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By *artytwo OP   Couple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Heard this Irish fellah on Radio 4 the other day talking about cycling fsr.

He came out with this really great one:

"The chap he were going down the road and he fell right off his BYCICABLE and hurt his head"

Anyone got any similar?

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By *callycatMan
over a year ago

Mid Wales

Yes....prostrate massage is not something I would take lying down...

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

Screwall, instead of squirrel.

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

Pacific for specific

As in

" he was quite pacific in his requirements"

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

A colleague used to say miminise instead of minimise. It drove our boss mad

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By *artytwo OP   Couple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

I always find that using 'americanismses' winds folks up. Aluminun, tomayto, I could care less etc

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

I get annoyed at:

Chimley = Chimney

Kekkle = Kettle

And people who call the windscreen a window screen

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By *trawberry-popWoman
over a year ago

South East Midlands NOT

I went to college with a girl who called a mirror a meeeera. It was most bizarre because I never heard her mispronounce anything else!

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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago

CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly)


"I get annoyed at:

Chimley = Chimney

Kekkle = Kettle

And people who call the windscreen a window screen "

Ooooopppppps. ..that's me.. and I call the wipers "" window screen wipers lol xxx Please forgive me haha xxx

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

Iburofen for Ibuprofen and epidemic for academic!!

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

Pronunciation has never been my forty!!!!

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By *idsAndyMan
over a year ago

Worcestershire

Gah I have loads! They're guy ropes on tents not guide ropes, it's sloe gin not sloan... I Could go on. Worse is spelling things like anythink, I mean is that what they're actually saying when they speak?

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By *idsAndyMan
over a year ago

Worcestershire

You gotta forgive the Irish though... They call a film a fillum and I adore the accent

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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago

Stoke area

I had a friend that used to add h to things. I ham going to do..... Do you know the haddress?

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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago

Stoke area


"You gotta forgive the Irish though... They call a film a fillum and I adore the accent "

Don't get me started on the irish accent. Mmmmmm Lizzy swoons

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

Called to see my elderly mum and asked where my dad was. " his car has broke down, he's waiting for the IRA to come out"

I didn't even bother to correct her

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By *idsAndyMan
over a year ago

Worcestershire


"You gotta forgive the Irish though... They call a film a fillum and I adore the accent

Don't get me started on the irish accent. Mmmmmm Lizzy swoons "

It's northern Ireland for me

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Was earwigging on a couple of women at the bus stop and Pepperpot #1 says to Pepperpot #2

"My son-in-law went on holiday and was stung by a Portuguese menopause."

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Or when my daughter sang the Dusty Springboard classic:

"Son of a Pizza Man"

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By *ngel n tedCouple
over a year ago

maidstone

Angel often says "mierre", which is french apparantly, for "my hair".

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I need an ambuslance to take me to the hostipal

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By *moothies.Couple
over a year ago

Woodthorpe


"I need an ambuslance to take me to the hostipal "

The hospical?

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By *teveanddebsCouple
over a year ago

Norwich

Unless you are posh, then it's horsepiddle

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By *-ManMan
over a year ago

Kark

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By *-ManMan
over a year ago

Kark

Not sure if its a mispronunciation but people who say they're going to the ATM machine! So they're going to the automatic telling machine machine

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By *eerobCouple
over a year ago

solihull

Skelington instead of skeleton and in America mostly, when they say ax or axed instead of ask or asked.

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

Lickle instead of little ,it makes me cringe

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

There is an Irish news reader called Barry Caffrey on my BBC local radio station that cannot pronounce any politicians name correctly. He compliments the travel announcer with a speech impediment perfectly.

C...

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

Also had a girl work fo us raising money for Terrible Paulsey, lol

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

Ahh but yeah but no but,,,, is it...

Tort-toise or Tout-tus or Taught-us or Tortoyce..... Eh!

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

No as much a pronunciation, but I hate seeing "CARNT" instead of can't.

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By *idsAndyMan
over a year ago

Worcestershire


"No as much a pronunciation, but I hate seeing "CARNT" instead of can't. "

Me too!

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

skelington. its a feckin skeleton. there is no 'ing!!!

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

Surely one of the most common mispronunciations must be those committed by people who can't say Bun.....

It not a roll or cob or a bap etc......it's a fook'in bun,,, get it....

