Pismonunciations that drive you nuts

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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!

Also say new-cue-lar ( not sure what people are saying) and sorry but sometimes people's accents are different . Get over it -
I am ( I think ) highly intelligent and have and Eng Lit MA but Londoners still make fun of what I say and it makes me feel awful and common and pathetic. Yet I can correct many SE'rs grammar and yet I am apparently wrong for having flat vowels.

Not a mispronunciation, but Holland instead of The Netherlands.

Per scription not prescription

Riverdale I know what you mean but I wouldn't class a difference in vowels as a mispronunciation but many of these have sounds either switched or missing (ie my example of proply/properly).

Riverdale it should be pronounced 'nyoo clee er'

Exh said (presumably still says) secetary (missing the "r") & pop-a-lur for popular. However, despite being a hyper-critical in every other area of our life together he never once criticized my (Canadian) accent, so I'll let his two word weirdnesses go.

New clear. It's so easy

I had a friend from the South who would take great pleasure in correcting me when I said room with an elongated vowel instead of pronouncing it as rum. I told her that's how us northerners pronounce it but she would just smile and shake her head like a know it all fuckwit and continue to correct me in future conversations.
Just thinking about it now almost makes me want to meet up with her again so I can say "is there any roooooom in your bedroom????" And then punch her in the face when she tuts and titters at me.

Riverdale, nucular isn't an accent thing - people with all and any accents say it. . Could you explain why you say that instead of "new clear"?

Ivy, it's draw followed by ing. Draw-ing.
But I pronounce draw to rhyme with door. It sounds like it has an r, even though it doesn't.

There is a difference between regional accent and incorrect pronunciation.

Vowel variants (lurry/lorry, pAth/pAHth) and emphasising/blurring consonants (burrrd/bird) are correct regional variations.

But things like intrusive Rs (drawring), switching letters (Isree-el), switching similar words (pacific/specific) and changing sounds completely (nu-kew-lar) are mispronunciations. Cute in a toddler, perhaps, but not in an adult.

Personally, I love regional accents, and I love the variety in English-speaking within the British Isles and around the world. I'm willing to accept that some mispronunciations are regional variants. But most are not. Most are lazy speech and maul our lovely language.

Ivy- try saying 'dror wing' - it's the 'w' you're not pronouncing by the sounds of it and then the 'r' will disappear!

I hear a lot of people saying 'pengwen' rather than 'pengwin' for penguin. I thought it was just my friend but I hear so many people say it, I wonder if I'm the one mispronouncing??

But I don't pronounce the w at all.

Ivy that's why op is pointing 'drawring ' out as a mispronunciation: there is no 'r' before the 'ing', it's a 'w'

ivy but you could easily say draw ing. You are finding reason not to. Why I don't know. Why do you pronounce draw like dror anyway?

Sickth is the one that makes my blood boil!

Because I'm sounthern. There is no r in path but I put one there.

The aw in draw sounds the same as 'awe' 'or' and 'ore'.

Somethink.

Because I'm sounthern. There is no r in path but I put one there. but why? I genuinely don't understand why you do this when you yourself know it's incorrect?

My nan pronounces Waitrose as Way-rose as though the T is silent . I've no idea why she does this as she is not the sort of person to drop her T's in any other words, but I become irrationally angry when she says it

I also get really pissed when people write 'discusting' or use the wrong to/too e.g 'going too the pub'

I'm Southern too ivy . Do you really pronounce 'or ' with the 'r' the same as you do 'drawing' i.e. putting your top teeth on the inside of your bottom lip to get the hard 'r' as you do for 'ring'?

Burgulry
Libary
Bokkle
Hospikal
Alcol

The last 3 might be specific to an area near where I live, and some would probably argue are dialect, but they make my teeth grind.

Because I'm sounthern. There is no r in path but I put one there. but why? I genuinely don't understand why you do this when you yourself know it's incorrect?

It's not 'incorrect', my accent is my accent. Would you tell someone Scottish or Welsh that their accent was wrong too?

Skelington and chimlee