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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Scon not skoan stupid...

Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.

What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......?

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By *inister_SpinsterWoman
over a year ago

North West

Cockermouth.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"Scon not skoan stupid...

Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.

What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......? "

Not neigh neigh then?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am from Northampton and apparently it has both pronunciations, hence mine of Nen... I hate it when people call my home town North Hampton... There is not 2 aitches in it... And when people say words that end in thing and people say think, instead. Drives me insane and I will correct them

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Those little cakes are very popular.... first it's there...then its scon

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Controversially, controversy

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By *amie HantsWoman
over a year ago

Atlantis

I thought it was a scone until you’ve eaten it.

Then it’scone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thems scones in the smart parts down south mush

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

When Police Officers talk about a Burglery.

No! It's a Burglary! Learn to speak English!

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By *evil-AngelWoman
over a year ago

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"When Police Officers talk about a Burglery.

No! It's a Burglary! Learn to speak English!

Or burglarise, which I've heard on American cop shows

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many kids when I was growing up got "digical" watches......drove me nuts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

VER-SA-CHE (like che in cherry) not VERSACEEEEE

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...

It's spelt with an E in it not an O

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Liffs too shot to werry aboat prenounsyashun

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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Barth or bath?

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By *ornynorfolkguyMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk

"Cockermouth. "

Ahhh not knobingob

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By *eivers101Couple
over a year ago

Carlisle

Scone as in Skon is very definitely a Scottish /northern English thing..... Cheese ones are the best but we'll admit to kinda liking the jam and clotted cream ones as favoured in the deep south too lol x

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Masham (North York’s) Massham not Mash am

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By *ntrepid ExplorersCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

Yet the town is pronouced ScoooooOOOOooooOOOOn.

Why is an harlmess pastry delight the centre of the TWO most tedious "fun" questions in western civilisation?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Scoooon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yet the town is pronouced ScoooooOOOOooooOOOOn.

Why is an harlmess pastry delight the centre of the TWO most tedious "fun" questions in western civilisation?"

Not a harlmess pastry that's a completely different type of pastry.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai"

Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai

Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.

I hear lots of people pronounce it chicargo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai

Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.

I hear lots of people pronounce it chicargo"

How do Chicagoans pronounce it?

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By *ogueAngelMan
over a year ago

Near Bath / Bristol

"Scon not skoan stupid...

Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.

What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......? "

It's pronounced scone (as in stone) until it's eaten, at which point it's scone (gone). I'm satiated in my justification.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai

Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.

I hear lots of people pronounce it chicargo

How do Chicagoans pronounce it?"

Sshikaago (sort of)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Scon not skoan stupid...

Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.

What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......? "

I’m a northamptonian it’s skone and the river nen

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Gee-von-shay, not Give-en-chi

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gee-von-shay, not Give-en-chi"

Ermez, not Hermeez

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
over a year ago

IPSWICH

Pacific instead of specific.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pacific and specific really pisses me off.

Di-section instead of dissection as well.

I feel better now…

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By *ogueAngelMan
over a year ago

Near Bath / Bristol

It's LeviOsa, not LevioSA.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nike, nuclear and prodigy are ones that ruffle my feathers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cockermouth. "

knob-a-gob

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Happiness

It's pronounced 'A penis'

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By *evil-AngelWoman
over a year ago

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People who put extra letters at the end of words when they don't belong there like CinemaS or MatalanD

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By *inkyInkedBiWoman
over a year ago

Brought seems to have replaced the word bought and I’ve no idea why

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Boook-hay not Bucket.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It’s Skon with Jam and the clotted cream on top

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Brid’n (Britain)

It is not Brit tn with the emphasis on the T.

Great Brid’n

Not Great BriT Tn

The T is silent.

Circumstins (Circumstance)

Not circum stance.

No emphasis on the A.

Thank you. Phew, I feel better now.

All is right in my world again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...

