Do you hiss or do you shoo?

There are loads of antique programmes on the telly. Some say 'awkshun' and some say 'ockshun'.

Groan

gracesmum old jokes are funny to (relative) newbies.

Reminds me of the (old) joke about going into the Euro - if Britain joins the Euro how will you say "Spend a penny?" " Easy - eurinate!"

Ee-wees sounds vaguely like something out of Brussels or off the internet - E - commerce, E-directive - EU public toilets= ee-wees!!

Sweet

just checking!

Doctor!

doctorr/doctah??

Trust her, she's a doctor!!

Oh! Not poe-dee-a-trist then?

Pod eye a tryst!
Simples!

Then you have to pronounce "podiatrist". You can't win.

You could just say "I'm going to get my feet done"

You can now get round the pronunciation of 'chiropodist' by calling him/her a 'podiatrist'.

Think ee wees sounds really sweet annodomini. Many years ago when my son discovered all my old Beatle, Led Zeppelin, Jiimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd etc albums he asked me if he could have all my old vin yel!

Bananas, that reminds of my grandson, then aged 5, who announced to his parents that he had seen a field of ee wees. Easy enough to understand when it's written but it took a little while for them to realise he was talking about ewes. He had seen, but never heard the word.

Yes - me too, Elegran.

I say shiROPudist but KYropracter

I heard an American pronounce Ewell in Surrey as E Well, but possibly could be forgiven, because in fact it's pronounced Yule and maybe you need a little local knowledge to know that. Did sound funny though!

Blimey! I've always said 'shirropodist' - never knew it was incorrect!

My MIL was a 'shirr-op-podist" to me (Serf Efrican pronunciation), and I'd be told by my (Scottish) inlaws - "You don't say, sheh-mist, do you?" So depending on whether I was talking to South Africans, or to my in-laws, I would swtich between' kir-ro-po-dist' and 'shirr-op-podist'. Then, lo and behold - she was a 'per-dia-trist'! (I love my MIL BTW). One of the directors at my work loves telling me that I am 'inner-vitive' when I always thought i was in-no-vative with the emphasis on the 'vay'. Hard to keep up!

Heard a couple of young Australian women on the train the other day laughing at English spelling/pronunciation.. they were laughing at the town Woking which they had thought was Wok-ing when newly arrived in UK and also Godalming which they thought was Go-dal-ming as opposed to Goddle-ming! Tricky language to read is English!

my SiL Janet says Chris-t-mas and for some reason refers to londry rather than laundry! was she the person you knew absent??

www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-19576,00.html

for a variety of ideas re lieutenant!

Yes. That's an odd one isn't it.