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!

Sambwidge (instead of sandwich)

Yet I'd say that a clear majority of people call a handbag a 'hambag', which annoys me just as much as would sambwidge.

I always remember when my DM was in a service at church near Christmas, and she was asked at the very last minute to read a short passage from the Bible about the Nativity which included the name 'Quirinius'. Bless her, she didn't have the foggiest; to her, it might as well have said Djkhgsdfuzasbnsk.

We also have a family member who calls profiteroles 'proTIFFlerolls'. She isn't trying to be cutesy; she just simply cannot pronounce it.

It's all in jest. Relax your spinchter.

West Yorkshire.

See also Brattford/Bradford.

Certainly if the OK thinks on-velope is wrong they won't be short of ammunition, not everyone speaks dumbed down English.

I don't think this post was started as nasty...... do you really think it was?

Yes it was. I dispensed loads of it in the early 90s.

Various family members:
iBuy (eBay)
corncrete (concrete)
eggsams (exams)

My Mum called the En Suite, the Ong Swee.
It bugged the living shit out of me.

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I really don't think anyone's suggesting it's done deliberately to annoy.

Nor do I think people are being unkind - they're just having a chuckle at their family's idiosyncrasies.

My dear Dad passed away in June, so I will never have to hear him say "Syusan" and "syoot" instead of Susan and suit again. I think he thought it sounded proper, but it did my head in!

You're right in some cases about regional accents though - I know Scottish people (inexplicably) sangwhich.

In others, pp are well placed to know the normal pronunciations of their own parents' regional accents so are entitled to say whether they're straying from the local norms.

You seem to be the over-sensitive one here, I'm afraid.

We say that a-purpose (that as well).

My mum (an intelligent woman), pronounces Sri Lanka "Siri Lanka' and Sci-Fi "Sky-Fi" 🤯

I thought Vengaboys too!

But ON-velope is a correct pronunciation. It's they way I've always been brought up to say it. I'm not trying to be smug just saying a word in a way I always have and so do many people around me. EN-velope is fine too, but nothing wrong with ON-velope!

Sospan instead of saucepan.
That sounds very like the pronunciation of the Welsh word for saucepan - is she bilingual and maybe confusing similar-sounding words?

Tuth instead of tooth.
Again, this is regional and very common, in the West Country among other places. It's a bit like when MNers assume somebody writing 'Mom' must be American, when most Brummies call their mums 'Mom.

Trafalgar pronounced the Spanish way, it's better. Traf-al - GAR.

You do realise that many 'modern' words and idioms are just as grating, the world doesn't revolve around one person's likes and dislikes, it's differences that make us interesting. I have often thought what bland, boring and dull people many mothers are, reading these pages, little Chairman Maos, dressed the same and only allowed the 'right' opinions.

Oh goodness. I say On velope. I’m Bristolian and it’s how it was pronounced there. Cwa son for croissant too.

My parents, long gone now, used to say Nazzy for Nazi, pitsa for pizza, Cali phonia for California. And they grew up during WW2. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Just old fashioned pronunciation. My dad said ‘otel for hotel too.

The only one that caused arguments was dad pronouncing donkey 🫏 to rhyme with monkey 🐒 No idea where that came from. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I had a friend who said ‘tannoid’ rather than ‘tannoy’ and pronounced ‘sachet’ like Satchel with a T rather than an L at the end.

I agree .. it's from the French which we all learned from , from the Middle Ages, when all posh and middle classes spike French!

En = on .

Much of the complaints on here are at best, colloquial, at worst are daft.

'Confusement'instead of confusion.

I love that 😂

@Lillybella

eggsams (exams)

Used to bug me on Ryanair when the Dublin lady on the recorded safety announcement said that the nearest egg-zit might be behind us.

Omg 'crate' used to drive me mad about Nick Clegg. He used the word so often and it always got me!!

My mother is another 'peter bread'. Also hummus (which I know can be spelt and pronounced slightly differently) is always 'hugh (like the name)-mas'. Same with couscous is coooooos cooooos with really long vowels as if it's a luxury good. She never made it on to quinoa thank god.

I have some funny pronunciations myself - I pronounce 'ci' or 'ti' in words as 'she' often - like, negotiation would be 'nego-she-ation' rather than 'nego-see-ation'. I hate myself for it but it's hard to stop!

DM pronounces it " lasang". It goes through me.

@Notsurehwhattdo how old are you? My daughter hates the way I pronounce a few things. One weird one is I say Efisodes rather than episodes. Bizarre and I can't stop.
She hates the way I say the phone. I hate loads of hers, pro cess in the American way. Advertisement rather than advertising. Anything really northern and a bit scally.