Words wot you say wrong...

[glasgowcyclist]

My wife used to correctly pronounce the word 'luminous', until I convinced her that it was actually pronounced 'loonymuss'. After a few embarrassing arguments with friends, she knows it's wrong now but we've both become so used to it that we now prefer it.
(Yes, I did nearly get a slap for it.)

 

[steveindenmark]

Can I point out that there never has been a word which is pronounced as "Nuffin". It is pronounced "Nothing".

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I knew a woman who told me her elderly father had become incontinental.

An early Brexit adopter ?

 

[classic33]

Can I point out that there never has been a word which is pronounced as "Nuffin". It is pronounced "Nothing".

nuffin /ˈnʌfɪn/

pronoun, adjective, adverb

non-standard spelling of nothing, representing speech.

 

[Pale Rider]

In Sunderland 'h' sounds are routinely dropped, and curiously, inserted where they don't exist.

I heard a woman give evidence about at axe attack

"'E 'it 'im on the 'ead with han haxe."

 

[PaulB]

"Why can't you say “orangutan”? Why can't you just say “Ku Klux Klan”?

I saw him sing this on Friday night. Anyone know where it's from? No bloody Googling either. You either know or you don't.

 

[Globalti]

The most irritating linguistic fashion is the dropping of Ts by trendy speakers. The funny thing about it is that they only do it selectively so they have to make more effort to speak fashionably than if they just spoke like a normal person. Example: "It's no' trendy to take maffema'ics a' scoowl" is more of a mouthful than the correct pronounciation.

The other one that gets up my nose is pronouncing the -er ending as -ah, as in "muvvah" and "bruvvah".

 

[Venod]

The most irritating linguistic fashion is the dropping of Ts by trendy speakers.

Ta-oo for tattoo seems fairly common also.

And what about the adding r in words, there is no r in bath or laugh.

 

[wheresthetorch]

And what about the adding r in words, there is no r in bath or laugh.

Or lager . . .

 

[Rusty Nails]

I am amazed that people regularly mispronounce names such as Featherstonehaugh, or Cholmondely, or Ralph as Fanshaw, Chumley and Raif.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Or lager . . .

Or drawring.

 

[mustang1]

Slippy/slippery.

I always use the latter but the former makes more sense. The latter seems to have something to do with footwear.

 

[classic33]

Slippy/slippery.

I always use the latter but the former makes more sense. The latter seems to have something to do with footwear.

Heels

 

[Dave7]

My wife used to correctly pronounce the word 'luminous', until I convinced her that it was actually pronounced 'loonymuss'.

(Yes, I did nearly get a slap for it.)

Only nearly got a slap.......you got away light.

 

[MontyVeda]

It kind of annoys me when people sing the word fire.... Fiyerrr!