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 mum says UniGlo, I keep telling her it’s a Q not a G!

OMG an ExBF's Dad used to say para-cease-a mol for paracetamol and he used to call Paramedics paramedicals???

We have a friend who is a junior school teacher, and she thinks that gives her the right to correct people. DH and I have little jokey things we say to each other e.g. 'sheeps' for 'sheep', 'pusscat' for 'cat' She once corrected me when I said 'sheeps' by mistake, forgetting who I was with. Now DH and I say it in her presence as often as possible. She once moaned that it was an uphill struggle getting her Bristolian pupils not to say 'go a toilet' so we say that too.

Our neighbour says Covis, has done since March 2020.

To be fair, your cat is already way cleverer than most if she's able to pronounce anything approaching it

On velope is really irritating. To me (and I know I'm being unreasonable) it is like they haven't learnt how to speak properly - a bit like when you learn words from reading in a book rather than hearing them. I dont think of it as "posh" though at all. Just grating and wrong.

Similarly I know Tiss You and Iss You are pronunciations of tissue and issue but also sound very wrong to me.

Poor dear late MIL said that. (It wasn't what she died of). She used to say 'vay-gan' for 'vegan'.

Mac Donald’s and Ply-mouth instead of Plymouth

My dad used to say sistificate instead of certificate. He did have a lisp and I don't think that helped.

Is she from Bradford?

My mum pronounces the word film weird for some reason. It always comes out as fillem

My sister says carPET and caraVAN and it drives me up the wall.

My mum calls dinner ‘din dins.’ She’s 87,…….mum, stop it!

My MIL says ‘any weight’ rather than anyway. Spaniels are ‘Spannels’, Westhightland whites are ‘Wessex's’.

My father used to say Ibittsa for Ibiza

Does he also regularly wear t-shirts saying 'Vengaboys 'til I die'?!

ON-velope makes no sense at all to me. Either say it as an Anglicised word: En-vuh-lope; or otherwise as a French word On-vey-lopp - but it just sounds silly doing a random hybrid of the two, especially those who do it smugly and patronisingly, as though they were saying it 'the proper way'.

It's the equivalent of rolling the 'R' in an authentic-sounding French way at the beginning of Renault, but then saying 'olt' at the end, as if the second part of the word were English.

That's an extremely common standard regional variation - especially in Northern Ireland.

Unless I'm misunderstanding...'cwoissont' is the correct pronunciation for croissant. How do you say it?

It's not so much a word but my lovely Dad spent a lot of his younger years abroad and picked up a rising inflection at the end of sentences, which can be a bit irritating.

We say to him...Are you asking us or telling us?

WiFi Row-ter (to rhyme with cow)

When the router broke it's all I heard for about a week and it nearly broke me.

Is she from Bradford?

Don't the locals usually pronounce it Brattford?!

My DF’s best ones -
‘Prozzecco’ for Prosecco
‘ seck-e-tary’ for secretary
’xeray’ for ‘X-ray’
‘Expresso’ for espresso

My dad's dead so can't ask him why and would happily hear him annoy me with it now.

But he would never ever use the word purple.

Always mauve.

Not sure why it was weird and annoying to me. But it was.

Also we knew someone called Alistair. And he always pronounced it Alist-AIR. Heard the bloke call himself 'Alistahr' like how the rest of us pronounced it. Probably drove him more made than me.

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.

Not mispronunciations but MIL abbreviates things like “jack pots” for jacket potatoes, “cherry toms” for cherry tomatoes, and calls Sainsbury’s “Sainsbugs”. It drives me mad!

"Tret" used for the past tense of treat.

"He tret me to a nice meal"
Not sure if a westcountry thing or if this person has invented it.

Unless I'm misunderstanding...'cwoissont' is the correct pronunciation for croissant. How do you say it?

I wondered the same. There's no direct equivalent in English for the French 'R' sound in croissant. Approximating a 'W' sound is a bit closer to the original than an English 'R' sound would be, but neither is correct.