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!

I'm a nurse and we say it a lot. I can't bear people calling it, ibubrufen though.

I always used to think a gillet was pronounced as that - 'gil lit' - when I learnt it's pronounced 'czee lay' - (crap spelling I know, tried to write it as it sounds)

I can only think of two!
Who-l instead of whole and appoint-ment instead of appointmunt 😂

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Mum used Brufen too. I believe it was an early brand name in the uk for ibuprofen so probably used it in the way we use nuerofen.

Anyway, more ‘motherisms’
”would you like an egg omelette?” Never did discover if she had any other type. DS still calls it this now as it still amuses him.

To my father after coming in from work in a storm “ohh it’s a crucial wind out there”. Never did find out what she was going for.

One going for a blood test “That new lobotomist at the clinic is lovely”

Shes no longer with us sadly, but so many of her daft phrases live on.

Sang-witches for tea, followed by y-oh-gurt

I once ordered lasagna from Spoons and the person on the bar yelled back so that's 1 Lasagknee with garlic bread, plus whatever else I'd gone up to order. I just nodded whilst trying not to burst out laughing.

My mother says You-ber instead of Uber

"Shall we call a you-ber?"

Is ‚restront‘ wrong then? I’ve said it that way forever.
my daughter HATES that I say onion, un-ee-un (3 syllables) rather than un-yun.

Irrationally maybe but I dislike the American (I think?) spelling of lasagna rather than lasagne.

How else can you say it? Falla - fell ? Surely not!

Is it National Take the Piss out of Accents week this week or something?

Father in-laws partner calls covid “The Covid”
”Shirley from no.10 has.. the Covid”
She pauses ever so slightly before saying it for dramatic effect🤣

My dear mum mispronounces certain names, I can tell her a hundred times, but she’ll still get it wrong. I think she has selective hearing!

It’s Gee-Lay isn’t it??

My mum passed away a month ago. So I think of her mispronunciations with a smile.

Skellington
Chimley
Weigh-rose
Putatus

DM calls this site mumset
Travelodge, Travelog
Netflix, Netflick

I can't correct her anymore.

She pronounces the letter R as OR, and sounds like a pirate😂

I’m going to tell you mine and then I will win because no one else’s will be as bad and we’ll stop this thread because of it.

My mum says ‘sess - you - al’ for ‘sexual’. Like she’s Spanish or something. She’s from Hertfordshire.

It’s all so awful.

My mum says fisted instead of punched 😭

You both win

DP has just reminded me of the time my mother asked him if he liked her 'new condom holder'.

I say on-velope. I've never heard anyone say en-velope! That's wrong.

Mine says home and bargains ? And I still can't work out if she's right or not haha

Some of these are funny or understandably frustrating, like Germably for Jeremy or abso-yootly, but other posters are upset about perfectly normal pronunciations of the time: “Nazzy”, “peter bread”, “Ibittsa”, “onvelope” and “darter” were all perfectly usual ways of saying Nazi, pita bread, Ibiza, envelope and data at a certain place and time. I wonder if it’s because we don’t hear many voices from the past, these days, and dialect is becoming so globalised and flattened so if we hear someone say it differently to us we’re ashamed of their error?

If you listen to old Agatha Christie plays, the characters all talk about “an ‘otel” - it sounds so odd now, but I wouldn’t say they are embarrassingly ignorant. I really enjoy the range of pronunciations in conversations with a range of ages/areas (although “cargigan” does make me absolutely gag, to be fair).

Is she a scouser by any chance?

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