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?

Thanks mistle and MrsD! Will have to practice with the L.

I think I heard somewhere that sur-vay-lance is the American way of saying it. But I can't remember where I heard that...

Before I go though, my DH says weary as though it were wary. Very confusing. I try to get him just to say 'tired'....

And, for some reason, my two eldest brothers had a long-running debate about thesaurus- one of them (think it might have been the eldest, who is a bit 'up himself') claimed it was pronounced thess-a-russ (emphasis on the first syllable).

Nope. Must have dreamt it. Dictionary says sur-vay-lance. (Not literally, obviously)

psml @ 'I turned around and he turned around and said...' Does make you wonder whether by the end of the conversation they end up back to back or facing the wall or something.

mrsDanvers I used to say 'The-A-saurus' too!

mintyy - In my defence... I started buying Cla-ran when I lived in france, so I pronounce it that way... I'm sure the counter girls think I'm a ponce though... as I can only ever remember the product names in french not english, so ask for eclat de jour etc.

DH always says 'atavar' instead of 'avatar'- he was most surprised when I corrected him- he'd been misreading/pronouncing it for decades- he is dyslexic though...

If my sister is ever offered any cake she'll always say 'Ooh, yes, just a small slither'!

I once knew a bloke who came from the Black Country and he always said 'Hospikal' and 'likkle'. I don't know if that's the way they pronounce those words in that part of the country, or if it was just him.

When I was a child we used to go to London a couple of times a year, down the M1 and into the west end

I always knew we were nearly there when we passed the sign to "Crinklewood".

Oh and we always left the car in a Par Cark.

oh and I HATE hearing someone trying to buy a BOKKUL of wine or beer.

Nuclear pronounced newkiller is everywhere on the news, said by people who should definitely know the correct pronunciation, and drives me batty.
My dh always says pronounciation, which makes me want to punch him though I love him dearly! (and sometimes holds his knife like a pen )

MIL says 'peripherals' for profiteroles and takes 'anti-flammable' tablets for her arthritis
ALL the over 50s in our family pronounce the double o in look, cook, book, hook to rhyme with loot (luke, cuke, buke, huke). DS corrects them

My mum says pompadom

Oh and BIL says "dracklia" for dracula and 'skellington' for skeleton (and he's not being ironic)

I def prefer Dracklia and Skellington, though perhaps not from a grown man!

(at a very sombre memorial trip to visit a close family member's grave, ds (then aged 5) was asking me to read out the names on the gravestones and one was Arthur Skellington - cue inappropriate snorting from Perma)

The funniest mispronunciation I ever heard was when the continuity annoucer on the old ATV channel was going on about an upcoming hopsital drama and a crisis surrounding a hypodemic nurdle.

My other half has trouble saying labyrinth. He can only say it: "lab rinth."

my ds says hyptonise instead of hypnotise

When we lived for a while oop North, dd used to call The Trafford Centre 'The Traffic Centre', which is quite apt as it turns out.

I once heard my grandfather apologise to someone on the 'phone for writing their address incorrectly several times. He said ''So sorry, sometimes I wonder if I'm dizzylectric''!!!!!!!! obviously meaning dyslexic. Was very fitting.

well I dont get the opportunity to say it very often but I do say 'canapps' as opposed to 'can-a-pays' (canapes). I can't remember why, because I know what it should be. Causes people to laugh at me a bit but hey ho, there are worse things in life

DS is starwars obsessed, and I can really wind him up by talking about the 'Minelleum Falcon'

Which is actually nicked from Victoria Wood, who repeatedly used the word 'minelleum' when discussing the year 2000 celebrations in her old Dinner Ladies series

I was in Sainsburys the other day and I overheard 'mum, the fadgitters and buritters are over here' (and it was an adult talking). I had to bite my lip.

My ex mil always used to say cafeteria instead of cafetiere (don't know how to do accents but you know what I mean), but I was always too polite to correct her.

My DH is always laughing at the way I pronounce things - trouziz for trousers, sausigiz for sausages and for some reason potato always comes out po-tay-to. I blame my dad as he always had a funny turn of phrase. His best ones were D-JAY (with emphasis on the J) and corfew for corfu. Oh and my mum can't pronounce squirrel or rural.

My DH is always laughing at the way I pronounce things - trouziz for trousers, sausigiz for sausages and for some reason potato always comes out po-tay-to. I blame my dad as he always had a funny turn of phrase. His best ones were D-JAY (with emphasis on the J) and corfew for corfu. Oh and my mum can't pronounce squirrel or rural.

I am intrigued by your families, if you regularly have discussions which include the words surveillance, labyrinth, and canapes