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 colleague constantly refers to (and also writes) 'imputs'. Drives me nuts.

My DH claims I pronounce 'museum' strangely, although I disagree.

We also disagree on how to pronounce 'privacy'. DH says 'privacy' with the 'pri' rhyming with 'rye'. I say 'privacy' with the 'priv' as in privot hedge. Any views?

I cringe when people talk about 'Jane' prams, as in Tarzan & Jane. It is a Spanish brand, pronounced 'haney'.

I think privacy pronounced so the 'pri' rhymes with 'rye' sounds American. But my dictionary has both pronunciations listed (with the 'pri' rhymes with 'rye' listed second).

Biccy, thank-you. You have just prompted me to remember the most irritating pronunciation ever. . . . .

My DH says risotto as,

rishzOHto

in an annoying Llyod Grossman accent.

Winds me up every time.

Does he say tom-ay-toe or tom-ar-toe? If the former it's definitely time to call the whole thing off...

My technician at work refers to the girls playing Hockey on the ' Afroturf' and ambulances being staffed by ' paddymedics'.

I haven't the heart to tell her.

An awful lot of people appearing on jeremy kyle have to go 'up the hospickal'. I love it when I see that, and immediately text dh.

Also jalapenos with a hard 'j'. (Not on kyle)

Mum always referred to key-a-batty bread when looking for ciabatta.

And my friends Dad once said, "I made a huge pas faux"

He also referred to my FIL as Friegsied

A definite Malapropism, rather than mispronunciation, but a fab one...

A lovely, clever woman I worked with knows that she always gets it wrong, so it went like this

"Oh which word is it, what you do when someone is choking?

The Hymen manoeuvre?"

My old teamleader when I worked in Travel was doing my appraisal one day and said that I needed to be more 'Pacific' when asking customers about their destination choice.

I had to ask her repeat herself twice before I realised that she meant 'specific'.

I also saw a man on the news (local news, where they stop people in the street etc), He said that he didnt want to be 'Just another sadistic '

Think he meant statistic.

My headmaster used to say 'Chay - oos' for Chaos.
He once stormed into a rowdy sixth -form common room and declared, 'this is utter Chay-oos' and we all stopped and went 'heh?'.

DH says crinimal
DS says parate (for karate: but he is only 4)

Dh has trouble pronouncing some words and I love it! I often ask him to repeat himself just so I can hear it again - unfortunately he has now caught on and refuses to do so

DH says pome instead of po-em. I don't think he says pote instead of po-et though.

My friend says "po-ee-um" instead of poem but worst one of all for me is "tag-lee-a-telly" for tagliatelle; the g is silent and it drives me mad!

Some of these are hilarious

I used to say 'The-A-saurus' as in a dinosaur instead of thes-aurus

My old boss used to refer to 'affadavids'and 'hi-archys'!

& on a purely pedantic note I can't stand 'nuclear' pronounced 'newk-you-lar'or 'tenderhooks' for 'tenterhooks'.

My Mum comes out with some belters

Scochland for Scotland
Digical for digital

An old boss of mine used to say lets get down to pacifics instead of specifics.

My Mums friend calls Jimmy Choos "Jimmy 2 shoes" and she isn't joking she actually thinks they are called this. That isn't mispronunciation though just stupidity.

I've never heard anyone other than this lady pronounce it Clar-ran in this country.

You're right Minty. It is a French company so it is correct to pronounce it 'Clar-ran' BUT most people I know , even if they know French would pronounce it 'Cla-rins' in order not to sound poncy.

If I was in France though I would say it the French way.

Could someone please clarify if "Newk-u-lar" has now become an acceptable pronounciation for Nuclear. I hear it used regularly on the telly these days, particularly by news-readers and politicians, and I am starting to doubt myself.

I don't know if it has become acceptable or not but it still makes my teeth itch.

Oh that's another one! When people say 'A-sept-ible' for 'acceptable' ...

My grandmother cooked - and she was getting on a bit when a 'new' food stuff was introduced to her - quiche. She made her own and called it 'Squish'. Very apt in fact

Can someone clear this one up for me:

Surveillance - I always pronounced it sur-vay-ance, rather than sur-vay-lance. Am I completely wrong? (In my defence I spent a big chunk of my school years in France)

Thanks

ILove - I say the L

I think you're saying it the French way ILove, sounds like you have a good excuse though !

my mum says opingons for opinions. My MIL says "I turned around and then he turned around and said, so I turned (etc etc)" FIL said "engrohsed for engrossed" Aargh.
I am guilty of saying pome,