Mispronounced words that drive you mad

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Just overheard someone ordering an ‘expresso’

What mispronounced words drive you mad?

I'm always shouting at the TV during Masterchef

So am I! I don't like it when John always says "Greg and I" when he means "Greg and me".

I see these often in casual written English (e.g. Facebook) in my area ( North East), and they drive me mad!

Carnt instead of can't. Especially as most people say it as cannot, so where on earth does the extra r come from?

Or instead of oh.

Jarmas instead of pyjamas.

A new one that's popping up recently is buttered instead of gutted.

Use instead of youse, which shouldn't even be in writing anyway. As in the following casual sentence- "al get use booked in, hun x".

And breathe!

'Espresso' actually comes from the Latin word 'exprimere' (to press out) and was corrupted into the Italian 'espresso', while the French (along with some other countries, such as Portugal and Spain) kept the arguably more pure form.

But it still hurts my ears. 😀

Quality or equality with the A pronounced as an A. Instead of quolity (like a normal person), it becomes quAlity, sort of like quack. That one makes makes me want to hit the offending person over the head until they say it correctly!

Has anyone mentioned controversy?

The trouble with all these is that we learn how to say things by picking it up from those around us much more than by inspecting the spelling and seeing if we have it right/wrong. So those who have bad pronouncers for family and friends are doomed from the start. It's a hard thing to overcome!

As a Midlander, I was momentarily surprised during a phonetics exam to hear my examiner saying "pronounciation" as it's spelled. She was Irish. Again, simple regional variations.

It's not a regional variation, though - it's someone who thinks that because the root word is 'pronounce', that's how that noun should sound as well.

MattBerrysHair I was wondering if anyone would mention the PAPrika/paREEKA issue.
As someone who says PAPrika (Hungarian pronunciation, and the one I was brought up with), I cringe when I hear pap-REEK-a. I can only imagine that pap-REEK-a is an English/American mispronunciation spread by those who've only been using the stuff since the 70s - much like those who say tew-mer-ick for turmeric.

Breggzit ffs

My MIL calls it Britt-ex. Like some sort of bastard cross between Pritt Stick and TippEx. Every single time. In laws are quite keen to discuss politics. Apparently Brexit could take 12 years. My teeth will be ground to stumps by then.

'Brittex' is excellent - better than 'Brexit', IMO, as it expresses the crappy whitewashing and sanitising of the whole delusional clusterfuck really well.

Someone I knew said they were going to train to be a 'smoking sensation facilitator'

And on a course I was delivering one participant said her husband was going to have a vast economy - because they didn't want any more children.

'Achsss' instead of Ask... its literally 3 letters how do so many people feck it up?

Other than that not man, I get more annoyed by nonsensical sentences like 'I could care less'. My DH has load that bug him though, at the moment its 'Preformance' instead of Performance lol.

I don't know if this is just a Scottish thing but I can't stand po-yim and po-yit instead of poem and poet. They never say poetry with the y sound.

The headteacher at DD's school was someone who did this and I once sat through an awful afternoon of the pupils reciting their po-yims and being told the po-yit and po-yim name before each child went onto the stage.

She also said "itch" instead of aitch for the letter H, which annoys me even more than haitch does.

Which has reminded me of the people mixing up itch and scratch. "I have to itch my back". No you don't.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who shouts at Masterchef though.

@PrancerOnParade my mum says poy-im and she’s Yorkshire. Bloody annoying!

In the medical profession: I've got prostrate problems nurse. Well ok I'm trying to get my head round what that looks like

I've just heard Brexit referred to as Bregzit on my local news

Getting books out of the liberry

I have a good friend who always says ‘we was’ 🤬 he’s escaped being battered because he’s lovely... but that can only carry one for so long...

But I do commit the crime with mischievous!! 🤣

Kil-om-etre instead of kilo-metre.It's a thousand (kilo) metres, the correct pronunciation is obvious. And nobody says kil-og-ram for kilogram, so why do so many people get kilometre wrong?

Mataland - my mam

Brefisht (breakfast) - my sister in law

Could/should of 😡 I fear it's becoming the norm. I correct my DC if they say it.

'Espresso' actually comes from the Latin word 'exprimere' (to press out) and was corrupted into the Italian 'espresso'

This is 'fasculating', (as an acquaintance of mine used to say). I had no idea.

I wonder why the 'x' disappeared from the Italian version?

Ergh my ex h used to say kor ree cho for chorizo. He had lots of weird affectations. He thought he was oh so clever when in fact he's just a nob.

One panini. Which then become two panini's.
Deteriated.
Drawrings.

Jags instead of jabs.

Pacific instead of specific.

"Bye-ses-ter" instead of Bicester

I'm sure there's more.

Another one I've just seen on FB - DEFIANTLY (in capitals), when they mean definitely.

JulyKit

Well that's me told! 😁
In my defense I wasn't around pre-70's, nor am I of Hungarian descent. Dp is half Polish so I suppose I should defer to his (probably) superior knowledge on this subject.

@Katisha Oh God yes - as a researcher that one drives me nuts too!

My own personal bugbear is often heard on the TV - when the newsreaders talk about the 'pleece' instead of the 'police'.