Wrong and utterly stupid pronunciations...

I only realised the other day that "expresso coffee" is in fact "espresso coffee".

My dad wondered for ages why the Fairy advert said "for hands that judicious are as soft as your face" - but that didn't stop him from laughing at me when, as a teenager, I pronounced "lingerie" as it is spelt.

Asking a good friend of my DH the time he often says 'Just turned septic' while looking at his watch.

Ohhhh! and when people say pacific instead of specific, my DH also says Prostrate even though he has seen the word on paper a good few times in the past 18 months.

Walking along a cliff footpath in Cornwall I saw a sign saying Unstable, I called to my DH that there was a place nearby called Unstable ( rhyming with Dunstable which is a town not too far from us)

My father used to say Egg-whipped for Egypt.

Bum hooks for B....cks

My mum always says hitchy for itchy and it really irritates me.
My sister says Primart instead of Primark and Pacific instead of specific.
Grandson (4) announced that his sister were diriculous !

Little grandaughter likes putting clutterbups under your chin to see if you like butter.

It also depends on your local accent/dialect. My latest favourite is Mary Berry's "lairs" in cakes!

My DS used to say andublance, and liked small cake and the new woods ( shortbread , new forest )

My youngest GD used to ask for burning crisps (salt and vinegar - my eldest GD used to say vignear instead of vinegar) and brown jam (marmite).

thilthy (filthy)

One school I worked at, we were sitting down for lunch and during pudding, one little boy (aged about 6), whose front two teeth had fallen out, said 'Mith, there'th a thpider in my pudding'. The headteacher said (to cover things over no doubt) 'I thought you liked spiders', the lad replied 'yeth, I do but not with cuthtard'.

Amazing the memories that bounce back when you read postings on this forum.

It is isn't it GreatauntieLinda - with a big grin as you imagine it again

Flower - that prostrate thing drives me nuts! My DH has prostate cancer and I have a friend whose DH has had it for 3 years and she STILL says prostrate. This week at the hospital we were chatting to a chap in the waiting room who has been treated for it for 4 years and he said prostrate.
Aaaargh....

DH continues to wear his "sangals" in the summer time in spite of all my correcting him!

Did not realise that expresso is espresso until I read your post* eloethan*.

I usually drink latty.

There have been a few 'flutterbyes' in our garden this year. Known as that since DD2 named them.

So, if sandwiches has no 'g' why do Aussies call them 'sangers'? (With a hard 'g')

My daughter when reading a direction sign in the street said,'' Mum , what's a municipal (munnikipple) golf course? Also boiled eggs were always bald eggs ( which is exactly what they are if you think about it)

These are so funny! I have a friend who went to London and visited St Pancreas station and my neighbour had panasonic views from her hotel room in Switzerland. My DH always says to me if I correct him for using the wrong word 'it's a good job you're so perfect, it's a great help to the rest of us'

@Eloethan - Better "Linggery" than "Lonjeray"...

I still talk of "VeGATables", after seeing it beautifully sign-written on a greengrocery in Ashford (Surrey, not Kent) as 'Vegatables'...

Just got back from a visit to Colchester Castle and was reminded of how my Dad always referred to the Roman Emperor as "1 Clavdivs".

My grandfather always used to say "hoovercraft" which made me giggle at the thought of a floating vacuum cleaner. My daughter when very small would say we had to go to the "hospipeople", our car was in the "par cark" and on arriving at a birthday party would greet the lucky birthday child with "Happy Birthcake"!

They don't rosequartz, sangers are sausages. No G in sausages either but everyone (in Australia anyway) expects if sangers and mash are being served up you won't be getting a sandwich.

My English FIL used to say Glenell (a suburb of Adelaide) instead of Glenelg. He would try to pronounce it with a G but couldn't. I have also heard other people say Glenell, I think there are words that make some people tongue tied, such as hospital etc.

Probably 'bangers' with the 's' for sausages substituted just to be different from us lot, Faye!

Must be a Queensland thing then, Faye, my SIL and his family call sandwiches sangers.
We have lived out there for months at a time and NQ always call them that!
He has offered to make me sangers many times!

A snag is a sausage. (a banger)

Someone who was given a Gukki handbag (obviously Gucci), politicians who crate instead of create and anenomies instead of anemonies. My youngest GD aged 3 couldn't say a 'j' and always said plum dam. I asked her if she would like some plum dam on her toast, she looked me in the eye and said "you're not saying it right". I suppose it isn't fair to smile, if you haven't heard how a word is properly pronounced, how would you know?

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Australian_English_terms_for_food_and_drink

Gems from our 2 year old GS: cappertillar, swy flotter, birdylade.

I knew someone who used to call mange touts "mangle towts" - it was a genuine error and not an affectation.

I also know someone who mistakenly calls Mozilla Firefox "Mozarella Firebox." It is hard to keep a straight face!

I've said it before, but no one understood! I HATE the way Americans refer to a scientific study area (which on my planet is called a "laboratory") as a Labratory!!! They miss out the "o" between the "B" and the "R" !

I have never heard anyone say sanger for a sandwich. They would either say sanger and bread for a sausage wrapped in bread or sangers and mash, the sanger referring to the sausage. Most people I know would normally say sausage anyway.