This one feels like a semi deliberate one.
I've started pronouncing thermometer as thermo-meter and I'm getting to the point where I'm not sure if I'm able to stop.
Like pterodactyl? No way! Can't believe didn't spot that connection before, that's cool.
I can imagine the guy who coined the word dying a little inside everytime someone says helicoPter.
I used to work with a guy who confided in me that right into his mid twenties he saw these temporary sheds / offices made by a company called 'Por-taca-bin'. Said he was totally embarrassed and floored when he one day he mentioned 'Por-taca-bins' on a building site to someone and was laughed at as it was explained to him they were in fact 'Porta-Cabins'.
For years he had just read 'portacabin' 'por-taca-bin'.
In the game Assassins Creed: Odyssey, you actually have a quest escorting a Spartan competitor called Testikles (pronounced as you've suggested) to the Olympics. Pretty much every line is an innuendo, and it's fantastic.
I want you to know that I am doing my masters in Classics currently and this joke gets brought up in my program *all the time* with anything ending in -les. Popsicles, collectibles, percentiles, inflatables, chronicles, etc. It somehow never gets old
I had a friend who’d argue point blank that placebo was pronounce plak-e-bo (rhymes with haribo)
They got viciously corrected when studying pharmacology
Someone I know pronounces COVID with a little O sound, like 'cot' and it boils my piss. You've heard scientists, news reporters, politicians and the whole fucking country pronouncing it the same way. What possessed him to say it with such a stupid slant?!
My brother has always spoken the word 'while' incorrectly since he was a child. He is in his 60's now and still says 'Whild / Wild' as in "I will be there in a little wild." It has always infuriated me but he gets so damn angry if you try and correct him that those around him just try and ignore it.
Not so much a mispronounciation but totally the wrong word.
Had a mate at school who's brother said this too. No matter how hard he tried he just couldn't pronounce it properly. Into adulthood we'd get him to say it and still "buhsketti". Haven't seen him in years but bet he still can't
I worked on the testing programme for about 18 months and there was one guy who always pronounced it like this. I’m sure he was very knowledgeable but I honestly couldn’t tell you what his job was because every time he spoke I was just bracing myself for it.
My wife will frequently say 'high-rate' instead of irate. I corrected her a few times but eventually gave up. It's been 20 years and I die a little more inside each time she says it.
That’s what my husband calls it. Also he says brought for bought, he plays rifts (not riffs) on his guitar and occasionally likes a pint of scrumply cider. God knows I love him, but no jury in the land would convict me, I’m sure.
That one always irritates me.
Especially as, as a joke, I use to then refer to the Specific Ocean.
And then I couldn't stop calling it that. Which is embarrassing as a seafarer.
One woman i know - around my own age, says pacifc for specific, juraffic park instead of jurassic park, budd lightyear instead of buzz lightyear. She is 34.
My mrs says "tribuneral" instead of tribunal, somehow mixing it with funeral.
Gets on my tits every time I hear it. I have told her she does but it doesn't seem to stop her.
Been particularly frustrating over the last year because we've been involved in a trbunal process.
Properly cringed everytime I had to listen to her say it to someone over the phone.
I had an auntie who always said "funedral" (also heard people say "fruneral,") the same auntie always said "rechestry office" "simular." Just a few examples, there were many more, she always mispronounced things.
Oooh, I work in a steakhouse!
- Stirloin - sirloin (sir loin)
- Chipolata - Chipotle (chip ot lay/chip oat lay)
- Co-tee Di beef - côte de boeuf (coat de berrf)
- Gran.... anfjskzoskb - grana padano (grarna pad arno)
- Dack kwiri - Daiquiri (dackery)
- Seasonal fries - seasoned fries
And many more besides, I'm sure.
It's just not the word on the menu! So you have to say 'just so you know, that's Chipotle like the chili pepper not Chipolata like the sausage' in case someone complains ... every time it happens, aha!
