You know how some people pronounce luxury with a G?

[Dumbledoresgirl]

As in "lug-shur-y" -

Is there a reason for pronouncing it this way?

I was thinking that only today. heard it on the radio, on an advert. can't remember which one but it really annoyed me.

Don't know but it makes me want to throttle them.

I hate sandwich with a G. Sang-wich. Might be a Scottish thing though.

yes think sangwich is scottish. my nan says it and it's a bit of a family joke (we're mad we are)

I just heard it on the BBC1 news. It seems an odd affectation to me and made me wonder if there was actually a reason for it.

Marcus off of Big Brother used to say lug shur y. Bugged the hell out of me.

It's actually quite hard to distinguish between luxury abs lug-zyoory in my accent. I just tried it and I have to enunciate as much as possible.

Was the speaker Scottish.

Note: I do not say sangwich. Ever.

Eggsit (exit) annoys me too.

just had a look on the free dictionary and it shows two pronunciations, one of them with a 'g'. So they are obviously well within their rights to say it like that. I will continue to hate it though.

Well at least I don't say 'carn't'.

Oh yes eggsit - I had forgotten that one. So it is mispronunciation of x.

No, I don't think the speaker was Scottish.

the person i heard saying it wasn't scottish either.

Is it a Midlands thing? I have a colleague who throws random Gs into words - I've been trying to place it.

It's not all words with x in them though, so why?

no, not a midlands thing

my dp says 'barth' for bath drives me mad

My DH insists on pronouncing premise as 'prem-eyes' rather than 'premiss'. And barth too, but he's southern so he can't help it.

prem-eyes?

dp southern too, keeps calling me northerner but i have never lived further north than south staffs!!!

it's prem-iss

Yes. I know it's prem-iss. I passive aggressively pronounce it properly in the hopes that he'll learn. Prem-eyes sounds so pretentious.

I used to wonder whether the Radio 4 newsreader (she of the lovely Northern Irish voice) was Kathy Clugston or Kathy Cluxton owing to this pronuciation trait in some....... Turns out it is the former.

I only meant he can't help barth. He could easily pronounce premise like a normal person.

wasn't aiming that at you
perhaps because of the 'e' at the end that's why he pronounces it that way?

I don't know. It's a word that comes up a lot in our profession, so I'm not sure why he pronounces it that way. I've been wondering whether it's just an alternative (and pretentious) pronunciation, but the reaction on here assures me that I am in fact right. I should pr