Humous, prounounced who-mouse.
Bagel pronounced like bagguete, but with
and L instead of T like Bag-ell.
Panini, pronunced Pa-nigh-nigh.

You like potato and I like potahto, You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto,
Let's call the whole thing off

where we had an almost daily argument over how to pronounce david bowie

it was funny for the first year

I used to have a teacher who pronounced turquoise as terqwarze. prick.

Havarti cheese, being pronounced "ha-vah-vay".

is the most irritating of all

instead of july. it's not really that she's pronouncing it wrong, she's just stressing the wrong syllable. the joo bit rather than the lie bit.

but she always makes fun of me for saying dehvil rather than divil (for the word devil). i think i'm right by the way.

pronounces Helen 'hell-in' - it mainly gets my back up because he shouts it across the floor, making the entire department know what a numpty he is!

she laughs everytime I say thursday amoung other things. I can't help being an idiot

used to say ridic-ooo-lous instead of ridic-u-lous... How can you take that seriously? Its a laughable pronounciation...!

I struggled to pronounce 'edit' properly.

People who can't pronounce 'properly' properly are perhaps my biggest pet hate

Football pundit guy, now manager of Wales. I heard him pronounce Croatia "Crow-at-e-ah" a few years ago. I couldn't believe my ears.

I have to say 'th-ery' as in the/this.

I don't even get how people can tell the difference between them without listening super observantly, yet people always comment on it. It's incredibly annoying, and a word that's almost impossible not to use. In fact, I wanted to put it twice in that paragraph and had to come up with alternative words.

I think I pronounce quite a lot of things wrong though, I had speech issues when I was younger.

instead of escape. Uggghhhhh.

I'm not sure of the correct protocol in these situations: Do you just ignore it, and let (potentially) embarrass themselves? Or do you correct it? Obviously it's different if it's a stranger or a friend.

says egg-zams instead of ex-Ams... She says it a lot too..!

i say waistcoat westcot/westcut, and get tons of abuse from everyone
dunno if it's a leicester thing or not?
my mum says it like that but no-one ever knows what i'm talking about unless i make the accompanying gesture (imagine pulling on braces mixed with fists-back of the hand out-up and downy chest motion)

With most people I know when it comes to yoghurt.

I pronounce it 'yog''hurt'
whereas everyone in this country pronounces it 'yo''ghurt' if that makes any sense.

So they have a long oh noise. I don't.

Phonetics is tricky business.

Sigh.

he had problems with words that ended in 'ow'

Follow became follie, swollow became swallie. Also crisps became 'cripts'.

I used to have a problem with people who say pacific rather than specific, but after a lot of hard work I no longer hurt them for this

i say 'profiter-oles' instead of 'prof-IT-eroles'

yar.

Most (!) people would ask for a "chox" bun instead of a "choux" bun. The trick is to pronounce it like "shoe".

:D

i say 'rant' as 'rahhnt' and 'plasticine' as 'plahhsticine'. blame my wannabe middle class parents. and my mum's mum, she even says 'plahhstic'

one of my colleagues used to pronounce 'millenium' as 'mimellium' - obviously I've not heard that for a while! 'Arks' for 'ask', I quite like that. 'Pronounciation' for 'pronunciation' which always makes the utterer look like a pillock who clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

pronouncing Yaris (y'know, the Toyota) as Yaaa-ris.

He's not even posh, he's just an idiot.

really grind my gears.

me; 'you mean belarus?'

also people who say 'thanking you' rather than 'thankyou' deserve their own little pit in the hottest, darkest corner of hell.

or my old teacher mr woodhall, who called a peugeot a pewjoe

or another one, mr hooper, who called arnie, schwazaNIGER!!! what a racist!

"i do apologise"
i know you do you prick! i can hear you doing it.

Coffee places are the worst for this

'Ludday' - for Latte.
'EXpresso' - they mean eSpresso.

And the way Australians make 'pasta' rhyme with 'plaster'.

And the way Jodie Foster pronounces 'Sigourney Weaver' as 'SHihourney Weaver'.

And how English football commentators and fans totally get it wrong.

Sergei Rebrov: look, Sergei is not 'Sir-guy' it's 'Sir-gay'.

Eyal Berkovich: Eyal is 'Eh-yal' not 'I'll' or 'Eye-l'. I am amazed the bloke never corrected them.

And Abramovich is Abram-Oh-vitch (stress on the O), not AbRAMervitch.

But my favourite over the years was when England were playing in Charleroi in the Euro, and they all pronounced it 'Shah-Wah' - like a 2-syllable kebab or a resort on the Red Sea. Not the 3-syllable Shar-le-roi'.

Oh dear.

It's a bloody marshmAllow! Look, there's an "A" in it! Are you blind? Is it an "E"?
No it's not, is it? Do you speak english? Do you?
"MARSHMAAAAAALLOW!"

Oh the fun we have in my house.

see-a-batta, meaning ciabatta
bag-wets, for baguettes
and jap meringues somehow become japanese cakes

and i think people should really ask for a panino not a panini. Is that right? And whats the correct pronunciation of mocha?
Also, lots of people say "prounounciation." It doesnt bother me, but it's worth talking about.

Orthello

fucking annoying

I think it was Devid Kid Jensen et al who used to pronounced records as 'reck-cuds'. That used to make me wince.

this one's quite funny if you spot it: I had an ex-girlfriend who pronounced it 'Choritzo', when of course it is choreeeeezo'. Fool.

That's how Sammy does it. And he'd know, as it's his name.

I still can't suss out how to pronounce Millwall.

Some say mill-WALL (Danny wotsisname - the broadcaster who is thir most famous fan). Others say 'MILL-wall'

not Munster!

And its annoying when people pronounce the effect of Reverb as Rev-erb.

GET OUT!

Why do people have to say things the way they are written? It's mexican people, it's pronouned Halepenos!!!! This really annoys me so much. I once corrected my friend for saying it wrong but she said she didn't care and carried on. Aaaaarrrrghghghg!!!!!!!!

my friend refuses to accept that this is not pronounced like 'mare'.

accents which pronounce words incorrectly?

Because then I have countless words which people can't pronounce correctly.

An old girlfriend of mine insisted that the correct pronunciation of 'dwarf' was 'dorf'.