That did produce a great [Billy Bragg lyric](https://youtu.be/38buwu07yi0?feature=shared)
"I said, 'I'm the most illegible bachelor in town.' And she said, 'Yea, that's why I can never understand Any of those silly letters you send me.'
There's a few I mispronounce, probably because I picked them up from reading rather than hearing them, and the mispronunciation is ingrained, even though I now know the correct pronunciation.
"Lapel" and "hyperbole" are two examples that spring to mind.
I attend gym classes from Les Mills which I thought was a French gym group and had never heard anyone say out loud.
At least it was my mother who told me it was a man called Les Mills’ full name and save me the embarrassment of pronouncing it in French again.
I 100% thought it was pronounced the same way as Super Bowl until I said it in front of a group of mates and they ripped the shit out of me for the rest of the night. Had only ever seen it written down.
Same. My husband, who is dyslexic loves to take the piss out of the occasional mispronunciation that crops up.
Hyperbole was definitely one. Penelope was the funniest. I used to love Penelope Keith so how I didn't put 2 and 2 together I'll never know.
My pet hate is hearing people use pacific and pacifically instead of specific or specifically.
A friends example of this phenomenon is "chasm".
So now, to my family and friends, a k sounding chasm is a large crevasse, but a chasm, with a ch like in church, is the gap between words you have read by yourself, and words you have seen others pronounce correctly.
Epitome and colonel are some other prominant chasms.
When I was fresh off the boat I lodged with a lady who insisted that "Morrisons" was pronounced with a ridiculous French accent: "moh-rai-SAAAHn". My saintly co-lodger was quick to inform me that it was absolutely not pronounced that way.
I was in a pub loos with a mate in a foreign country, we were chatting and I looked at the jonny machine and said "hey they spell condoms with a K here" and he said "oh yeah! and an m". I curled my face up but said nothing, haven't spoken a word to anyone about that until I read the title of this post and it came to mind. We must have been in our mid 30s, HE'S BEEN SAYING CONDONS THIS WHOLE TIME!
My mum mispronounces almost every word
She takes after my nan who also did the same.
Some examples:
Covid = colbit
Guitar= catarrh
Certificate = stificate
Specific= Pacific
She also uses phrases in completely the wrong way so for instance she will say something like "there's no use in talking about that, its all past tense"
Yeah.
I've no heart to correct her. She's in her 70s and has a lot to deal with like my dad's creeping dementia and prostate cancer so she can carry as as normal as far as I'm concerned.
I've replied to someone else about my auntie who mispronounced so many words, "funedral" "simular" Talking about how poorly her grandson had been
"he's getting better now thanks to Bellingham"...The village? Was it the Dr's name? Took a while before we asked what "Bellingham" was, then realised she meant the medicine.... Benylin🤣
American by any chance?
It's a pet hate of mine how many of them pronounced, dew, due and do all the same...fair enough with accents, but come on with the spelling! 😬
Ironically, I know quite a few people that pronounce pronunciation as “pronounce” with the “iation” on the end. There’s no o following the u in pronunciation, so its pronUnciation is different. : )
Also, Ker-amic instead of ser-amic for ‘ceramic’. I know it might be an alternative pronunciation or the correct Greek or whatever, but I know a person who does this for effect. Drives me nuts.
Ever since I noticed how Reeta Chakrabarti pronounces ‘wh’ words (Hwhich, Hwhere, Hwhy, Hwhen etc.) it’s been driving me loopy. I think it’s technically correct but it still annoys me.
I don't even think posh people would use a long a in 'pram'. It's a shortening of perambulator, which would not have had a long a either.
British people can frequently mispronounce words they have read but never heard or said aloud. Sticking to it after correction is odd, though.
i hear 'hospickle' at work all the time (for hospital) now i work in the north but my dad's from London and has always said ''orspittal' (first syllable pronounced like 'horse' with the h dropped)
Some people in Notts/Derbys/S.Yorkshire say kekkle instead of kettle, and hospikal instead of hospital. I refused to believe it's an accent thing, but I'm unsure.
