What word did you learn first by reading before you realized you were pronouncing it wrong the whole time?
— Andree Lau (@alau2) July 8, 2019
If you have to say out loud a word
You’ve seen written but still haven’t heard
Just give it a go
A mistake, you should know
Will at worst sound just faintly absurd
John Moynes
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Hyperbole
I know, I’ve heard loads of people pronounce it hi-per-bow-lay!
Idiots!
and everyone knows it’s hi-per-bowl
Betelgeuse.
which, apparently, will soon implode and then rebound in a supernova explosion
we’re obviously all going to be talking about it then, so best nail the correct pronunciation in advance
I’ve believe something happens if you say it three times
I believe it has a really good but expensive talking clock…
it produces great comic editors.
Segue
Behemoth & Armageddon
Sounds like a fine wine. Or soap.
Or a porcelain manufacturer of high-class toilets and sinks.
Hah!. I have a funny story about Royal Doulton. Well funny to me, sort of, as it involved my divorce, but never mind.
Southwell
Worcestershire, obviously
Another great one is Towcester
On a side note, they should bring back Worcestershire sauce flavoured Hunky Dorys, they sure were delicious.
These were amazing and I’ve excellent news for you!
Get thee self to Lidl post haste, and upon entry, go to the crisp aisle.
The large multipack of Snackwell crisps (I think 30 in a big bag?) have Worcestershire sauce as one of the varieties!
Probably also made by Largo Foods….
I have tried them, and they are good!
Spud, I love you. I love you, Spud.
Bichester
Ye’ll laugh at this
Meme
I am sorry, but I did laugh, thinking of all the memes about mispronouncing meme :)
oh, i thought you were just saying “me me me me”
John St.John Gogarty
Arkansas.
Actually Pauli
I’d still say Arkan sus
also Kill Mac An Óg
Proper like
instead of the Kil Moi Cannog – South Dublin Avoca Set accent
do you mean Kill Meh Kannack surely?
nah
it’s definately a moi in the middle there Mart
Smithwicks – Smith-wicks
Budweiser – take-that-p1ss-away-from-me
naïve
this has somehow sparked a very fond memory of my eldest fella when he was around 3 mispronouncing words like ephellant (elephant) & hostipal (hospital)
a nice time in my life
Hostipal was/is quite common with kids.
Also Phizborough
and pasgetti
Gnarled.
and demesne.
Demesne is a favourite word of mine
It is a gnarly word…
Epitome (which I still read as Epi Tome) and Arkansas are two I always used to get wrong.
+1.
I learned US State names before Clinton became a presidential candidate and the mention of this strange sate named Arkans-AW? Given that Kansas is Kansas, like.
Quinoa
I know!
Quinn Oh Ah
the teenager was morto Keane Wha
Maniacal. And it was only after seeing an interview with Michael Madsen after Reservoir Dogs that I learned it. He said the script called for him to ‘dance maniacally’ around the room in his famous scene with the ear. Not knowing what it meant he did the dance we all know and love. When asked after by Tarantino, he said he did not know what “maniac – ally” was. Tarantino laughed and corrected him. but preferred his version of the dance, which got left in and even expanded as it ratcheted up the menace. Madsen said that to the date of the interview, he did not really know what was in Tarantino’s head beforehand.
Roberto Firmino
good lol
You think you know somebody….
I have to keep you on your toes somehow
If you insist….I’m a size nine in Manolo Blahniks….
if we’re doing names, cerys matthews
I remember trying to chat someone up and raving about the new song by Eddie Brickull….
Still cringe when I remember how she corrected me.
i had to keep my love for hope sandoval secret for years because I didn’t know how to say it
Just for you BB
https://youtu.be/SwG82WF15Ss
ah yes
and i know where this go- i’ll be in a louise wener youtube hole before the day is out
Right, that’s it, I’m off to watch Echobelly – Great things
Nurse, the screens!!!!
am a fan of the gamine – but she was a little much that way for me
had eyes to rival susanna hoffs, though
I just want Louise Brooks reincarnated, is that too much to ask?
looked a bit like pee-wee herman, i always thought
How do you say it?
I still call our Hozier as a French man rhyming with Oliv-IER.
I still call him an overrated screamer, but there you go
Featherstonehaugh.
Cholmondeley
Petrichor
“Kids mispronouncing things is super adorable but at some point I will have to tell my daughter that we don’t put Farmer John cheese on spaghetti.”
we call it Palmerstown Cheese in our gaff
I also like to deliberately mispronounce Quinoa as Quinn-ola just to annoy her ;)
Same in several houses of my family with the Palmerstown Cheese!
Penelope
Aslo Hermione
Her-mee-own, Her-mee-won?
Phlegm
Londonderry – didn’t know the first six letters were silent
Like the P in Bath.
hands up who pronounces the ‘t’ in ‘often’ …
hand goes up…
I don’t even pronounce the “t” in “what”.
Oh i do, and when im particularly irritated I even over pronounce the “t”
The worst are people who pronounce “t” as “sh”
“Stop ish Reesha, you’re nosh allowed.”
I know I am late to this tale, but the ‘t’ in often was a deliberate shibboleth, so many people pronounce it because they were taught it (as I was) to differentiate them from the ‘other’
I only learned it was not pronounced when I read a poem that used it in rhyme.
are we talking about de prods?
I reckon it’s more specific – probably the Presbyterians.
Actually, no. It was the ‘Good Irish Catholic’ priests in order to make sure you were not a prod.Similarly they emphasised the use of ‘th’ so Thomas became THomas not Tomas
Sr. Mary was asking the girls in school what they wanted to be when they grew up.
“I want to be a prostitute,” says Suzy
“What did you say??” asks the nun, totally shocked.
“I said I want to be a prostitute,” Suzy repeats.
“Oh, thank heavens,” says the nun. “I thought you said ‘a Protestant!
—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?
—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
Heh! I remember that one! May even have been one of Brendan’s :)
yup
Echinacea and Montague.
Macabre.
Girlfriend says Arthur Detour for R2D2 and thought the bad guy was Ralph Wader. Also, escapegoat, sperm of the moment and many more. This is due to English being one of her seven languages though. Bloody foreigners.
Sperm of the moment?
7 sexual partners too?
And why am I being modded again?
Was it my rant about the M50 tolls?
Music ‘expert’ on the radio pontificating about this and that, and bringing the Isley Brothers into the discussion.
Except he called them the IZZLY Brothers. How I smirked.