Things that people say wrongly....but they're too old to be corrected

[Moomin8]

When I was about 18 I had a boyfriend who used to call Valentine's Day 'Valentimes ' day.

But a lot of people pronounce ‘ex’ and ‘eggs’ identically in words — eggsamination, fire eggsit etc. For them, Breggsit is Brexit.

My MIL mispronounces Patrick (which should rhyme with ‘hat trick’) as ‘PaRtrick.’ She’s a rhotic speaker, so I don’t mean she elongates the ‘a’ into a longer ‘aa’ as Paaahtrick, I mean she inserts a voiced ‘r’ sound.

The killer is that she’s been married to a Patrick for nearly 50 years. For almost 50 years she has been listening to her husband say his own name on a daily basis, and then pronouncing it differently.

My mum likes to pronounce English words as if they were French.
This is apparently something she has no control over because she spent 6 months au pairing in France 60 years ago.

It comes across to me as affected and ludicrous or just a bit weird but she thinks it makes her sound educated sophisticated and cosmopolitan.

God, @Snog, you are reminding me of a nun who taught me in primary school who said ‘restaurONG’ for restaurant and ‘dessAIR’ for dessert, and used to correct us if we got it wrong!

My DH ( 60's) says "heigh -th" for height. Drives me mad but it's obviously a lifetime thing and not worth speaking about.

My in laws say 'stright' for straight. I assume this is an accent thing though

My Mum, who died at 89, always said "vawze" for vase. Set my teeth on edge.

Mataland, Witherspoons (the grim pub chain), Buzz (Bus) and Skelington, all by DP Mother.

Every body I know says witherspoons I think it's our accents weather spoons doesn't sound right to me

There's nothing wrong with forrid @curlyLJ It's the way forehead used to be said.

There are various others on here that sound like older pronunciations of words.

Chris for crisps though. UGH.

When dh says Pacific instead of specific I could explode,its very annoying

My DH is terrible for this, but my (adult) kids love it, we were playing cards against humanity and he read out Miley Cyrus as Millie Cirrus, and couldn't understand why they were crying with laughter. Also, the time we visited one at uni and proudly announced that we had got a cab via Uber (pronounced Ubber) He also orders expresso which makes me a bit stabby so I try and head it off by ordering first :)

Just thought of another one, for some inexplicable reason he says chateauneuf du pape as chateauneuf du poire, again, on the rare occasion that budget permits, I try and get the order in first!

My husband says mozzarella instead of motzerella which, then written down, makes him look reasonable. Which he most certainly isn't

I hate it when people call M&S Marksies. I’ve seen it on here several times.

Especially when it's Marks's

A friend's brother had Prostrate cancer & we were given in-depth updates on the treatment for his Prostrate cancer. He has made a full recovery so which is excellent as they caught it early.
I guess it's an easy mistake to make & must be quite difficult to correct a patient in that situation.

People who say purposefully instead of purposely. Two different words, two different meanings.

My in-laws are always attending funerals - or as they put it 'funedrals' - they also pronounce hearse as 'Hearst' (they love a bit of death!)

I bet they send a sheath of flowers too.

iknowimcoming, did you have the cat

Or spaded even? 😂

iknowimcoming, did you have the cat newted?

Ffs. Try again. Or spaded even?

I have heard many foster carers ( and parents) request rest bite

Yes I’ve heard rest bite a lot too!

DH, who is from Bedford, and I who come from the Glasgow area, are locked in a battle over the pronunciation of the word 'bury'.

He says berry.
I say burry.

We now have to compromise and say inter 😳

Put someone on a pedalstool.

Off their own back.

Chimley , for chimney.
Kekkle, for kettle.
Bokkie for bottle.
Think it’s regional, but confusing growing up and trying to learn how to spell them correctly.
Also isn’t aeriated regional for irate, over excited, not mispronunciation.

We say inter btw coffee you are right obviously it is bury !