Pronunciation that makes you cringe

[Pickled Onion]

ˈɛfɪkəsi

TBH, I've heard it pronounced  "ef-fic'acy" so often I thought it was correct either way, but apparently not.

ETA: unlike controversy, which is correct either way.

[hellymedic]

like Gladly, the strabismic ursine? 

Convergent strabismus on Calvary...

[Mr Larrington]

like Gladly, the strabismic ursine? 

Convergent strabismus on Calvary...

Neigh?

[Jasmine]

On the radio this morning: "ef-fic'acy"

I'm fairly sure this is the only way I've ever heard it.  How would you pronounce it?

With the stress on the 'ef'.  But perhaps see 'controversy'.

Oh, I see.  I hadn't understood that you meant stressing the second syllable. I'm with you now.

[Ian H]

On the radio this morning: "ef-fic'acy"

I'm fairly sure this is the only way I've ever heard it.  How would you pronounce it?

With the stress on the 'ef'.  But perhaps see 'controversy'.

Oh, I see.  I hadn't understood that you meant stressing the second syllable. I'm with you now.

Probably my inaccurate rendering of phonetic marks.

[mattc]

Perhaps we need a new thread:

Rendering of phonetic marks that make you cringe

[hellymedic]

Perhaps all these cringe threads should be shoved into a 'pedants' corner'.

[Ruthie]

Perhaps all these cringe threads should be shoved into a 'pedants' corner'.

They already are: YACF

[Speshact]

Gauge pronounced as Gouge by a tour guide this weekend. Shudder.

[hellymedic]

Perhaps all these cringe threads should be shoved into a 'pedants' corner'.

They already are: YACF

 

[L CC]

On my audiobook this morning, the reader pronounced 'pedant' peedant.
I suspect this was just to annoy pedants like me.

[CAMRAMan]

At least with Prosecco's new-found popularity, we won't have so may eejits saying 'carver' for Cava.

[hellymedic]

I ordered OS maps from Amazon which appear to have been lost in the post. I spoke to someone there (where?) about said lost maps:
Aylesbury and LEETON Buzzard
LUTTON and Hertford...

[citoyen]

Probably been mentioned before but...

"Coup de gras", as heard on an otherwise respectable podcast the other day in place of "coup de grace" - I'm not normally snotty about mispronunciation of furrin words but in this case it alters the meaning significantly.

I've heard "coupe de gras" on occasion, which conjures up an unfortunate mental image.

[T42]

Anyone for a cup of grease?

--o0o--

I didn't so much cringe as blench yesterday (video not available, fortunately) on finally realizing that the word juridical does not contain a third I**. All my life I've been pronouncing it juridicial - and nobody has taken exception.


**Lobsang Rampa notwithstanding.

[Mr Larrington]

Warbling woman at the start of SPOTY - I do not know who you are but if I hear you warbling about a "gli'er baw-wuh" again my studied response will be medieval in its approach to the use of ironmongery, fire and animals with big pointy teeth.

And I don't mean beavers.

[Mr Larrington]

BBC reporter, since when did the river that runs through Knaresborough start being pronounced inna-Welsh-stylee?

Never, that's when.

[Canardly]

Cringe is too strong a word, but amazed at how often loose is confused with lose.

[red marley]

I think that tends to be a spelling problem rather than a pronunciation one. Understandable when comparing with chose/choose

[Jurek]

I think that tends to be a spelling problem rather than a pronunciation one. Understandable when comparing with chose/choose

I always assumed that was more to do with tense / tents.

IGMC

[Kim]

I think that tends to be a spelling problem rather than a pronunciation one.

It's also an easy typo, which the spillchucker won't spot, so it looks like you're illiterate.   

[Bledlow]

Some people consistently get it wrong. I have to fight down the urge to correct them.

[Jurek]

I think that tends to be a spelling problem rather than a pronunciation one.

It's also an easy typo, which the spillchucker won't spot, so it looks like you're illiterate.   

Spillchucker is often your fiend.

[hellymedic]

Spillchucker is often your fiend.

 

[Wowbagger]

There is a R4 programme on at the moment discussing "pattents".

When did a patent become a pattent? No one refers to "pattent leather" and nothing has ever been "pattently obvious" to anyone, so why the widespread mispronunciation of this word?