people who pronounce 'mischievous' as mischeevious'

[pinkthechaffinch]

oh, it makes my teeth itch.

And I'm hearing it more and more. My ds' teacher said the word wrongly last term and I didn't correct her but I wish I had

AIBU?

The otherwise enjoyable Noisettes are guilty of this on their latest song.

I'm doing all the e's on here - mischeevious, reesearch, marshmellows.. and I say forred for forehead

Another one DW does which drives me mad is to say "he says" to rhyme with "he pays".

I say "sez", which sounds more colloquial and sloppy but which is actually correct.

Please tell me that I am not wrong - schedule should be pronounced as if it begins with a 'Sh' and the other way is 'the nails on chalkboard' US pronunciation ...

Yes, I am skeptical about skedule.

MIS-chev-us

Forred

Neck-Lace

shed-yool

I'm not sure how I pronounce mischievous.

How do you say communal?

I say 'commune-l', but loads of people say 'c'myoonal'.

Don't know if I'm right or wrong.

I say forrid too. Fore-head is just wrong.

commune-l.

no, com MUNE al on second thoughts

YABU and petty and trivial.

people speak differntly, live with it. Happily!

But you will have lots of support, there are many other 'all rules must be applied correctly at all times' anal pedants around, who spend lots of time making themselves unhappy spotting others breaking grammtical rules that they KNOW are correct coz they were told. Or read it in a book.

Rules woithout good reason rarily impress me and never more so than with spoken language.

What about data? Is it it day-ta or dah-ta?

I use both I'd say "dah-ta bank" but "day-ta set"

Nu-ki-lar for nuclear is a pet hate of mine. Likewise sekkerterry for secretary. Mind you, I say sek-ru-terry, not sekrtry, like my mum does. Not sure which is correct, actually.

And I've just realised, I re-SEARCH something, but look at the ree-search gathered. So dependant on whether it's a verb or a noun, I suppose.

I say dayta. Don't know if that's right or not.
OH and all of his family say anythink all the time.

Drives me round the bend.

Or dependent, even.

I appear to have mislaid my brain cells. They're probably in Sainsbury's.

Ate. I was brung up wiv et but dh says eight.

He's recently started saying reckernise, which I reckon is grounds for divorce as I wouldn't have married him if he'd pronounced it like that then.

I think dah-ta is US pronunciation, although the android in Star Trek was always called Day-ta.

I know I say status wrong as well as in facebook status. I say stah-tus which I think is american lol.

Members of DW's family and their friends had an ongoing discussion one Christmas about "arctic lorries" on the roads. I thought I had crossed over into some parallel dimension where trucks crossed the tundra.

When I brought it up on the drive home, and dared to intimate that this might be WRONG and not just some charming regional affectation, it almost caused a divorce.

'When I brought it up on the drive home, and dared to intimate that this might be WRONG and not just some charming regional affectation, it almost caused a divorce.'

Made me lol in real life

Blimey I say all varients of these! apart from the Americanisms.

I am not sure if you are unreasonable, but I do not appreciate looking slightly strange, muttering each word posted under my breath trying to work it out. I look very strange. So for that reason, YABU

I used to work in a doctor's surgery & it really used to bug me when people asked for a "Perscription" rather than a "Prescription"

I get more ticked off if it's pronounced "mis-chee-vee-uss", which I seem to be hearing more and more these days! It's the "vee" bit, it just isn't there and is totally extra and made up and is the whole world illiterate AAAGH!!

(slinks back of to Pedants Corner where she belongs....)