Don't use a word if you can't pronounce it correctly!

I recently heard of an outfit trimmed with ‘Malibu!’

Because my father was profoundly deaf, he often pronounced words (especially long words) as they were wrote.
We would often have explain the correct pronunciation.

However on a number of occasions my late father's pronunciation has proved to be very helpful.
For example a family member asked how to spell Exzema and my answer was just how xxx
pronounced it.

A cousin lives in an area with an extremely long and difficult sounding name, when I address her xmas card I just replay my fathers voice in my head. Simples

Mispronunciation doesn’t bother me, and I’m sure I do plenty of it.

But I do object to companies choosing names for themselves or their ranges that I don’t know how to pronounce. Looking at you, TUI and Sainsburys for Tu. Too, tyu, tyooey, tooey?

I did once brighten someone’s day in a travel agent when I came over all French asking for the Leger brochure. They’re a tour company based in Doncaster, where the St Leger’s run.

and while I'm having a whinge about the media, why are we now 'watching on'? When was the 'on' added?

I don't mind a bit when it is just someone in conversation but I mind strongly when it is a newsreader or supposed expert. Don't' we pay them to know the correct pronunciation?

A friend calls the builder Persimmon Persimion and the thyroid thoughride but that doesn't matter a bit. I was once at a talk from someone who thought he knew everything and was proud of myself and the rest of the group who kept straight faces when we were told that it 'was the very epy tome'. Don't think he ever knew he had got it wrong.

Why has enunciation gone out of fashion in broadcasting?

A lot of words that I know, I never get the opportunity to say, so have little idea how they're pronounced.

There is a village not far from here called Woolfardisworthy, usually pronounced "Woolsery".

But just confuse people, some sign posts are to Woolfardisworthy, others to Woolsery. I'm amazed that visitors aren't spending hours driving around lost and in a state of confusion!

Ah well, I didn’t learn Greek or Latin, so pronounce hyperbole exactly as it is written. In fact, come to think of it, I have never heard anyone use the ‘correct’ pronunciation.

Think I’ll continue to do so, ‘cause I’m shirty when told not to do something. ?

First time in an Italian restaurant (this was many many years ago), never having eaten Italian food before I remember asking for the Penne only I pronounced it pen - the waiter took the order without saying anything but when placing it on the table said, very quietly, "pen nay".

Years ago, office where I worked, odd-job man we often used looked back at the rather tattered doormat and said “You ought to hang that on the wall as a muriel”

Another one from my Mil - she'd say Long Lee At instead of Longleat.

I knew a girl who was selling containers to put pot pourri in. She pronounced it pot (as in hot) and then purry (as a cat purs). Poor girl, she had no idea and she’d been demonstrating in front of groups of people! I just pronounced it properly and she realised thank goodness. This has been a most difficult post to write due to spell check driving me mad with suggestions!

It’s the spots wat does it!

We went to buy a new settee and picked out a flowery-upholstered one called the "Cezanne". When the spotty youth filled in the order form he commented. "So you chose the Ker-zany!"

What about gilet? I called it a gill-ett because I didn’t know any better! My friend told me is a jill-ey (with a French accent) but I sometimes ‘correct’ her and say it my way to wind her up. ?

Millennium, which caused me a lot of embarrassment in 1999 when I was working in IT with everyone worrying about the Millennium bug.

I just heard someone on the TV news talking about the Glasgow School of Art. And again, we had “Which were traditionally used to teach droring.....”. I wanted to put my foot through the screen!

On place names - try Friockheim!

Latty. Capp oo cheeno. Mocka.
I was quite small when I asked the meaning of myz eld (misled) and sooplies (supplies).
Was surprised when a teacher friend mentioned Hermy ohn as Harry Potter's friend (Her my o nay).

If you have not heard a word before particularly if its a place name. The small town where I live has an old anglo saxon type name which causes lot of people problem to pronounce. if they do not know it.

I once really made some people laugh with saying "Tow cester"rather than "Toaster". when I first went there. l own up to regularly to prouncing some place names out of a habit.

I loved the Hyacinth Bucket reference!

Definitely not lartay. Rhymes with pate (i.e. lattay)
I genuinely thought it was cotton Easter at one time. I’d only seen it written
The OP question was why use a word if you can’t pronounce it? But they don’t realise they are mispronuncing it do they?

A friend of my DD's used to call quiche kwitch!

How about loovray doors and a cupboard with a caroozle in it?
These had both been a request, same person, to the man who fitted my kitchen ,by another customer.

But only one who was unsure of pronunciation would refer to a dictionary.