Any to add ?

FannyCornforth

tictac how should weight be pronounced, if not 'wait'?

'weyt'

"Prie-vacy" for "Privacy". One of the many horrible Americanisms that have crept in.

Axe for ask seems to be creeping in also all the fick and fin which my husband cannot abide !

Sorry to say this but my adult son a father himself , says “free” instead of three - his late father did too.
I have told him ( not in company) that I stopped saying free for three when I was about 3. My mother was a serious CORRECTOR on all matters related to speech - even mid flow, maybe I should have corrected him earlier it’s just that I have always believed that it’s what you say that matters. He went on to achieve highly in education and has a successful career

Alex Beresford (he of weather and Piers Morgan fame) insists on calling Wales, wells.

DH always pronounces weight as wait! Drives me round the bend.

Bernard Shaw had this to say in his preface to Pygmalion:

”The English have no respect for their language and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants – and not all of them – have any agreed speech value. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him”.

I agree that many people find spelling a challenge. There is such a mismatch between the spoken and written word.

FannyCornforth

tictac how should weight be pronounced, if not 'wait'?

'weyt'

And

DH always pronounces weight as wait! Drives me round the bend.

What are you people talking about?
I've never heard weight pronounced differently from wait.

knspol

DH always pronounces weight as wait! Drives me round the bend.

I can't for the life of me understand this
Wait, weight, weyt

Cross post FarNorth
What are these lunatics on about!?

I've been wondering about what could sound different between weight and wait also FarNorth so you are not alone.

Lazy tongue losing t and now l. E.g. hospitaw
And how many men have "prostrate" trouble?
Don't get me on so many people saying" less" when it should be "fewer"

Nucular instead of nuclear!

Aha and I’ve just read the official list! Seems I’m not alone ?

Candidit instead of candidate, bin instead of been. Would of/could of/should of/ instead of would have/could have/should have.

This is how language evolves ...isn’t it! By mis-pronunciation or mis spellings. If any of you read Chaucer in the ‘raw’ most of it is unreadable .... but he wrote in English!! The english of his day. He would not recognise our language and think he’s in a foreign land. Do you call it a phone or telephone .... bus or omnibus..... tele or television.... car or automobile..... it’s always been this way hasn't it? Or Chaucer would be able to understand us .... instead of thinking where he’d landed!

Any word ending in ‘ing’ - makin, eatin, thinkin printin - etc etc I always thought the word wrath was pronounced with an ‘or’ sound - wrorth -

Plarstic instead of plastic. Haitch instead of aitch.

Weight is W+eight so how on earth are people pronouncing eight?
Or how are the pronouncing they? If weyt sounds different?
Wait is w+ ait (a small river island).
How are they pronouncing wait?
I do have one or two friends from different places who pronounce these words with more of an i sound- Arv reelly pud on wight since lockdown is what it sounds like on our WhatsApp calls.
Other wise I think this is a wind up.

My pet hates are haitch instead of aitch and garridge instead of garage.

I haven't RTFT, but how about 'loth' and 'loathe'?

As in 'She was loth to hang out the washing in the rain' vs 'She loathed him with a passion'.

FarNorth

FannyCornforth

tictac how should weight be pronounced, if not 'wait'?

'weyt'

And

DH always pronounces weight as wait! Drives me round the bend.

What are you people talking about?
I've never heard weight pronounced differently from wait.

Yeah, no, me neither...

When people took about men’s prostrate instead of prostate! Grrrrrr

NanaPlenty

When people took about men’s prostrate instead of prostate! Grrrrrr

Yes NanaPlenty, though the thought of all those prostrate men . . .

Prostrate rather than prostate