The Pronunciation Thread

[Gwylan]

That thing most of you are using just now a router.
It’s rooter surely not an American rowter

Do trees have routes in America?

 

[swee'pea99]

Not exactly a mispronunciation this, but my mate calls a puncture a pumpture. It’s what he thought people were saying and it was logical (to him) because you used a pump after suffering a pumpture.

He’s in his 60s now and still says it.

My Dad enjoyed the sign outside a garage for PUNCHERS REPARED.

In other news, my wife once lived in Solihull as a girl - the only trace of it left in her accent is somethink, nothink, anythink, and the like. I have threatened to strangle her if she persists, but it makes no difference.

 

[raleighnut]

The idiosyncrasies of the English language, and how it evolves across regions and English speaking countries, has led us to this place and, indeed, this thread.

However, for me "skedule" is just plain wrong, but that's just me, a 60 year old, 42 years
in the English Midlands and then 18 years in West Somerset.

Used to be amused by "incomers" to Warwickshire calling the various roads and avenues named Beauchamp (after aritisocracy in the region "back in the day") ... "Bow-cham" when all the locals said / knew it was pronounced "Beecham". To be fair, the incomers version made more sense.

Anyway, just going off to try out a new pronunciation "skeme" that I've seen.

Aye there's a few here in Leicester, Oadby Beauchamp and Kibworth Beauchamp pronounced Kiberth beecham

 

[swee'pea99]

I heard a reproduction of how someone would have sounded in the 1500s

I've heard it said that if you want to imagine the accents of Shakespeare's day, forget Laurence Olivier, think Virginia hillbilly.

 

[Electric_Andy]

There's a suburb here called Tamerton Foliot. I've heard locals call it Fo-Li-Ot, and Fo-Li-O and Fo-Li-Ay. There doesn't seem to be an agreed pronunciation.

But strangely everyone pronounces St Budeaux the same way (St Byou-Do)

 

[DaveReading]

I've been waiting for someone to contribute contribute as an oft-mispronounced word.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

My Dad enjoyed the sign outside a garage for PUNCHERS REPARED.

In other news, my wife once lived in Solihull as a girl - the only trace of it left in her accent is somethink, nothink, anythink, and the like. I have threatened to strangle her if she persists, but it makes no difference.

Why, she's saying those words spot on, all of them, everythink. From a Coventry kid.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

When I moved down 'ere, a nearby village, spelt Carhampton, I stupidly, pronounced "Car-hamp-ton".

Oh the laughter this caused. "It's Cramton, you dozy Northerner!" (Remember, they consider citizens of "Bris'ol" as from up North round these parts.

 

[Ian H]

Controversy or controversy? 🤔

Stress on the first syllable.

 

[Ian H]

Used to be amused by "incomers" to Warwickshire calling the various roads and avenues named Beauchamp (after aritisocracy in the region "back in the day") ... "Bow-cham" when all the locals said / knew it was pronounced "Beecham". To be fair, the incomers version made more sense.

Beauchamp and Belvoir have similar origins in old Norman French.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Aye there's a few here in Leicester, Oadby Beauchamp and Kibworth Beauchamp pronounced Kiberth beecham

Weirdly I used to work with a man called Jim Beauchamp, and everyone including him pronounced it Beecham

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Menzies or Mingis ? Dalziel or Dalyell ?
In Scotland a ‘z’ is often pronounced as either ‘g’ or ‘y’.

 

[Mo1959]

Menzies or Mingis ? Dalziel or Dalyell ?
In Scotland a ‘z’ is often pronounced as either ‘g’ or ‘y’.

Yes. A few even around here. The loch I walk round is called Monzievaird but pronounced Moneevaird. When dad was still working, one of the farms he did work on was called The Binzean. He pronounced it Bingin.

 

[Dogtrousers]

That thing most of you are using just now a router.
It’s rooter surely not an American rowter

When I first learned about networking IT back in the mists of time was on a course given by an American, so to me a router (networking device) is a rowter. This is fairly common among IT people, even UK-English speakers.

Of course if I had a thing that did things with say, cycling routes, it would be a "rooter"

 

[Dogtrousers]

I've been waiting for someone to contribute contribute as an oft-mispronounced word.

Thank you for contributing your contribution.