It's spelt with an E in it not an O"

This

People who say somethink , everythink, and the pacific/specific classic too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's LeviOsa, not LevioSA."

Good one did, good one x

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

They shouldn't be pronounced

Burmingum

Wasal

Dudlay

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By *heekyweebissimWoman
over a year ago

fife,

There is no X in espresso!

Specific not pacific.....different fecking things!

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Used to visit a friend in Slaithwaite which I quickly found out wasn't pronounced slaith wait

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...

It's spelt with an E in it not an O"

The family name after which the town was named was pronounced Shrowsbury at one time, hence the school being callled Shrowsbury.

Town folk are stubborn.

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By *ntrepid ExplorersCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

"There is no X in espresso!

Specific not pacific.....different fecking things! "

I typically add an X on purpose. I'm mad, me.

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By *inister_SpinsterWoman
over a year ago

North West

"Cockermouth.

Ahhh not knobingob

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By *heekyweebissimWoman
over a year ago

fife,

"There is no X in espresso!

Specific not pacific.....different fecking things!

I typically add an X on purpose. I'm mad, me. "

Grrrrrr

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

Milngavie near Glasgow. It’s pronounced Mullguy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Annoying pronounced A Nine

Boy pronounced Bye

Toy pronounced Tie

Point pronounced Pint

Alot of Irish do this & these words are totally mis pronounced... If a guy was extremely hot & good looking but if he actually spoke like that... I'd actually go off him involuntarily...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I hate it when women pronounce yes as No when I ask if they want to meet up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Annoying pronounced A Nine

Boy pronounced Bye

Toy pronounced Tie

Point pronounced Pint

Alot of Irish do this & these words are totally mis pronounced... If a guy was extremely hot & good looking but if he actually spoke like that... I'd actually go off him involuntarily...

In defence of the Irish,

they say Trousers not Trowsers,

House not Howse, arguably the correct pronunciation...

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By *mwirralMan
over a year ago

wirral

Leominster actually pronounced lemster

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By *lan157Man
over a year ago

a village near Haywards Heath in East Sussex

"Ing ger land" for England irritates me .As a child I pronounced "Skeleton" as " skellington " Someone should have corrected me sooner .

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

"Used to visit a friend in Slaithwaite which I quickly found out wasn't pronounced slaith wait"

Noooo it’s Sloughit

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Carol kirkwood annoys me with her pronunciation of England Ireland and Scotland

In carol language it’s Inglind, Irelind and scotlind

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By *ocksareoffMan
over a year ago

Out n About

Apparently Mytholmroyd is pronounced my-thumb-royd

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"It's LeviOsa, not LevioSA."

ROFL

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

Some people have difficulty pronouncing Vine. It’s actually pronounced ‘sex god!’

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

Sc-on - No

Sc-own - yes

There is no right or wrong though

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

Northamptonshire's river is pronounced Nen as far as Peterborough then it becomes Neen.

Official spelling is Nene.

We also have a village called Cogenhoe and that is pronounced Cooknoe, work that one out if you can.

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

Cobh is pronounced cove not cob h .

Youghal is pronounced yawl not yo gal .

On another note Siobhan is shove aun not sio ban .

And I say scone as in rhymes with bone

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai

Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.

I guess some might say Chicargo, instead of Chicago.

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By *rMojoRisinMan
over a year ago

Sheffield

I used to live walking through Kings Cross and hearing Alnwick pronounced Aln-wick, made me chuckle every time.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Barth or bath? "

Baff

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By *uit and bootsMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"I am from Northampton and apparently it has both pronunciations, hence mine of Nen... I hate it when people call my home town North Hampton... There is not 2 aitches in it... And when people say words that end in thing and people say think, instead. Drives me insane and I will correct them

You’ve pointed out my bug bear, by spelling/pronouncing it correctly. Aitch. The word aitch doesn’t begin with a letter aitch.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Brought seems to have replaced the word bought and I’ve no idea why "

This....

