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!

My parents say Vitt instead of vet.

They say com itee to rhyme with tea instead of saying it like commite.

Mer-ser-dees for Mercedes.
Keckle/kettle.

@RiverCartwright My late FIL always pronounced Loughborough as loogie ber oogie.

He's made me laugh too.

My American niece says ayg rather than egg.

My parents also used to refer to going to the cinema as ‘going to the pictures’ and my mum used to talk about the ‘hit parade’. My generation called it ‘the charts’. I’m not sure the younger generations even talk about the hit parade/charts so who knows if there is a different term now?

My FIL uses ‘stoned’ to mean drunk which DH and I find very funny.

@Mull Yes Brufen was a trade name for Ibuprofen when I was growing up and I'm 51.I always say Brufen and it was used commonly instead of calling it Ibuprofen when I was a nurse on the wards.Now I wonder if I sound annoying!

Was about to post the same about my mum. She also pronounces the T in other words but drops it when saying Waitrose. I find it really odd but can’t bring myself to correct her on it

My late FIL always pronounced Loughborough as loogie ber oogie.

I remember that. It was from a comedy sketch where Australians tried to pronounce British place names.

My mother says brazeer (brassière!), doesn't like the word"bra"

Brufen is fine

Im NC with my mother now but I hated the way she said everyone 'smirked'. And she'd tell us not to smirk at her if we were being told off (never happened, we were too scared).
Even the sight of the word makes me irrationally angry!

My dad says PRAAAH-vit instead of private. As in "I'm not telling you that, it's PRAAAH-vit".

@TheCosyRain I’ve definitely heard that pronunciation of Waitrose before and it always seems to be quite well-to-do women of a certain age that say it like that! A few of my mum’s friends pronounced it that way.

I do some freelance editing, and my mum talks about my 'free lance work', with the emphasis on the 'lance'. As if I'm roaming the country as a medieval knight. Really sets my teeth on edge!

I say onvelope.

Like En Vogue and en route, envoy and ennui.

Was it really? Must tell DH, I bet he didn’t know that. Something I imagine FIL watching actually, he was a funny man who used to do a lot of Tommy Cooper style stuff when the kids were small like catching invisible things in paper bags.
Must have a google tomorrow as I’d love to see that!

How do you say these then?

All right, Hyacinth Bucket.

Regional, and they'd say it in Derbyshire too.

MARS bar, DEE jay, BELfast, DISco.

Emphasis on the first syllable.

(My other half is from Yorkshire and does the emphasis on the last syllable, e.g. car KEY, caraVAN.)

*I say onvelope.

Like En Vogue and en route, envoy and ennui.*

Envoy? Like onvoy?

😂😂

So does Mary Berry! Does my head in 😂

In my experience it's usually more like 'sumfink' and goes along with 'nuffink'.

My Grandfather, born in 1891, used a Dickensian working class version of velvet, it sounded like Welwvet.
We are East Midlands, pictures or flics (from flicker) for cinema and trod on.
eg. "Don't tread that muck into the house!"