Scallops! Correcting other people's speech?

[Mikey]

With butter and jam or cream?

[veggiechicken]

I'll pass on the cream, thanks Mikey

[Indigo23]

I say scone as it rhymes with stone! I prefer mine with lemon curd ......mmm

[Mikey]

See I thought as much, its scone as in stone if you like cream, and scon if you are a bit more common.

[veggiechicken]

Oooh, I likes being common

[Mikey]

Oooh, I likes being common

You and me both chook.

[veggiechicken]

Now where's them scons gon wot you offered me

[Mikey]

I only offered butter and Jam, you mentioned the scons.

[maytreefrannie]

Scallops, vaguely rhyming with pallets for me. And no, I would never correct a stranger. In fact, I'm now pronouncing my favourite spanish sausage as cho-reet-so instead of cho-reetho just to fit in

I do that with Bruschetta - in Italy it's pronounced Brus-ketta (the h gives c the k sound) and I've just stopped saying it properly, I've been corrected so many times - also, I think it's come into English as a sh sound (brushetta) - ouch. the first time I typed it like this, the machine corrected me and added in the c.

I'm rambling here, I think I'll go and get a plate of scallops, or maybe scollops and some brushetta.

[rustylady]

I'm rambling here, I think I'll go and get a plate of scallops, or maybe scollops and some brushetta.

Or maybe a scon with raspberry jam and clotted cream?

[veggiechicken]

Do you mean rasberry jam, Rusty

[Pa Snips]

I don't think we have a suitable consonant for the second half of 'scallop'. Up in'th grim north where I live, it begins 'sco...' but the second half sounds more like the ending of the word 'butter', I mean we don't elongate it into 'butterrrr', it's just a short cut-off sort of sound, however, if I typed 'scolerp' you would all think that I say 'scolerrrrp'.

I think the nearest I can come up with is the word 'scholar' with a 'p' on the end.

Only on a very rare occasion, when feeling particularly punctilious, would I correct the pronunciation of a person with whom I am unfamiliar. Having said that, inwardly I'll always be screaming 'It's a haller-pain-yo, not a jaller-pee-no' (jalapeño).
I wouldn't mind so much but the same people manage to say 'petty pwar' instead of 'petitt poice' (petit pois).

The thing that really irks me is when people insist on using the wrong word altogether...I paddle a kayak, not a canoe and until a few days ago I owned a motorhome, not a caravan! If these were simple oversights brought about by ignorance or stupidity I could live with it but on the occasions when I can be bothered to attempt to educate them, they actually argue with me about it. In addition to those two examples...'That's more then I can afford', no it's not, it's more than you can afford, also, 'Well that's how I done it', no no no no noooooo, that's how you did it. Aaarrgh!

Aaaand breathe....ah, that's better.

[ancee]

Pronunciation is such a pain when you are trying to teach children to read. How do you explain that although its spelled this way it's pronounced that way, and even though that word is the same apart from one letter it's pronounced quite differently! I'm sure my two thought i was making it up half the time!

[mothhawk]

Do you mean rasberry jam, Rusty

Or if you're frightfully posh, rarspberry

[veggiechicken]

..............or is it Rarsperry
(Don't you love these old threads that are resurrected out of the blue and set the whole discussion going again but with different people )