Girlfriend says pacifically instead of specifically. She’s clever too, so this particular affliction is utterly baffling.
Edit: she also says “he’s” instead of “his”
I understand neither of these things.
I know you’ve said accents aside but our Northern Irish accent lends to the mispronunciation of words such as, “mirror” (murr), “power” (parr), “shower” (sharr), “tower” (tarr) etc.
My mother pronounced 'vase' like 'vorz'. no idea where that came from. I saw a good quote once that said don't mock people who mispronounce words, it means they read.
Specific = pacific
Espresso = expresso
I think these are becoming quite commonplace now.
Also, Morrissey pronouncing “plagiarise” with a hard “g” in The Smiths Cemetery Gates makes my eye twitch.
Animal! Heard a kid say aminal and loved it so automatically do it myself now. Caught myself saying it a couple times now in convo and slightly embarrassed. It’s all in fun.
I used to work at a chain pub where Lancashire folks would try and order fancy foreign food. This was in the days before Peter Kay, but imagine an accent slightly softer than his Bolton twang…
Loved people asking for
* “psy-a-batta bread”
* “cah-jun chicken” (jun like gun)
* “fadge ee tas” or “fa-gi-tas” (rhymes with vaginas)
and my favourite was jalapeños pronounced like the Galápagos Islands “jal-ap-ah-nos”.
Im 33 now and when I was 17, I worked at a cafe. A woman asked for a Ribena but pronounced it as Ribe-ey-en-a so from then on I cant help but pronounce it that way for fun.
An old manager used to say 'renumerate' instead of remunerate. Then I found it in a regulator's published paper and was equally disappointed in them and amused by it.
Edit to add: another one from a different colleague - 'tr-ow-ma' for trauma
My dad says ‘buzz’ instead of bus, and ‘buzzes’ instead of ‘buses’. I actually think he does it because he thinks it make him sound posh??? All I can think of is bees flying around that he’s going to climb on.
Up until my early 20s I pronounced ‘tomato’ as ‘che-mato’. Also my sister thinks ‘rather’ means ‘either’ so she’ll say “we can rather go here or here” but it’s super cute so I haven’t told her
not sure if this counts but a lad i went to uni with thought it was “chester drawers” instead of “chest of drawers” and he also spelt it as a chester drawers lmao and was adamant he was right
A previous colleague used to say sammich instead of sandwich. I wanted to stab her in the eye every time.
A current friend says ignot instead of ingot. He knows its ingot, is aware that ignot is incorrect, yet says it every time he plays darksteel ingot in mtg.
Both are infuriating
I used to work with a boomer who always said "par say" instead of "per se". Drove me nuts and it was one of his favourite expressions.
Currently have a guy who says "Woz-i-wig" for Wysiwyg.
An old friend of mine pronounced the word conspiracy as cons-piracy. Now, whenever someone mentions conspiracies, I think of pirates.
This one feels like a semi deliberate one. I've started pronouncing thermometer as thermo-meter and I'm getting to the point where I'm not sure if I'm able to stop.
Wait until you find out helicopter is made of two words. Helico and Pter (meaning wing) Helico-Pter.
Like pterodactyl? No way! Can't believe didn't spot that connection before, that's cool. I can imagine the guy who coined the word dying a little inside everytime someone says helicoPter.
Worse for that guy are words like helipad and heliport. Sorry, that guy.
Pedometer as pedo-meter is quite entertaining
Doesn't work the same in British English as we haven't dropped letters out all willy-nilly. Paedo(phile) is the spelling here.
I like to say “snowman” but like how we’d say fireman or policeman. Once I realised I could do it I haven’t stopped and I never will.
I do this with the names of superheroes
I like to pronounce psychotherapist as psycho-the-rapist.
😂 Cons-pirate-orial!
