Stop saying "Demond" !!!

[Dand E Lion]

My pet hate is 'seeming' substituted for 'seeing' - 'Seeming as it is raining, I'll take an umbrella' It is not the same word, they are not interchangeable in any context. Either 'it seems that it is raining' or 'seeing that it is...'

And people who can't pronounce or spell pronunciation.

[militantmandy]

Dand E Lion said:

My pet hate is 'seeming' substituted for 'seeing' - 'Seeming as it is raining, I'll take an umbrella' It is not the same word, they are not interchangeable in any context. Either 'it seems that it is raining' or 'seeing that it is...'

And people who can't pronounce or spell pronunciation.

Happy to say I have never encountered that one.

[stanthebiker]

FRA53R said:

stanthebiker said:

It's french you 'tard!

If you'd been paying any attention we've already been through the correct pronunciation and I have admitted my mistake.

I always thought that the r was pronounced softly, however we've established that it isn't. Try to catch up before putting your 2p in.

I paid attention and indeed read to the end of the thread to make sure someone else hadn't already paraphrased what is possibly the most classic of PH threads.

[MarshPhantom]

People who can't say the word create. Nick Clegg used to do it but he's not alone.

Create - crate

Created - crated

[catman]

Dand E Lion said:

My pet hate is 'seeming' substituted for 'seeing' - 'Seeming as it is raining, I'll take an umbrella' It is not the same word, they are not interchangeable in any context. Either 'it seems that it is raining' or 'seeing that it is...'

And people who can't pronounce or spell pronunciation.

Another annoying variation is "seen" instead of seeing. My other irritations are "wary" instead of weary and the increasingly common joining of two words, ie abit, alot (or allot!) etc.

Tim

[ManFromDelmonte]

My favourites are the ones where even though you know the correct pronunciation, so many other people don't, that if you use the correct one, you appear ignorant.

Moët is one example but the best is probably Glenmorangie.

[RichB]

The Crack Fox said:

For the ill-educated here (me included) how are they pronounced correctly, then?

Indeed, I had a scottish friend who said it is Glen-morn-gee but then he was a bit of a wind up merchant so I never know if he was telling me that for a laugh

Always say Glen-moran-jee myself and seem to get what I want when I request it.

[feef]

RichB said:

The Crack Fox said:

For the ill-educated here (me included) how are they pronounced correctly, then?

Indeed, I had a scottish friend who said it is Glen-morn-gee but then he was a bit of a wind up merchant so I never know if he was telling me that for a laugh

Always say Glen-moran-jee myself and seem to get what I want when I request it.

The 'O' is the strong syllable, GlenMAWranjee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ZwgGB1Lr4

[FrankAbagnale]

A colleague calls a portal a "port hole".

"Log on to the port hole"

I'm not angry about it. I'm livid.

[frg530]

Sorry if already mentioned

Cutulry - my wife says it and I correct her every time. I think she just does it now to ps me off!

[feef]

No doubt these have already been mentioned, but I've missed them:

Brought instead of bought
draw instead of drawer
are instead of our

Although, tbf, they are written rather than spoken (other than Brought, I hear that spoken too)

[RichB]

feef said:

RichB said:

The Crack Fox said:

For the ill-educated here (me included) how are they pronounced correctly, then?

Indeed, I had a scottish friend who said it is Glen-morn-gee but then he was a bit of a wind up merchant so I never know if he was telling me that for a laugh

Always say Glen-moran-jee myself and seem to get what I want when I request it.

The 'O' is the strong syllable, GlenMAWranjee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ZwgGB1Lr4

Thanks, so perhaps my friend was right and I misheard him. That's more or less what he said. I'll remember that next time I order one

[anonymous-user]

From our American cousins:

The use of 'momentarily' to mean 'soon'

'aloominum'. Too many syllables in 'aluminium' whilst chewing gum, perhaps?

'buoy' pronounced as 'boo-wie'. Lord knows how 'buoyancy' should be pronounced, based on this logic

[feef]

280E said:

From our American cousins:

The use of 'momentarily' to mean 'soon'

'aloominum'. Too many syllables in 'aluminium' whilst chewing gum, perhaps?

'buoy' pronounced as 'boo-wie'. Lord knows how 'buoyancy' should be pronounced, based on this logic

The IUPAC periodic table lists both Aluminum and Aluminium, while it might grate, both are equally correct

[bingybongy]

280E said:

From our American cousins:

The use of 'momentarily' to mean 'soon'

'aloominum'. Too many syllables in 'aluminium' whilst chewing gum, perhaps?

'buoy' pronounced as 'boo-wie'. Lord knows how 'buoyancy' should be pronounced, based on this logic

It appears normally.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070...

[marshalla]

280E said:

From our American cousins:

The use of 'momentarily' to mean 'soon'

'aloominum'. Too many syllables in 'aluminium' whilst chewing gum, perhaps?

'buoy' pronounced as 'boo-wie'. Lord knows how 'buoyancy' should be pronounced, based on this logic

Being American, I'm sure it will become floatationarity at some stage.

[RichB]

FrankAbagnale said:

A colleague calls a portal a "port hole".

"Log on to the port hole"

I'm not angry about it. I'm livid.

Understandably so, porthole is all one word.

[DickyC]

One of the blokes I am obliged to work with swears a lot. Its all the usual stuff but when something happens he finds particularly exasperating he says, "Jesus wet."

[Goaty Bill 2]

DickyC said:

One of the blokes I am obliged to work with swears a lot. Its all the usual stuff but when something happens he finds particularly exasperating he says, "Jesus wet."

'wept'
It is; "Jesus wept".

If you are certain you are hearing him clearly, please correct this deficiency.

And if I have stated the patently obvious well

Edited by Goaty Bill 2 on Saturday 9th January 10:10

[DickyC]

Do try and keep up.