Simple words you mispronounce

[mickle]

Minellium

 

[swee'pea99]

So until I pointed it out to him, my better half thought that 'queued' was pronounced like 'qwayed'. I asked him to repeat himself because he said something was 'in the quay'. I said, 'You mean the 'cue' and he was adamant. I was like 'so the past tense is like Dennis Quaid' and he said yes. I made the online dictionary pronounce it...

To be fair we are Americans and it isn't a common word 'round these parts.

To we Brits it's not so much a word, more a creed.

 

[lutonloony]

My missus uses the word specific, but she always pronounces it like the ocean. Aaaargh!

Really annoying when they say Atlantic

 

[lutonloony]

As a nipper, I used to say nearnly, which my mother still reminds me about. I also used to get strange looks when asking for beetroot crumble, as I always got confused between rhubarb and beetroot for some odd reason

 

[winjim]

We do, I got into a disagreement with my best friend who was from Colchester on the pronunciation of it once. I said jokingly, 'You English always adding unnecessary letters. It's aluminum!" and he replied, "You dumb Americans dropping letters because it is too hard for you to spell things properly! Who do you think discovered aluminium?"

If you follow convention then the metal derived from alum should be named alumium, pronounced al-OOM-ium. Both the British and the American spellings add extra letters to make it easier to pronounce. So both are incorrect, but the American aluminum, is arguably less incorrect when it comes to pronunciation, although the British aluminium does have the correct -ium suffix.

Edit: I've just checked all this and it turns out that Sir Humphrey Davy favoured alumium from alum but settled on aluminum from alumina, with a -um suffix. So whichever way you look at it, aluminium is wrong.

 

[raleighnut]

If you follow convention then the metal derived from alum should be named alumium, pronounced al-OOM-ium. Both the British and the American spellings add extra letters to make it easier to pronounce. So both are incorrect, but the American aluminum, is arguably less incorrect when it comes to pronunciation, although the British aluminium does have the correct -ium suffix.

Do they struggle with Titanium and Barium too or have they left the 'i' in those.

 

[Markymark]

It’s really sweet the way my kids pronounce Yorkshire. I have to say it really slowly so they get that it’s pronounced Sshhhiiiiiitttthhhooooollllee.

 

[winjim]

It’s really sweet the way my kids pronounce Yorkshire. I have to say it really slowly so they get that it’s pronounced Sshhhiiiiiitttthhhooooollllee.

As an aside, my family's from London so my mum buys our daughter loads of London based toys. As a result, she now thinks that any slightly old looking municipal building is London. I had to explain to her the other day that Sheffield town hall was not in fact London.

One day we'll take her to the real London and blow her tiny Yorkshire mind.

 

[stephec]

As an aside, my family's from London so my mum buys our daughter loads of London based toys. As a result, she now thinks that any slightly old looking municipal building is London. I had to explain to her the other day that Sheffield town hall was not in fact London.

One day we'll take her to the real London and blow her tiny Yorkshire mind.

That's cruel, surely just threatening her with the naughty step is enough?

 

[stephec]

Seven pages and no mention of this?

 

[Globalti]

I'm always arguing with my family about their incorrect pronunciation of brands or places like Ikea and Ibiza; they say eye-kia and eye-beetha when the Swedes say eekaya and the Spanish say ibeetha. Would they call that country whose capital is Rome, Eye-taly?

 

[Dirk]

It's very common, in parts of Devon, to reverse the R followed by a vowel sequence. Bridge becomes birdge etc. To further confuse things, this isn't always the rule.
Also, there seems to be an inability to pronounce TH, it comes out as a D. Thatch becomes datch etc.
It took me a while to realise what when my mate meant when he said ''E got a good drashing''.

 

[MossCommuter]

''E got a good drashing''.

"E got a good darshing", shurly?

 

[MichaelW2]

I have never played any kind of spawt, esp not footbaw.

 

[MichaelW2]

And why the socialist sh, where well educated adults pretend they went to the local comp and say things like shtreet, shcool kids. I blame Billy Bragg.