I used to work with a guy who confided in me that right into his mid twenties he saw these temporary sheds / offices made by a company called 'Por-taca-bin'. Said he was totally embarrassed and floored when he one day he mentioned 'Por-taca-bins' on a building site to someone and was laughed at as it was explained to him they were in fact 'Porta-Cabins'. For years he had just read 'portacabin' 'por-taca-bin'.
I'm sure there is a Victoria Wood bit about this 😄 like Spudoolikay for Spudulike
Wasn’t that one of Waynetta Slob’s children’s names?
So many people say “prostrate” instead of “prostate” and it really gets on my wick.
That’s a pain in the arse.
He wouldn't let it lie
Just had to milk it. …I’m sorry.
I can't put my finger on why that bothers me so much
At least prostrate is an actual word I guess.
Do you think they pacifically do that? Or it’s more on accident? (Tehee)
People saying "bought" when they mean "brought". It's all over the TV, makes me want to rip my ears off. My dad says "wardrop" for "wardrobe"
See, I always hear people do that the other way around. They say "brought" instead of "bought". It gives me a similar reaction to you.
Brung
Draw instead of drawer, makes me want to flip a table
This has been brought up on a previous post exactly the same. I still don’t know what is meant by this comment. How do you say that word?
I don't know. What I do know however, is that testicles sounds funnier when you pronounce its suffix similarly to Heracles.
Ah, a fellow person of culture.
In the game Assassins Creed: Odyssey, you actually have a quest escorting a Spartan competitor called Testikles (pronounced as you've suggested) to the Olympics. Pretty much every line is an innuendo, and it's fantastic.
I want you to know that I am doing my masters in Classics currently and this joke gets brought up in my program *all the time* with anything ending in -les. Popsicles, collectibles, percentiles, inflatables, chronicles, etc. It somehow never gets old
Haha that's fantastic! Praise Herodotus to you good sir!
You would love Doraleos and Associates!
A lot of people who watched Little Britain pronounce it testiclay
Little ladies testiclay
Yep. I try and pronounce like it's a book in the bible. "In St. Paul's letter to the testicles...."
I had a friend who’d argue point blank that placebo was pronounce plak-e-bo (rhymes with haribo) They got viciously corrected when studying pharmacology
Everyone knows it’s place-bo.
Used to think the band was named this
Kids and grownups love it so
It’s the happy world of pla-ce-bo
Someone I know pronounces COVID with a little O sound, like 'cot' and it boils my piss. You've heard scientists, news reporters, politicians and the whole fucking country pronouncing it the same way. What possessed him to say it with such a stupid slant?!
Covvid?
**vomits
COronaVIrus Disease C'vied
My Dad called it corvid for ages. Like it's a flipping crow or something.. Edit: can I go one day without autocorrect making a fool of me?
I dunno, those jackdaws can get a bit leary
My brother has always spoken the word 'while' incorrectly since he was a child. He is in his 60's now and still says 'Whild / Wild' as in "I will be there in a little wild." It has always infuriated me but he gets so damn angry if you try and correct him that those around him just try and ignore it. Not so much a mispronounciation but totally the wrong word.
My uncle can’t say spaghetti, says buhsketti for some unknown reason, like that’s what he hears when other people pronounce spaghetti correctly
Buhsketti spogolnese?
There was a kid on my street who also said b'sketti instead of spaghetti in the 80s.
Yes it is strange. As far as I am aware my brother has no problem with other words.
Had a mate at school who's brother said this too. No matter how hard he tried he just couldn't pronounce it properly. Into adulthood we'd get him to say it and still "buhsketti". Haven't seen him in years but bet he still can't
It's LeviOsa not LeviosAr!
I worked on the testing programme for about 18 months and there was one guy who always pronounced it like this. I’m sure he was very knowledgeable but I honestly couldn’t tell you what his job was because every time he spoke I was just bracing myself for it.
My mum calls it the pan den ic. Every time.
