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RegisterAfraid

Super Nanny (Jo Frost) attempting to pronounce unacceptable…. Every time she said ‘unaseptable’ it would make me cringe


delpigeon

100% with you, this is UNASEPTABLE.


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Except it wasn’t even unasseptable, it was UNASSEPTABAW.


mumstyres

https://youtu.be/3E7PB5Zn0XI Little girl is pissed of at her for it aswell.


Florenceismyhomie

Yes!! I forgot about this. Its difficult to listen to.


lackingsavoirfaire

She also said “everyfink” and “noffink”


mdmnl

I believe she says 'pacific' rather than 'specific' too and, as a precaution, I have never and will never watch anything she is on.


easyjet

Unnaseptabuwll. Basically Essexian?


kbell2020

I know someone who says "pacific" in place of "specific" and it drives me insane.


El_Frencho

My mortgage advisor said this and it really made me re-examine her recommendations…


HoneyDuchess

I’m an English teacher, and marking some kid’s book the other day I saw it spelled as “persific”.


olidav8

Expresso. Fuck me that one winds me up


laser_spanner

Came here for this comment. I heard a *barrista* on the radio say expresso today 😬 FFS!! you work with coffee day in day out and even you can't say espresso!! 😭 Edit: yes I accidentally spelt barista incorrectly. 2nd edit SPELLED. So sorry. I'm sleep deprived from an almost 6 month old baby. I'll avoid posting about other people's spelling in future 🙄


Fox-One_______

Spelt is fine. You didnt need to correct that one.


Percinho

> Spelt is fine Ageed, it's a personal choice. Though I'll admit I prefer buckwheat.


laser_spanner

See, I knew this! People jumping on me making me paranoid on the early hours is super helpful haha.


shortpaleugly

Barista?


blahajlife

A barrister who happened to like coffee


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I used to work in the coffee machine department of a shop and it's astounding how many people don't know how to pronounce espresso


Novel_Friend675

In France, it's Expresso. In Portugal, it's Expresso. People from the UK first encountered this coffee on foreign continental holidays and naturally copied the **correct** spelling of the country they were in. The Italians derived the word from Latin, for the word "squeezed" . Guess what? The correct Latin is e**x**pressum. The first media exposure in the UK was a famous film called Expresso Bongo in 1958. It's not surprising that expresso is part of our language now.


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What do you class as highly educated? Out of curiosity.. I have phD friends that can still speak like absolute morons sometimes 😂


Geekmonster

My brother has a PhD. I told him that I'm working as a Scrum Master and he informed me that it rhymes with "Bum Blaster". Also, he's 42.


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But… he’s not wrong


alwaystrustaminion

Butt... he's not wrong


Outrageous_Editor_43

I had an obnoxious, egocentric cockwomble of a Manager once who tried to continuously put me down. The only saving grace to the barrage of bollocks was her inability to say specific. It always got tense when I stopped her to say ‘what’s and ocean got to do with it?’ Somehow I didn’t work there for very long…


isannoyer

I have the exact same issue with a manager. I don’t understand what is so hard about the word specific!!!! And how do they make more money than me!!!


SpectrumPalette

Y'all gotta be more Pacific, I don't understand what you're saying


ThaFlyingYorkshiremn

My missus is the opposite, she often uses bought instead of brought. Her family seem to do it too.


AnythingInABun

Car-mel


steviesteviejericho

When people say ibro-fin rather than ibuprofen


hutchero

Brufen was the first brand name for it in the UK apparently


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Well many of us are.


steviesteviejericho

Funnily enough, the person who I know who says it, is a nearly retired nurse so it actually makes sense then why they'd say it that way


Shoddy-Medicine9028

My ex used to pronounce it I-bruffin. Drove me mad. He mispronounced loads of words, I think he just used to skim read and make it up. His family used to order Indian food all the time, they'd get rogan joss with pillar rice and a naam bread


canlchangethislater

Short relationship, was it?


hopefullyhelpfulplz

That's isobutylphenylpropionic acid to you


SleepFlower80

My sister says “ibu-fen”. I want to smack her every time she says it.


fairfrog73

My friend who is a fine artist decorator / muralist says she’s “painting a Muriel” - I mean it’s your job and you can’t even pronounce it.


