It is not a sodding 'Expresso'

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Oh this makes me irrationally angry.

YANBU about expresso - this used to drive me round the bend when I was a waitress.

As for some of the phlegmy ones, though, I cannot really be arsed. The thing that sets "expresso" apart is that it's an actual daft inadvertently made-up word, not just a simple mispronunciation.

Actually ... is it an eggcorn? No, maybe not.

Romanarama - well yes, that's what I thought it should be. That's what I would have said.
Any thoughts on Cher-nobble? That drove me nuts for ages...(was actually doing my Russian O level at the time, I think)

"tout le mange" what?????

I think chernobble, with the stress on the o, is about as good as you can get in English actually. The Russian vowel in the final syllable is quite a hard one for non-Russians to say, and I think would set off the pretentious alarm too.

(Of course now you have to say it in Ukrainian anyway - think it's Chornobble )

YANBU

I did waitressing and the other thing that pissed me off I found irritating was people asking for and espresso and then telling me I'd made the wrong drink/taken down the order incorrectly when they weren't handed an americano. .

On the quiche line, my grandmother (getting on a bit, and not originally English speaker) grasped the broad content (pastry with filling), gave us interesting versions to eat (eg broad beans) and called it squish. Amazingly apt given the results.

Haven't read all the thread but I go all Basil Fawlty when I hear "broo-shetta" for bruschetta

Its BROO-SKE-TA

And it's pasta not PAR-STA as many Americans especially seem to think

And it's Cha-Ba-Tta for Ciabatta not Char-bah-tah

Agree about the anglicization of foreign words and not sounding too poncy, but sometimes it does matter.

For example, I know a woman who calls Prima magazine, "Primer" .

I like this thread and have learned some new and useful facts

My mum calls Ciabatta chee-a-batty

Which totally flummoxes every waiter on the planet.

There's a brilliant moment on BBC One Scotland's comedy Still Game when the guys in their seventies are ordering pizza with extra jalapenos...Jallopy Nose. Ha!

Mispronunciation of this kind drives me nuts. Expresso is my particular pet hate - great thread!

Still Game! I loved that programme.

Jalapenos is one of the ones that annoys me the most. If you're going to bother pronouncing the j as a 'h', then please also bother with the tilde on the n.

expresso makes me cringe. so does "asseptable". I'm american and before I moved here, I thought that was how british people said "acceptable"

I know it's off topic (kinda) but people mispronouncing place names in Northern Ireland really bugs me...

It's BELfast, not belFAST. It's LISbellaw, not lisBELLaw...

Could go on, but should stop as morning sickness is coming back...

Think I'm on the verge of resorting to mime.

When we were last back in america my relatives were asking me if I had started saying things as brits do since we've been here several years... and "asseptable" was one of the words they were curious about. I made sure they knew that this is lazy speak.

It also really pisses me off that the powers that be at Grazia magazine deemed it be pronounced

GRAR-ZEE-AH

When the correct pronunciation is GRA-ZEE-YAH

lots of people I know say fustrated or fustrating....arrrggghh

now I've made you aware of it you'll hear it all the time

preehaps
that's another of my bugbears

But it's only anglicising (sp?) words. It's always happened.

Until I read this I didn't know I mispronounced words. We all do this sometimes. Place names are a good source of laughs for the locals.

I'll admit to calling it Mousehole instead of Mowzel.

And I very much remember when our posh southern cousins came for a holiday up north many years ago. The would not be told that they didn't need O level french to pronounce The Vale of Belvoir & Kibworth Beauchamp.

oh and when people say 'like a french r' and then roll said R!!!!!!!! No no no!

Isn't it actually 'grazie'?

The Vale of Belvoir is pronounced Beaver and Kibworth Beauchamp is BEECH-um. You can sometimes make a fool of yourself if you try and show off your MFL skills!