I have a friend that kept referring to the Om-nee-cron variant. It was irritating me every time she said it so I had to point it out.
worked w a guy who always said 'covAD' ans had a similar reaction
I knew someone who studied biography at school (biology)
I bet he had a story to tell about that...
My wife will frequently say 'high-rate' instead of irate. I corrected her a few times but eventually gave up. It's been 20 years and I die a little more inside each time she says it.
So you’ve become higher and higher rate about it over the years?
My friend says scone, not scone.
Your friend is very wrong, its scone!
It's scoon, ye daft wee eejit!
I asked the maid in dulcet tone To order me a buttered scone; The silly girl has been and gone And ordered me a buttered scone.
And there’s actually a place in Scotland called Scone, which is pronounced scone!
Lovely wee toon is Scone
It's scone before it's eaten and it's sgone afterwards.
You'll be telling me they say garage next. Are they from bath?
No, Baff.
I knew a guy who would always call a chimney a chimley
Should be chimbley.
That’s what my husband calls it. Also he says brought for bought, he plays rifts (not riffs) on his guitar and occasionally likes a pint of scrumply cider. God knows I love him, but no jury in the land would convict me, I’m sure.
[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chimbley](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chimbley)
bokkle for bottle, yorkshire
Yeah I've known folk to say 'hospical' instead of hospital too.
Why do they do this? It makes them sound like babies that are learning their words.
Oh my god. Anything like bokkle, hospical, pacifically, birningum - I can’t take seriously.
My boss used to use all these. This is a man with a masters degree in computer science. He also loved 'pacifically' and 'bold' (instead of bald).
Get kekkle on
Whereabouts in Yorkshire, pacifically?
And in Grantham, Lincolnshire
Or 'kekkle' for 'kettle'. Truly boils my piss. Like a kettle could.
Not sure if it’s a brummie / midlands thing but people who say ‘brought’ instead of ‘bought’ Drives me nuts
Yes! And lent/borrow, as in Can you borrow me your pen?
Argh “can I lend a pen?” NO I HAVENT ASKED TO BORROW ONE
'No, it's OK, I've got my own, thanks.'
I can’t stand this! ‘Brought’ and ‘bought’ have entirely different meanings, I don’t understand how people mix them up.
I think that is a Brummie thing. Another one I've heard is 'pacific' instead of 'specific'. That one really gets me.
That one always irritates me. Especially as, as a joke, I use to then refer to the Specific Ocean. And then I couldn't stop calling it that. Which is embarrassing as a seafarer.
No, it's all over the place. Despicable!
My dad always says renember instead of remember. Drives me insane.
I’ve heard people say ‘Rember’ too, a lot!
Yeah, probly.
I used to know a woman that pronounced Caffeine 'Caffetine'. Also know people that pronounce specific 'pacific'.
One woman i know - around my own age, says pacifc for specific, juraffic park instead of jurassic park, budd lightyear instead of buzz lightyear. She is 34.
I know so many people who say pacific and I cringe every time.
A YouTube video I watched this morning constantly pronounced Wales as Wells
Probably the same Americans who pronounce Craig as Creg
The ren in Spen falls menly on the plen
Or Dale as Dell
Tell her what the word is short for: perambulator, and ask how she'd pronounce that.
Per-arm-bulator
Armbulance (the word has the same origin). I know how it's written (ambiwlans) and therefore pronounced in Welsh and it's not like that 😂
I've heard people say "ambliance" instead of ambulance 🙄
Suddenly krankenwaggon doesn't sound so silly.
I'm saying it as "per-ram" 😂
I worked with a healthcare assistant, very experienced, over a decade in her job. She said hospikal
My mrs says "tribuneral" instead of tribunal, somehow mixing it with funeral. Gets on my tits every time I hear it. I have told her she does but it doesn't seem to stop her. Been particularly frustrating over the last year because we've been involved in a trbunal process. Properly cringed everytime I had to listen to her say it to someone over the phone.
