Mispronounced words that drive you mad

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Just overheard someone ordering an ‘expresso’

What mispronounced words drive you mad?

"There’s a very noticeable difference between “could’ve” and “could of” in spoken language. My experience is the people who say “could of” also write it, whereas the people who say “could’ve” write “could have”."

NO. Where I come from the pronunciation is COULD OF, but it's written could have of course.

"Nothing wrong with Haitch. It's the correct pronunciation in Ireland.
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Haitch where I'm from as well and a much more logical pronunciation imo as it includes the sound of the letter.

Any-think instead of anything same for nuthink rather than nothing.

MIL pronounces sandwich as sarnd-wich. WTF? She’s from the North East and I can’t understand most of what she says anyway.

where I'm from as well and a much more logical pronunciation imo as it includes the sound of the letter.

That’s hardly the qualifying feature for pronunciations though, is it?!

"That’s hardly the qualifying feature for pronunciations though, is it?!"

Well, a pronunciation that is not RP is not necessarily wrong, is it?

@devereux1 I don't get the "women" thing?

‘Pacific’ when the correct term is ‘Specific’

anythink, somethink, nuffink. Newclar (nuclear)
Also pacific for specific.

advacado instead of avocado

I've just realised that I've not heard anyone say "crutch" for crotch in a couple of decades. Used to be about 50% of usage. How odd.

Oh and I nearly smashed the tv once when SuperNanny was talking about putting someone on a pedal stool instead of pedestal

@swisskit Deveraux is saying trans people are all delusional. Which is a real jerk thing to say.

There’s a very noticeable difference between “could’ve” and “could of” in spoken language

Which spoken language? There are many different accents and dialects of English. In my accent (Southern US), they are perfect homophones.

Of course I don't have many occasions to say "could of".

Palava. It’s palaver! I've a friend who says it this way but I've also read it on here too.
How would you pronounce those differently?

Since one has an R at the end, that R is pronounced by those with rhotic accents.

I often wonder if people with rhotic accents spell better than those with non-rhotic.

I can usually identify people with non-rhotic accents who do not read much just by the sort of misspellings that crop up in many posts.

Privacy & schedule
I assume you mean 'pryvacy' and 'skedule' Jocasta2018?
They are both American pronunciations. They're not wrong, just not British English.

"could care less"- Its COULDNT care less, the first one means you DO care

That's a sarcastic American take on the phrase. It's not wrong. Just another approach to the thought.

Partner used to pronounce latte lat-ay. Instead of lah-tay.

A lot of the 'mispronunciations' listed here are perfectly respectable American pronunciations -
Ishoos
Toona
DebREE
Tishoo (though it's sometimes 'Kleenex' much as 'Hoover' is used in British English).
Skejool.
Pryvacy.

'Choosday' is an Irish pronunciation. So is Haitch, and it's used in Australia too by people who went to schools run by Irish nuns and priests/brothers, and descendants of Irish emigrants.

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.
No, this is just plain wrong.

But 'vairify' would be a solid Dublin pronunciation of 'verify'. The short E sound becomes AI in a Dublin accent (e.g. Saoirse Ronan rhyming Saoirse with 'inertia'. Sadly she corrected her accent so instead of inAIRsha she pronounced it inertia, leading to a whole new pronunciation of Saoirse - 'Sersha').

MattBerrysHair Fri 20-Dec-19 16:31:59
PAPrika instead of papREEka. I let it disproportionately irritate me. Dp and I argue about this. Is the first an Americanism? I'd never heard it pronounced this way before meeting him.
Not an Americanism, at least not in my neck of the American woods. He may be confusing the dish pronounced 'Chicken PAPrikash' in America with the usual British and American pronunciation of paprika - 'PaprEEka'. PAPrikash is closer to the Hungarian though. I think you should defer to your half Polish DH .

Hospickle instead of hospital 🤣

Partner used to pronounce latte lat-ay. Instead of lah-tay.

He’s correct though.

Perhaps he was Italian? Because that's how they pronounce it as well. Obviously they'd just give you a mug of milk and a funny look if you asked for one, but your pronunciation would be spot on.

Any-think instead of anything angry same for nuthink rather than nothing.

That's not wrong, but a common feature of a Birmingham/Black Country accent.

EverythinK and anythinK drive me insane

Partner used to pronounce latte lat-ay. Instead of lah-tay. He’s right.