pronounciation of common words

Chips come in butties!!

Sarnies? Sandwiches? They are Butties of course and your lunch is your 'bait'. Never mind pronunciation it's a different language up here!

Filmm is a pet hate

Went to Benalmadena years ago. Some seem to say BenalMADena others BenalmaDEEna
Think the first is the Spanish way.

It's a British thing, isn't it, mispronouncing foreign names and place names.

Indiana I have argued with three people that Benalmadena is called Bellamadena, that is why I wrote the OP, my relative called it Bellamadena and gave me her address to write to her and it was spelt Benalmadena. Two other people called it bellamadena and I argued with them. It doesn't even sound the same. This is not just a northern thing , my relative lived in the midland before moving to Spain.

I had to look up schwa, am I to be drummed out?? along with me, grannylyn65

Sanger is not proper English as she should be spoke
It is Australian slang for a sandwich, preferably with thick slices of white bread, a thick slab of meat of some sort [and lots of salad - optional]

Sanger = sandwich. Schwa is a very lightly sounded vowel, for instance the 'e' towards the end of Benalmadena. This would sound more like an 'uh' sound, hardly pronounced at all.

I don't see how anyone could think it's 'Bella' Madena . It is Benalmadena with the stress on 'mad'.

I m lost now what is a sanger and what is a schwa.
to get to the original post just what is the correct way to pronounce Benalmadena. Is it Bella Madena or as its spelt.

Scottish!

Daisy - Benalmadena, emphasis on the middle syllable ( the MAD) is a suburb of Torremolinos

I had to look up schwa, am I to be drummed out??

Or a sanger
(But that's in Strine, which is not the same as English)

Saanwich? Samwidge? It??s sangwich, as any fule kno.
?? It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.?? (GBS. Pygmalion.)

Judthepud I wasn't in the least offended - my comment was intended to be jokey, mock serious. Sorry, difficult to convey this without body language

NotTooOld, I just wanted to comment on your post about MOM. It's the American spelling - the way Americans say the short 'o' vowel, it sounds like the way we pronounce 'MUM' - doesn't it? It's what I've always thought, anyway.

Two pronunciations that irk me: kilOMetre when it should be KILometre. It's a measure, not the device that does the measuring. Also 'licquorice' pronounced 'lickerish', which is a completely different word.

Sandwich? I say 'samwidge'! (That does look odd!)

I'd never heard of Benal Madena either!

That advert for the Co-op was annoying:

The Co-op is apparently 'Gud for fud'

Indinana regarding the 'haitch' issue in relation to RC education, I was explaining a distinction which seems quite peculiar to the N.I situation. And it is very consistent here. A sad but true reflection of the way our divided society works. Schooling still tends to be mainly segregated here.

I assume you were educated in ENGLISH convent schools where Irish nuns would have been required to adhere to English standards. Please don't protest. I was just explaining what happens here thinking some GNetters would be interested. I had no intention to offend.

A lot of scottish people pronounce 'food' as 'fud' - it's not being posh! To compensate they often pronounce 'foot' as 'fute' whereas the english say 'fut'.

I cant stand when some say 'Hud' instead of 'hood' and 'fud' instead of food. this is not a regional thing its just trying to be posh.

Sarnie has become a word so needs the 'r'. If you abbreviate the word for your refrigerator, sugarpuffairy. I'm sure you call it fridge and not frig if you write it, so it takes a d in the shorter version? As for the short and long 'a' Maizie, it's just a regional thing, isn't it.

The pronunciation 'ar' of the 'a' in sarnies has nothing to do with whether or not there is an 'r' in sandwiches. It's just an accent thing.

Being a Southerner living in the North of England I get this said to me from time to time when I say father, rather, glass, grass etc etc 'There's no 'r' in 'glass' they say. Well, I pronounce the 'a' as 'ar' because that's how we say it in the south...it's too late to change the habits of a lifetime

And who'd want to call them 'sannies'?

Many years ago there was a mode of speech which was called "BBC English voice" It was very clear and proper so that it was easily understood by everyone especially those who were from other countries. The BBC News was used as a teaching aid to those learning English and also those learning Shorthand.
I hate a certain programme on BBC1 where the presenters talk of the comYUNal areas. I dont like Ashume either. I dont understand why people talk of Sarnies when they mean Sandwiches. There is no R in the word.
Where I stay we have a dialect and from the words and pronounciation of words people can tell which area you come from and whether you are catholic or protestants. Although I was born here and have been here most of my life there are people here whose dialect is so different I just hope that I am smiling and nodding in the correct places.
SPF

A friend from the north-east pronounces it 'brakefast'

I say 'brekkfast' with a sort of short 'a', a kind of of amalgam of brekkfust and brekkfest

Breakfast: I grew up pronouncing it 'brekkfast', but I do hear others (a minority I think) pronouncing it 'brakefast'.

Agreed.
My very upper class English teacher of 50 years ago would constantly correct us if we dared to pronounce a word incorrectly (according to her) and our lengthy spelling lists all had to be learned both as the written and spoken word. I used to dread her lessons but soon learned she had taught me a very valuable lesson for life.
Today, incorrect spellings are not even acknowledged by teachers so how do we expect children to learn?