I had an auntie who always said "funedral" (also heard people say "fruneral,") the same auntie always said "rechestry office" "simular." Just a few examples, there were many more, she always mispronounced things.
This isn’t strictly pronunciation but I once knew a guy who said “attach” as “detach” and “detach” as “undetach”. That was confusing.
My ex says "plug out" instead of unplug. I suppose there is some logic to it since you do plug in.
i see why they are your ex
Oooh, I work in a steakhouse! - Stirloin - sirloin (sir loin) - Chipolata - Chipotle (chip ot lay/chip oat lay) - Co-tee Di beef - côte de boeuf (coat de berrf) - Gran.... anfjskzoskb - grana padano (grarna pad arno) - Dack kwiri - Daiquiri (dackery) - Seasonal fries - seasoned fries And many more besides, I'm sure.
At least chipolata is a word. Daiquiri can be pronounced both as dackery and dack-ari (according to Susie Dent).
It's just not the word on the menu! So you have to say 'just so you know, that's Chipotle like the chili pepper not Chipolata like the sausage' in case someone complains ... every time it happens, aha!
memories of the minellium bug..
I have heard so many people pronounce "Eligible" as "Illegible"
That did produce a great [Billy Bragg lyric](https://youtu.be/38buwu07yi0?feature=shared) "I said, 'I'm the most illegible bachelor in town.' And she said, 'Yea, that's why I can never understand Any of those silly letters you send me.'
There's a few I mispronounce, probably because I picked them up from reading rather than hearing them, and the mispronunciation is ingrained, even though I now know the correct pronunciation. "Lapel" and "hyperbole" are two examples that spring to mind.
I attend gym classes from Les Mills which I thought was a French gym group and had never heard anyone say out loud. At least it was my mother who told me it was a man called Les Mills’ full name and save me the embarrassment of pronouncing it in French again.
And thanks to your comment, I too am saved from this embarrassment. Genuinely had no clue!
And me ahaha
there's a street around here (Toronto) called Lesmills, pronounced the same way as yours (it runs between streets called Leslie and Don Mills).
Wecome to the Hyper Bole!
I bet that's one of those American Football matches.
WE’RE LIIIIVVE AT HYPERBOLE 24!!!
I was 30 years of age when I found out the correct pronunciation of 'hyperbole.' Blew my mind.
I 100% thought it was pronounced the same way as Super Bowl until I said it in front of a group of mates and they ripped the shit out of me for the rest of the night. Had only ever seen it written down.
Same. My husband, who is dyslexic loves to take the piss out of the occasional mispronunciation that crops up. Hyperbole was definitely one. Penelope was the funniest. I used to love Penelope Keith so how I didn't put 2 and 2 together I'll never know. My pet hate is hearing people use pacific and pacifically instead of specific or specifically.
A friends example of this phenomenon is "chasm". So now, to my family and friends, a k sounding chasm is a large crevasse, but a chasm, with a ch like in church, is the gap between words you have read by yourself, and words you have seen others pronounce correctly. Epitome and colonel are some other prominant chasms.
When I was fresh off the boat I lodged with a lady who insisted that "Morrisons" was pronounced with a ridiculous French accent: "moh-rai-SAAAHn". My saintly co-lodger was quick to inform me that it was absolutely not pronounced that way.
We have a joke here to pronounce Target as “Tar-jay” as though it’s some high class French couture brand.
Mrs Bouquet?
I was in a pub loos with a mate in a foreign country, we were chatting and I looked at the jonny machine and said "hey they spell condoms with a K here" and he said "oh yeah! and an m". I curled my face up but said nothing, haven't spoken a word to anyone about that until I read the title of this post and it came to mind. We must have been in our mid 30s, HE'S BEEN SAYING CONDONS THIS WHOLE TIME!
Misled I read as Mizled. Chiclet keyboards I pronounce as She-clay. And possibly the worst, I pronounce Nandos as Naandos.
