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?

You pronounce it tahll-ya-telleh. It drives me up the wall - especially when it is mispronounced by waiters in supposedly Italian restaurants . I was going to post it myself but then decided mispronunciation of foreign words might be a bit pedantic even for me...

My dad always says 'Iberfurin' instead of 'ibuprofen'. I know it's petty but it drives me mad..'Oh do you have any iberfurin love?'

ooh and another one! (can't believe how much pent up aggression i have!!) mil and fil refer to korma curry as Ker - ma. why?!

There was a big fire in a nearby town last night and the woman they interviewed on the T.V. told us that the smoke was bellowing from the building.

Bebe - Aluminum is an accepted American spelling

bebejones a dictionary definition:

aluminum

1812, coined by Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), from L. alumen "alum" (see alum). Davy originally called it alumium (1808), then amended this to aluminum, which remains the U.S. word, but British editors in 1812 further amended it to aluminium, the modern preferred British form, to better harmonize with other element names (sodium, potassium, etc.).

My personal pet hate is 'jew-lery'. Secatry also winds me up no end!

My dad has some irritating ones, he insists you go to 'Tex-A-co' to buy petrol, eat 'pitza' and companies have a 'loggo'. I know there are others, I'll ask dh to remind me of them when he gets home!

Talking of dh, he and his mum say 'coy-in' for coin. But then they tell me off for saying 'corter' for 'quarter' when apparently it should be 'qwarter'.

Oh yes and mum brought us up wearing 'kaggles' on a rainy day. Possibly a brummie influence that one though. Took a few people laughing at me before I put in the effort to say 'ka-gool'. But I still don't know how to spell it

My mum always says, 'weetiebix'

My colleague proudly told us all today she was going to see "Jay Zed" in concert ... before admitting to us she had no idea who he was

DS has just learnt the hymn 'sing hosanna' from DD who sings it in assembly. Except for the fact that he now sings it as 'Sing Osama...'

mum says 'lurry' for lorry

DH says 'sangals' for sandals and 'pacific' for specific....

dh says 'theatre' really strangely. With an 'ay' sound in the middle, like play, so ends up as thee-AY-ter. No idea why, MIL and FIL don't.

We spent bloody years involved in fringe theatre but he's never once noticed that everyone else says it differently...

My DH says tomato katchup instead of ketchup, weetabeex instead of weetabix and fieth instead of thief. Drives me mad!

DS (9) can't say variety and says vyarity everytime.

We also have some silly words in our family.
Squirrels are squiggles here too.
Light bulbs are light blubs.
DH plays a round of flog instead of golf.

edam, my DH does the thee-ay-ter thing too. I can't pronounce it the way he does at all because the intonation belongs to another language altogether.....

edam, my DH does the thee-ett-er thing (theatre). I can't pronounce it the way he does at all because the intonation belongs to another language altogether.....

well that caught me out didn't it. 1st post went all funny so amended it...blushing now!

My mum calls it thee-etter too (and out of interest why do all the older generation end answer phone messages with "Bye for now" )

Snap, perma! For some irrational reason it drives me spare!

I had an awkward moment this week, talking to a slightly eccentric person I once worked with. We were talking about hearing problems and he said (whilst gazing at my rather ample bosom) 'Oh yeah, What's that called, er, tittinus, isn't it?'

My best friend says 'tuf' (imagine the same sound as a southerner saying 'book') instead of tooth.

My other BF and I tried to train her to say it correctly, but she seemed genuinely incapable.

She grew up in Yeovil.

my Dad was a great one for Spoonerisms and in the end we adopted a couple of them for general use:

beggs and acon for breakfast
Dad got "shoshed and waved" every morning (my favourite)
and we always had to find a parcark. This last one got to a point where I couldn't tell whether I was saying/hearing the correct version or the Spooner version

Quite sweet rather than irritating I think, My daughter (3) is convinced she went up the ten past eight building in New York. I don't have the heart to correct her

My In-Laws are both experts at this,

Coooocumbers = Cucumbers
Salary = Celery
Sallatape = Cellotape
Sallid = Salad

Lots of unnecessary and odd plurals, e.g I went to Boots(es), B&Q(ses), Wickes(es) etc.

The Mil was once most confused by the menu for a formal dinner, where there appeared to be two main course options, Beef of Mongy Trout (Mange Toute, Sp?)

My 5 year old DD now corrects them on my behalf.

I also had a boss who said pacific and also Labtop for laptop.

Another medical one... a woman on our ward who had had a heart bypass. During this procedure they have to cut your STERNUM and then rewire it. I overheard her on the phone telling a friend that her SCROTUM was really hurting and the wound was really itchy!

I also worry about the ones you use on purpose that then slip in to everyday use and someone listening in wouldn't know the difference.

My MIL has some too, and of course she thinks her pronunciations are correct and everyone else has got it wrong. CaFATiay for cafetiere, escaLOP for escalope. DH has quite a few but I think this is because he had a hearing problem when he was younger and so misheard words which he now mispronounces. You should hear him singing some lyrics - completely misses the words!

MIL says Old timers for alzheimers

I get really annoyed with super nanny saying 'rec-a-nise' for recognise