serial mispronunciation

[KZNSeagull]

Card Shark

 

[Acker79]

Pronouncing 'have' as 'get'.

Or as 'of'.

 

[Woodchip]

Pronouncing Alfriston as Al-Friston instead of All-Friston.

 

[brightn'ove]

Excuse me darling could you whip me up an expresso?

 

[Spanish Seagulls]

Poyet. According to the man himself is actually pronounced Poor-chet. I now await a flaming for getting this wrong!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I'm not sure NISA and BEKO have obvious pronunciations. They're foreign brands and how the natives of the countries they're from pronounce them usually has little bearing on how we choose to pronounce them.

As for Amex, it's a portmanteau of American and Express, so it is correctly pronounced as it is written, AM-EX.

Only stupid people could possibly think it was pronounced anything other than Am-ex.

Palace fans who coined "Gaymex" are, consequently, on a massive Fail.

 

[User removed 4]

Cant stand it when people say drownded, for drowned, terrible mispronounciation.

 

[The Large One]

I've heard BBC news readers pronounce Lewes as 'Loos', Southwick as 'Suthick', and Steyning as 'Stayning'.

 

[Biscuit]

Can you be more Pacific?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Poyet. According to the man himself is actually pronounced Poor-chet. I now await a flaming for getting this wrong!

It's more of a Por-hyet to be honest. A difficult sound to convey to the average native English speaker.

Either way, it definitely, positively ends in a "et", not an "ay", which makes it all the more annoying hearing people singing "Gus Poy-ay, my lord, Gus Poy-ay".

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I've heard BBC news readers pronounce Lewes as 'Loos', Southwick as 'Suthick', and Steyning as 'Stayning'.

Arding-lee and Ans-tee

 

[Meade's Ball]

There'll be a film out soon called The Descendants in which a 16 year old girl with a pottymouth is meant to shock the audience a little with her swearing. This is an American film so her use of the word T W A T makes it sound like T W O T and therefore to an English audience shocks in the incorrect way. Most of the film isn't about this girl, but i largely remember her and the accidental silliness of such pronunciation.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Pronouncing Alfriston as Al-Friston instead of All-Friston.

It is Al-friston. Not Awl-friston.

 

[sten_super]

My friends (non-Brightonians I might add) like to talk about the new ground at Farmer.

 

[Woodchip]

It is Al-friston. Not Awl-friston.

It's never been Al. In the 60+ years Dad's lived in and around Ripe I'd hope he knew how to pronounce it. That is of course unless generations of Sussex Born don't know their own dialect.

Where's LB when I need him?