Mispronounced words that drive you mad

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Just overheard someone ordering an ‘expresso’

What mispronounced words drive you mad?

@LouLou789

I’ve only just discovered this wonderful thread!

My most recent irritation is Covvid, instead of CO-vid.

I am finding it hard to cope with corvid instead of covid. If only it were merely "like a crow" instead of a killer disease.

[quote Jacopo]@VanillaAndOrange “CommUNal” - yes this!! Drives me crazy on almost every property programme on TV.
It’s COMMunal, COMMunal fgs!!![/quote]
And that one is because of community, I suppose, which is "commUNity".

Oh this is such an old thread! I picked my children up on things mentioned. They used to say "I need toilet" instead of the toilet. They don't do that anymore! My OH still says lend and borrow in the way, although he gets told every time!
Some I think must be regional though. I was always good at spelling, a huge reader etc. When I started an English literature and language degree, I was very surprised at the spelling of pronunciation. I always said pronunciation. To the point I googled the spelling, as I believed my book was wrong! To this day, I've never heard anyone pronounce that word the way it is spelled!

Adding an H to words such as assume, presume,

They do it on the TV all the time now

Just heard another Shhh word on the Tv

Shhhtraight

I hear the sh a lot these days, and also shj, as in eshjery or shjrait.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

And all over the radio: die-sect instead of dissect, die-section instead of dissection, when they are talking about the taking apart of a corpse or a plant or an idea. I suppose it's because of bisect.

Yet they don't die-agree, die-sent or write die-sertations.

I've just heard Hishjry.

On with a different bonnet, for another bee:

Gambling has two syllables. Not three.

Gambolling is a different word.

I can’t stand when people say

Chuldren, instead of children.

Chocolit, instead of chocolate.

When people pronounce words ending in less as liss.

Mischievous- I heard someone say mischiev-i-ous.

The word iron pronounced as 2 syllables- I-rin

What about forehead? I say forr-id, but lots of people say four-hedd.

@cherish123

The word iron pronounced as 2 syllables- I-rin

I am a bit unsure how iron doesn't have two syllables; I don't pronounce the r in the middle, but I do give it two syllables. Iy-un and steel, I suppose. Doing the iyuning.

Fucking eXpresso..... instead of eSpresso drives me bonkers

@SomeoneInTheLaaaaaounge

Fucking eXpresso..... instead of eSpresso drives me bonkers

That one is interesting because it's an example of the English language taking a foreign word and messing it about in the twentieth rather than the eighteenth century. Espresso bars were set up in England in the 1950s; da yoof of the time called them either "coffee bars" or "expressos". I suppose that they (many of my brothers' friends -- I didn't like coffee) simply assumed "espresso" was grown-ups not understanding that the water was pushed at pressure through something to make the brew, instead of being poured over a filter so gravity did the work. In English when you force a thing through a pipe of filter you express it rather than espress it. Simple as that.

No more wrong, in a way, than saying Venice instead of Venezia (or Venexia like the locals there). The Italian pronunciation is the one that has stuck over here as well, is all.

Ibrofen
Marsh mellow
Mustoche
Skedule (American pronunciation)
Laaaaaarte

Deteriated instead of deteriorated is running riot over the BBC at the moment, and it makes me wince every time.

Text instead of texted. As in: "He text me yesterday".

@Starryskye

I live in Yorkshire, 'bockle' instead of bottle, 'lickle' not little and my ultimate peeve 'keckle' in place of kettle. Up there with everyone saying 'reyt good' just baffles me and yet I was born here

I have also heard ‘hospickle’ 😂

Longevity.

@MinesAMassiveSalad

Longevity.

Um? It's a word...

I always heard it said with a soft g (lonjevity) until recently on news channels when I have heard it from at least two contributors said as long-evity, hard g.

Apparently it's a bit open to opinion: Lawn-jevity, Lon-jevity, Lon-gevity, all get put as acceptable in one and another dictionary.

I didn't know what you meant because I have always gone with lon-jevity, so the other two came as a surprise to me!

Probably been mentioned, but "seckertary" for "secretary".