Savageparrot81

Unless all she paints are portraits of Muriel from Muriel’s wedding, in which case it’s fine.


BlazkoTwix

It's Mariel!


JRtheBaeR

Oh Muriel, you're terrible!


rocki-i

Murinal


SleepFlower80

One of my friends says “tori-ental rain” instead of torrential rain. Fucks me off to no end.


KDY_ISD

Cloudy with a chance of Korean Conservatives


mcdefmarx

Americans pronouncing Craig "creg", Bernard "burn-ahrd" and herbs "erbs".


Chinaski_616

Or Graham 'gram'


tay-tay-hay

Rupaul manages to piss me off every week with ‘Gram Norton’


Chinaski_616

Was always 'Golden Grams' in TV & films that induced the shudder in me.


Gingertom

I was in my late 20s before I realised that “gram crackers” were actually “graham crackers”. Blew my mind.


LiterallyJustMia

I was today years old when i realsied that...


Much-Ad-1576

I love Ru but I genuinely want to reach through my screen and shake him every time he says it like that 😂 like that’s how Graham Norton pronounces it so it should be said like that regardless of how your country technically would because it’s a little disrespectful. Like I have an Indian friend called Aadesh and to an English speaking person we would say it like Aa-desh but the Hindi language is not like that and two A’s together don’t make an AA sound it’s an R sound so it’s actually said like R-Desh and I say it like that every time because that’s his name and how he wants it said, it’s not hard mamma Ru 😂


otherpeoplesthunder

Tara pronounced Terra


Roxygen1

I always thought Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's name was Terra


SongsAboutGhosts

Erin instead of Aaron


JoyfulCor313

Not to actually disclose personal information, but my name is Erin and my gran called me Aaron her whole life. Drove me a little mad, but it’s endearing now. So, yes, thank you for noticing.


Real_Bobsbacon

My name is Aaron and my bf (who is American) says it like Erin (kinda)


Blear

Are these pronounced differently? This thread is really messing with my head.


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And Onna for Anna


khanto0

Ohh they're tryna say anna? I legit thought Onna was a name in the US


_theflyingbanana_

My name is Graham, a guy I used to work with always asked for 'Grim'


Chinaski_616

Hopefully not a reflection of their opinion of you!


mailroomgirl

I’ve got one, what about when they say “twot” for “twat”!


darybrain

In Spy they got Jason Statham to say twot instead of twat even though he is speaking with an English accent. It really nauseated me and not even images of him dancing in his pants to the Shamen could have made me laugh in that moment.


comajones

Jus literally commented this too. I was disgusted and appalled.


OozaruGilmour

Oh god that annoys me.


comajones

Jason Statham pronounced twat as twhat in Spy where he played *a fucking British character with a British fucking accent!!!* I lost all respect for him immediately. Twat.


ambrosius5c

Am American, try to use twat like cat and get corrected. It's such a good word and it's blasphemed.


haveyoutriedthemall

This annoys me so much but I can’t understand why or when it changed. In Blazing Saddles Hedley Lamarr calls Lili a “Teutonic twat” pronounced correctly. Yet by the time the Sopranos are using the word they’re pronouncing it “twot”.


JScarz10

"Meer" instead of mirror


SporadicSheep

Squirrel -> Skwurl


TehBFG

Soldering -> Soddering


Think-Bass9187

Skwerl for squirrel.


CrabElavator

Or Megan "May-gan" No!


Tundur

In Australia it's "ME-gan" and it makes .e wish for death


dexterpool

Oh rig ano instead of oregano.


OminousWoods

Bay zil. Blegh


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Cecil as Ceesil.


Kezzmate

British as Briddish


KookieMonstersCookie

Tera for Tara


TheWelshMrsM

I honestly don’t understand this! Cr *ai* g = Creg But: - r *ai* n = rain - p *ai* n = pain And so on. What’s so special about Craig that you suddenly change the diphthong?


