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Conshumer?

(76 Posts)
NfkDumpling Thu 08-Jan-15 12:57:54

I'm not pedantic as a rule - not knowledgeable enough - but I'm listening to You and Yours and there's a bloke being interviewed pronouncing 'consumer' as 'conshumer'. (I'm just waiting to see how he says consumption!) I've long wondered about assume which a lot of people pronounce as ashume. Which is right?

Anne58 Fri 16-Jan-15 16:31:36

GillT57 she nearly had an orgasm when talking about something earlier! It was some sort of gin, either damson or raspberry.

NfkDumpling Fri 16-Jan-15 22:15:06

Raspberry!

Flowerofthewest Tue 20-Jan-15 14:03:49

prostrate instead of prostate (my DH is forever tell people that he has had prostrate cancer and that his friend has prostrate cancer too)

Flowerofthewest Tue 20-Jan-15 14:07:41

Secaterry-secretary

chimbly - chimney

thilthy - filthy

I borrowed it to him - I loaned it to him

fieth - thief

I also have an aversion to the word Lush which a lot of my Welsh family use for ((I think) lovely. and Stunnin' is over used to. makes my toes curl

Flowerofthewest Tue 20-Jan-15 14:09:21

Sorry to jump in again but my BF says Gillit for gilet (using hard G) it drives me bonkers also Shattels instead of Chattles (will etc)

KatyK Tue 20-Jan-15 15:55:01

Don't start me off with the prostrate thing. My DH also has prostate cancer and calls it what it is. However we have had nearly 50 hospital visits this year and met many men with the same illness. In all honesty I can't recall one of them that didn't refer to it as prostrate. I have a friend whose DH has had the illness for 4 years and she still says prostrate. Aaarrrgh.

Anne58 Tue 20-Jan-15 16:23:17

A good friend of mine says "unindated" grin Problem is, after a while it starts to sound correct, iykwim?

Wheniwasyourage Wed 21-Jan-15 19:30:04

It is with a sense of profound gloom that I realise that there are 15 weeks to go before what a lot of people on TV and radio insist on calling the Generalection. sad

Wheniwasyourage Wed 21-Jan-15 19:30:48

Or should that be Generelection? hmm

Flowerofthewest Fri 30-Jan-15 22:45:04

Literally this and literally that, never used in the correct way these days. I am literally sick of it.

NotTooOld Fri 30-Jan-15 23:10:41

A lot of 'hard-working-families' will be affected by the generelection, wheniwasyourage..............grrrrr. Call-me-Dave is always saying it and it sounds so patronising.

Anya Wed 18-Feb-15 22:19:30

Just heard abhorrent pronounced as 'ab-or-ant' on BBC news hmm

Ana Wed 18-Feb-15 22:23:48

I thought that was how it is pronounced...confused

Ana Wed 18-Feb-15 22:24:48

(ent rather than ant, but more or less the same)

MiniMouse Wed 18-Feb-15 22:25:29

Read a review on Amazon which said that the buyer was so pleased with their purchase that they would defiantly buy another one.

Anne58 Wed 18-Feb-15 22:28:59

I received an email from a recruitment agency the other day saying:

Here at FS1, we're quite literally swept off our feet!

NO YOU BLOODY WELL AREN'T

NfkDumpling Wed 18-Feb-15 22:36:02

They won't be recruiting you then?

Anya Wed 18-Feb-15 23:02:23

I province the 'h' Ana and I've just checked in my dictionary.. Perhaps it's regional or one of those ever changing words?? .

Anya Wed 18-Feb-15 23:04:04

B****y iPad at it again province pronounce!

Ana Wed 18-Feb-15 23:11:52

It may be - just checked my dictionary and it too says the 'h' is pronounced, but this online pronunciation site says not:

dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/abhorrent

Anya Wed 18-Feb-15 23:19:46

but this one does

Anya Wed 18-Feb-15 23:20:31

Ah well, not worth losing sleep over moon

Ana Wed 18-Feb-15 23:30:25

Yes, there are lots of others that do. It isn't a word I use very often, so I won't worry about whether I'm pronouncing it correctly or not. (I'll be OK if I get a job at the Beeb though! grin)

numberplease Mon 02-Mar-15 00:38:54

I used to work in a factory canteen, and many times had to bite my tongue when my ever so proper supervisor told people that soup of the day was asparagrass. Or is it me who`s wrong?

Falconbird Mon 02-Mar-15 07:28:52

We were in a restaurant and ordered two cappuccinos.

The waistress said "would you like cuppucinnos or a muguccinos " smile