When people say 'skellington' or 'sumbarine'...

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• annette kurten Posts: 39,543

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  14/12/10 - 07:59 #2

  pacific for specific and weary for wary irritate the granny out of me.

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• jarryhack Posts: 5,076

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  14/12/10 - 08:13 #3

  annette kurten wrote: »

  pacific for specific and weary for wary irritate the granny out of me.

  
  God my friend says that all the time, I always say to her 'are you tired?'
  
  My nana used to say funedral for funeral.

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• albertd Posts: 14,355

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  14/12/10 - 08:18 #4

  The one that irritates me is the number of TV people who confuse "xxx and me" with "xxx and I".

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• annette kurten Posts: 39,543

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  14/12/10 - 08:19 #5

  jarryhack wrote: »

  God my friend says that all the time, I always say to her 'are you tired?'
  
  My nana used to say funedral for funeral.

  
  that`s reminded me of another one, cerctificate.

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• Si_Crewe Posts: 40,202

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  14/12/10 - 08:20 #6

  I spent years throwing socks at the TV every time I heard Dubya say "nukular".

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  14/12/10 - 08:25 #7

  I had a pompous boss who constantly peppered his speech with "to all intensive purposes" instead of intents and purposes. It would still have got on my nerves if the phrase has been correct.

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• BBTweets Posts: 12,699

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  14/12/10 - 08:27 #8

  Seckatary instead of secretary is the one that's currently annoying me. It doesn't really bother me if it's just somebody saying it wrong in a conversation but when newsreaders and politicians pronounce it that way, it makes them sound exceedingly dim.

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• Compton_scatter Posts: 2,711

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  14/12/10 - 08:34 #9

  Biffo the Bear wrote: »

  ... or even put 'err uh' at the ends of their sentences..
  
  Does this annoy anyone else? Is it just me?

  
  Huh?
  
  Of course there is the well worn 'should of, could of' nonsense along with mixing up their and there - 'Did you see there selection of cakes?'

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• zebedee Posts: 792

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  14/12/10 - 08:36 #10

  People who say they are going to a panto to see Snow White And The Seven DER...WARFS

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,785

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  14/12/10 - 08:47 #11

  Dracleea instead of dracula

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• Bom Diddly Wo Posts: 14,094

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  14/12/10 - 08:48 #12

  Biffo the Bear wrote: »

  ... or even put 'err uh' at the ends of their sentences..
  
  Does this annoy anyone else? Is it just me?

  
  Skellington is in fact the correct pronounciation. FACT.

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• ~Twinkle~ Posts: 8,165

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  14/12/10 - 08:51 #13

  Spectacliar. I blame Steve Wright in the Afternoon. :mad:

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• I, Candy Posts: 3,710

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  14/12/10 - 08:55 #14

  "Artic" as in "Ohh, I used to love artic rolls".
  
  "Robin Reliant" - that's like saying "Fiesta Ford".

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 78

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  14/12/10 - 09:05 #15

  My mum's terrible for this.. she'll say 'Mataland' rather than Matalan, and she sends 'textses' from her mobile, not texts..

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• BBTweets Posts: 12,699

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  14/12/10 - 09:07 #16

  badhairbear wrote: »

  My mum's terrible for this.. she'll say 'Mataland' rather than Matalan, and she sends 'textses' from her mobile, not texts..

  
  I like those ones, your mum sounds fun!

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• rosalynn Posts: 4,500

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  14/12/10 - 09:08 #17

  Never heard 'sumbarine' but 'skellington' I've heard a lot.
  
  Another one is 'expresso' as opposed to espresso - It doesn't wind me up but I hear a lot of people say it like that.

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  14/12/10 - 09:13 #18

  rosalynn wrote: »

  Never heard 'sumbarine' but 'skellington' I've heard a lot.
  
  Another one is 'expresso' as opposed to espresso - It doesn't wind me up but I hear a lot of people say it like that.

  
  When he was about two my little brother used to sing "we all live in a yellow sumbarine". It was cute. He doesn't do it now though!

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• lemoncurd Posts: 57,778

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  14/12/10 - 09:16 #19

  I, Candy wrote: »

  "Artic" as in "Ohh, I used to love artic rolls".

  
  Mmm. Sponge, jam and ice cream on a sixteen-wheeler!

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• I, Candy Posts: 3,710

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  14/12/10 - 09:16 #20

  *stargazer* wrote: »

  When he was about two my little brother used to sing "we all live in a yellow sumbarine". It was cute. He doesn't do it now though!

  
  My Mum tells me that when I was that age (when the Revolver album was originally in the charts!), I used to sing "we all lib in a ella submarine".

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  14/12/10 - 09:20 #21

  A friend says 'chimbley' instead of 'chimney' and another says 'umba-rella' instead of 'umbrella'.

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• ~Twinkle~ Posts: 8,165

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  14/12/10 - 09:27 #22

  "Kidleys". Don't you mean kidneys? "That's what I said, diddleye".
  
  The oldies are the best.

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• Moony Posts: 15,093

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  14/12/10 - 09:29 #23

  chimbley

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• Caxton Posts: 28,881

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  14/12/10 - 09:33 #24

  Bom Diddly Wo wrote: »

  Skellington is in fact the correct pronounciation. FACT.

  
  What for skeleton News to me

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• Eddie Badger Posts: 6,005

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  14/12/10 - 09:36 #25

  My mum does my head with things like that.
  
  Cold slaw for coleslaw
  
  pangcake for pancake
  
  cimintary for cemetary
  and the one that really does my head in: Automatic for automatically "it does it automatic" grrrr

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• Moony Posts: 15,093

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  14/12/10 - 09:39 #26

  My dad says "Sidders" for Scissors

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