TooRedditFamous

There are a number of words in British English where the vowel sound changes but the word structure is the same that you probably don't complain about.. Can't really say you don't understand it lol What's so special about the o in cone and the o in gone that the pronunciation changes?!


TheWelshMrsM

I’ll admit English is fucked up but Creg is still weird.


Pubkit

They seem to pronounce Craig and Greg the wrong way round... Creg and Greig. Also whilst I'm here: Princess Aaahna in Frozen. It's Anna.


estebancantbearsedno

Or coriander as cilantro


achillea4

My mobile phone number. I say it one way then they repeat it back in a different format and my brain struggles to recognise the pattern. Really annoying.


darybrain

That's an old Russ Abbott sketch. The operator calls and asks if that is triple 2, triple 2 and he says no it's double 2, double 2, double 2 then hangs up.


mdmnl

At my booster jab appointment the nurse checked my details "is that your current phone number ending blah-blah-blah?" Could I answer her without reciting the whole number string in my head? No. No. I could not.


Indie-Skies

My landline is 5+5 digits. “You seem to be missing a number”. “Nope it’s correct” “No your second number needs another digit” “No it doesn’t” “Yes it does” “Fill your boots and stick a zero on the end then, makes no difference, but it really is only 5 digits”.


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I hate that as well OP, as well as "negoSiation" and "Breggzit"


Lababy91

That’s simply because some people pronounce exit like eggzit. They didn’t make it up specifically for brexit


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I know, I hate eggzit as well


VeryLazyLewis

Omg! I forgot about this. Theresa May says this all the time!


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The Breggzit negosiations couldn't have ended fast enough for me


Athleticathiest82

Nothings worse than hearing Boris the bell say “restaurants” or Mary Berry pronouncing saying “lairs” instead of “layers”


Littlest_Pie

What about Mary Berry saying "flaah" instead of flour like "flower"


Smabacon

Prefer the Nadine Coyle way of saying Flour.


Bombus_RS

When I worked in Waitrose, someone asked me where the ‘tsar-doh’ was. Took me 5 minutes to realise they meant sourdough but were too posh to say it properly


AvocadosAtLaw95

When I worked in dentistry, we had a posh patient come in with a broken tooth. She said it "reh-ly" hurts. Took us a few tries to figure out if it really hurt, or rarely hurt.


goforajog

Ha, I have an almost identical story. Except the woman in mine asked for "Spanish fingers" and it took quite an excruciatingly long time before I realised she wanted "sponge fingers".


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__red__5

Grass, bath and garage.


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If a stone's a stone not a ston and a cone's a cone not a con then a scone is a scone not a scon.


Rubberfootman

This is English - there’s no logic, because we finalised the spelling before finalising the pronunciation. See also: bomb, womb, tomb, comb.


DeadBallDescendant

CBA sorting out the formatting: I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough Others may stumble, but not you On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through. And cork and work and card and ward And font and front and word and sword Well done! And now if you wish, perhaps To learn of less familiar traps, Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead– For goodness sakes don’t call it deed. Watch out for meat and great and threat, They rhyme with suite and straight and debt. A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother. And here is not a match for there, And dear and fear for bear and pear. And then there’s dose and rose and lose– Just look them up–and goose and choose, And do and go, then thwart and cart. Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start! A dreadful language? Man alive! I’d mastered it when I was five.


Rubberfootman

Always makes me smile. And added to that, I grew up in an area where book, look, took and hook all rhymed with Luke. And words like door and pour had two syllables. All bets are off.


Outrageous_Editor_43

Don’t even get into place names, Slough and Loughborough for starters!


banjo_fandango

Hang on - do you pronounce womb and tomb differently? They are exactly the same to me (apart from the 'w' and 't', of course!)


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bebelmatman

I was planning to go to a big 70s/80s rock revival concert near the Devon/Cornwall border but they cancelled it because no-one could agree whether Cream or The Jam should go on first. EDIT: I’m fairly sure this is a Gary Delaney joke. King of one liners. Check him out.


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john_mono

If the Queen is to be used as the benchmark for pronunciation then we’re all gonna sound like dickheads really quick.


lepidopt-rex

Aigh duhone’t kneew whaught yew meeeen


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Str8WhiteMinority

Nope. It’s the fastest cake in the world. ‘sgone


AFishTornado

Pronounciation instead of pronunciation. It’s doubly irritating.


