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Just now, spacemunky said:

What a coinkydink!

 

For me it's 'antibiotic' that I usually butcher lol I either say it as 'aunty-be-yaw-tic' or because someone made fun of how i said it, so i do a more drawn out and way too sharply pronounced 'ann-tie-by-aww-tick!'.

Mate my brain would hurt whenever I saw the word lol 

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How do people pronounce “tongue”? When growing up in Leicestershire I always pronounced it as “tong” the same as a pair of tongs, but when I moved to the south coast got laughed at as everyone else pronounced it “tung” as in the first half of “tungsten” differently from tongs. I keep telling them it’s an “o” not a “u” in the first syllable but they won’t listen.

 

Never knew if that was just me or it was a a Leicestershire thing.

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I used to weirdly struggle with variety. I would say varity.

 

I had a good one in Spain, I was practicing my Spanish and I didn't know the word for blister in Spanish so I asked my Spanish friends. They said ampolla, I slightly mis heard and said: "Mis pies estaban cubierto de pollas." 

 

Which means my feet were covered in dicks.

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2 minutes ago, Sampson said:

How do people pronounce “tongue”? When growing up in Leicestershire I always pronounced it as “tong” the same as a pair of tongs, but when I moved to the south coast got laughed at as everyone else pronounced it “tung” as in the first half of “tungsten” differently from tongs. I keep telling them it’s an “o” not a “u” in the first syllable but they won’t listen.

 

Never knew if that was just me or it was a a Leicestershire thing.

It's a Leicester/Midlands thing I get corrected a lot, even by my missus who is from Leicester.

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18 minutes ago, FoxesAreBlue said:

I’ve been pronouncing “bald” in the same way as you’d say “bold” and got pellets for it recently.

 

I also can pronounce the name of a Nissan Qashqai - always end up stumbling over it and saying something like quash-koi, cash-cow, kumquat etc

How on earth is there another way to say bald or bold lollol 

 

They're the same pronunciation?!

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16 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

What a coinkydink!

 

For me it's 'antibiotic' that I usually butcher lol I either say it as 'aunty-be-yaw-tic' or because someone made fun of how i said it, so i do a more drawn out and way too sharply pronounced 'ann-tie-by-aww-tick!'.

That reminds me, how may people say ibufen when they mean ibuprofen :rolleyes:

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37 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

In year 9 science class.....

 

Wait for it....

 

Orgasm, meaning to say organism

My mum used to say that instead of organism... Led to a few interesting Sunday dinner table conversations when talking about the natural world. 😆

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19 hours ago, Sampson said:

How do people pronounce “tongue”? When growing up in Leicestershire I always pronounced it as “tong” the same as a pair of tongs, but when I moved to the south coast got laughed at as everyone else pronounced it “tung” as in the first half of “tungsten” differently from tongs. I keep telling them it’s an “o” not a “u” in the first syllable but they won’t listen.

 

Never knew if that was just me or it was a a Leicestershire thing.

I've always pronounced it 'tong'. My other half is a geordie and he's always pronounced it 'tung' and rinsed me for saying it incorrectly (they're hardly ones to talk about speaking proper...).

 

Definitely a Leicester(shire) thing

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23 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

That reminds me, how may people say ibufen when they mean ibuprofen :rolleyes:

The pronunciation of some of the medicines the people that I have attended have been "unusual": Parstomol being the stand-out.

 

One man once told us he had "epsilepsy".

 

Also been told a patient was "a diabetical"

 

One time we were called to a police station for a guy in the cells. My crewmate wrote down the location as "the custardy sweet" lol

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