It is not a sodding 'Expresso'

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Oh this makes me irrationally angry.

Where is it is it near Mowzel?

Trot...as in horse

is

Cliffe.....as in be careful you don't fall off.
Sorry not a clue.

I know. I wouldn't occur to you would it Umami? They used a phonetic spelling for the country park as the local used to say 'trot-is-cliffe country park? Never heard of it.'

I went out for some pasta with a friend once, when we got back to mine her boyfriend asked her what she'd had - Gnocchi, only she said it as g' notch ee.

Still winds me up now and that was ages ago

Yves Saint Laurent.

My gran used to pronounce it as to rhyme with Sleeves Paint Warrant.

Am loving 'fadge eaters' though

Yes, WoT (or rather no), it was when I'd been to the country park that my friend told me about it. Very peculiar, it is!

notagrannyyet - it's Trosley.

May I add that people saying 'Can I get a latte (or whatever they're having)' drives me insane. I never ask for a vente or a grande or whatever stupid thing they are- I just say medium...sheesh

Wotmania---That'll never make it into Jolly Phonics.

I have 3 dyslexic sons. They don't stand a chance do they!

Always fun to sit on the tube and listen to the tourists talking about Lie -ses-ter Square

Slough is not pronounced slow - it's pronounced to rhyme with wow!

teenyweeny, RJRabbit did qualify it to say the ow should be pronounced as the noise you make when you bang your elbow
I usually use plough/plow as the example pronunciation for Slough.

My DH (Aussie) had troubles with Esher - pronounced it Esh-er instead of Ee-sher.

TDWP - you're a pedant at heart!

I think its a tribute to the versatility of the English language that foreign words can be so easily adopted and then "anglicized".
I'm sure those who mock people who say "expresso" are themselves pronouncing other foreign words wrong without any knowledge (INdian words was a good example). No-one in Japan says kiMOWno, but the English do because the language places emphasis on the second syllable.

OP I reckon you say CARRYOKEE instead of KARRA-OKE (which is how the Japanese pronounce it). Language morphs and becomes something more palatable for the local tongue when its adopted by another culture.

Ok, finally I have the chance to ask this question.
Is it to "express breast milk" or "espress breast milk" Which do you think is more correct and why?

I kinda think espress because express makes as much sense as the coffee?

smugaboo - just look at the spellings.
expressed breast milk
espresso (coffee)
one has an x one has an s
totally different

I do get that - but I've seen it spelt both ways. Google "espressed breast milk" - its out there.

I got "did you mean expressed breast milk?
And only one I saw on page one with espressed and it's only done by someone on a forum or message board. Anyone can spell it incorrectly. That doesn't mean it's correct or even one way of spelling it/saying it.

Yeah, I had a look again and I did find a few (not many)references to "espressed breast milk" - but I do agree, it has to be "expressed". I checked World Health Organisation - it says "express". And of course - it means "express" as in "expressed orange juice. I guess it is a case of the opposite happening with the coffee thing!
Mystery solved for me!

actually, come to that, expressing means squeezing fluid through something as well - as with milk, orange juice - so in reality expressed coffee is the English form of "espresso". Perhaps we should knock the "o" off the end though - 2one expressed coffee, please" OR "one espresso", not a combination of the two.

gah - "one.." not 2one.."

This is an issue of snobbery, nothing else.

pointy it's an issue of literacy. Not snobbery

No it's not. It's snobbery.