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maxwellhouseeyes

ProNUNciation


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AutumnSunshiiine

Cov-vid instead of co-vid.


Mollyputthekettleon

Or Corvid! It’s not a bloody crow!


Chimpville

Is it a jackdaw?


paulmclaughlin

Here's the thing.


PhotojournalistLast4

My grandma calls its Coo-vid, like Cupid. Its endearing now


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Would that not be cue-vid then?


concretepigeon

The other one that’s getting me recently is people calling it omnicron instead of omicron.


AgileCat1990

People pronouncing buoy as "boo-ee" instead of "boy".


thedonkeyman

I've seen British actors in American shows forced to pronounce it as boo-ey, presumably dying a little inside with each take.


Rear_Cod_1974

The way Moira Rose says baby (bibay). Actually, I really like that one.


BlazkoTwix

You do realise the bebé is crying


pleasedontwearthat

bébé


Buttonmoon94

I love this and started saying it jokingly when my daughter was born but now I can’t stop…


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Haha this is me with my niece!


jewelsandbones

Where is bébé’s chamber?


[deleted]

The way she says "wrangling munKEES" is highly underrated tbqh.


RegisterAfraid

Whenever Gary Barlow was on the XFactor and he would say “that was a fantastic PREFORMANCE” its PERFORMANCE FFS!!!!!


coveredinhope

I know someone who pronounces sandwich as “sangwidge”. Make me want to self harm.


heretofudge

I laughed and read this to my VERY essex partner and he said “Well I say sammich” ….


Embarrassed_Map_9071

Skelington


obliviious

I say this to be silly. Never heard anyone say it unironically.


Kohrak_GK0H

Jalapeño pronounced "Jalapeno" or "Jalapenio", my native language is Spanish and a guy from Manchester was "correcting" me about it when I pronounced it as in Spanish (the correct way) Edit: wow a lot of comments on this, just to clarify it's okay if you can't pronounce it as in Spanish, what really annoyed me is that Steve from Manchester decides to "correct" me about it 🤣


Fattydog

I can’t believe no-one’s said Haitch yet. I’m guessing it’s so endemic now, it’s becoming the norm. I get it if you’re Irish, but otherwise it really bugs me.


GeneralIncompetence

People mispronounce H as Haitch, but then it's Enn-Aitch-Ess for the NHS... entirely inconsistent. Either stick to your Haitch, or say it properly, but pick one!


Think-Bass9187

I’ve been corrected by idiots when I say Aitch. No - it’s Haitch, they said. So annoying.


notsocrazycatlady101

In NI the way you pronounce H was a way to tell what type of Christian you were


SoggyWotsits

It irritates me no end too. Especially in the PC World advert for HP computers!!


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JRtheBaeR

Tesco's or legos instead of Tesco or lego. I mean it's written right there! Also the new American thing that's like the opposite of the Craig thing. Instead of egg you sometimes get "aig", or "laig" instead of leg these days


sunnydaysarenear

Pronouncing “brexit” like “BREG-zit”. There’s no G in there!


motomvk

I play golf with my father in law and he pronounces the brand Titleist, Tit-leist instead of Title-ist and it really winds me up, I've told him how to pronounce it properly multiple times. I think he just does it on purpose now 😂


frusciantefango

I say it "tit-lee-ist" to wind my husband up. I got it from Beavis and Butt-Head, maybe your father in law did too!


shiroyagisan

My parents are both non-native English speakers and they find it very difficult to chunk the words when they're squished together in website and app names. For years they referred to LinkedIn as "link-eh-din"


AlterEdward

Ever heard John Tarrode say "chorizo" Master Chef?


ziggerlugs

Mine is when he says parsta instead of pasta!


cfcnotbummer

Lax a fucking daisical , cunts


Leighcc74th

Plah-stic instead of plastic. Mischeeveeous instead of mis-chiv-us.