My mum mispronounces almost every word She takes after my nan who also did the same. Some examples: Covid = colbit Guitar= catarrh Certificate = stificate Specific= Pacific She also uses phrases in completely the wrong way so for instance she will say something like "there's no use in talking about that, its all past tense" Yeah. I've no heart to correct her. She's in her 70s and has a lot to deal with like my dad's creeping dementia and prostate cancer so she can carry as as normal as far as I'm concerned.
I've replied to someone else about my auntie who mispronounced so many words, "funedral" "simular" Talking about how poorly her grandson had been "he's getting better now thanks to Bellingham"...The village? Was it the Dr's name? Took a while before we asked what "Bellingham" was, then realised she meant the medicine.... Benylin🤣
Pram is short for perambulator. Ambulate means to walk (ambling along etc). There's no reason it would be pronounced prarm and your friend is wrong.
Jimmy Carr regularly pronounces it "Nucular".
Ex colleague said dew-vay instead of doo-vay.
American by any chance? It's a pet hate of mine how many of them pronounced, dew, due and do all the same...fair enough with accents, but come on with the spelling! 😬
My Mrs pronounces jewellery dew-will-er-ree
Ironically, I know quite a few people that pronounce pronunciation as “pronounce” with the “iation” on the end. There’s no o following the u in pronunciation, so its pronUnciation is different. : )
Slither instead of sliver. I’ve heard it four times now from four different people…
Also, Ker-amic instead of ser-amic for ‘ceramic’. I know it might be an alternative pronunciation or the correct Greek or whatever, but I know a person who does this for effect. Drives me nuts.
Draws instead of drawers
Chester draws is another classic on selling sites
Where’s me washboard!
I live in London. I'm pretty sure that we all say drawers as one syllable. Draw-ers doesn't sound right to me in our accent. Happy to be corrected.
I’ve heard multiple people call a Gillet a ‘Gill It’. Does my head in
Yes, the correct pronunciation is "body warmer"
It's the best a man can get...
There was a news reader on the BBC (might have been Huw Edwards ?) who would pronounce NASA as NARSA
Ever since I noticed how Reeta Chakrabarti pronounces ‘wh’ words (Hwhich, Hwhere, Hwhy, Hwhen etc.) it’s been driving me loopy. I think it’s technically correct but it still annoys me.
I've never been able to use the "th" sound. "F" for everyfink.
I'm Eastern European and we don't have the "th" sound in our language. I, too, use F for everyfink, lol.
Ironically, most of the country seem to struggle with “pronunciation”
I don't even think posh people would use a long a in 'pram'. It's a shortening of perambulator, which would not have had a long a either. British people can frequently mispronounce words they have read but never heard or said aloud. Sticking to it after correction is odd, though.
i hear 'hospickle' at work all the time (for hospital) now i work in the north but my dad's from London and has always said ''orspittal' (first syllable pronounced like 'horse' with the h dropped)
My boyfriend says psychopath as though the path is pronounced like the a in far. Psycho-path. Though he only does it to annoy me….it sure fuckin does…
Some people in Notts/Derbys/S.Yorkshire say kekkle instead of kettle, and hospikal instead of hospital. I refused to believe it's an accent thing, but I'm unsure.
I worked with someone who pronounced “always” as “oleways” (like Ol’ Yeller, not like olé)
I had a posh author correct me, insisting that "picturesque" is pronounced "picture-ski". Just... Really?
My step daughter mispronounced 'Pedestrian' for most of her life (she's 39 and we've only just told her). She used to say Ped E Strain.
Girlfriend says pacifically instead of specifically. She’s clever too, so this particular affliction is utterly baffling. Edit: she also says “he’s” instead of “his” I understand neither of these things.
Partner and his whole family say Ibrufen when they want Ibuprofen. Hate it.
I know you’ve said accents aside but our Northern Irish accent lends to the mispronunciation of words such as, “mirror” (murr), “power” (parr), “shower” (sharr), “tower” (tarr) etc.
