The use of "nothink" instead of "nothing", and "of" instead of "have" are other common examples!!!Originally Posted by godlykepower
People from the Caribbean area omit the "h" in most words. For example, they mispronounce the following, 'Mahatma Gandhi wore his hat upon his head', by saying, 'Ma'atma Gand'i wore 'is 'at upon 'is 'ead'.
Last edited by rocktron; 11th July 2012 at 08:46 AM.
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well I never did.
all this time I've been emphasizing the c u and n and adding a t...
you know I never knew all this time I'd been mispronouncing nuclear that way, how embarrassing.
Umm...compliment? Oh, I see what you did there. Jeez, you guys are so cleverThanks for the...complement.
It annoys me when people put 'R's in words that don't have R's in them, like glass 'they pronounce it Glarrrrs', the same type say bas instead of bus, are thy trying to sound posh or are they just bloody southerners?
Steve Parrish who commentates for BBC Moto GP always says Kawasarrrrrki instead of Kawasaki, he sounds like that winker Lloyd Grossman.
Worst are the Americans. OK they don't and the "u" but they pronounce the nu"clear" bit as in see through.
whereas it should be cle-ar, i.e. a bit of a burr at the end.
Well, now that you've brought the subject up. It has always annoyed me that cops on crime dramas say "burgulry" instead of burglary. Bearing in mind that these are not real cops but actors. You could argue they've got a bit too much into the method... but then that would assume that all real cops make the same error of pronunciation all the time. I'm sure Morse wouldn't have said burgulry.. but he only seemed to investigate murders
Steve
A builder that did some work for us kept referring to the 'chimbley' instead of the chimney. I quite liked that though. I also like the way Irish people say fillim instead of film.
My wife gets annoyed by people mispronouncing Ibuprofen. Her friend calls it 'Ibrufen'.
Extreme poshness is very ridiculous. "It should take about an Aaaaaaaaaaa" (hour)
I have googled the veracity of this, but I think Ibrufen is the drug and Ibuprofen is a particular brand incorporating that drug... So both can be correct depending on the context.
Other way around I think. Drug is Ibuprofen and Brufen was the original trade name.
People from Ipswich seem to call it Ibooofen
At lunchtime today I helped a young woman pick up some paperwork she had unintentionally dropped on the pavement. The only thing she said was 'shit' which I assume was a very bad mispronunciation of 'thank you.' Young people today,etc...
Regular watchers of come Dine With Me will know that very few people can pronounce dauphinoise potatoes correctly, even those who cook it ( and IT DOESN'T HAVE ONIONS OR CHEESE IN IT.YES, JAMIE OLIVER, YOU!!!).
Breeding mammals with insects is my personal bugbear.
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