Pronunciation that makes you cringe

[Pickled Onion]

And how about the name of the first letter of the word in question? Have you pinned your colours to the mast of the point in history where the French hache (pronounced "ash") dropped its aitch to become aitch (like the formerly formal 'otel), or are you loyal to the anglicised haitch? Or does haitch make your (h)ackles rise, because hache should be aitch?

However we say it, we make a hash of it.

The name of the letter H doesn’t start with an H, not even a silent one. Just like the name of the letter F doesn’t start with an F. And many others similarly.

Adding an H on the front doesn’t make my hackles rise but it always makes me think of Parker in Thunderbirds.

[Mr Larrington]

And how about the name of the first letter of the word in question? Have you pinned your colours to the mast of the point in history where the French hache (pronounced "ash") dropped its aitch to become aitch (like the formerly formal 'otel), or are you loyal to the anglicised haitch? Or does haitch make your (h)ackles rise, because hache should be aitch?

However we say it, we make a hash of it.

The name of the letter H doesn’t start with an H, not even a silent one.

Hit does in Cockney 

[T42]

As the bloke said, "if a haitch, a hay, a hie, two hars, a hie, a ho and a hen don't spell 'Arrison, wot does?"

[Tim Hall]

Television's Clive Myrie has an annoying habit of placing the stress in the wrong place when asking questions on Mastermind.

For example this made "Charles the second, of Prussia" sound like "Charles, the second of Prussia ".

Stop it!

[Mr Larrington]

USAnian on the telly just now has spake the name of the author of “Greenmantle” and “The Thirty-Nine Steps” as “John Bew-cn”

[Cudzoziemiec]

I heard a Usanian the other day talking about "ass burgers". Only when he went on to mention autism did I realise he wasn't describing a visit to McDonald's.

[neilrj]

Diane War Wick is convinced that is how her name should be spoke   but on the correct (and indeed the right side) of the pond we no (see what I did there?) it is Worrick 

[JefO]

Mis-pronunciation of Pronunciation.

[hellymedic]

Diane War Wick is convinced that is how her name should be spoke   but on the correct (and indeed the right side) of the pond we no (see what I did there?) it is Worrick 

<spelling pedant>
Isn't her first name Dionne?

[hellymedic]

Mis-pronunciation of Pronunciation.

and the extraneous 'o' in the spelling...

[Efrogwr]

Diane War Wick is convinced that is how her name should be spoke   but on the correct (and indeed the right side) of the pond we no (see what I did there?) it is Worrick 

I know a Canadian whose name is Warwick, pronounced  Worrick....

I also know another Canadian who calls those fluffy buggers that live in trees "squrls". That makes me cringe!

[T42]

Diane War Wick is convinced that is how her name should be spoke   but on the correct (and indeed the right side) of the pond we no (see what I did there?) it is Worrick 

I know a Canadian whose name is Warwick, pronounced  Worrick....

I also know another Canadian who calls those fluffy buggers that live in trees "squrls". That makes me cringe!

In Schtuggart it'd be Varvick, gel?

[Cudzoziemiec]

If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry
Each time we meet
Make believe
That you don't hear the consonants in my name
'Cos each time I hear you
I feel such a shame

[hubner]

Diane War Wick is convinced that is how her name should be spoke   but on the correct (and indeed the right side) of the pond we no (see what I did there?) it is Worrick 

<spelling pedant>
Isn't her first name Dionne?

That would be dee-on-knee, I suppose.

[T42]

Diane War Wick is convinced that is how her name should be spoke   but on the correct (and indeed the right side) of the pond we no (see what I did there?) it is Worrick 

<spelling pedant>
Isn't her first name Dionne?

That would be dee-on-knee, I suppose.

Give me her money and you can pronounce T42 any way you bloody like.

[L CC]

I'm always slightly nervous when I do this in case I have spent decades mispronouncing,

Detritus. I've always said dee-try-tuss, and this narrator is all over debt-tree-tuss. Given they also said 'acetic' when context would infer 'ascetic' I'm going to err in my own favour.

[hatler]

Hmm. I've always heard (and used) debt-tri-tuss (with the 'i' as in 'trick'). And for the second one I would say 'a setic'.

[Auntie Helen]

And I say debt-try-tuss…

[Mr Larrington]

Whereas I just say “skog”

[Mrs Pingu]

I'm always slightly nervous when I do this in case I have spent decades mispronouncing,

Detritus. I've always said dee-try-tuss, and this narrator is all over debt-tree-tuss. Given they also said 'acetic' when context would infer 'ascetic' I'm going to err in my own favour.

I'm with you on those.

[T42]

I've always read it as dett-ri-tus with a short i and a u as in us. First time I heard de-TRY-tis my reaction was "where the hell were you brought up?", yet my trusty Chambers supports it.

I'll still read it as dett-ri-tus, though.

[Pingu]

...de-TRY-tis...

This.

[rogerzilla]

In the MTG list of insults (see MTG trolling in P&OBI) an American attempts to pronounce "wanker".  As USian has no hard or soft "a" like British English, just a nasal "eer", it  comes out rather badly.

[L CC]

I'm always slightly nervous when I do this in case I have spent decades mispronouncing,

Detritus. I've always said dee-try-tuss, and this narrator is all over debt-tree-tuss. Given they also said 'acetic' when context would infer 'ascetic' I'm going to err in my own favour.

I'm with you on those.

...de-TRY-tis...

This.

OOooo maybe it's a Scots thing and I picked up my detritus in my Aberdeenshire sojourn...

[chrisbainbridge]

I'm always slightly nervous when I do this in case I have spent decades mispronouncing,

Detritus. I've always said dee-try-tuss, and this narrator is all over debt-tree-tuss. Given they also said 'acetic' when context would infer 'ascetic' I'm going to err in my own favour.

I'm with you on those.

...de-TRY-tis...

This.

OOooo maybe it's a Scots thing and I picked up my detritus in my Aberdeenshire sojourn...

I would be withMrs Pingu on this dee-try-tuss.  Long e and long I, possibly coming from the Latin where they were traditionally long vowels.  But I did spend 5 years in med school in Aberdeen and the next 10 in Scotland.  The Scots of course claim to speak the best English, especially from the North