Any to add ?

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'.

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

Chimbley

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.

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.

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

yggdrasil

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

? What do you say gee ogg raphy ?

Hiraeth

Sweet shirt instead of sweat shirt

Never heard that

FannyCornforth

recklessgran

People who mix up bought and brought.
Ditto borrow and lend.
As in " I borrowed him £10" instead of lent.
Drives me nuts!

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

Malapropism

Have to add my all time annoyance - Tumeric it's TurRmeric. John Torode pronounces it incorrectly all the time.

Baggs

FannyCornforth

Great thread!

Vica Versa

Are you sure it's vica you're hearing, FC? The e at the end of vice in 'vice versa' should be sounded as a definite schwa. It may sometimes sound like an a.

I don’t understand
In English I’d say vysa. Versa.

In Italian veeceh versa.

What is this schwa ??

FannyCornforth

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.

Wrapped for rapt?? Both pronounced the same.

Does wrath not rhyme with math? I always thought it did.
I've always pronounced it Wroth eg The Grapes of Wroth (sic)

Joolery

And many of the above.

FarNorth

^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'.

What is correct in one area might differ in another. Dialects are another thing again.

Wrapped has a softer ending than the 't' ending where I'm from. I can hear the difference, though notice it more when it's written.

A shwah is the most used phoneme in the English language.
It's pronounced 'uh' or 'euh'
As in butter (could be two there!)
It's not taught (or even mentioned) when teaching phonics.
It's a bit of an odd one really Lucca.
I'm sure that someone else can explain better than I can

Joggraphy - I'm sure I say that!

I have a friend who pronounces the 'a' in theatre as in thee-ah-tre.
Is it a Bristol thing because I've noticed others do it too?

My grandad had a very annoying thing about pronouncing words as they are written.
He did it to wind up my Nan I'm sure.
Cup-board was guaranteed to drive her up the wall.

My mother always said “poyetry “ ( poetry)

FannyCornforth

A shwah is the most used phoneme in the English language.
It's pronounced 'uh' or 'euh'
As in butter (could be two there!)
It's not taught (or even mentioned) when teaching phonics.
It's a bit of an odd one really Lucca.
I'm sure that someone else can explain better than I can

Ok. Never heard of that.

I say joggraphy and thea-ter. How do others pronounce it?

I also say gararjh ?

I also say gararjh ?

Sorry, Blossoming, it's a garridge.

And I just say theatre without a special emphasis on the 'a'

Fanny I always taught my pupils about the schwa. They loved learning new words and meanings. It is taught in a few phonics programmes as well.

My OH always says coldslaw which makes me grit my teeth every time!

Gararzh (the thing you put the car in) vs. garridge, reminds me of an anecdote from a dd who once had a temp job in an extremely upmarket central London estate agent’s office.

Two of the Sloaney-type 20-something women were having a major bitch about another woman, who was temporarily out of the office.

Dd related how, after pulling the other to pieces for several minutes, they finally returned to their work.

Only for one of them to turn around two minutes later and say to the other, ‘And she says garridge!’

We found it ? ? - I’m afraid to say that in this house we say ‘gararzh’ too.

I don’t get hung up about any words being mispronounced - we are all different. There are people dying in the world and here you are moaning about mispronounced words - really?