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I have Radio 4 on at work and when that woman is on Gardeners Question Time I have to turn it off/turn over to Radio 4 extra as her voice really grates on my nerves.

That woman is on Gardeners Question Time again!

Please God do NOT let her have to talk about the heavy layer of stuff that you put on to stop weeds and retain moisture!

If she says "MULSH" ever again I swear I _will not_ be responsible for my actions!

Oh and 'of' for 'have'

'Off of' and 'for free' are two of my biggest hates

My opticians receptionist answers the phone with Anshew ........ instead of Andrew......... Opticians. Drives me mad. Another picky one of mine is huge being pronounced shuge WHY??? specific - pacific grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

(I was brought up with shedual- not sure what that shows)

Don't find I talk about Seen Been so much these days. Not since Sharpe stopped being repeated!

we too talk about Seen Been! My DH adds letters to words...as in gammond. Where I used to work in a scheduling dept of an Engineering consultancy we had the US/UK discussion about whether schedule should be shedule or skedule and it was decided that it depended on which shool you went to. (you probably/probly have to say it out aloud to understand the distinction!)

My ex husband used to refer to a particular water thing as a "reservore"

To this day it still annoys me to the point where it almost makes my teeth itch!

My darling Mr P makes the odd fox pas (sic) over the pronunciation of a few words, but we make light of it!

Regarding tuition pronounced 'too ition' and not 'tyuition' - I am sure Nfk will agree with me that that is not wrong, but simply an East Anglian variant.
My DMiL who has lived in Cambridge all her life, would pronounce it that way, in the same way that she refers to lamb stoo and the noospaper

Jewlery is how it's pronounced in Norfik. So perhaps he's from this way. Goes with fillums and sustifcats etc.

I'm not usually pedantic but found myself getting very annoyed at the traffic reporter on local radio this morning who insisted on saying that the roads were "slippy"

The Antiques Roadshow who mispronounces his own specialist subject really gets my goat!

It is NOT "jewlery"

On This Morning today. A presenter (who seems lovely incidentally) interviewing a famous film actress 'Was you emotionally drained by making this film?' 'Was you happy when you found out who was going to play you?' 'You are one of the most bravest people I have ever met'. Note to self: STOP WATCHING DAYTIME TV - Rant over

I don't like to hear politicians talking about a disconnect- I thought it was a disconnection. Also - that's sorted! I thought things were sorted out. Living abroad we teach an English which no one speaks anymore. Our students would get poor marks for speaking or writing this sloppy English.

A soap actress has recently 'tweeted' she feels sorry for trolls and bullies because they will never forfil their dreams

There are some adverts I have noticed recently on TV, where they say things like 'find your happy' and 'discover your beautiful'. Those were never used as nouns in my day! Happiness and beauty would be better.

'Adviser' and 'advisor' are both correct spellings of the word, although admittedly 'adviser' is more commonly used.

This is spelling rather than pronunciation but am fed up of seeing adverts placed by agency recruitment consultants for sales 'advisors' with salary 'dependant' on experience. Would love to email them just to point out that they need to learn to spell. Have yet to come across a recruitment consultant who isn't a smart ass.

We call him Seen Been in our house!

Every time, phoenix!

Does anyone else ever think about a certain actor, and wonder why it isn't "Seen Been" or "Shawn Bawn"?

'clapsed' instead of collapsed. Here's looking at you DH!!

An entertaining link, Ariadne. I too have been wondering when 'turmeric' lost its first R and became 'chewmeric'. A certain relative of mine got very uppity when I put her right on chorizo and bruschetta. She actually asked the maitre d' in the Italian restaurant if I was right about bruschetta! The nerve!