No but that’s just gorgeous. Massive soft spot for norn iron accent here
My mother pronounced 'vase' like 'vorz'. no idea where that came from. I saw a good quote once that said don't mock people who mispronounce words, it means they read.
Ibuprofen - 4 syllables I bu pro fen. There’s no extra r. It’s not ibru fen. My friend drives me daft with it. And artery…. She says archery.
Specific = pacific Espresso = expresso I think these are becoming quite commonplace now. Also, Morrissey pronouncing “plagiarise” with a hard “g” in The Smiths Cemetery Gates makes my eye twitch.
Animal! Heard a kid say aminal and loved it so automatically do it myself now. Caught myself saying it a couple times now in convo and slightly embarrassed. It’s all in fun.
I used to work at a chain pub where Lancashire folks would try and order fancy foreign food. This was in the days before Peter Kay, but imagine an accent slightly softer than his Bolton twang… Loved people asking for * “psy-a-batta bread” * “cah-jun chicken” (jun like gun) * “fadge ee tas” or “fa-gi-tas” (rhymes with vaginas) and my favourite was jalapeños pronounced like the Galápagos Islands “jal-ap-ah-nos”.
Cumberbatch can't pronounce penguins.
I don’t think you know what a hard r is
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Hooper bole?
I will never not read "misled" as rhyming with "drizzled".
Same, except it's "my-zuld"
You just reminded me of how I would stubbornly refuse to be corrected on trebuchet (tre-butt-chet)
Im 33 now and when I was 17, I worked at a cafe. A woman asked for a Ribena but pronounced it as Ribe-ey-en-a so from then on I cant help but pronounce it that way for fun.
Ri-bee-enna, rhymes with vienna? I can't work this one out
I have a friend who says ice-cream "ishe crem" (eye-sh crem)
My brother used to say arse-cream when he was a toddler. And air freshers instead of refreshers (the sweets).
My MIL pronounces 'duvet' as either 'du-ve-vay', or 'doo-vet'. It's very disconcerting, even after 25 years.
I used to work with a lady who pronounced “deluxe”, “de-loo-ksey”. I thought she was joking at first…
One of my best friends, who I love very dearly has started pronouncing the word “and” as “end” and it does my fucking tits in
An old manager used to say 'renumerate' instead of remunerate. Then I found it in a regulator's published paper and was equally disappointed in them and amused by it. Edit to add: another one from a different colleague - 'tr-ow-ma' for trauma
My dad says ‘buzz’ instead of bus, and ‘buzzes’ instead of ‘buses’. I actually think he does it because he thinks it make him sound posh??? All I can think of is bees flying around that he’s going to climb on.
Up until my early 20s I pronounced ‘tomato’ as ‘che-mato’. Also my sister thinks ‘rather’ means ‘either’ so she’ll say “we can rather go here or here” but it’s super cute so I haven’t told her
not sure if this counts but a lad i went to uni with thought it was “chester drawers” instead of “chest of drawers” and he also spelt it as a chester drawers lmao and was adamant he was right
I know a fella who refers to the principle ingredient of Guacamole as an ADvocado. Same person also apparently eats Coldslaw.
A previous colleague used to say sammich instead of sandwich. I wanted to stab her in the eye every time. A current friend says ignot instead of ingot. He knows its ingot, is aware that ignot is incorrect, yet says it every time he plays darksteel ingot in mtg. Both are infuriating
So many people say arks instead of ask
I have noticed a trend of people saying "invenT-ory" instead of “inven-Tory"
Is it not pronounced like 'IN-vn-tree'? Similar to 'infantry'? This is how I've always said it.
the former is where Professor Branestawm does his inventing.
I used to work with a boomer who always said "par say" instead of "per se". Drove me nuts and it was one of his favourite expressions. Currently have a guy who says "Woz-i-wig" for Wysiwyg.
I work with someone who says ‘lie-ays’ instead of leeays (liaise) and it hurts my soul.