It is not a sodding 'Expresso'

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Oh this makes me irrationally angry.

It's Mo-et, because Moet (sorry, no umlaut on this laptop!) was Dutch and not French. And EVERYONE says Mo-ay. Even me. Even though I know it's wrong.

Possibly because I am still smarting from mentioning that I was going to Arras for the weekend (small and pretty Northern French town) and I pronounced the s on the end and someone I know, who is an academic, said, "Oh, I have never been to Arras" (not pronouncing the s in an exaggerated fashion). Now: there aren't many French words which end in s in which the s is sounded, but Arras is most definitely one of them.

There is such a thing as being too clever

Ka-ba actually

I've resorted to the anglicised, cheap version.... Fizzy plonk.

That's the beauty of the checkout at Sainsburys etc. The young person never asks me to name the drink. They do ask me occasionaly to identify the fruit and veg.

I'm still working on those names,

Cholmondeley = Chumly
Leveson-Gower = Loosengore
Woolfhandisworthy = Woolsey
Marjoribanks = Marshbanks

This has probably already been said but

Featherstonehaugh = Fanshaw

I think that Featherstonehaugh and Marjoribanks are the best two so far.

Lady- also Duras, where I used to bloody live, spoke like a proper little gasconne, yet am still corrected by all and sundry about how to pronounce it! Erm, I Think you'll find that people who've lived there for a thousand years know how to say their own town's name...