Mispronounced! And on Radio 4! By a newsreader!

Weather forecaster today announced rayyyyne was on the way!

One of the commonest mispronunciations is surely amateur?

SO many people including newsreaders pronounce it amachur.

I’m sure you have all heard it.

Oh yes that last one drives me mad too Septimia

I worked in a jewellers, where we sold jewell-er-y. Why jewelry? Surely that's American spelling and pronunciation.

We get annoyed by people who nu-cu-lar instead of nu-clear.

I know sodapop and I really should stay away.
In fact in future I will.?

I do wish people would realise when I'm not being completely serious. Sigh.

Lieutenant is the one which drives me potty, when people pronounce it ‘Lew-tenant’ (as per USA) rather than ‘Lef-tenant’ (as per UK).

Pedants corner is for people who are concerned about these things annsixty.

Can't get my tongue round jew-erl-ree. Another r gets in there.

But Phoenix surely 'jewlery' is no more a mispronunciation than 'jew-El-ry'. The first one ignores the middle 'e', while the second misses the last one.

I would agree with 'jew-El-ry' more if we adopted the American spelling, 'Jewelry'. Otherwise, it seems to me it should be pronounced 'jew-el-ery'

I worked with someone who pronounced memo meemo ( think Nemo). And don’t get me started on spelling!!

Oh, annsixty, you posted while I was writing mine, so my last comment wasn't directed at you, but you do seem to have popped up right on cue...?

Confirmed by professional jeweller whom I know well:
'jewellery' is British English, and 'jewellry' is American English.

Sorry, a rogue 'm' slid into 'mispronunciations'....

I've never said 'ree search', either. It annoys me mightily too. But guess what, I have a DD who works in 'ree search'...arrrgh...?

What fascinates me is how things like mispronmunciations and incorrect word usage get picked up and run with until they become common usage and if one objects some smug person starts lecturing one on language change..

I would never, ever get concerned, grave or otherwise about the way words are pronounced or mispronounced by me , newsreaders or anyone else.
I might think very fleetingly , oh that isn't/ doesn't sound right and then get back to the really important things in my life.

The burglary one annoys me as well. The other one I'm never sure about pronouncing is
harassment - which syllable is stressed the first or second ?
These things and many others are causing me grave concern.

I've just discovered by saying it out loud that I say REsearch for the noun, eg Cancer Research and reSEARCH for the verb eg I will research those figures.

Well I ve never said re search with the emphasis on the search it’s always been ree search
Oh definitely ig not eg
I think a lot depends on where you were brought up Essex ‘yous’ gives me the willies

How about egnore and egnite?

I really hate REEsearch instead of reSEARCH, but alas it's everywhere now. I have even found myself vowing (briefly) to give no more money to Cancer REEsearch, unless they stop saying it in the ads!
Yes, I'm a sad case, no need to tell me.

DH (from Lancashire) also used to say 'tong' - and 'lickle' (for little). His father also insisted on pronouncing refuse as refuge, as in the stuff the bin men collect.

I think I say jool ry but to be honest going over them both, they both sound familiar and ok
Not really worth getting your knickers in a twist over
I have been picked up on the word tongue which I say tong but round here people say tung perhaps it comes from spending so much of my childhood with Leicestershire grandparents if that’s how they pronounce it in Leicestershire who knows !

One of my students questioned my pronouncing clerk as clark last week. I explained, but they thought I was nuts (the arrogance of teenagers).

Jewel-e-ry in my opinion with the stress on the first “e”