Pronunciation that makes you cringe

[Mr Larrington]

I bet most southerners cringe when they pronounce Glastonbury.

You call Glastonbury “Glasto”
You’d like to go there one day
When they’ve put up the gun towers
To keep the hippies away

[Steph]

Really, correct pronunciation is often a mute point....

[Mrs Pingu]

Sang-wich

[sg37409]

Sang-wich

Yes that gets my goat. Every one knows its sang-widgees.
pfff.

[hellymedic]

Or samwidges.

[Wowbagger]

Wasn't Samwidge Gamgee one of the hobbits?

[orienteer]

If you live there, depends which end of town:

Gerrards Crawss, or Cross

So- li - hull, or Solly 'ole

[mattc]

New-car-sul
Glars-go


I bet most southerners cringe when they pronounce Glastonbury.

I hope you won't mind if I stick with
"Paris"
Instead of "Par-ee"

(At least while I'm in the UK)
:-P

[Ian H]

New-car-sul
Glars-go


I bet most southerners cringe when they pronounce Glastonbury.

I hope you won't mind if I stick with
"Paris"
Instead of "Par-ee"

(At least while I'm in the UK)
:-P

Except when it's Gay or wrapped around Brest.

[Bledlow]

Ms Vecht accepts loads of Brits can't do a guttural 'ch'. Twas ever thus.
I've lived with it for >50 years.

What got me more at school was people calling Wolfgang Amadeus 'Mozart' with a buzzing z.

Inability to do gutturals is understandable; unwillingness to do the easy ts instead of z is just wrong.

USian influence?

I recall Mr Benjamin Abruzzo, the first person to fly across the Atlantic by balloon, getting rather short-tempered with non-USians who addressed him as Mr Abrutso. He insisted on A-bruise-o.

[Ian H]

Someone who shall remain nameless, new to Devon, went into a shop and asked for a pasty. She rhymed it with tasty.

[mattc]

Someone who shall remain nameless, new to Devon, went into a shop and asked for a pasty. She rhymed it with tasty.

I am very innocent, but doesnt that make it a (very small) item of clkothing? :O

p.s. you're right about Gay Paree - but I think that's a different, almost fictional city.

[Pingu]

New-car-sul
Glars-go


I bet most southerners cringe when they pronounce Glastonbury.

I hope you won't mind if I stick with
"Paris"
Instead of "Par-ee"

(At least while I'm in the UK)
:-P

Us trying to explain to our French hosts that we were going to Rheims 

[Wowbagger]

I thought that the BBC's change in pronunciation of Kabul, when it miraculously started rhyming with "marble", was quite amusing. This occurred just around the time that they became aware of Afghanistan's existence, when Russia invaded.

[Ian H]

Us trying to explain to our French hosts that we were going to Rheims 

Did they cringe or just look blank?

[Plug1n]

USian influence?

Still on a musical front, anything from the 18th century that is pre-Haydn being "baroak".

It's a French word for FFS and no problem for US or UK speakers - "baroque" = "barock" (with equal emphasis on both syllables).

[Mrs Pingu]

Us trying to explain to our French hosts that we were going to Rheims 

Did they cringe or just look blank?

Blank. We went through the same thing last year and thought we'd got the hang of the pronunciation, but given this year's charade apparently not. Using the name Champagne got us there in the end, both times. 

[barakta]

I had no idea baroque wasn't pronounced bar-oak...  One issue with only seeing words written down.  I do if doing something official check my go to pronunciation guides howjsay, Macmillan and Oxford and Cambridge online dictionaries which are great and BRITISH and apparently human read sound clips (I can't tell).

[Basil]

Oi, John Humphreys.  Brian Redhead never told me that it was "huff past seven"
Get a grip!

[Kim]

So- li - hull, or Solly 'ole

Bir-ming-ham   

[Deano]

So- li - hull, or Solly 'ole

Bir-ming-ham   

I've been saying for years that the BBC should pronounce place names as they're pronounced by the people who live there.

[Wowbagger]

Oi, John Humphreys.  Brian Redhead never told me that it was "huff past seven"
Get a grip!

That's what his guests go out in after he's interviewed them.

[Tim Hall]

Oi, John Humphreys.  Brian Redhead never told me that it was "huff past seven"
Get a grip!

Oi, Basil. That's Humphrys. No "e". Get a grip! (Insert yellow face thing of choice)

[jsabine]

Oi, John Humphreys.  Brian Redhead never told me that it was "huff past seven"
Get a grip!

Oi, Basil. That's Humphrys. No "e". Get a grip! (Insert yellow face thing of choice)

It's pronounciated the same thobut. No gripping.

[Mr Larrington]

I thought that the BBC's change in pronunciation of Kabul, when it miraculously started rhyming with "marble", was quite amusing. This occurred just around the time that they became aware of Afghanistan's existence, when Russia invaded.

Curious how many people pronounce "USSR" as "Russia" too.