Any to add ?

Garage / Farage
Garridge / Farridge

Well, it is a very special anniversary today

If you have a certain accent it just sounds ridiculous if you pronounce certain words in a particular way.
If I say barth or grahss, for exahmple, it just sounds absurd

Purplepixie

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?

People are allowed to be pedants despite what's happening in the world. It can help to have something lighthearted to chat about. I get upset when people referring to the animal, sloth. say it to remind with cloth . That's not how you pronounce it. I blame Ice Age.

Very true for me, but the opposite way. If I say bath or grass instead of barth and ghrass I get laughed at , FannyCornforth!

Purplepixie

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?

What a silly comment PurplePixie

Shall we just talk about people dying?
And who exactly is moaning?

And actually there is an important point underlying all this: English is a very flexible language capable of conveying very precise meaning, so knowing that lending is different from borrowing, for example, matters. I lament the conflation of persuade and convince, which mean subtly different things, but recognise that I am in a tiny minority.

If you have a certain accent it just sounds ridiculous if you pronounce certain words in a particular way.
?

I find a lot of younger people, particularly minor celebs on TV, pronounce some words with an 'f' or 'v' instead of 'th'

Eg I fink we bofe went out togever

I do understand that some people may have a speech impediment but it seems far more generalised now.

I agree bout most of the words mentioned so far. Has anyone mentioned Wemberly, where they play football?

I had a baffling conversation with a Liverpool friend a day or two ago. She was talking about someone apparently called Kamanda (like Amanda). I had never heard of this person. Then she mentioned that they called her Kamanda since she was given the CBE. It dawned on me then she was saying “Commander”. I’m from the north too, but I have always said Commahnder, with a long A, and I simply didn’t recognise the word.

Talking of ‘recognise’, what about ‘reckernise’?

FannyCornforth

Purplepixie

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?

What a silly comment PurplePixie

Shall we just talk about people dying?
And who exactly is moaning?

I think you might be suffering from Whataboutery, PurplePixie, if I have understood the term correctly.

People can talk about death (if they want to) as well as mispronunciations.

Just been reminded of ‘haitch’. Ugh.

Joggraphy is the correct pronunciation of geography. The 'e' is to indicate that the 'g' is soft, it is not meant to be pronounced. Just the same as the name George. I'm sure no-one says Gee-orge

Re geography JulieNoted
We say geology not jollogy

What about geology, geodesics, geothermal,
geophysics. geoscience. geomorphic.
geometry, geocentric.

Just to confirm
The Greek root word ge, commonly used in the English prefix geo-, means “earth.”

How sad are you lot?

IMO, *Purplepixie, it’s somewhat sad to be returning to a thread you evidently aren’t remotely interested in, except to pour scorn on it.

If you really have nothing better to do, you’re more than welcome to come to my house with a duster and a can of Pledge. ?

I really dislike it when people drop the 't'. The man (think his name is Rylan) who does the Cinch commercial: ”You need to get a bigger mo-or”. He also sports such white teeth that it is almost painful to watch him.

draws instead of drawers

drawring instead of drawing

I seem to remember the late Cilla Black recounting her first introduction to an ‘advocado’. No such word, but she repeated it a dozen times in the tale.

Purplepixie

How sad are you lot?

You will be complaining that we are all horrible again soon.
I hope that you are ok; there really is no need to get your knickers in a twist about something like this.

The 'sixth' one is my pet hate too. None of the newsreaders/presenters can say it. I have heard 'sick', 'sith' amongst others. Also 'ashume' instead of 'assume'.

Amater for amateur.

Greta

I really dislike it when people drop the 't'. The man (think his name is Rylan) who does the Cinch commercial: ”You need to get a bigger mo-or”. He also sports such white teeth that it is almost painful to watch him.

I don't think he's real, Greta, I think he is in fact a robot.

So fun instead of such fun. It seems to be what all the young people say now.

LauraNorder

Re geography JulieNoted
We say geology not jollogy

I say joggraphy because I'm lazy and I promise to pronounce it proply in future.

Proply instead of properly

Purplepixie

How sad are you lot?

I think we're all rather jolly on this thread!