Common words you can’t pronounce

[Rushies tash]

I live down south so the cunts don't think I pronounce "bath" or "dance" correctly.

[Captain Turdseye]

5 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

I live down south so the cunts don't think I pronounce "bath" or "dance" correctly.

I feel you. Grass is another one. 

[Remmie]

I am pretty much the only person I know who pronounces Tofu as Toffoo rather than towfoo. I'm not changing it now though, towfoo just sounds so pretentious and try hard

[Chip Butty]

Inmninonative - like dead clever an’dat. 

[sh#t waffle]

Biopic. Also, until embarrassingly recently I thought segue and 'segway' were totally different words.

[Edward.]

I say chaos and malevolent how you read them.

[Kevin D]

Vase.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, sh#t waffle said:

Biopic. Also, until embarrassingly recently I thought segue and 'segway' were totally different words.

That's a fucker. 

Bio-pic, or Bye-oppick?  I'm still not sure.

[Karl_b]

3 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

That's a fucker. 

Bio-pic, or Bye-oppick?  I'm still not sure.

 

Bye-oppick, shirley?

 

Like biography, you don't say bio-graphy, do you?!

[Karl_b]

Until about two years ago I thought hyperbole was pronounced hyperbowl.

 

"Aaaand this year's Hyperbole will be a face-off between the Saturn Titans and the Jacksonville Jetpackers!!"

[Captain Turdseye]

4 minutes ago, Karl_b said:

Until about two years ago I thought hyperbole was pronounced hyperbowl.

Ha. Same. To make it worse I was corrected by my youngest daughter on that one. 

[Karl_b]

1 minute ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Ha. Same. To make it worse I was corrected by my youngest daughter on that one. 

 

It's another example of why teaching phonics is stupid, because the English language is stupid. There are more exceptions to the rules than rules.

 

Although I like what I think someone on here once said - "never criticise someone for mispronouncing a word - they learned that word through reading."

[sh#t waffle]

12 minutes ago, Karl_b said:

 

Bye-oppick, shirley?

 

Like biography, you don't say bio-graphy, do you?!

Pretty sure Mark Kermode says bi-oh-pic, and he's about the biggest film nerd I can think of.

[Tony Moanero]

11 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

I think the D is silent. You’re both wrong. 

Nah, you pronounce the ‘d’ as in the sailing term. Anyway, Tunnock’s Caramel Wafers shit all over them.

[sir roger]

The wife struggles to say statistics, so I try to find excuses to make her say it as often as possible. We were buying tiles a few years back and she struggled like fuck to say Porcelanosa so I had to teach her it phonetically like she had had a bang on the head.

 

Her nieces all pronounce the Elle brand as Ellie, and one of them pronounces a sleeveless coat as a gillet. In a similar vein a very nice young lady training in Dunelm once referred to a piece of bedding as a duvvett.

[Tony Moanero]

2 minutes ago, sir roger said:

The wife struggles to say statistics, so I try to find excuses to make her say it as often as possible. We were buying tiles a few years back and she struggled like fuck to say Porcelanosa so I had to teach her it phonetically like she had had a bang on the head.

 

Her nieces all pronounce the Elle brand as Ellie, and one of them pronounces a sleeveless coat as a gillet. In a similar vein a very nice young lady training in Dunelm once referred to a piece of bedding as a duvvett.

I pronounce gilet as body warmer.

[Captain Willard]

3 hours ago, Karl_b said:

Until about two years ago I thought hyperbole was pronounced hyperbowl.

 

"Aaaand this year's Hyperbole will be a face-off between the Saturn Titans and the Jacksonville Jetpackers!!"

Hyperbole is spelt completely wrong. I can’t pronounce it either. 

[TheHowieLama]

If you have trouble with a simple word just axe somebody how it is pronounced.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

If you have trouble with a simple word just axe somebody how it is pronounced.

A bit harsh I would say.

[Karl_b]

People who say expresso can fuck off.

[Champ]

I work with people who say ‘bolog naise’ 

What do they think when everyone else says it properly?

 

One of the same people pronounces Hotel du vin as it’s written 

[Champ]

On 26/03/2024 at 22:19, Remmie said:

I am pretty much the only person I know who pronounces Tofu as Toffoo rather than towfoo. I'm not changing it now though, towfoo just sounds so pretentious and try hard

One for the Annoying Americanisms thread that

[Strontium]

I can think of two occasions in my life that I have mispronounced words. The first when I was about 5 years old, I was convinced that 'monster' was pronounced 'munster', and had a screaming argument with my mother over it. The second was the first time I encountered the word 'coeliac'. For some reason I assumed it had a hard C at the start. This is one instance where the American spelling makes a whole lot more sense.

[lifetime fan]

Ronaldinho. 

[Poor Scouser T]

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