Funny mispronunciations

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I had to have a giggle at my lovely friend the other day. Not only did she describe someone as being 'lapsidaisy', but she also said they'd taken 'humbridge' at something. Thankfully she can laugh at her self so wasn't offended when I corrected her!

What mispronunciations have you heard...and do you correct people?

A lot of people seem to say "depot" for deed poll.

Also use of the word "mortified" to mean horrified rather than embarrassed.

Someone once told me all about her new car - a Hyundai "Son-otter". I don't know much about cars so the name didn't surprise me. Then I saw it and realised it was a Hyundai Sonata. She had no trouble with Hyundai, though.

A relation of mine was being transferred from the hospital he was in to St Pancras Hospital. Without fail, every single member of the medical staff I spoke to called it "St Pancreas". I did think the consultant should have known better.

My auntie used to talk about de-rodent instead or deodorant.

my friend turned up distraught saying her nan had died of amonia (sp?). i was thinking poisened by her crazy son but actually it was pneumonia !!

A bit mean, as he's German and speaks perfect English 99.9% of the time, but it drives me mad that my husband says the 'b' in 'debt'... no matter how many times I correct him and say "deT. It's deT. Forget the Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb" !!!!!!!!

hhmmm..... thinking about it, perhaps he's doing it on purpose to wind me up!

my dh accuses me of being unable to pronounce february because i pronounce it correctly - feb-ru-ary.

not really a mispronunciation at all, but my toddler pointed at a Pineapple in the Greengrocer today and said proudly VERY LOUDLY "look mummy, a Porcupine!". the whole shop cracked up!

On the garage/garage debate, for some reason I always call the car storage place in ones home a 'garridge' but the place where you take your car to be repaired the 'garrahge'. For years I thought there was a distinction between the two, and even now I struggle with the idea of pronouncing them the same.

My nine-year-old DD was very pleased to get an 'extinction' in a dance exam recently.

My dear old Great Aunt pronounces every single Italian word that passes her lips incorrectly.
Ciabatta is "see-a-batter".
Minestrone is "min-strown".
Pisa is "pizza".

I could go on...

I love her dearly!

When we were living in Scotland, DH was always going on about secretarian violence... which brought to mind secretaries belting each other with typewriter ribbons. Also refers to a Cumberland sausage as a Cumbernauld sausage.

pasketti. i thought only kids said it but i was sadly mistaken

A friend of my mothers still asks for 'a cup of chino' at at cafe instead of cappuccino. It's just so embarrassing.

expresso for espresso - why?

My Ex MIL use to say "N sweet" for en Suite

dp came up with post-nasal drip once describing to a pharmacist the precise manflu symptoms he had!

We have so adopted dd's woodhouse for woodlouse that I forget it isn't right. And lellow of course.

We were packing away the Christmas decorations at work one year when I notices my drippy assistant had marked the box: 'Ball-Balls'...

What a great thread! One January when we were packing away all the tinsel and baubles ds2 referred to them as dick and jasons - and we still use the term in jest now!!

I'm loving hearing people's "family words" for things.
We call toblerones "trombones", after my DD referred to them thus.

Katerina- I second the "expresso" one.
Was it maybe a brand name once?

Oh, and my DP says "excape". I daren't mention it, coz I want to marry him soon, and I'm keeping nagging to a minimum.

Not sure why i get so wound up by it, but my mother mispronounces words such as:

saugages - sautages
secretary - secetary
sandwiches- samwiches

i'm sure there are more...

lol just realised i spelt sausages wrong