[dorydaryl]

My pet hate is people saying 'rediculous' and spelling it the same way when it's actually 'ridiculous'. Maybe it's because I knew a sarcastic person who would say it all the time, completely unaware of the irony in some of her remarks.

[rtavy73]

I found this funny,
this morning while flicking through the news channels I came a cross a Fox News report about rich Americans going to live in tax havens and there was a map showing the various places where they where going and the presenter was reeling of names of the map, and when he said Guernsey or rather Gur-nes- say I thought that was quite funny

[Dishpop]

Sorry to use Americans as a scapegoat again... but.. when Americans pronounce Moscow like Moss-COW instead of Moss-coe. Also Glass-gow instead of Glaz-goe for Glasgow.

[Gravitas]

piss pronunciations

[cnbcwatcher]

People who pronounce "height" as "heighth"
People who pronounce "west" as "wesht"

[GeoBa92]

Originally Posted by Gravitas

piss pronunciations

Like pish?

[lesleyanne]

Originally Posted by hungover

the parish was st. Mary le burn as in Ty burn, a popular tree for hanging catholic "strange fruit". In time it was renamed St Mary le Bone, so I guess that is how it should be pronounced... Mind you what about the haringey vs haringay? Location Vs municipal council.

There is no such place as 'Haringay'!

There is Haringey, which is the London Borough.

And there is Harringay, which is a local area, within the borough of Haringey!

However, both are pronounced the same.

[snellster]

I have many pet peeves around this subject, although it's the same error, please bear in mind I am a Geordie.

Newcastle pronounced newcarrsle
grass pronounces grarrss

There is no bloody RRRR in Newcastle you jibbering idiots (in the majority of cases)

and before anyone says it yes film does have a U in it

[kikifi]

When people say the Letter H like haich it should be said without the huh sound - 'Aitch'

[LIZALYNN]

Hospital - HospiCull

[Isambard Brunel]

Furore pronounced with an 'ay' at the end.

Vice versa pronounced "vicer versa".

[hungover]

With the Olympics nearing we will have stories of athletes "medaling" or "hoping to medal". Sounds like the sordid pastime of Tommy's uncle Ernie

[belomb]

Gary Barlow constantly saying "preformance" on the X Factor last year made me want to chew my own teeth into my head.

[moza]

Mandatory as man-DATE-ory. Don't know if it's a regional thing, as it only seems to be colleagues from one specific office that do it!

[Middleotroad]

Originally Posted by JulesandSand

Formally when formerly is meant. I've seen that on here a few times.

I did one of those the other day. More of a spelling mental block.

Originally Posted by Invent Meridian

Persons originating from southern England (such as myself) pronounce Bath, Path and Laugh as Barth, Parth and Larth. Maths is pronounced as it is spelt, I have never heard it being pronounced as Marths, then again I do not like shortened versions of words and therefore say the full word Mathematics.

Glass, Pass and Past are pronounced here in southern England as Glarse, Parse and Parst.

It sometimes suits northerners to point out the incorrectness of the long 'a'. This happened at the last place I worked. Someone would ask "Have you a glarss I can borrow?". Answer: "No, but we've got a glass, though"

But there's a newsreader on the late night News 24, who takes this too far and pronounces 'half' as 'haff', which is quite annoying. "We'll be reviewing the papers in haff an hour". Someone should tell him.

[snellster]

I totally agree, us northeners tend to say words such as bath, glass etc correctly, however I do pronounce plaster and plasterer wrong with a long a or ar

Oh yeh and filum

[far2cool]

tuff - instead of tooth

drives me mad!!!

[Terry Wigon]

Originally Posted by Coo Ling

One of our local radio presenters who says Twenny as in Twenny Twenny cricket, Thirdy and Fordy, instead of Twenty,Thirty and Forty. It sounds horrible.

The 'Smashy and Nicey' school of DJ-ing is still alive and well in the northern provinces then!

Radio 2 DJ Steve Wright used to mis-pronounce words all the time on Radio 1 and 2 and I suppose he thought it was funny/charming: 'skelington' and 'chimley' being the prime offenders that stick in my mind.

As an aside, I haven't listened to him for years but I'll bet if I tuned in tomorrow he'd still be mispronouncing words, reading vacuous 'Factoids' and 'sucking up' in celebrity interviews.

[tartan18]

Apart from some already mentioned, the one that irritates me the most is prostrate instead of prostate.

If it wasn't so serious, when someone says "oh he's got prostrate cancer", I'm so tempted to ask if he got it from lying down a lot

[Andy2]

The pronunciation of MISCHIEVOUS as MISCHIEVIOUS. There was a presenter on BBC news this morning who kept saying it. Grrr...

[Regallion]

Late comer to the thread but it's nice to see my pet peeves have been covered by other people!

Chimley - recently looking for a new house and the owner explained all about the "Chimley breast".

Math - I'm guessing the 's' fell off the boat on the way over to America.

Expresso - There's a coffee shop near me called "Classico Expresso". I want to give them the benefit of the doubt but I just can't.

But the one that has me spitting at the TV whenever I hear it is "Congradulations". Arrrrgggghhhhh!!!

[Aednat85]

Originally Posted by kikifi

When people say the Letter H like haich it should be said without the huh sound - 'Aitch'

I must admit, I do this

I had a singing tutor when young and she used to make me say/sing it like that along with rolling my Rs and emphasizing my Bs, Ds and Ts. God help if you were lazy with your Ts


For my own hates though, both spoken and typed aks instead of ask and teh instead of the. A friend used to be terrible for it to the point where I stopped responding to her if she said either.

[alycidon]

Not a mis-pronunciation, but terrible nevertheless -

Kids - instead of children

[Justmadeit]

i wouldnt say irritate as such but it is pronounced wrong, and read why that is

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=341630

[Parthenon]

'Interpretate' instead of 'Interpret'.
'Many a times' instead of 'Many a time'.
'Pacific' instead of 'Specific'.
'Probly' instead of 'Probably'.
'Upmost' instead of 'Utmost'.
'Fortay' instead of 'Fort' when saying Forte.