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

[Notsurehwhattdo]

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!

Onvelope and envelope have two different meanings . I say onvelope too.

Daughter says pro cess the American way. I hate it.

Oh, I hate it when people say MacDonald's - when it's quite clearly McDonalds.

It sounds so dim and uneducated.

Get it right!

Like prossess?

Some people from the north say "bewk"....like a "ooo" sound.

People from the south say "buhk".

VIGHtamins instead of VITamins
DelOOXE instead of delUXE.

Ex MIL - Maanj Toot

Acrossed instead of across. Tourdament - tournament and chimley - chimney.

No, Essex! But his mum was from Sunderland. You wouldn't know it though because she'd made a real effort to lose her gorgeous Geordie accent when she came down South. Maybe that explains it!

I can't remember if Nanna used the same rogue diphthong or not.

I think that’s a regional thing. I live in a ‘shire’ and everyone I’ve ever heard say it pronounces it as ‘sheer’. My relatives who live in Yorkshire also say ‘Yorksheer’ but they’re not originally from there so maybe that’s why?

My mum says narchos and pistarchios. It is mortifying and me and my sister relentlessly take the piss. I don’t know where she’s got it from!

My mum does a weird thing with x and s sounds.

Sexual is 'secks you'll' and Asian is 'aze ian'.

My dad says 'herr' for her, and my granny used to say 'a parent lay' for apparently.

My dm gets the names of celebrities wrong and it has always (irrationally) driven me up the wall. Victoria Woods instead of Wood, Carol Vode-aman instead of Vord-aman. For some reason I've never said anything and this rage has built up in me over many years. I can see that one day I'm just going to explode and commit an awful crime, and someone will find me rocking and crying in the corner saying over and over 'Vorderman, it's Carol VORDERman'.

What's the difference between Mac and Mc?
I say them both the same.
Mc is just a short way of writing Mac isn't it?
It's an Irish/Scottish word. I'm Irish and I don't think I've ever heard anyone say Mac and Mc differently in English. (In Irish Mac does sound different, Mc isn't used.)

I've lived in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordhire, and Berkshire, and in all of them you heard '-sheer' and '-shuh' pronunciations. I think it may be class based.

Agreed!

I’m intrigued by this one. Is it that GarlicTwist says it as ‘shire’, which is incorrect as far as I’m concerned. But I would also say ‘sheer’ is incorrect in my part of Yorkshire. I would say it ‘Yorkshuh’.

@PaulaPocket @Sewannoying

Ohh, I think I misunderstood! I was imagining ‘Shire’ as in home of Frodo 😳

Much less difference in pronunciation between ‘shuh’ and ‘sheer’ I suppose. I would use both to be honest, depending on what county I was talking about.

Its a word she used. Like the title says words your parents pronounced/used.

Walsall?

Owldi is closer to the proper pronunciation than the usual English All-dee is.

It should be pronounced al-dee with the al like the song "you can call me al".

To me, monkey is a bit like mun key and donkey like don key. Dad used to say dun key.

But maybe it's regional. I say won and one the same, some say it more like wun.

I used to get told off at school in the south of England for saying wan for one when apparently I should have been saying won. The perils of having northern parents apparently.

That's wan as in pale and wan, so the vowel sound in gone. Vs won as in won a race, vowel sound in hun.

Yeah.