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Lucca Wed 23-Jun-21 08:24:05

A survey has revealed the most irritating mispronounced words:

Lucca Wed 23-Jun-21 12:19:27

Hiraeth

Sweet shirt instead of sweat shirt

Never heard that

Lucca Wed 23-Jun-21 12:17:49

yggdrasil

I do hate how Alexander Armstrong of Pointless cannot say Geography
He says Joggraphy, every time sad

? What do you say gee ogg raphy ?

Baggs Wed 23-Jun-21 12:13:30

Altho Chambers does give alternative pronuciations for some words, see vice vicy vis above.

grandtanteJE65 Wed 23-Jun-21 12:12:49

Strictly speaking pacifically and specifically are neither mispronounciations nor misspellings, but misuse of words.

I don't doubt that they are being used in the wrong contexts, but this is either due to someone mistaking these words for the correct ones, or mishearing what someone had said and thinking it was correct.

Baggs Wed 23-Jun-21 12:12:48

Witzend

*Baggs*, I did look up ‘research’ in my years-old big fat Oxford dictionary recently, and found that both research and reesearch are both accepted pronunciations (IIRC both verb and noun) now.

I was perhaps not exactly wrothful ? but certainly chagrined.

That's probably (prolly/probly) because Oxford dictionaries, according to a friend who was an editor of them at OUP, are descriptive rather than prescriptive. Chambers, my go-to dictionary of preference is prescriptive.

Baggs Wed 23-Jun-21 12:07:04

Chimbley

cornishpatsy Wed 23-Jun-21 11:41:58

Ingerland for England, hearing it a lot during the football.

FarNorth Wed 23-Jun-21 11:13:37

Wrapped for rapt - there's a difference?

Does wrath not rhyme with math? I always thought it did.

Lots of people in Scotland say 'I learned them that' meaning 'taught them'.

FannyCornforth Wed 23-Jun-21 11:05:53

timetogo2016

Plus FannyCornforth i was talking about my dh no one else.

Yes - but you said that the reason that he speaks badly is due to where he is from.
I think that you should accept that what you wrote was ill considered.
There is no shame in being wrong, after all.

CafeAuLait Wed 23-Jun-21 11:05:11

Upmost for Utmost.

Wrapped for rapt.

Witzend Wed 23-Jun-21 11:04:48

Baggs, I did look up ‘research’ in my years-old big fat Oxford dictionary recently, and found that both research and reesearch are both accepted pronunciations (IIRC both verb and noun) now.

I was perhaps not exactly wrothful ? but certainly chagrined.

FannyCornforth Wed 23-Jun-21 11:01:56

timetogo2016

It is not offencive to state a fact FannyCornforth.

What? That people from the BC can't speak properly?
Your husband may have trouble with his use of words, but his place of birth isn't the reason for it

LauraNorder Wed 23-Jun-21 11:01:53

Skellington for skeleton drives me nuts, make no bones about it.

timetogo2016 Wed 23-Jun-21 11:00:47

Plus FannyCornforth i was talking about my dh no one else.

Baggs Wed 23-Jun-21 10:59:56

FannyCornforth

Baggs

So Vice is always wrong but you have alternatives ?

I don't think that I will ever be able to bring myself to say it again full stop Baggs sad

Awwww! Dinnae fash yersel, hen! ?

FannyCornforth Wed 23-Jun-21 10:59:46

I gave a lecture once (in the 90s, when we still used over head projectors) and referred throughout to the acetates as ace-tates blush

Witzend Wed 23-Jun-21 10:59:23

FannyCornforth, I dare say I am influenced by having grown up in an era when short readings from the Bible (the King James Version) were usual in school assemblies, even in non overtly religious schools. And we weren’t a church-going family, so I didn’t hear it there.

It was always pronounced to rhyme with ‘moth’, and IIRC it is also written as ‘wroth’ somewhere in the KJ bible.

You so rarely hear ‘wrathful’ any more, but IMO it would sound all wrong if not pronounced ‘wrothful’.

Calendargirl Wed 23-Jun-21 10:58:48

‘Sustificate’ for ‘certificate’. My mum, bless her, always said this.

‘Vunerable’ for ‘vulnerable’.

‘Hoskipel’ for ‘hospital’.

JackyB Wed 23-Jun-21 10:58:06

(Why couldn't I quote Fanny's post? Had to copy and paste. And they wouldn't let me italicise it either)!)

timetogo2016 Wed 23-Jun-21 10:56:53

It is not offencive to state a fact FannyCornforth.

FannyCornforth Wed 23-Jun-21 10:56:43

Baggs

So Vice is always wrong but you have alternatives ?

I don't think that I will ever be able to bring myself to say it again full stop Baggs sad

JackyB Wed 23-Jun-21 10:55:53

Fannycornforth

"That isn't pronunciation though!
It's using the wrong word (is there a word for this?)"

Malapropism?

MawBe Wed 23-Jun-21 10:54:48

Clive James wrote a poem about this in 2014, which includes the lines: “As your Prime Minister I went through hell, / If I can say so without hyperbowl.”

FannyCornforth Wed 23-Jun-21 10:53:29

timetogo2016

Living in the west midlands it would take me forever to write what dh says as he is from the black country.
But here is one example " i learnt him this today", no you didn`t ,"you taught him this today", he did the learning.

That really isn't a West Midlands / Black Country thing.
That is a bit offensive tbh

Baggs Wed 23-Jun-21 10:53:01

Most people say reesearch because that's what Americans say. Correct British pronunciation has the stress on search though.

Because re is not what's being talked about, searching is.