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

Pacific instead of SPECIFIC and kitty always says 'pud' instead of put.

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

I've said it before in here but I have all sorts of problems with the word 'brewery' - just can't get it out for some reason!

Don't normally have problems with my R's but if just comes out as bwoo-ah-wee when I say it however hard I try

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By *idsAndyMan
over a year ago

Worcestershire

Hypochondract!

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By *inzi LTV/TS
over a year ago

The Garden of Eden in Beautiful North Wales

Trevor Mcdonald on the news a few years back, I think it was about flooding in the Cunt Kentryside!

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By *arkstaffsMan
over a year ago

Rugeley

Babby instead of baby! That really grates. Tuth instead of tooth and using the word "her" instead of "she" that goes through me!

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By *r H and Good PetCouple
over a year ago

Nottingham


"Not sure if its a mispronunciation but people who say they're going to the ATM machine! So they're going to the automatic telling machine machine"

This is my bugbear. It's called a pleonasm.

It's like when people say PIN number.

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France


"Not sure if its a mispronunciation but people who say they're going to the ATM machine! So they're going to the automatic telling machine machine

This is my bugbear. It's called a pleonasm.

It's like when people say PIN number."

Yes! And a bit more off thread: using 5 words when one will do:

" at this moment in time"

"Now?"

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By *edfoxukMan
over a year ago

Kingston upon Hull

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France


"I had a friend that used to add h to things. I ham going to do..... Do you know the haddress? "

I knew someone who left out h in words with h, and added to ones without ;

" that (h)old man was wearing an 'orrible (h)orange 'at (h)on 'is 'ead.."

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

My real name is rarely pronounced correctly because my dad decided to spell it differently.

I have a colleague who says spaketti instead of spaghetti

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

Ever since I came to the UK I find that most words I hear people say are mispronounced.

-Courtney

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials


"Babby instead of baby! That really grates. Tuth instead of tooth and using the word "her" instead of "she" that goes through me! "

But babby & tuth are localisms (I can't stand them either)

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

Commentators often use 'lacksidaisical' instead of lackadaisical when describing the efforts of certain players...

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

And use "literally " all the time, when they mean anything but literally;

And what's worse, pronounce it "littrilly"

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

I often mispronounce tuberculosis. Instead of tuBERCulosis I often state tuber-culosis.

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

I used to work with someone who used the phrase,"that's a whole new can of words".... Left me in stitches!

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


"I get annoyed at:

Chimley = Chimney

Kekkle = Kettle

And people who call the windscreen a window screen "

Guilty as charged. i say

kekkil=Kettle

Perscovator= percolator.

calscivator= calculator.

Window Washers.

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

Up until about two years ago I always said "Axe" instead of "Ask."

It's a Brooklyn thing, but I've fixed it now.

-Courtney

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By *ordonBennettMan
over a year ago

dover


"Up until about two years ago I always said "Axe" instead of "Ask."

It's a Brooklyn thing, but I've fixed it now.

-Courtney"

That has caught on amongst youngsters here too...probably through watching TV!

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


"Up until about two years ago I always said "Axe" instead of "Ask."

It's a Brooklyn thing, but I've fixed it now.

-Courtney

That has caught on amongst youngsters here too...probably through watching TV!"

People who weren't from Brooklyn used to always make fun of me but I didn't care. Then I went to law school in Manhattan and they told me I sounded "uneducated." So I ditched it.

-Courtney

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

Have worked with a few folk that say pacific instead of specific. Drives me mad

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By *idsAndyMan
over a year ago

Worcestershire

When someone doesn't hear you and the say...

"whaaaaah" I shudder, "what" is bad enough so at least say it.

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

Canculator instead of calculator

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

Reminds me of the two great " Two Ronnies " sketches;

"Fork ' andles"

And

" Pispronunciation of Worms"

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By *artytwo OP   Couple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Hossible

Exasperate/exacerbate confusion

Mazagine

Perscription

Duck tape

Inventing mispros is fun. Go into a public toilet that has just been cleanedand it smells of: Pissinfectant

Dismantle something then Remantle it

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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

Scone doesn't rhyme with cone...

Not in my world.....

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"I always find that using 'americanismses' winds folks up. Aluminun, tomayto, I could care less etc"

I don't do this on purpose, I just learned to speak there.

