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!

Round the other way, my children could be on here saying their mum ( me) sometimes says “electric pens”instead of felt tip pens - they claim not to remember eldest called them that for about 5 years between ages 3 and 8.

Toy-lit instead of lavatory. It makes my teeth itch.

When someone says somethink rather than something.

My late DGM would say…
pit-sa for pizza
cazzerole for casserole
and the brand Nestlé would be ‘Nessle’

Found it more endearing than cringe!

My grandparents used to say choc-lit and sa-lid. I never hear younger people pronouncing things like this so maybe it's an older person thing

My stepmum uses "wee" at every possible opportunity. For small things, quick things and even intangible things. You're Scottish, we get it.

My best friend says "anyfink"

My husband and I call mayonaise "mullonaise" as a joke because this man of traveller origin said it once in KFC when I worked there. Now its kind of stuck and people probably think we are right bellends

So did my dad and he worked for them.

I say onvelope and trod. My bloke's from Belfast and pronounces it Bel-FARST.

Which is precisely why Welsh has mutations whereby consonants are changed to reflect the changes in speech in connected words

eg Caerdydd but 'yng Nghaerdydd'

It's ingenious

V interesting!

This thread absolutely cracked me up reading it on my way home on the train.

My mum always pronounces Aldi "Owl-di" she also refers to her car which is a Kia as a "Ki-ora" like the drink 🙈😂

My MIL says ON-cle instead of uncle. I'm sure she does it on purpose to annoy us all as she really makes a big show of over pronouncing the ON.

How is it pronounced?!

My dad says Gaul (pronounced gorl) instead of goal.

He's a massive football fan so I hear it at least 4 times in the time i see him.

Also!

My MIL says "cukain" instead of cocaine

My pal says "bret furts" instead of breakfast

And my FIL says "buz" instead of bus

They all drive me mad

I think 'cuhkain' is the RP pronunciation of cocaine actually

(Source - watched a C4 documentary many many years ago about Hitler's cuhkaine use and the very posh British medical historian pronounced it as such in his cut glass accent).

My late father - Sezzer-re-Ann for caesarean. He just found it impossible to say it correctly!

When my mum could still speak she use to say proshecco and it drove me absolutely wild with fury, which I think says more about me than her.

@UndertheCedartree No it's not. You're adding an extra 'she' sound. It's Nego-see-ation

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

Perfectly normal, and in some words more common, to have 'sy' (for some people) be 'sh' for other people.

Negotiation

See also 'tissue', 'issue'. Also happens, but less acceptably, with 'consume', 'assume' and other words.

My nan says Covis instead of Covid. I've corrected her so many times but she persists....😵 it makes me irrationally angry

Not a parental mispronunciation, but still...

When my mum was in hospital a couple of years ago, one of the staff offered her "kwitch" for lunch. Took me a while to realise it was "quiche" .

I was going to add 'fizzy pop' for a carbonated drink 😂

My 17 year old autistic son has his own way of saying certain things..like instead of sausage he says "soh-age" and leaves the middle letters out of other words. Drives me mad but that makes him do it all the more

Nestle used to be pronounced 'nessels' in their TV ads! Nessels milky bar being the one I remember. Presumably Nestle marketing dept decided that Brits wouldnt cope with forrin pronunciation?