pronounciation of common words

As its pedants' corner shouldn't it be pronunciation?

So am sitting here ( I live alone ! ) saying 'sandwich, strawberry, Matalan! My most disliked pronunciation is people who say 'Haitch ' for H !!!

One that bugs me is the mispronunciation of pronunciation - why do so many people say (and spell) it as if it were pronounciation, with an 'ou' in it?

Was that a typo in the thread title?

Sorry, I couldn't resist - this is pedants' corner, after all

I see Chelseababy beat me to it - I type very slowly sometimes

Ashume. Conshume.

A lot of words can be very different in different accents. In Norfolk we eat samwidges and I'd always assssumed people who said Haitch were just furreners, it's a difficult line.

my fault I always say pronounciation as I thought pronunciation was a shortened version of it. After all you pronounce something don't you.

During Wimbledon weeks I heard TV announcers saying strawbries. they should be strawberries. TV announcers should speak perfect English.
I too hate people who say Haitch. Its H (huh).

I don't think speaking English is a requisite for announcers these days !!
I was brung up with Frank Muir and Godfrey something !!

They should bring back correct speaking announcers like Alvar Liddell. Everyone could understand him.

Haitch for aitch is my absolute bugbear too. And joolery for jewellery. And seckertry for secretary. Susstificate. Oh now see what you've done, Ethel, I was having a nice peaceful evening!

What's wrong with 'strawbries' (or 'strawbry)?
If they were written as two separate words - straw berries - then yes, I would find it odd to hear 'berries' pronounced as 'bries', but it isn't two words, it's one. The stress (when I say it, anyway) is on 'straw', so surely it's perfectly natural to put less emphasis on the vowels of the 'berries' part of the word. I definitely don't see anything wrong with that.

Chimley, badmington......

I think strawberries should be pronounced strawberries as the word is written. Never mind about bowels Mamacaz

February too is annoying me, some say Febry, some say Febuary.

Cinderella too is sometimes called Cindrella.

meant vowels

You had me going back there to check if I'd done a typo, Ethel

We'll have to agree to disagree on strawberries, though!

Actually, I've just found this:
dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/strawberry

I say it the first way, which is given as the British pronunciation, but what about the rest of you?

When I worked in a factory canteen, whenever the soup of the day was asparagus, my supervisor always told people it was asparagrass, it grated on me, but I couldn`t correct her because she was my boss!

Nuculer for nuclear! Really bugs me!

Regarding the 'haitch' pronunciation...... here in N. Ireland we have weird ways of determining people's 'perceived religious background'. One of these is the pronunciation of 'h'! 'Haitch' denotes Catholic and 'aitch' denotes Protestant What a society I come from!

I have realised I say 'strawbury' - I must check the link

I don't like to hear joolery, seccetry, Febuary
I say Bennal Maddunna - is that correct? But then I say it so rarely that I don't suppose it matters!

Ooh, I got it right!
Have a strawberry!

Strawburys Goosburys but oddly blackberries.
Porche or Porcha ?? I've heard both on TV.

It's BenalMADena. I definitely don't drag out the straw berry word; I say strawbry but with just a very slight vowel sound after the b. Does it really matter? I think, too, it probably is a regional thing if you pronounce it as written. We've had this discussion recently on another thread as a lot of people mentioned the aitch thing as their pet hate. I agree that pronunciation shouldn't be pronounced pronounciation although I often hear that.