Pronunciation that makes you cringe

[Kim]

And the same goes for USAnians who think SCIENTISTS work in labratories.

It's where the labrats are kept, innit.

[citoyen]

Miss Z the younger pronounces "library" as "lah-bray".  This seems worryingly common in the village.

It's incredible that young people these days even know the word, never mind how to say it.

[Ian H]

"I often put medicine in my waistcoat".

[Pedaldog.]

"Would of"  "Should of"

[Tim Hall]

Annoyingly, this pronunciation is probably correct, but I was listening to Joanna Lumley read On Her Majesty's Secret Service the other day, where she kept referring to an Italian car as a "Lanch-ah", rather than the anglicised "Lan-seer".

[Jaded]

Annoyingly, this pronunciation is probably correct, but I was listening to Joanna Lumley read On Her Majesty's Secret Service the other day, where she kept referring to an Italian car as a "Lanch-ah", rather than the anglicised "Lan-seer".

Joanna Lumley is allowed to pronounce things however she wants.

It's the Law.

[Andrij]

Slovlish?

Growing up we were often scolded for speaking half-на-пів, aka Ukrainglish.

[Guy]

Hilary Clinton on the idiot-box just now

"...I have been the Secra-tery of State..."

"ter" pronounced as in "tern"

[T42]

"Tern" with a southron R or a real one?

[Bledlow]

Annoyingly, this pronunciation is probably correct, but I was listening to Joanna Lumley read On Her Majesty's Secret Service the other day, where she kept referring to an Italian car as a "Lanch-ah", rather than the anglicised "Lan-seer".

I've never thought of calling a Lancia a 'Lanseer'.  To me. it'd be like saying 'makizmo' when meaning that fine Spanish word machismo ('machissmo'), or 'Byoonuss Air-ez' instead of 'Bwennoss Eye-ress', or the 'J' in Rio de Janeiro as in 'jam'. But I do say Meksiko & Kyooba.

[hatler]

I think the pronunciation intended by "Lan-seer" was "Larn see er". 'Seer' as in one who is currently seeing (two syllables).

[Legs]

Turmeric . The shibboleth of the daytime TV celebrity chef.

[Guy]

"Tern" with a southron R or a real one?

As in the way David Attenborough would say "Arctic Tern"

[L CC]

Annoyingly, this pronunciation is probably correct, but I was listening to Joanna Lumley read On Her Majesty's Secret Service the other day, where she kept referring to an Italian car as a "Lanch-ah", rather than the anglicised "Lan-seer".

I've never thought of calling a Lancia a 'Lanseer'.  To me. it'd be like saying 'makizmo' when meaning that fine Spanish word machismo ('machissmo'), or 'Byoonuss Air-ez' instead of 'Bwennoss Eye-ress', or the 'J' in Rio de Janeiro as in 'jam'. But I do say Meksiko & Kyooba.

Yes, but you probably also refuse to say lah-tay and koritzo.
These are words that have been anglicised in exactly the same way that only pretentious wankers in the UK say Pareee.

[T42]

"Tern" with a southron R or a real one?

As in the way David Attenborough would say "Arctic Tern"

I have rarely heard the gent.

[Bledlow]

Annoyingly, this pronunciation is probably correct, but I was listening to Joanna Lumley read On Her Majesty's Secret Service the other day, where she kept referring to an Italian car as a "Lanch-ah", rather than the anglicised "Lan-seer".

I've never thought of calling a Lancia a 'Lanseer'.  To me. it'd be like saying 'makizmo' when meaning that fine Spanish word machismo ('machissmo'), or 'Byoonuss Air-ez' instead of 'Bwennoss Eye-ress', or the 'J' in Rio de Janeiro as in 'jam'. But I do say Meksiko & Kyooba.

Yes, but you probably also refuse to say lah-tay and koritzo.
These are words that have been anglicised in exactly the same way that only pretentious wankers in the UK say Pareee.

I had to think about lah-tay for a moment. 

Ah, choritho/choriso (both valid, depending on your preferred variety of Spanish)! It's one of those words which I really don't understand the mutilation of. As long as the ch is pronounced as in church, the i as in it, & the stress is somewhere near the middle, all of which are perfectly normal in English, it's pretty close to the original, & sounds fine. Why would anyone want to use the pronunciation of the wrong foreign language?

[ian]

I'm with the esteemed fboab, if you're speaking English, pronounce it as English, rather than pretentious faux-foreign. Chorizo is chore-eez-o and latte is lat-tay (no lah'ing about it, that's just the foul estuarines and their brackish linguistic affectations). You should hear an Italian pronounce 'steak and kidney' before any words are said about the British pronounciation of latte.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Everyone knows that latte rhymes with this place: http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=371365&Y=182608&A=Y&Z=120

[Bledlow]

Nope - too many t's.

Ian -

Yeah, fine. Choreezo & lattay are OK. Infinitely preferable to the faux-foreign versions that get the bloody languages wrong. Though I don't know what's wrong with saying 'milk' instead of saying it in (usually mispronounced) Italian.

[T42]

^^^Tend to agree, but not 100%.  It depends on how well-known the correct pronunciations are. Someone talking about Lyon as if it's a singular Corner House sounds daft, ditto a English-speaker talking about Paree. Putting a T on the end of Camembert sounds bloody ignorant. Etc.

[pcolbeck]

Mrs Pcolbeck's pronunciation when she is navigating in France. Its probably correct as she does speak some French but I don't speak any (never even did French at school). She insists on giving me directions with all the place names pronounced in French which doesn't help when I am reading the signs as they come up phonetically.
We argue about this, quite a lot ....

[T42]

When we were driving round our new area when we first got to France we referred to La Ferté Alais as Farty Alice.

[pcolbeck]

When we were driving round our new area when we first got to France we referred to La Ferté Alais as Farty Alice.

  That would do me for navigational purposes T42.

[hatler]

And it's pretty easy to guess what we called this place when we were staying nearby.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Nope - too many t's.

Nope, cos it's a joke to do with gentrification. The town is pronounced "yeht" the joke is that it's now "yah-tay".