Pronunciation that makes you cringe

[SoreTween]

Stood behind a lady of South African origin at the weekend I had ample opportunity to sample her pronunciation.  By ample I mean about 15 minutes while she quizzed the bar staff in detail about every one of the dishes on offer.  My fuse didn't come close to running out as she bellowed her way through the menu with her fat arse perched upon a stool sending her long suffering back and forth to the tribe outside to verify every choice and option.  Almost last she asked what do you get with the fush and chups.  The what now?

[sg37409]

'Either' and 'Neither'

Why can't people pronounce them proper like?

What ?   Eevirov 'em ?

[Pedaldog.]

I don't care if their family has lived there for the last 500 years and it's always been called "Kormer". The sign says "Quernmore" so get with it and out of my head cos' if I cycfle up the gert big hill that you're halfway up I will use the last gasps of my wheezing lungs air and Yell "It's Kwernmore" before I break down the door of the village store in guise as the "Sugar driven Lucozade Freak" and Gibber for a long, long time.

[red marley]

My fuse didn't come close to running out as she bellowed her way through the menu with her fat arse perched upon a stool sending her long suffering back and forth to the tribe outside to verify every choice and option.  Almost last she asked what do you get with the fush and chups. 

If her bottom had been more to your taste, would she have got a free pass on her pronunciation of 'fish and chips'?

[T42]

"Fush and chups" sounds like Norn Iron.

[ian]

Foreigners talking funny. Something must be done. A damnable pastime indeed.

[T42]

Kipling wrote a story or two, set in the IoM and Norn Iron, in which he had the natives using a short u instead of the short i.  Quite pussed me off untul I tried ut myself and realised I sounded like me.  Even then ut pussed me off a luttle but.

But at least we can pronounce the letter R.

[Mr Larrington]

"Fush and chups" used to be the canonical way of distinguishing a New Toylander from other Former Colonials.

[Ian H]

But at least we can pronounce the letter R.

Ah!

[CAMRAMan]

The Hairy Twats Bikers had me thinking on their recent Sweden episode. They were pronouncing 'Same' as 'Sammy', not 'Sarmey' as I learned in Sweden. The locals were pronouncing it back at them the same way. Now I don't know if the Same were just being polite or if really is 'Sammy' and I've learned the Swedish version which is wrong to Same ears.

The HBs did also mangle the local place names, so I'd think it was more likely to be them.

[Wowbagger]

Not cringeworthy as such, but idiosyncratic.

Mrs. Wow and I have been discussing, over lunch, the importance of the question "Why do Mancunians and their elk pronounce "Blackley" blakely?"

[Mr Larrington]

Jeremy Paxman, use the word "newmonic" once more and I will twat you with Mr Shovel before affording you a Tibetan Sky Burial only in Trafalgar Square.  With pigeons.

[Tim Hall]

Jeremy Paxman, use the word "newmonic" once more and I will twat you with Mr Shovel before affording you a Tibetan Sky Burial only in Trafalgar Square.  With pigeons.

Ah. The real reason for the Fourth Plinth.

[hellymedic]

Jeremy Paxman, use the word "newmonic" once more and I will twat you with Mr Shovel before affording you a Tibetan Sky Burial only in Trafalgar Square.  With pigeons.

Would pneumonic (as opposed to bubonic) plague be a suitable punishment?

[T42]

It's a trade name, but the name of the Europiccola espresso machine has two obvious components, Euro and piccola.  So WTF should Americans pronounce it as Yuroppy Cola?

[Mr Larrington]

Throughout the entirety of "Inventing The Indian" gravel-voiced social historian and part-time comedian Rich Hall refers to the mounted soldiers of the US Army as "the calvary"

[hellymedic]

We all have our Cross to bear.

[Legs]

like Gladly, the strabismic ursine? 

[Ian H]

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

[Peter]

Not cringeworthy as such, but idiosyncratic.

Mrs. Wow and I have been discussing, over lunch, the importance of the question "Why do Mancunians and their elk pronounce "Blackley" blakely?"

As I suspected, it's a historical spelling mistake, rather than a mispronunciation:-

The hamlet of Blackley was mentioned in the Domesday Book. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon Blæclēah = "dark wood" or "dark clearing". In the 13th and 14th centuries Blackley was referred to as Blakeley or Blakelegh, a spelling that is consistent with the local pronunciation.

Very few elks in the area, though.

[T42]

Just one. It's probably enough.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Foreigners talking funny. Something must be done. A damnable pastime indeed.

Damned Microsoft Yanks and their  'Moabul Technaarlargy' (in which world we apparently live).

[Andrij]

like Gladly, the strabismic ursine? 

 

[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?

[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'.