Can you beat 'yacht'...

[Joey Shabadoo]

Oh, and another glo'al stop involving a 'z' is, of course.....


...... Menzies


.... Although the 'e' seems to be an 'i' now, so you have names like

Menzies Campbell, or Ming-is Campbell

Except it's just Ming Campbell. As in "the Merciless".

 

[nickyboy]

Quernmore, near Lancaster is pronounced "Qwormer"

And Heysham is He-sham, not Hay-sham

The local village of Doveholes should be Sh*t holes, but that's not really anything to do with pronunciaton

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Except it's just Ming Campbell. As in "the Merciless".

I am glad they changed to W.H. Smiths, as the amount of people who used to mispronounce

'John Menzies'

Used to get on my t*ts.

I think they even started calling it 'Menzies' in their adverts

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The local village of Doveholes should be Sh*t holes, but that's not really anything to do with pronunciaton

From what I hear, they should really rename the town of Ardrossan as 'A*serotten'.

 

[vickster]

Beauchamp...Beecham...

 

[TheDoctor]

I did hear of someone who realised by gales of laughter in a meeting at work, that the word Antelope doesn't actually rhyme with the word Penelope.
Although personally, I think it should. Ant L O P. It rolls off the tongue somehow.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Diarrhoea should be spelt diorea and queue spelt que. Why complicate things by putting a ue on the end?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Except it's just Ming Campbell. As in "the Merciless".

But that is just it, it should be

Menz Campbell, as in Menz "the Merciless"

Diarrhoea should be spelt diorea and queue spelt que. Why complicate things by putting a ue on the end?

I should REALLY be spelled

Direrear, as in

Dire - rear.

 

[AndyRM]

Likewise, Victor Lewis Smith always pronounced 'Radio Times' as rhyming with hippopotamus.

I don't suppose you've got a link to this, I've tried myself and I can't get it to work.

Or have I had a whoosh moment and trampled a subtle joke?

 

[robjh]

gauge.

What's that u doing there?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

gauge.

What's that u doing there?

And why is there a silent 't' but no 'u' in Mortgage*?



* - A type of very expensive broad gauge system for railway builders

 

[rich p]

The computer-generated voice on the satnav of my phone once pronounced Loughborough three different ways on the same journey.

A Brazilian friend read it as Luger - baruger

 

[screenman]

Happisburgh pronounced Hazebro in Norfolk

Dyslexia, that is not easy for somebody with that problem.

 

[dellzeqq]

Peasenhall. Which was, in times past, reduced to Pizzle.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Maybe the kids with their text speak are onto something? Word reduction to the nth degree.