segue pronunciation

My Irish FIL always said fillums.

Slightly off piste, but when told to write out the words to O Come all ye Faithful, a 9 year old specki wrote "God and sinners wreck on siled". Mortifying. About the same era, when my Dad was tickling me I said, "stop it Dad, you get on my wick" (a phrase I'd picked up from the naughty boys at the riding stables I went to). My Dad hit the roof and banned me from the stables which nearly ruined my life at the time! I too was 'mysld' rather than' miss-led' and a Pennyloper and don't get me started on 'deodorant' - it took me ages to fathom that one out.

Only last night my dear friend "Withit" told me that she had given her kitchen a thorough clean and it now looked "prestige" and she thought that her mother was getting a "chinnery" for Christmas. After a bit of questioning, I finally understood that she meant one of those outdoor heating things which I think are called "chimneas" , but could be wrong!

Oh heck, these don't really qualify, do they, as the thread is about mispronounciation! Sorry!

During a topic on the Egyptians a year 6 pupil asked me if I believed in green carnation.

Ana, all Ulster folks seem to say 'fillums'. My son's partner and my GP both talk that way.

Ones I've heard: recodnise, anenome.

Those are misplaced letters rather than mispronunciations though.

I heard someone on the radio say albay. Took me a while to work out he meant albeit.
I also heard someone say pubelling travellick, though that clearly was a spoonerism.
My granny used to say corriodor and my Mum was always embarrassed that she had read battalion as bat-a-lion....

I thought 'albeit' was 'allbite' for years.

Assume. Ashume. Which is right? I was brought up with assume, but now a lot of people go for ashume.

And what's happened to the 'f' in fifth and February? All newsreaders and announcers now seem to say 'fith' and 'Febuary'.

it's a family joke to pronounce some words wrong deliberatley, I did whilst peering in the supermarket freezer last week and asking DH if he wanted a chocolate "gate ux" (gateaux) the woman next to me smerked !

We do that too. My late SIL used to say 'tyra mysoo' for tiramasu, and we do it deliberately now! And some mispronounced French words have crept in as well - 'oyzox' for oiseaux, for example!

I said Fassy Mile for some before hearing facsimile, but the funniest was one of my nephews telling me that his Daddy was going to see an opera called Fiddle I O.

Some time, that should be.

Where is that edit button?

Then there's 'Byzantine', which has at least 4 different pronuciations....
Which do you prefer?

Because we mess around with words at home (secret language sort of thing) and talk about 'soldiers' for 'shoulders' and 'shursh' for 'church'; "chiddrens" for "children" - now that I am getting on a bit, I often slip up and do the same "in public" if those words come up, and people look at me blankly and I feel like a real fool. Anyway this thread reminds me of a joke I heard years ago: Man goes into the butcher and asks for "A pound of kidleys, please". Butcher replies "Do you mean kid^neys^?" Man answers "That's what I said, diddle I"? It works when you say it!

Oh dear the italics partway through a word didn't work! Anyway you get the drift I'm sure ... just don't laugh till your soldiers hurt!

I recall a collegue telling me that she ' had been made an escaped goat '.

Anyone remember the late, and very funny, Stanley Unwin?

Or Humphrey Littlebould with his woodwilly of simbrant tone, which causing a deep thraucus of the earthrobes are indeed a great joy? Oh folly!

Unwin? No - never heard of him...

Uwin was he the man that was on one of the 'Small Faces' albums? He did something about 'walking in the forry' ... I remember him - vaguely if that is even him!

win had an LP out at one time, entitle 'Rotatey Diskers with Unwin'

Very funny, in fairly small doses. Deep joy...

Our family always referred to 'being in your disherbelly' to mean being attired in your dressing gown, usually at an hour at which normal people would be up, washed and dressed.
It was a long time before I learned that it came from 'déshabillé' via the WW1 soldiers.
To return to the OP though, I have actually been on a Segway from which I fell and sustained a deep cut above my right eye, necessitating a trip to A&E and huge loss of dignity!

After retirement my FIL took a job as car park attendant at Blenheim Palace. He used to amuse us by talking about the Dobermans and Limerines (Dormobiles and limousines) he had seen.
My mother was partially deaf from childhood and would often get words wrong. She would talk about shayoze for chaos.
Not quite on the same subject, but as a child I used to see a sign saying 'Layby lavatories' and wondered how you could manage to wee lying down!