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By *ocksareoffMan
over a year ago

Out n About

"Barth or bath?

Baff

I thought it wer BaRff

A couple of local ones are Alford is pronounced Olford not Al-ford and Habrough is Hey-brough not Harborough

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Here’s the dilemma

Tone - pronounced toan

Cone- pronounced coan

Phone - pronounced phoan

Scone - pronounced scon?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pacific and specific really pisses me off.

Di-section instead of dissection as well.

I feel better now…"

Pacific/specific is often a sign of Dyslexia, it is related to consonant clusters, people who say this one really can't help it.

I work with people with SpLD and they often find it very frustrating and embarrassing that they can't pronounce it correctly.

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

"Pacific and specific really pisses me off.

Di-section instead of dissection as well.

I feel better now…

Pacific/specific is often a sign of Dyslexia, it is related to consonant clusters, people who say this one really can't help it.

I work with people with SpLD and they often find it very frustrating and embarrassing that they can't pronounce it correctly."

nice profile too

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"I used to live walking through Kings Cross and hearing Alnwick pronounced Aln-wick, made me chuckle every time. "

Londoners do pronounce things differently. The old Londoners pronounce Highgate and Southgate as Highgit and southgit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here. "

Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar.

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here.

Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar.

Not sure. I just see it a lot. Don't thinks it’s spell check. “Forfil my fantasies”. Eh?!

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

Macabre?

Wrath?

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By *ark_4_PlayMan
over a year ago

Chandlers Ford

A bit like Newcastle or New Castle! I’m with you on the thing / think too

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By *ark_4_PlayMan
over a year ago

Chandlers Ford

Regards scon /skoan; is this the time to debate whether it’s jam first then cream or cream then jam on your scon / skoan?

First world problems!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here.

Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar.

Not sure. I just see it a lot. Don't thinks it’s spell check. “Forfil my fantasies”. Eh?!"

Well, I’d like to try and forfil yours even if I can’t fulfil them!!

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here.

Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar.

Not sure. I just see it a lot. Don't thinks it’s spell check. “Forfil my fantasies”. Eh?!

Well, I’d like to try and forfil yours even if I can’t fulfil them!! "

. You can’t. My main one doesn’t involve men

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Macabre?

Wrath?

In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.

I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here.

Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar.

Not sure. I just see it a lot. Don't thinks it’s spell check. “Forfil my fantasies”. Eh?!

Well, I’d like to try and forfil yours even if I can’t fulfil them!!

. You can’t. My main one doesn’t involve men

There you go, I forfilled it apparently.

. That must be what it means. The lack of fulfilment.

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By *xhibitionisticvoyeurMan
over a year ago

wrexham

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

""can you be more pacific please?"

No."

You needn’t be quite so arctic about it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cockermouth. "

Cock-in-mouth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Macabre?

Wrath?

In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.

Mer car bre is the correct way in both French and English, Americans tend to go with mer carb.

I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?"

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By *unmatt888Man
over a year ago

Duns

Lingerie.

It ends ree, not rey.

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"Lingerie.

It ends ree, not rey."

Must admit I pronounce it “rey” isn’t that the proper pronunciation?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Macabre?

Wrath?

In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.

I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?

Mer car bre is the correct way in both French and English, Americans tend to go with mer carb.

I’m afraid I disagree. The French and Brits have a softer r, if at all and the Americans roll the r.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

We know it's Nen really

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lingerie.

It ends ree, not rey.

Must admit I pronounce it “rey” isn’t that the proper pronunciation?"

I agree. It’s longsher rey.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Macabre?

Wrath?

In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.

I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?"

Rath vs roth

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By *heltenhamBiGuyMan
over a year ago

Cheltenham

Often heard when in Costa or takeaways..

"Can I get" instead of "Can I have"

Grrrrr

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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

I did a rugby tour to Wymondham a few years ago. Which I was taken to task for calling it why mond um.