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

Funnily enough, I saw the word

"remantle" used seriously a few days ago.

But really if you dismantle something, then the opposite is " mantle"? Lol

Or perhaps something is " mantled" originally, then dismantled, then remantled....

I think I'll go and lay down now

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Also people who say buz instead of bus.. Aargh "

That's just Oldham folk

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By *aked_ShenanigansCouple
over a year ago

nearby

For years daves sister thought that if chopped someone's head off you decaffeinated them!

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By *o new WinksMan
over a year ago

BSE


"Up until about two years ago I always said "Axe" instead of "Ask."

It's a Brooklyn thing, but I've fixed it now.

-Courtney"

I hate that. And those that say "Arks" as well.

Most annoying when people are trying to be cool. It just isn't.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

When we were young a friend of mine thought it was the Milletts of the Meeting.

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By *r H and Good PetCouple
over a year ago

Nottingham


"Funnily enough, I saw the word

"remantle" used seriously a few days ago.

But really if you dismantle something, then the opposite is " mantle"? Lol

Or perhaps something is " mantled" originally, then dismantled, then remantled....

I think I'll go and lay down now

"

This is how the verb "to burgle" came about. It's a backward-formation. Because a "burglar" isn't someone who "burgles". But because English speaking thought it sounds like a "burgler", the verb was created colloquially, and now it's part of the language.

I find it really funny when people get angry about "literally". It's like metaphorically hyperbolic language has literally never existed before....

When I first learned the language, I thought the words "am I" and "are my" were the same words. So I used to say things like "where are my going?" .

I also thought "sealing wax" was "ceiling wax" (well you wax floors, why not ceilings?)

I also thought a tearjerker (which I only ever saw in print) was a movie that would tear you and jerk you about - so like an action movie.

I also first thought the word "misled" rhymed with "whistled".

Slightly long tangent, sorry....

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

Cistificate instead of certificate.

Lots of people do it around these parts.

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By *artytwo OP   Couple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Just heard another one; Iggorance

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

Nucular instead of nuclear. Used to scare the shit out of me when George Dubya said it!

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By *ordonBennettMan
over a year ago

dover

My Polish friend always says "properway" instead of properly.

I think it sounds just as appropriate

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

When my niece was diagnosed as diabetic at 8 years old she used to refer to herself as being a digestive.

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

I cant say burglar. It comes out

Berg-U-LR

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


"Not sure if its a mispronunciation but people who say they're going to the ATM machine! So they're going to the automatic telling machine machine

This is my bugbear. It's called a pleonasm.

It's like when people say PIN number."

And PAT testing - portable appliance testing testing?

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

I have to engage brain before saying the word Specific otherwise it comes out as Pacific.

The only other one I can think of is when people pronounce the H as in H-aitch as opposed to just 'aitch'

1st world problems 'eh

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

Or when people add 'is' to the end of a name - I.e. Chambers becomes Chambersis, Carruthers becomes Carruthersis! - 'I'm popping down to Chambersis'!

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By *ingle Beds LassWoman
over a year ago

Bedfordshire

I say mecidinal instead of medicinal..... I do try and get it right

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

I love one of my daughter's- she calls a helter skelter a hooter scooter!

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


"You gotta forgive the Irish though... They call a film a fillum and I adore the accent

Don't get me started on the irish accent. Mmmmmm Lizzy swoons

It's northern Ireland for me "

Don't you mean norn iron??

And yes I'm northern irish by the way!

G

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

I have a few myself that gets friends wound up...

Sectary (Secretary) and jewlry (Jewellery)

We aren't all posh on here.

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

Not quite a mispronunciation, but.

We ran out of production labels at work last night, so Dave typed in large font "NO LABELS". I then altered it to " NO LABIA" and one of the Polish lads altered it further to "NO LABIA MINORA". Dave (who claims to know everything) decided that the phrase now displayed was in fact Polish and decided to add the translation to the screen, so it eventually read " NO LABIA MINORA (No labels anymore)".

Oh how we laughed, he still has no clue!

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

My daughter says 'Booful' for beautiful!

But she is only 3 so..

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By *ervy_pendulatersCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire

People who say 'mute point', when trying to sound clever. It's 'moot point' ffs.

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