Pronunciations

[basketcase]

Oregano.

O-REG-ano or Ori-GAR-no?

Come to thnk of it, not a plant but how do you pronounce falafel? FALafel of flaffle?

[OllieMartin]

You say tom-A-to and I say tomarto
You say pot-A-to and I say potarto...


...who the hell says potarto?

[zazen999]

Come to thnk of it, not a plant but how do you pronounce falafel? FALafel of flaffle?

It's always been fluffle in our house.

[SarzWix]

When I moved to Yorkshire I used to have many arguments about whether you should say "b-oo-ks" or "bucks", "c-oo-k" or "cuck".... The barth/bath, parth/path thing drives me potty. The OH says bath, unless he's talking about the place - that becomes Barth

[Alison]

We're all short a's in my family although my brother suddenly went all posh and started talking about making soap into a laaaaaarthar in the baaaaaarth when he got a fancy new job. Got some stick for that but he's stuck with it for over 20 years now. Not really that fussed how people pronounce things so long as a) you can understand what the heck they're on about and b) it's not put on (in a trying to be posh / pretending to be "from the ghetto" / whatever kind of way that's not natural)!

[Glutton4...]

Ah, but did he say "glye-soh-fayt"", or "gliss-oh-fayt"?

I heard it pronounced Gly - FOSS ate today!

Being from Essex, born and bred, I get confused at a lot of differences in pronunciation;

Loughton (in sarf Essex) = Law ton (rhymes with cow), but
Sproughton (in Suffolk) = Sproor ton

Got told off at home as a kid for sounding common, and had the pee taken at school for sounding posh - can't bladdy win!

[OllieMartin]

Got told off at home as a kid for sounding common, and had the pee taken at school for sounding posh - can't bladdy win!

Yea same.
I don't mind when people compare the differences in pronunciation, but I get really arsey when someone tells me the way I say something is "wrong" (unless I get it totally wrong)
Like I keep saying gooseberries as "goozeberries" rather than "guzbries" and my mum keeps correcting me...I'll give her that one!

[Polly Fouracre]

Couch is called "twitch" here in Devon.

[SarzWix]

My OH says 'gussbrees'. I say what I see, which is 'goose berries' - if I saw a goose, I wouldn't say there's a guss/guz/gooz

[BumbleB]

A friends father in Hull laughed at the way I said Bus or Duck. He preferred Boose and Dooks. I know I am a Sarf Londoner but the way I see it they both have a U in them.

[Incy]

We have the north/south divide in our house. I'm southern OH is mancunian born and bred. Poor son has weird mixed pronunciation
My MIL calls gooseberries goosegobs. I HATE that! and yes there is an r in bath....

[maytreefrannie]

My children laugh like drains when I say 'cook' (Cuuhk) and 'cooker' (cuuhker) - but I keep saying it like that, I grew up with it.

Some of the younger nieces and nephews say 'baath' instead of 'bath' - short and sharp and cold (the way we used to have them! so we older ones still say 'bath').

never mind when I say - I'm just after coming back from town
instead of
I've just been to town - posh or what?

[Lottieval]

Last week a friend of ours who runs a small nursery was asked if he had a gonnerea! You know - them there plants that have huge leaves and grow beside streams.

[bluemoon]

When I moved to Yorkshire I used to have many arguments about whether you should say "b-oo-ks" or "bucks", "c-oo-k" or "cuck".... The barth/bath, parth/path thing drives me potty. The OH says bath, unless he's talking about the place - that becomes Barth

My M-I-L says coooook and boooooks as opposed to cuk and buk. She'd said it so many times I was worried my daughter would start speaking like that, so we called our first dog Luke, well you can't say looook at Luke, can you?

[Flummery]

Yea same.
I don't mind when people compare the differences in pronunciation, but I get really arsey when someone tells me the way I say something is "wrong" (unless I get it totally wrong)
Like I keep saying gooseberries as "goozeberries" rather than "guzbries" and my mum keeps correcting me...I'll give her that one!

It IS goozeberries! what's up wi' yer Ma Lad?