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I like to think my written English is good, but, at times, my pronunciation can be a bit wayward. I have been known to pronounce anemone as Annie Moan and graffiti as Graffy Tie. My latest gaffe, during the burial of Dickie 3, was to pronounce Plantagenet as Plant A Jen Et. It made the dear mater laugh when she corrected me.

P.S. Apologies to anyone called Annie.

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proNOUNciation rather than pronunciation,usually made by those who should know better (main stream media).
The best one I've heard was off a guy who spoke of swimming in the specific ocean :eek:

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I used to work in Manchester, and I noticed a lot of Mancunians pronounced have as Of.

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Could you be a bit more pacific :D

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We of got to be more pacific.

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If your mater had got angry with you, Michael, would have have been able to specify her ?

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A friend of mine had a car with a panasonic (panoramic) sun roof.

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I still have trouble pronouncing Armageddon. I pronounce it Ar-meg-a-don. My hubbie says that sounds like a dinosaur :)

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Try, "Au in der hallertau" after sitting in their brewery beer garden for a few hours. ;)

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I love my better half's tale of going to Ireland on a catameringue.

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I once knew a bloke who could throw darts with either hand, he said he was ambiguous.

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That happens all the time - It's not a pronunciation issue, though: I think the people that do it genuinely think it's the word they should be using. "I would of said..." etc. You see it written on Facebook a lot, and not just by the younger generation.

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Slightly off topic... I thought that version of the pink panther in the video above was a load of rubbish.

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Studio 25 is right they are not mis pronunciations but what are called Malapropisms after Mrs Malaprop in the play The Rivals.

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One saying, which annoys me and I even heard it on TV today is, "off of". As in "he got off of the bus".

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The Rolling Stones were guilty of that with their song "Get Off Of My Cloud".

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Is this better?


I am an Officer of the 'Leu': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm2TAL53wVc

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infinitely

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Why can't radio and TV presenters pronounce sixth? They all seem to say sickth these days.

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A lesson in French pronunciation by Officer Crabtree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2wfXB3CW18

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I get annoyed at people using the word of instead of have, it's just laziness in my opinion.

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Entirely agree, it does my head in.

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I hate listening to someone who at the end of every sentence goes UP on the last word. It makes every sentence sound like a question. You end up not listening to what they say, just waiting for each last word. Is it a South if England THING?

Also 'like'.
'I think, like, I can't come up with a whole sentence in one go, like'.

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Something called 'Vocal Fry' really irritates me. It seems that many young women (especially in North America) choke back on their voice to end sentences in what is almost a croak. Are they trying to sound more convincing? More authoritative? To me they sound ridiculous.

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Please note I've "liked" your comment above.

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I,like, like you liking my comment about 'like', like.

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The "like" thing bugs my ass (or is it "arse") too ... And now it seems as if one has to begin every declarative sentence with "so":confused:

Over here in the colonies, one can always tell a Brit by the way he pronounces "Ottawa", or "Toronto".

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Following on from the "like" bug, my bugbear is people ending a sentence with the word yeah as a question. I can't think of an example, so I won't give one, yeah?

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Back to pronunciation, for many years my dear mater, a fan of Agatha Christie, pronounced Poirot as Poy Rot. I once pronounced parentheses as Parent Thesis.

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Another irritant similar to 'like' is 'you know'.

I listen to radio four every day. Sometimes the people being interviewed have such irritating speech habits that I switch off.

Another speech irritant I find is many women from USA have such screeching voices that I either switch off literally or mentally (so I don't understand what they say).

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You do realise you've just alienated yourself to the majority of the denizens of Liverpool & environs. :D

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I pretty sure it's a whole of New Zealand thing. That and the way they pronounce "pen" and "ten" are the easiest way to tell them apart from the Aussies.


And speaking of Poy Rot, my mother-in-law pronounces Dalziel exactly the way it's written.

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Surely not the majority?
Only the ones who can read?:D

Actually I didn't realise it was a Liverpool thing, more just young folk.

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Who's this Laura Norder that southerners keep going on about, is she the one who does drawerings?

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There's a embarrassing video of me on the interweb using incorrect words etc...


....to make matters worse,it's gone virus....



....jacket please :D

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Seems to me to be a very apt description:D

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It may be an 'age thing' but I get irritated by people who speak so fast that their vowels seem inaudible, causing the need for extreme concentration to follow what they are saying.

I am only aware of this when listening to the radio - maybe that is because there are no other signs such as body language to assist in following meaning.

More and more often I find myself switching between channels just to find a human voice that is comfortable to listen to.

Since the advent of TV, how a presenter looks seems to matter more than how they sound, when for me sound matters most. A pretty face that cannot express itself properly says nothing worth listening to.

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'Drawrings' drives me nuts! It seems that most tv presenters say this.

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From Little Women: It's proper to use good words and improve your vocabillary.

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How would non-Lancastrians view our dialect - not so pronounced now but it is still there.