Common mispronunciations

mice, even then, though it does sound a bit cheeky, the customer always being right and all that...

...because the word used in English does not have to be pronounced in the same way as the word used in Italian (or whatever foreign language). Think "Paris", for instance,

or the Scottish word 'ashet' from assiette. There will be many others.

Well Bags, when I asked her which part of Italy she was from she told me that she was from Croatia, and that she had only been working there for a week. I think I did her a favour as the many Italians who eat there would perhaps not have been as polite as I was.

And now I've looked at the original article I see bruschetta is there! Whoops. However, they are wrong, wrong, wrong about Greenwich which they assert is Gren edge. All the locals say Grin itch.

And I now confess to having pronounced facsimile as fass im mile for years until I heard someone say aloud.

Or gigot for leg of lamb

I always wondered which was right for bruschetta. My pet gripe is ashoom for assume. Or is it correct to put an h in the middle?
Accents are obviously excluded from this list - eg, in Norfolk it sustifcate for certificate; fillum for film.

With respect, Grannyknot, I don't see how Ki-LOM-etre could ever be correct. It's most likely widely accepted useage, but how do they pronounce Centimetre? Kilo-metre is based on 'metre'.

One of my other pet cringe-making pronunciations is 'eye-dyllic'; and I've always said 'brushetta', because I've only ever seen it written. I wonder if it's said 'brusketta' in the US, making it like skedule and schedule.

Ki-LOM-meter is correct in North America whether we like it or not.

Except it's more likely to be ki-LAM-idder

I have never heard bruschetta pronounced. I might have got the k from chianti but....

is it brush or brus?

DefinAtely is definItley one of the most annoying mis-pronunciations. It seems the norm to pronounce it this way now

I once watched a programme featuring Gino D'Acamp, the Italian chef, who was trying to get someone to pronounce bruschetta properly. He said it is not as in brushetta, it is brusketta.

Afterwads instead of afterwards

I used to be a 'secetree' in the 'nucular' industry and I actively dislike the month of Febury I am in agreement with ga, absent and Soutra my teeth have been set on edge just thinking about those words.

That's probably because we say it fast, chloe. I don't think I've ever pronounced it 'after wards' though!

Something that really makes my toes curl is 'haitch' rather than 'aitch' but I feel this has been discussed long and hard elsewhere.

JessicerEnnis instead of Jessica Ennis, Draw instead of Drawer, Somethink instead of Something, likewise Nothink and Anythink. And my biggest pet hate - "H" pronounced "Haitch", not the correct "Aitch".

Galen gigot of lamb is the Scottish version of leg of lamb.

My DH says 'secetary' and also 'sulvineers' instead of souvenirs and 'katchup' instead of ketchup .

Momento, anyone? But I like interred instead of interned and the other way round.

I, too, hate nucular. The one that seems to be more and more common on tv & radio is 'serious' for 'series'. Weird but true - maybe I notice it more because my BiL says it!

Joolery

KuhRIBBean instead of CariBBEEan ( if you see what I mean)
I must confess I only found out recently how to pronounce bruschetta correctly.

Burgalry

I wonder why people from the CarRIBBean (as they pronounce it) often say arks instead of ask.

Actually, given its spelling (double b), Ca-RIB-ian makes more sense. And again, this is a N.Amer/Brit difference. I think speakers of English on another continent might be allowed a few differences, no?

They have just turned sk into ks, that's all. My kids did this all the time when they were small, not with ask but with plenty of other words. Peninsula became pelinsunna, pasta became spada and lots more.