Common mispronunciations

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.

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.

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.

bags has raised the good point that one man's pronunciation meat is another man's poison. E.g. re @feetle in South Africa it is the other way round. Ki-LOM-itter would be correct and KI-lo-meter would be incorrect. Ecksetera and people would laugh at me! (or at least suppress a smile) when I said South-wark as it is written when I first arrived here.

Skedule instead of schedule, pacific instead of specific. That sikth thing drives me mad too. One sports presenter on the BBC this week described someone as 'being in sick place'. Grrrrr

The American pronunciation of Lab rat ory, instead of la bor at ory (that doesn't look right, but hopefully someone will know what I mean!)

Not if they are working in an Italian restaurant and correct MY pronunciation!

Fith instead of fifth - TV presenters are the worst offenders!

I think people can be forgiven for mispronouncing words like bruschetta, especially if you have never heard the word, only read it.

Sikth instead of sixth, there are so many TV presenters that say this!
Baareee instead of battery
Hehww instead of hell
Alumium instead of Aluminium
I could go on...sorry!

Brush etta instead of brushketta in bruschetta

Lilygran, glad I'm not the only one who finds that really annoying!

Does anyone else share my obsession with the pronunciation of diss-ect rather than die-sect? This was drummed into me by a biology teacher who would say we would be dissecting a rat ie opening it up not cutting it in half. The other pronunciation seems to be widely used but it still sets my teeth on edge; after all, if it were die-sect surely it would be spelt with only one s?

prostrate for prostate, and ménage for manège (household / horse riding 'rink')

"mute point" instead of "moot point"

'Ki-LOM-itter' instead of 'KILometre'...

Oh, JoyBloggs, you've hit on one of my pet hates! And why can people who put glottal stops into their otherwise standard English not manage to say 'Law and order'? Ed and Dave spring to mind.

Probly instead of probably.

Have we said "secketery"?

Vunrable for vul-ne-ra-ble.

'Laura norder' instead of 'law and order', (especially when they refer to the 'breakdown of laura norder' which seems to refer to a distressed lady).

Pacific instead of specific.

Oops of course I meant libary rather than library !

Mischievious rather than mischievous - - also library rather than library.

Excellerate rather than accelerate.