Mis-Pronounciation

[albaqwerty]

Mr Alba and I were playing a word game, the solution was Violist which I pronounced as Viol (as in Violent)
He snorted and said it's vee-olist, you know, alba, a musician.

Lawdy, I got an A in Higher English, my defence was there were less words around then, to which he agreed.
I'm now thinking of a patio :-)

[gingejbee]

alba: "fewer" words around then, if you please!

[bookbinder]

What, to put Mr. A under?

[grasscarp]

Love is like a veeolin

[bookbinder]

...erm, and it's "mispronunciation", as well.

[woofgang]

so is it a VIola or a VEEola? cos its VIonlin and VIolinist.....

[albaqwerty]

lol ginge, not a good start to the week :-D

Yes, Book :-)

Oil loikes that Grass! (that is now going to be mis-construed too)
I blame my keyboard.

[albaqwerty]

blooming hypens ought to be washed and hung out to dry.

[Psybbo]

And why is Penelope not pennylope?

[albaqwerty]

Sibs, mainly because my pal, Penny, slaps me when I call her Pennylope :-)

[sunny-dave]

I have a young, Harry Potter reading, friend who was mortified to find out that you didn't pronounce Hermione as "Her Me Own" ... no-one at school had told her for weeks :(

[maggiebee]

My flabber has never been so ghasted!

[albaqwerty]

oh, the poor lass Dave!
(cruelly funny though)

[bookbinder]

When I was about 10 or 11, I pronounced Chicago as Chy-sa- go. It was ages before anybody told me the correct pronunciation, because my "friends" enjoyed having a laugh at my expense.

[maggiebee]

Friend talked about mine strone for the soup minestrone! Nearly choked on mine!

[Psybbo]

A friend would not believe that siox Sioux was pronounced sou

[albaqwerty]

When I was about 7, playing scrabble with older brothers, mum, dad, anut and uncle, I submitted PIF, when they asked me wot on earth was it, and explained to them, they told me it was PITH.
Blooming families!

[queenofmean]

I had an argument from Edinburgh to Hull with a girl in my year who was hell bent on saying Her Me Own......

I can't stand it when people say genuINE instead of genuINe and ToMATE-o Its a sodding Tomato, its not like you get out of the bath and step on a 'mate' do you?!?

[daffy654]

I used to think hyperbole was pronounced hyperbowl :-/

[albaqwerty]

lol queenie, that reminds me of the song, 'you say pottato, I say po-tay-to' etc
x

[maggiebee]

Just remembered that my grandaughter's first "boyfriend" at school was called Lewis Duffy. My DIL decided to get a small present for him at Christmas so bought personalised pencils from the Studio catalogue. All OK til his mum said that their surname was actually Duthie.