And when I was a teen... Jalapeño was jaller pea no.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Macabre?

Wrath?

In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.

I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?

Rath vs roth"

Ah, yes, now I recall. Thanks. Which is it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Macabre?

Wrath?

In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.

I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?

Rath vs roth

Ah, yes, now I recall. Thanks. Which is it?

Roth, unless you're American.

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By *omCoyoteMan
over a year ago

Northern England

Years ago, an old English teacher demonstrated this anomoly:

GHUTI = "FISH"

GH = "F" sound from "rouGH"

U = "I" ound from "bUsy"

TI - "SH" sound from "ficTIon"

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

local, but not too local

Pacifically

Viginer

Scown

Newkewler

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Bagwyllydiart

Village in Herefordshire

Would love you to pronounce how it’s said.

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

"I did a rugby tour to Wymondham a few years ago. Which I was taken to task for calling it why mond um.

And when I was a teen... Jalapeño was jaller pea no.

"
I worked near Wymondham in the 1990s and I seem to remember it being referred to locally as Wyndam.

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By *umalotagainMan
over a year ago

a town called malice

Don’t get me started on Bicester

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By *antric ecstasyMan
over a year ago

Co Durham

"Years ago, an old English teacher demonstrated this anomoly:

GHUTI = "FISH"

GH = "F" sound from "rouGH"

U = "I" ound from "bUsy"

TI - "SH" sound from "ficTIon"

Or ghoti with an "I" as in women

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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

You read a book, not a boook

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Macabre?

Wrath?

In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.

I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?

Mer car bre is the correct way in both French and English, Americans tend to go with mer carb.

I’m afraid I disagree. The French and Brits have a softer r, if at all and the Americans roll the r."

I have my fists up ready for a fight...

I worked in Paris many years ago at an establishment which was shall we say ...a little dark.

Most French speakers roll not clip that R....when they get excited it's almost a growl.

I only really have experience of Southern American accents so I can give you that one.

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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Axing or asking?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Scon not skoan stupid...

Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.

What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......?

I’m a northamptonian it’s skone and the river nen

See!

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

"Those little cakes are very popular.... first it's there...then its scon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's LeviOsa, not LevioSA."

Whoop whoop! Hahaha!

Also sorry Pleasure Piercer....Nen and Skon (we disagree in our house but I'm the Northamptonian

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Tabitha xxx (Tab-i-tha)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Scon not skoan stupid...

Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.

What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......? "

Skoan as in s-cone. It's not a traffic con is it?!

The river is pronounced nen, at least according to all sat navs and the ordinance survey website!

#mike drop#

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I thought it was a scone until you’ve eaten it.

Then it’scone"

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By *amantha TSWoman
over a year ago

Swindon

"Don’t get me started on Bicester "

Try Devizes!

And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"Don’t get me started on Bicester

Try Devizes!

And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!"

We also have Towcester and Cogenhoe, most outside Northamptonshire don't know how to pronounce them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don’t get me started on Bicester

Try Devizes!

And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!

We also have Towcester and Cogenhoe, most outside Northamptonshire don't know how to pronounce them

I'm up to speed with toaster/towcester but the C one is a mystery to me.......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don’t get me started on Bicester

Try Devizes!

And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!

We also have Towcester and Cogenhoe, most outside Northamptonshire don't know how to pronounce them

I'm up to speed with toaster/towcester but the C one is a mystery to me......."

Cookno

It's how we find the interlopers....mwah!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Here’s the dilemma

Tone - pronounced toan

Cone- pronounced coan

Phone - pronounced phoan

Scone - pronounced scon?"

So how do you pronounce the following?

Gone

Done

None

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By *mg 321Man
over a year ago

Blackpool

Garage or garege?

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By *olymalelincsMan
over a year ago

southend

Cowbit in Lincolnshire

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don’t get me started on Bicester

Try Devizes!

And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!"

Ah, but the Americans spell it aluminun...

