Stripped and dinning.

[Seymour5]

It's not a stripped shirt FGS, it's a striped shirt. It's not a dinning table either, it's a dining table.

”glade” instead of glad seems to appearing frequently.

And “prolly” instead of probably, both spoken and written.

And inserting “of” in between the adjective and the noun eg “I’m not that bad of a person” or “not that good of a driver”.

Me too. Scot here, I say why, not wye, and I pronounce ‘r’ so llama doesn’t rhyme with Starmer for me either. Saw and sore don’t sound alike for me either. It’s not annoying in everyday speech, we all have accents, but irritating when part of a quiz that is broadcast across the UK.

How do you pronounce llama?

My parents used to record Countdown and fast forward through all the chat. That's the only way I could cope with the 1% Club. Surely ell is the only valid answer to that question, avoiding all accent issues?

Apostrophes - the difference between knowing your shit, or knowing you're shit.

😂

Lama. Rhymes with drama. Llama has no R sound in it.

StaRmeR. First syllable pronounced as it’s spelt, ‘star’, second pronounced ‘mer’ not ‘ma’.

I’ve noticed this. I recently started hearing gonnu instead of gonna as well and it’s annoying me. (I’m not a native speaker so ok with the American gonna but the one with the u sound is annoying).

Love this! 😄

I had a new one the other week from a colleague. “Will you be able to come to Jane and I’s wedding?”

This really, really annoys me. People seem to think that once there is an “and” in the sentence that you must use “I”.

Remove the other person from the sentence and you have the correct pronoun. So it’s “do you want to come with me” and “do you want to come with Mary and me” or “are you coming to my wedding”, “are you coming to Jane’s wedding” and “are you coming to Jane’s and my wedding”

Ooh or ect instead of etc

Like thrumming?

Saying ‘corter’ instead of ‘quarter’. Grr

Has anyone seen my smugest?

Some people on Mumsnet unfortunately pour scorn on anything outside the experience of Little Englanders. There's tediously regular miff about "Americanisms" like gotten, high school, Santa Claus, elevator, lawyer, etc. - all long standing uses in Scotland. And do not get anyone started on "can I get...?" - we're all apparently supposed to start saying "may I have...?" like we're Captain Peacock or something.

Accents vary, and rhoticity makes a huge difference. Of course it's Starmer not Stahma, and Mariana not Marryarrrner (you're not a pirate!) My sister's English husband STILL calls her Neener, which sounds like a fire engine, but we accept that that's how he speaks and it's natural to him. It would be good if that level of respect could be reciprocated.

Describing someone as past away seems more common than passed

No fiftycuffs please...

More pronunciation than pedantry, but on last night's Commonwealth Games coverage there were many references to Glaarsgow. Should be a short a in Glasgow!

I grew up in Scotland and I don't have a clue what other pronunciation of "why" you mean.

(It doesn't really help if you write, "I say why," because I just hear that in my own accent where it sounds identical to the letter 'y'!)

Could you spell it phonetically?

Of course it's Starmer not Stahma

What's the difference?

If you're trying to indicate your own accent you can't just write the word in question using its actual spelling!

Scots pronounce the h.

Pronouncing both 'r's is the difference. Many English don't pronounce either of them.

I don’t understand this at all. How do you say llama and Starmer? They sound identical to me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260708-which-is-the-oldest-english-accent

For those discussing which pronunciation is the most 'authentic' 😅