Mispronounced words that drive you mad

[puds11]

Just overheard someone ordering an ‘expresso’

What mispronounced words drive you mad?

On of the team leaders at work sends emails with “thank’s” at the end. That drives me scatty. Supposably is another one that is common round here and my dad says odviously. Also my friend tells me he is going too asda…. I could go on but I am getting an eyebrow twitch and need a little lie down. Thank’s for letting me vent

Bo-kay instead of bu-kay (like Hyacinth Bucket) for bouquet😬

I have always thought that was more like boo-kay. bukɛ in the IPA transcription.

Calling a book a burke. I know it's difficult because we all have different accents but I have thought recently that there is certain amount of silly affectation in the way some people say 'book'.

What mispronounced words drive you mad?

This is a genuine question... shouldn't it be "which mispronounced words drive you mad" rather than "what"?

@TheReluctantCountess

I have a friend who calls it ibrufen.

She also says cirtle instead of circle. It annoys me no end.

I've met medical professionals that call it ibrufen.

Brufen is one of the trade-names for ibuprofen, so there may be confusion going on.

www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/6713/smpc

Fasciitis as fasciLitis (plantar fasciitis). It's not that I expect people to automatically know how to pronounce it, because it is a tricky word but there is one woman I know constantly says it with an L, despite me repeatedly saying it correctly to her. Stop saying the L!! It doesn't exist!!

Also, where I'm from a lot of people pronounce Ibuprofen as brufen. Including in pharmacies, etc. It irks me.

Well now I feel stupid. I had only read through the first page of replies before sharing my comment, and now I see the answer above my own puts me in my place.

Alympics

When someone pronounces a word incorrectly (as opposed to completely bastardising it) eg Idyllic pronounced as 'ideal - ic' the the best response is to say "you have the emphasis on the wrong syllable", but you have to be completely ironic and pronounce it like this...

"You have the em-fassis on the wrong sil-abble" .

My personal (maybe irrational) hate is when I see someone write 'turnt' instead of turned.

It doesn't drive me mad but I just heard 'burgulry' instead of burglary. (Come on, let's split the word apart because it's one that we can sound out. Burg-la-ry. Good. Well done.

My personal (maybe irrational) hate is when I see someone write 'turnt' instead of turned.

Probably confused because of dreamt/dreamed, burned/burnt etc

I notice a lot of the reporters on BBC News say "nucular" instead of "nuclear". I don't know why this is such a common mispronunciation. Surely they have seen the word and its spelling.

I have read everything so apologies if these have been said.

But: hos-tip-al instead of hospital, chimley instead of chimney and there’s one relating to ambulance which I can’t remember at the moment, but it is awful to hear.

On the Radio 4 News this lunchtime there was another awful story about a little child who was killed. The reporter seemed to talk about "the abuse which was mettered out". Perhaps she has never met the expression "meted out".

@CustardySergeant

I notice a lot of the reporters on BBC News say "nucular" instead of "nuclear". I don't know why this is such a common mispronunciation. Surely they have seen the word and its spelling.

It's a genuine speech impediment, apparently. Someone I know who has it winces as he says it, but cannot get it right. He can say "new" and "clear" as separate words, but if he runs them together, nucular is what comes out.

I've come over here to get this one off my chest, but forgive me because it's the wrong word with the same pronunciation, not mispronounced. If I read on the Chat thread one more reference to the boarders with Ukraine I'm going to scream.