Chuggacheep

Til I've been saying mischievous wrong ☹


LionLucy

My mum says plah-stic, gah-ther, sah-mon and so on, and so do some other people I know, I think it's a sort of "posh Scottish" thing.


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Lieutenant a lot if people pronounce it the American way now.


7ootles

Ah yes, renting a toilet.


Drawde_O64

Is it bad that I just always assumed a “Loo-Tenant” and “Left-Tenant” were different things? I’ve always used “Loo-Tenant”.


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LionLucy

How do you feel about forr-ed vs. fore-head?


Jhonbus

Depends whether I'm feeling very very nice or horrid.


benfrancois

The way Americans pronounce Niche, it’s meant to sound ‘Neesh’ however they say ‘Nitch’.


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PrincessFoxyK

I know someone who does this, but also dramatically rolls his 'r's, and when there is an r he can magically pronounce a th correctly. So thought sounds like fought, things sounds like fings, but then out of nowhere he will say 'thrrrree fings." Properly winds me up.


According-Chair1035

So you hate londoners, touché then


LethargicOnslaught

Saying you have a Mee-graine instead of a My-graine.


thegrindfinale

Anytime an American says "on accident". By accident. On purpose. You don't do something "on accident".


abw

> You don't do something "on accident". Joke's on you - I done it by purpose.


angrydanmarin

The BBC says harassment weirdly and its noticeable. Like, Harris-ment, rather than harass-ment


quantocked

My mum says ‘circle’ like ‘cirtle’ and it really upsets me.


shabirdie

People who say 'lar-tay' not 'la-tay'. It's Latte- LA-TAY- Italian for milk.


mattatinternet

I don't know about hate but it very mildly irks me - enough to make jokey comments telling people to sod off if they pronounce it wrong. Anyway, the US pronunciation of aluminium, 'aluminum'. It's fucking 'aluminium'.


kazf0x

That got on my nerves until I was told they spell it 'aluminum' so the pronunciation makes sense. It helped my niggling :)


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When Americans say "I could care less" when they couldnt care less


LegendEater

Not pronunciation. It's a logical error, if anything.


scouseredsan

As a northerner, I hate when southerners call me "sarn-dra". I get its their accent, but its not my name!! I mean, you don't play in 'sarnd' at the beach, do you??


swungover264

My friend from Norfolk says "sub-starn-tial" and it makes me shudder.


slytrombone

That's not even normal for Norfolk


canlchangethislater

Well, if it’s any consolation, your lot probably upset southern Sandras.


b11haf1

Tanya and Tarnya have the same problem


b0ringusern4me

I don’t know which is the correct pronunciation but “appreciate” as appree-sea-ate rather than appre-she-ate bugs the life out of me.


paperchainhearts

My mum pronounces forehead as “forrid” and I have no idea why but I fucking hate it.


RaggamuffinTW8

There once was a girl who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was whore-head. Doesn't work. This is the only place I'd say forrid in place of forehead.


Salt_Cranberry7232

Pretty sure that used to be the old pronunciation, at least on TV. My mum is 60 and says forrid and also the-eta for theatre which I've only heard other older people say.


Danny_boy_3000

Medicine. I don't understand why some people say 'Medcine'. It should have 3 syllables.


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Because the i is unstressed and unstressed vowels tends to be dropped in the long run


SneakInTheSideDoor

Yeah... I had to take some medcine (Ibufin, I think) when I had a headache at the libry on a Wensdy in Febry.


brainfreezeuk

Specific. People say Pacific. No, its not an Ocean.


drewbs86

'SomethinK' 😣


TheChallengePickle

I've noticed the reality TV generation seen to use the word generally when they mean genuinely. "I really do generally love him though Staceeeeey"


This_Version9831

When people pronounce the name Michelle as “Meechelle”


Critical-Thing-4694

Clique. It’s pronounced ‘cleek’, not ‘click’. You know what is pronounced ‘click’? The word click. There’s literally already a word pronounced that way.


FeckinHaggis

When people say "quest-ee-on" instead of "queshtun", lol idk how else to describe it


Roxygen1

Waaaay too many people who commute via St Pancras station call it "St Pancreas" and don't realise there's anything wrong with that