Wrong and utterly stupid pronunciations...

Must be a Queensland thing then, Faye, my SIL and his family call sandwiches sangers.
We have lived out there for months at a time and NQ always call them that!
He has offered to make me sangers many times!

A snag is a sausage. (a banger)

Probably 'bangers' with the 's' for sausages substituted just to be different from us lot, Faye!

They don't rosequartz, sangers are sausages. No G in sausages either but everyone (in Australia anyway) expects if sangers and mash are being served up you won't be getting a sandwich.

My English FIL used to say Glenell (a suburb of Adelaide) instead of Glenelg. He would try to pronounce it with a G but couldn't. I have also heard other people say Glenell, I think there are words that make some people tongue tied, such as hospital etc.

My grandfather always used to say "hoovercraft" which made me giggle at the thought of a floating vacuum cleaner. My daughter when very small would say we had to go to the "hospipeople", our car was in the "par cark" and on arriving at a birthday party would greet the lucky birthday child with "Happy Birthcake"!

Just got back from a visit to Colchester Castle and was reminded of how my Dad always referred to the Roman Emperor as "1 Clavdivs".

@Eloethan - Better "Linggery" than "Lonjeray"...

I still talk of "VeGATables", after seeing it beautifully sign-written on a greengrocery in Ashford (Surrey, not Kent) as 'Vegatables'...

These are so funny! I have a friend who went to London and visited St Pancreas station and my neighbour had panasonic views from her hotel room in Switzerland. My DH always says to me if I correct him for using the wrong word 'it's a good job you're so perfect, it's a great help to the rest of us'

My daughter when reading a direction sign in the street said,'' Mum , what's a municipal (munnikipple) golf course? Also boiled eggs were always bald eggs ( which is exactly what they are if you think about it)

There have been a few 'flutterbyes' in our garden this year. Known as that since DD2 named them.

So, if sandwiches has no 'g' why do Aussies call them 'sangers'? (With a hard 'g')

Did not realise that expresso is espresso until I read your post* eloethan*.

I usually drink latty.

DH continues to wear his "sangals" in the summer time in spite of all my correcting him!

Flower - that prostrate thing drives me nuts! My DH has prostate cancer and I have a friend whose DH has had it for 3 years and she STILL says prostrate. This week at the hospital we were chatting to a chap in the waiting room who has been treated for it for 4 years and he said prostrate.
Aaaargh....

Amazing the memories that bounce back when you read postings on this forum.

It is isn't it GreatauntieLinda - with a big grin as you imagine it again

thilthy (filthy)

One school I worked at, we were sitting down for lunch and during pudding, one little boy (aged about 6), whose front two teeth had fallen out, said 'Mith, there'th a thpider in my pudding'. The headteacher said (to cover things over no doubt) 'I thought you liked spiders', the lad replied 'yeth, I do but not with cuthtard'.

My DS used to say andublance, and liked small cake and the new woods ( shortbread , new forest )

My youngest GD used to ask for burning crisps (salt and vinegar - my eldest GD used to say vignear instead of vinegar) and brown jam (marmite).

It also depends on your local accent/dialect. My latest favourite is Mary Berry's "lairs" in cakes!

Little grandaughter likes putting clutterbups under your chin to see if you like butter.

My mum always says hitchy for itchy and it really irritates me.
My sister says Primart instead of Primark and Pacific instead of specific.
Grandson (4) announced that his sister were diriculous !

Asking a good friend of my DH the time he often says 'Just turned septic' while looking at his watch.

Ohhhh! and when people say pacific instead of specific, my DH also says Prostrate even though he has seen the word on paper a good few times in the past 18 months.

Walking along a cliff footpath in Cornwall I saw a sign saying Unstable, I called to my DH that there was a place nearby called Unstable ( rhyming with Dunstable which is a town not too far from us)

My father used to say Egg-whipped for Egypt.

Bum hooks for B....cks

I only realised the other day that "expresso coffee" is in fact "espresso coffee".

My dad wondered for ages why the Fairy advert said "for hands that judicious are as soft as your face" - but that didn't stop him from laughing at me when, as a teenager, I pronounced "lingerie" as it is spelt.

My Nana, re DS1 "He's got a bit of nappy rash on his little peanut"

My sister IL's MIL convinced that Pavarotti was to blame for the death of Princess Di (paparazzi)
Mind, she also thought it was really cruel when they allowed one dinosaur to kill another dinosaur in front of the cameras during Jurassic Park.

It was years before I discovered that hyperbole was NOT pronounced hyper bowl and that parabola wasn't para bowl! I'd only read them and never heard them spoken! In our family we always talk about things being pictureskew or antikew I find that deliberately mispronouncing something in my head helps me remember the correct spelling.

I have given up trying to correct my SiL's pronunciation of Nucular and Aluminum!

My youngest grandson (two) enjoys nothing more than rolling out and cutting shapes with Plato. However, the most delightful mispronunciation that I have ever heard was Gordon Brown being very serious about the terrorist threat from alchy Ada.

In the geordie accent we say ;Hood; food etc but we used to tease my late MIL because she tried to talk 'posh' saying 'hud', fud' etc.
Anyone else wear a 'hud' or eats their 'fud' ?

No, rosequartz - she's from Barnsley.