Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
I struggle with r & l in the same word. Royal Artillery really difficult unless I say it really slowly.
Simple words you mispronounce
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Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
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....
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....
bikingdad90
Guru
There are a lot of natives who can’t even say it. Middlesbrough, Middles BORO ugh, Middles brow etc.
pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
I had to pronounce tomato that way when I ordered a cheese and tomatoe sandwich when I was in America.Person behind the counter didn’t understand the English pronunciation.
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
Confused.
I went into a pub there and asked the barman to pronounce the name of where we were really slowly so I could understand it.Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
He said THHEEE BBLLAACCCKKK HHHOOORRRSSSEEEE
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
The nucular thing...
Oh god my A-level World History teacher used to do this.
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.
Oh god my A-level World History teacher used to do this.
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
- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
I always say skelinton instead of skeleton and fief instead of thief.
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Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
Mrs Dave has trouble with millennium. It comes out as millenninum.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Anything goes around here.
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
I always pronounce "Twelfth" in its full glory, but then I went to drama school. It's a very hard word to say, but rewarding!
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
Not me, but we used to have a chimney cleaner who talked about chimbleys!
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
My son at around 6 struggled with the Fat Controller from the cartoons. FAKKIN TROLLER 
he used to shout .
I'm sure he was doing it deliberately
he used to shout .I'm sure he was doing it deliberately
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.
