Simple words you mispronounce

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Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
There's a bloke i haven't seen for a while who pronounces middlesbrough "Migglesbro". No matter how many times folk have tried to make him say it correctly he just can't manage it.
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
A handful of childhood errors that still persist with me:

emnity - I know it should have the n and m the other way round but I'll still say it as I've spelt it. I've even wondered whether it was a misprint in the book from which I first took the word in.

awry - I think of it as aw-ry, not a-wry

misled - I continue to think of this as mizzled rather than miss-led. I think it may have been a joke pronunciation going around that I took at face value.

There are others but they're hiding from me at the moment....
 
There's a bloke i haven't seen for a while who pronounces middlesbrough "Migglesbro". No matter how many times folk have tried to make him say it correctly he just can't manage it.

There are a lot of natives who can’t even say it. Middlesbrough, Middles BORO ugh, Middles brow etc.
 

Ganymede

Veteran
Location
Rural Kent
The nucular thing...

Oh god my A-level World History teacher used to do this. :wacko:

My Mum in law calls a brochure a "brokier", so we all say that now. She also says Bry instead of Brie, so we never serve it to her.
 

iandg

Legendary Member
I always say skelinton instead of skeleton and fief instead of thief.
 
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gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
Trevor I was talking about in the psychopath thread, he used to say ball bearians instead of bearings and chimley instead of chimney.
 
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