Pismonunciations that drive you nuts

[GoodyGoodyGumdrops]

I'm sure you've all got your particular teeth-clenching, fingernails-on-blackboard nemesis.

Today's offering: they did "drawring" in Art.

I will break him of that habit. I will!

Steve Wright is also guilty of pro noun ciation, grr

My son insists on saying haitch and thinks I am being fussy correcting him over and over again.

People who say nugget instead of nougat 😡

Main tain ance instead of maintenance

Stealth- no, because "students" doesn't have a difficult consonant cluster. /st/ isn't problematic. Also because in difficult clusters, a speaker would insert a vowel sound, not another consonant. Consonant clusters for English speakers tend to cause pronunciation problems at the end of syllables in any case, not at the beginning.

(I confess to having just spent the afternoon doing lots of linguistic gymnastics involving 16 yr olds going "eeeee, ooooooo, tttttt, ddddd lllll, hhhhh" in front of mirrors

But shhhhhtudents is everywhere. I take your point it's not the same as sicth. People seem to avoid the s sound imo

Oh God, HAITCH! Why God why?

It's spelt Aitch, pronounced 'huh'!

Drives me totally potty.

And your, you're.... rrrrrrrrr.

And let's not start on modern text speak like 'wiv'.

DH says heighth ( like width , with a th on the end )
But , his Dad is much , much worse
He says chimbleys .
I'll make him climb up the bloody chimbley

MIL lives in Hartley Wintney. DH insists on pronouncing it "hart-ney wit-ley", despite all evidence to the contrary.

I just heard "we're" pronounced as a cross between "were" and "where".

WhyNotNow, I would understand if SIL said 'cinemar' with a vowel after it but no, she just says it. At the end of a sentence. And we're Scottish so it's not an accent thing. I seethe with rage.

I 'brought' some cheese.
I 'brought' a dress at the weekend.

Argghhhh

People I'm friends with on FB saying defiantly when they mean definitely! Fgs they're two different words with different meanings

"Axe" instead of "asked". For example "I axed him to borrow me some money", as seen on Judge Judy (my hero), is it an american thing because loads of the defendants say it like that.

And, they pronounce "food stamps" like "foo' stamps" .

Cor-few instead of Corfu.

(Yes DM, I'm looking at you! )

People I'm friends with on FB saying defiantly when they mean definitely!

autocorrect when people try to spell it "definately" auntiepammy (& then not noticing what they've put)

Calzone pronounced cal-zown
DP pronounces things wrong and refuses to change bc he prefers his way edge-gare for edgware, candem for camden etc

I realised that I say shtudents on this thread. But saying stoodent sounds wrong, as i say dyooty not dooty (duty) et

I don't think all the defiantly is down to autocorrect. People have been doing it for as long as I can remember. The context does sometimes make me snigger though.

Where I live, people sometimes write 'are' when they mean 'our'.

It's stew-dent surely?
And on that point, it really grates on me when people say the name Stuart as Stoo-art. Or Stoo. Ugh. If I was called Stuart I would have to change my name.

Oh and I remember boggling a bit when I started working with someone who said predominately instead of predominantly. Then I found predominately is in the dictionary. Don't care, it's still wrong!!

Oggle instead of ogle 😣

Someone using Quire instead of choir. I'm not sure why that one has bothered me so much but it does!

How do you pronounce choir then?

I've got suh-ink to say. How is it even plausible?

Curious as to how else you say choir? Quahh?

Maybe i say stewdents, maybe i say schudents. I don't know anymore!!! This thread has confused me!