Words you feel silly saying properly

[abchandler]

the oh-so-smug cheesy beefcake cardealer replies "Well we have it in noir." Pronounced No-are.

It wasn't until about the fifth time that was on I worked out what he was saying

 

[thegrumpybiker]

Plus he said "Yada-yada" in it; Unacceptable outside the confines of Seinfeld.

Please don't take that as an anti-semitic remark.

 

[dragon72]

I have grown tired of correcting people who say "brush-shetta" when they mean broo-'sketta. I have now accepted that the English for bruschetta is brush-shetta.

What still gets up my schnozz is when people say "chor-'it-so".
I can't bring myself to pronounce it properly myself - the whole lisping thing is so demeaning - so I just call it Spicy Spanish Sausage instead.

 

[rich p]

I have grown tired of correcting people who say "brush-shetta" when they mean broo-'sketta. I have now accepted that the English for bruschetta is brush-shetta.

What still gets up my schnozz is when people say "chor-'it-so".
I can't bring myself to pronounce it properly myself - the whole lisping thing is so demeaning - so I just call it Spicy Spanish Sausage instead.

I'm the same . If you pronounce bruschetta the correct way most people think that you are getting it wrong!

 

[Dan B]

What still gets up my schnozz is when people say "chor-'it-so"

Always good on a peetha, that is. With some olives

 

[Ian H]

I've heard it claimed by members of both universities that only theirs is "maudlin" and the other is "mag-da-len". So I would be interested to know which one you believe is pronounced as written

So I checked, and it appears they both pronounce it Maudlin...which just leaves Mary.

 

[Ian H]

Often is often pronounced incorrectly - I've seen the incorrect way called a "spelling pronunciation". Then someone on the radio pronounced soften with a t. So all is lost and civilisation is at an end. Or something.

 

[Debian]

There are a number of American pronunciations that anger me (well, there are a number of things about Americans in general that anger me! But we won't go there ...).

For example:
"Note-re Day-m" for Notre Dame
"Van Go" for Van Gogh.
"Eye-Rack" for Iraq
"Vee-Hicle" for Vehicle.
etc ...

Nukiller (nuclear)

Aluminum (aluminium)

 

[Debian]

This may be veering slightly off topic.

There's a growing annoying trend of writing "a lot" as "alot", "a bit" as "abit, etc. Now those really make me cringe!

Almost as bad as using of instead of have, as in should of - arrrrggggh!

 

[rich p]

This may be veering slightly off topic.

There's a growing annoying trend of writing "a lot" as "alot", "a bit" as "abit, etc. Now those really make me cringe!

Almost as bad as using of instead of have, as in should of - arrrrggggh!

Yeah, it's a bad 'abit

 

[Norm]

Aluminum (aluminium)

You might want to be careful with that one, as with many others above, because the American version of the pronunciation (and spelling with aluminum) was the original and the British English has changed / evolved.

 

[Debian]

You might want to be careful with that one, as with many others above, because the American version of the pronunciation (and spelling with aluminum) was the original and the British English has changed / evolved.

Yes, OK, but it's been aluminium for 200 years, that qualifies as OK in my book.

 

[threefingerjoe]

So I checked, and it appears they both pronounce it Maudlin...which just leaves Mary.

Did you also check the etymology? "Maudlin" is a corruption of "Magdelen", as in "Mary Magdelene", portrayed by painters with her eyes red and swollen from weeping.

 

[Maizie]

What still gets up my schnozz is when people say "chor-'it-so".

My mother has evidently read the word incorrectly, and so calls this stuff chore-zee-oh - direct correction is not going to be possible, indirect correction is having no effect...

 

[kewb]

capt mainwaring from dads army or worcester crisps .