Pronunciation that makes you cringe

[Kim]

Chemistry teacher used to deliberately talk about "eye-ron ions" to avoid confusion. Normally he was non-rhotic.

In computer science we had "class of class clarse" because it's hard to do CamelCase and courier font in speech.

[izza]

Shrewsbury is not a home for shrews.

It is a place for adding an ‘r’ to a show.


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[T42]

I was surprised when my Aberystwyth-dwelling daughter pronounced it "Shrew". She maintained that both pronunciations were correct because people used both "these days". "Aye, and lots of them are wrong" she didn't appreciate.

[izza]

I was surprised when my Aberystwyth-dwelling daughter pronounced it "Shrew". She maintained that both pronunciations were correct because people used both "these days". "Aye, and lots of them are wrong" she didn't appreciate.

Haha.

Ask her to speak to a Shrewsbury resident for the correct pronunciation. It’s the outsiders (which make up the major majority) that don’t get it.

Am listening to Talksport where DJ says one version whilst newsreader says the other. Sort it!


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[citoyen]

I used to know a chap from Whitchurch who pronounced it to rhyme with shrew.

[Kim]

Shrewsbury is not a home for shrews.

It is a place for adding an ‘r’ to a show.

When I explained this to barakta she didn't believe me.  Cited the destination announcements on the train.

The problem comes when you use the correct pronunciation and people don't know what you're talking about.

[hubner]

Has anyone been to or is from Keighley, W Yorks?

[Kim]

Has anyone been to or is from Keighley, W Yorks?

It's one of those places that people come from rather than go to, isn't it?

[hubner]

Oh lots of people go there...on their way to Haworth.

[Peter]

I used to know a chap from Whitchurch who pronounced it to rhyme with shrew.

I think it's always been Whitchurch......

[citoyen]

I used to know a chap from Whitchurch who pronounced it to rhyme with shrew.

I think it's always been Whitchurch......

[Peter]

Heppy New Year, D!

[Cudzoziemiec]

Back when I was young enough to have a girlfriend, I had a girlfriend who lived in Shrewsbury. She and all her family, who had lived there since the early Pleistocene, pronounced it like the small mammal. Just to add to the confusion, we met in the capital of the Ukraine; which back then was generally known as Kiev, is now Kiyiv and which my wife would probably call Kijów.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The problem comes when you use the correct pronunciation and people don't know what you're talking about.

Erm yes...

[citoyen]

Cited the destination announcements on the train.

Meopham in Kent has always been Meppem to me, but the on-train robot pronounces it as Meffum. Presumably based on a set of prescribed pronunciation rules rather than being taught the idiosyncratic reality.

[T42]

Shrewsbury is not a home for shrews.

It is a place for adding an ‘r’ to a show.

When I explained this to barakta she didn't believe me.  Cited the destination announcements on the train.

The problem comes when you use the correct pronunciation and people don't know what you're talking about.

I wonder if the deviant pronunciation wasn't promulgated by railway announcements in the first place, for the sake of "clarity".

@Lee: How about shrew in Shrewsbury? The Romans ate dormice, after all.

[Mr Larrington]

Has anyone been to or is from Keighley, W Yorks?

Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.) was born there.

[andrew_s]

When I was a kid, my dad used to routinely (and deliberately) mispronounce Penelope as "Penny-lope", and Persephone as "Percy-phone". Both were used regularly (family friend, name of pattern on better set of crockery), and my sister picked up on the incorrect pronunciation without realising it was wrong.
This led to considerable hilarity, not to mention embarassment on her part, when she first met her future sister-in-law, and introduced herself with "Hello Penny-lope, I'm Margaret".

Awre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awre

I've not been there, but I have seen signposts pointing to it. How the blurry eck am I supposed to pronounce it?

I pronounce it as "oar", more or less, as in rowing. I have been there, but I don't suppose I'll go back now the pub is defunct.

[hellymedic]

Back when I was young enough to have a girlfriend, I had a girlfriend who lived in Shrewsbury. She and all her family, who had lived there since the early Pleistocene, pronounced it like the small mammal. Just to add to the confusion, we met in the capital of the Ukraine; which back then was generally known as Kiev, is now Kiyiv and which my wife would probably call Kijów.

Would that rhyme with Lemberg? 

[Ian H]

If you wish to pronounce 'Poughill' correctly, you have first to enquire whether it's the one in Devon, or the one in Cornwall.

[orienteer]

Has anyone been to or is from Keighley, W Yorks?

Four cousins were born there, as my uncle was relocated from London with the factory he worked in during WW2.

Three have managed to escape by now. It was always pronounced to match my name - Keith(ly).

[Cudzoziemiec]

Back when I was young enough to have a girlfriend, I had a girlfriend who lived in Shrewsbury. She and all her family, who had lived there since the early Pleistocene, pronounced it like the small mammal. Just to add to the confusion, we met in the capital of the Ukraine; which back then was generally known as Kiev, is now Kiyiv and which my wife would probably call Kijów.

Would that rhyme with Lemberg? 

Or with Leopolis? <where's that Roman emoji?> Call it Stickville!*

*Kij = a stick in Polish. I'm sure this has nothing to do with the actual name. Mind you I'm not really sure what connection there might be between Lvov/Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg and lions.

[hellymedic]

If you wish to pronounce 'Poughill' correctly, you have first to enquire whether it's the one in Devon, or the one in Cornwall.

Like Wymondham Leics and Wymondham, Norfolk or Gillingham, Kent or Dorset then...

[Ian H]

If you wish to pronounce 'Poughill' correctly, you have first to enquire whether it's the one in Devon, or the one in Cornwall.

Like Wymondham Leics and Wymondham, Norfolk or Gillingham, Kent or Dorset then...

Though pronunciation is not obvious in either case.

[Tim Hall]

If you wish to pronounce 'Poughill' correctly, you have first to enquire whether it's the one in Devon, or the one in Cornwall.

Like Wymondham Leics and Wymondham, Norfolk or Gillingham, Kent or Dorset then...

Though pronunciation is not obvious in either case.

"Cavalcade" pronounced success.