It really gets up my goat!

I've just remembered they also said 'mester' as in 'mester smith' or 'take it to the 'mester' meaning 'man'. Marster was a quite different use of the word as in 'the school marster' or to 'marster' something.

con-*trov*ersy
day-ity
ne-few
meye-graine
ishoo
ett

No kitty that was a strange anomaly around Sheffield/ Rotherham/ Barnsley I believe. It sounds really odd to me now but I never heard anything else when I was a child.

con- trov -er-sy
Day-ity
Nefew
Meye-grain
Ishoo
Ait (but sometimes the 'ett' comes back )

We said 'ahmund' in Derbyshire when I was growing up nightowl and scon to rhyme with one. But, I've mentioned before, my mother is Mrs Bucket!

Strangely though, we didn't say marster, plarster or farster.

CON-trov-er-sy
DAY-it-y
NEV-u
MEE-grain(unless speaking French in which case me-GRAINE)
Ishoo
8

In the west riding when I was growing up it was always ahmund. Always scone to rhyme with cone. Interestingly everyone also said plarster and marster but never farster because that would have been posh. When I spoke about a Marstercard not that many years ago I was laughed at by my OH who is from the welsh borders. In the East Midlands it would always be master with a short a sound. I think my vowels are all over the place now but I'm definitely not posh.

Controversy - stress on first syllable
Deity - dee-ity
Nephew - nefew
Migraine - meegraine
Issue - ishyoo
Ate - ait (my Leicestershire granny always said 'et' but we didn't copy her.

Galen love it, just going down the garden to tell DH

Indeed. Let's do a staw poll. How to you pronounce the following:

Controversy
Deity
Nephew
Migraine
Issue
Ate

These were words which participants in a UCL study were aked to pronounce. Interestingly, the variations were far more age related than geographical or educational background related.

I am from The Wirral (was Cheshire) and scone always rhymed with 'con' still does as far as I am concerned. Forty miles further on (still Cheshire) and scone rhymes with cone.

Another a-l-mond eater here.
I think that pronunciation was universal across the north-west - I certainly never heard anyone say armond when I was growing up.
I don't think it's a question of correct or incorrect - just an alternative.

A lot of expats on French forums refer to the Maire or the Mairie as Marie. I especially liked a reference to a "small-town Marie".
Not someone to cross.
I hate nuc-u-lar.

Does scone rhyme with 'cone' or 'con'?
No, I shan’t nail my colours to the mast on this one. It’s too controversial an issue

But I do support your right to mispronounce any word if you prefer to do so.

Do you eat scons or scowns?

I grow syphillis in the garden, apparently, but I didn't know that they were edible.

Apparently John Prescott loves travelling but is always happy when his feet are back on terracotta.

That doesn't make it correct when

oh and apparently if my stepfather's daughter didn't go into labour she was to go into hospital to be "seduced"

My mother offered me some syphillis to eat. I'll leave you to work it out.

It's just occurred to me that some say orl-mond and others say ol-mond (I do) so even more variation round here!

It depends where you grew up, anno. Manchester and much of the north-west say it with the l.

Ah-mund. No-one pronounces the 'l' in salmon...or do they?

But why is it correct? Who says so? The BBC? Oxbridge? Court circles?

London took the moral high ground on what is "correct" because the court and government were there, and people thronged there from all over the country, but the linguistic superiority was only because of the numbers of those who adopted that local variation of dialect over the one they left behind. Then the Beeb spoke to the nation in the voice of the upper classes. to the rest it was "received pronunciation".

The l like the r, makes itself heard on the west side of the Pennines.