Nuclear

Couldn’t agree more GSM. My pet hate is artitect instead of architect, which seems prevalent on the current crop of house makeover programmes.

Then there’s secertary and athaletics

Yes, that’s another. As you can see this was not a good start to my day!

And the footblers

... and pacific instead of specific.

Don’t all Americans pronounce the word ‘nuclear’ as ‘nucular’? I shall have to Google it now.

Wem-ber-ley

Artic and arctic - as well as nucular!

Because they are lazy ?

The nuclear and specific mispronounced words irritate me as well. The other one is Febuary- it's FebRuary grrrr

Nuclear worries me a lot more than how it is pronounced, tbh.

Blossoming

Don’t all Americans pronounce the word ‘nuclear’ as ‘nucular’? I shall have to Google it now.

George W Bush pronounced it like that.

Americans seem to say Aloo-min-um and not Aluminium - are both correct?

They might be correct (or should I say 'accepted') in the US, but not here. Americans seem never to have got to grips with the way 'aluminium' is spelled. How they square the spelling with their pronunciation is beyond my limited understanding.

Here, interesting!
www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aluminum-vs-aluminium#:~:text=They%20both%20date%20to%20the,of%20the%20English%2Dspeaking%20world.

Sorry Shep!

sodapop

The nuclear and specific mispronounced words irritate me as well. The other one is Febuary- it's FebRuary grrrr

Febuary gets me shouting at the radio too. Also libary instead of library. Quite agree about nucular.

AND prostrate cancer instead of prostate cancer. I can’t take that lying down ?

.... also mischiev-ee-ous instead of mischievous. There is no "i" after the "v". Grrr.

I think aluminum was the original name given to the metal by Humphrey Davy, but he later referred to it as aluminium. The former became the official USA spelling and pronunciation while "English English" speakers use aluminium.

Heeneous instead of heinous too.

‘Mischiev-ee-ous’ is the one that really grinds. Almost everyone I know, gets it wrong. ?

purpledaffodil

George Bush used to pronounce terrorists as tourists which was always slightly alarming!

Fuge because they can’t say Huge.