tret for treated in Ireland and bet for the past tense of beat, 'they bet him up'.
Anyway, my dad says Chicargo, portical (Portugal), youTUBE, ice-CREAM and many many more 🙈
My mum doesn't pronounce much wrong but she used to say 'jizz' all the time meaning energy/energise, like 'why don't you have a coffee to jizz yourself up' or 'this'll give you a bit of jizz' until I told her what it meant 🤣

My mother has always pronounced tattoo "tutooooowww" and it is infuriating. Why is there a U....?!!!!

More are flooding back to me...my dad puts ds in words, so 'only' becomes ondly etc...it's common in dublin but he exaggerates it so much! Also 'thought' for taught and veh-hickle for vehicle 😖

There was, I still call them Brufen lol

My mum says cum-in rather cumin (coo-min).

As in "you can really taste the cum in".

It makes me feel sick every time.

My dad says I 'Ex-ASSSSS-perate' him. It make me very angry!
He also speaks in a faux posh/slightly camp way to restaurant cafe staff despite being a straight man from a working class northern town. Embarrassing.

My mum says lots of weird things- 'rum' instead of 'room' . I swear she has made up loads of words and phrases over the years that I thought were normal speaking and now I say them too out of since childhood/out of habit.

So yeah, don't get me started 😂

Oh yeah and Onvelope and Peter bread as a pp said

Mine is quite recent and actually occurs in text messages. I’ll say I’m about to do something and she’ll text back:

“Enjoy”

This is not something we’ve ever said. Previously we might have said, “hope you enjoy it/have a nice time” and I know that is a lot more typing, but honestly I’d rather she said nothing as “Enjoy” seems so faux posh or maybe a crappy import from the US.

Anyway, it bugs me massively.

My MIL (RIP) used to say “slither” when she meant “sliver”. I always wanted to correct it as you can’t have a slither of cake.

Cin-a-MAR, rather than Cin-a-ma.

… Doesn’t nearly everyone pronounce cinema like your first example?

I think a lot of people say more of a cinemuh rather than the elongated cinemaah.

My dad, whose first language is not English (in fcat it's his third language came to think of it) has a v heavy accent and mispronounces many things, but the one that makes me cringe the most is that he says 'doofoocate' instead of "defecate".

DMs speciality is place names.
Cor-few for Corfu
San Tan Dur for Santander.
Madge Orka fir Majorca.

I should first mention that I've lost both my parents this year, and would kill for them to be annoying me again!

They both took to saying "It's ok....." as a preface to lots of things. Not that any of the sentences actually required me to know it's ok.

But it drove me nuts!

DH has always taken the piss out of me for my pronunciation of the word 'Phoenix'. I always said 'fee oh nix' rather than 'fenix'. We realised why one evening when Duran Duran's View to A Kill came on MTV and Simon Le Bon sang 'A chance to find the feeeohnix for the flame'. I was a big Duran fan as a young girl and had sang that song so much my pronunciation had stuck 😂

Oh that reminds me of Morrissey's famous mispronunciation of 'plagiarise' in 'Cemetary Gates' off The Queen is Dead album.

I too said 'plagiarise' with a hard g for a good few years after that.

My MIL says "rig out" instead of outfit, "moult" instead of unattractive woman,and "Robert dejeneiro"