pronounciation of common words

We always used to laugh at Celine Dion in the song from Titanic, when she sang 'my heart will go on dan don'

Jomarie which brings me to the question:P
how do you pronounce the word piste?

Presumably peeste and not pissed

Typical pop lyrics: "You make my jeams cum choo"

Our bugbear used to be our daughters pronouncing Watford (where they went to school) without the "t". So it became Wa'ford! They have now grown out of it!

I've come to this conversation already on the 6th page, so apologies if my quick scan has missed mention of this word already. My biggest hate is pessific for specific!
And whilst I fully confess to being a pedant, there's a really good reason for pronouncing words correctly - it helps one to spell them correctly. You only have to look in classified ads to see this; I've lost count of the number of people who are selling 'chests of draws' - wish I was a cartoonist!
I should say I have absolutely nothing against regional accents; words can still be said correctly, though with differences in intonation and stress. Lazy speech such as 'sangwidges' is just that -a disinclination to make the effort to communicate clearly and accurately!

chests of draws oh yes, I've seen that helmacd

The way you have written sangwidges makes me wonder if that's why the Australians call them sangers

I like sammitch for sandwich!

I wonder if we would consider " singing", "wringing" , etc lazy? Much easier to pronounce than some regional interpretations which pronounce both of the gs gutterally ? The former being correct of course and much easier to pronounce.

My pet hate is laura norder

I won't tell her babcia

Just call them 'sarnies' and be done with it!

Mind you, sardine sarnie is always a bit difficult to pronounce.
That's why we tend to have sardines on toast.

Sad pedant that I am, I get really annoyed about the use of "wonder" and "wander" and "draw" and "drawer". Another thing that annoys me is having no space between "a lot", e.g. "I enjoyed that alot."

There used to be a presenter on a TV programme where people were looking for a new home (Escape to the Country??), and she always told them to "Go and WONDER around". I could imagine them saying Oohs and Aahs in response! In my experience, it appears that many people have not had good English language teachers in the past. I've known many teachers who make basic errors in spoken and written English - even at high managerial levels in education. Bring back grammar schools I say! And another thing..... I WONDER whether "textspeak" will change the way we spell in future....and another another thing, what about the apostrophe? That's food for another forum or two!

Don't get me started on apostrophes!

How are you supposed to pronounce 'wander' then Gagamarnie?

I say 'wonder' too (to rhyme with 'yonder').

Surely you don't mean it should be 'wander' to rhyme with 'gander'?

Oh - do you mean she pronunced it 'wunder'?

I love to go a-wundering
Along the mountain track

I wonder as I wunder .....

I wundered lonely as a cloud

Or

Wunderbar, wunderbar!
There's our favorite star above
What a bright, shining star
Like our love it's wunderbar!

etc etc

Wonder and wander annoy me too. It's all too common now to hear their respective pronunciations reversed!

I agree, H has the harder sound.

poggie. I don't get that

Another frequent mispronunciation is island for Ireland. Not too difficult to say, surely ?

Should be Poggle. Sorry. Need new reading glasses. Primark, here I come

Prof. Henry Higgins asked, "why can't the English teach their children how to speak". I had an awful job getting my DD to use then and than correctly. She still confuses them, eg. " rather you then me". I have learned not to let it bother me, but I do feel like a bit of a failure.

Dear Mary Berry - wild animals live in "lairs", cakes have "LAYERS" ... with a Y! Last week I was actually yelling at the TV by the end of the programme!

Yes, that drives me mad too Wilf!

And surely it should be e.g. '...he scored 6 for his starter during the week' not '...he scored 6 for his starter in the week' as I've heard so often on The Great British Menu lately?

Wander - rhymes with "yonder", wonder rhymes with "thunder"...

@Gagamarnie : I would agree with you about Grammar Schools, but must confess that at mine nobody ever mentioned the "it's" v. "its" problem. I was in my twenties before somebody straightened me out on that one. So much for Grammar school!

"It's a cat, and its fur is black."