Apparently Sir Humphrey Davy, who identified the metal in alum, proposed the name aluminum when referring to the element in his 1812 book Elements of Chemical Philosophy... it was changed to conform with the other ium-endings of a lot of other elements. The Americans are rather slow at catching up.

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

It's always fun asking an American to say Worcestershire Sauce

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...

It's spelt with an E in it not an O

The family name after which the town was named was pronounced Shrowsbury at one time, hence the school being callled Shrowsbury.

Town folk are stubborn.

Which family is Shrewsbury named after ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...

It's spelt with an E in it not an O

The family name after which the town was named was pronounced Shrowsbury at one time, hence the school being callled Shrowsbury.

Town folk are stubborn.

Which family is Shrewsbury named after ? "

There are a lot of enamel railway signs which state "season tickets must be shewn"

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By *atexbound_scotMan
over a year ago

Livingston

Milngavie... Pronounced millguy but you fo get some saying miln gavie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Houghton

You’ll be shocked to hear the folk of Cambridgeshire and Merseyside don’t say it the same way.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai

Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.

I guess some might say Chicargo, instead of Chicago."

Then they'd be mispronouncing it!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shedule or skedule?

Hate jal epeenos as someone else said, and one of my personal favourites...

Tor tilla. It's torteeya. Oh and while I'm on one, it's pie eya, not pie ella. Philistines. Actually, is it philistInes or philisteens?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I come from leicester, so its

Bokkle, Kekkle and mekkle instead of bottle kettle and metal.

Now live in norfolk where happisburgh is pronounce haysbugh

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling

e-gre-gious

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...

It's spelt with an E in it not an O

The family name after which the town was named was pronounced Shrowsbury at one time, hence the school being callled Shrowsbury.

Town folk are stubborn.

Luckily, I was born in ManchestA, with R'kid...

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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago

East of Eden, West of Hell

"Don’t get me started on Bicester

Try Devizes!

And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!

Ah, but the Americans spell it aluminun...

I was going to say the same thing...aluminum in the US, as opposed to our aluminium...

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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago

East of Eden, West of Hell

"Often heard when in Costa or takeaways..

"Can I get" instead of "Can I have"

Grrrrr"

Another Americanism which has found its way over here due to US TV imports...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's I'll not irl and Xavier not X-avier

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By *AURA6969TV/TS
over a year ago

RUGBY

Americanism budda as opposed to butter. Baasil as opposed to basil. Orregano as opposed to oregano.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My dad pronounced saucepan; “Sospan”. He's from Sheffield and claims it’s a local pronunciation. Are there are Sheffield people on here who know?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chimney not Chimley

Skeleton not skellington

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Suh fhuk be Suffolk

Towen be town

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By *imply_SensualMan
over a year ago

warrington

A town in yorkshire spelt Slaithwaite.... pronounced Slough’at

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A town in yorkshire spelt Slaithwaite.... pronounced Slough’at"

Try going to Wales or Northern Ireland for place names..good luck with those!

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By *unmatt888Man
over a year ago

Duns

"Lingerie.

It ends ree, not rey.

Must admit I pronounce it “rey” isn’t that the proper pronunciation?"

No, French pronounce the é as “ey”, not a normal e.

So words like coupé, resumé end as “ey”, but not lingerie. That’s “ee”, as in mon cherie, boucherie, patisserie, etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A town in yorkshire spelt Slaithwaite.... pronounced Slough’at"

Slaw at?

Sluff at?

Slo at?

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By *awk90Man
over a year ago

Amsterdam

My name gives people in this country trouble, due to the letter å in it :/

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By *unmatt888Man
over a year ago

Duns

And whilst we’re on it, Moët (of Moët et Chandon) was Dutch, and so it IS pronounced “Mo-ett”. Always a good one if you like to trip up lesser pedants.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cockermouth. "

Sorry can’t contain myself

my inner child comes out at times ..

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