Scallops! Correcting other people's speech?

[swansea girl]

anybody want a go at a welsh place name Cwmrhydyceirw ...now I find this easy (welsh obviously and just happen to live here) but for some strange reason some people find it quite a mouthfull

[Liza]

Scollops here

We have a Bicester near Pronounced Bister, out of towners pronounce it Bi sester

[annacruachan]

How about Costessey and Fowey? Have a go at Tobarmhoire! There are some wonderful Gaelic place names - er, that's pronounced gallic, not gaylic, unless you're in Ireland!

Oh, scallops for me. And I would never correct a stranger, but being a pedant as far as language, spelling and pronunciation are concerned I do find it irksome. I have even been known to wipe off the apostrophe and insert an 'e' into potatoes and tomatoes on cafe blackboards.

You've probably all heard it, but -
who led the pedant's revolt? Which Tyler, of course!!

[Alison]

At the supermarket fish counter today i asked for some scallops (which i pronounced to rhyme with 'pallets'). The person behind the counter replied "You mean scollops, it's pronounced SCOL-LOPS" (rhyming with 'dollops').

I'd have just assumed they hadn't heard me properly and were just clarifying, don't think it would even have occured to me that they might be correcting.

Did you have can-apes at that dinner party?

Canned apes - goodness, do the supermarkets sell that now

[Two_Sheds]

OH keeps saying Ralph Le Wren.

I've told him it's Ralph Lorren, and even showed him a video of the man's daughter herself pronouncing it correctly. Makes no difference

[di]

Did you have can-apes at that dinner party?

Think it may have been horse doves.

Ralph Le Wren does have a bit of a ring to it.

[Glutton4...]

Think it may have been horse doves.

Ralph Le Wren does have a bit of a ring to it.

They're 'orses' doofers in our house!

[binley100]

Areas of Cov that people have problems with ....Wykin, cheylesmore and styvechale( which is sometimes spelt Stivichall) , The local way of pronouncing bus is buz and it's gets really annoying when you get corrected on it all the time .

[SarzWix]

Lots of people get tangled with Keighley - off-cumdens always think it's Keeley, whereas really it's Keithly or Keef-leh if you're an inhabitant You can always tell a local by how they pronounce Cowling too - an 'oh' sound in the middle, rather than an 'ow'.

As for being corrected, well it would depend on the attitude it was done with, and how much sleep I'd had whether it annoyed me or not. If anyone had done it today, I would have been very, very cross..

[Two_Sheds]

Place names are difficult. Chris Evans just said Wiz Betch instead of Wiz Beach (Wisbech). Lots of East Angulars will be chuckling

[Glutton4...]

Place names are difficult. Chris Evans just said Wiz Betch instead of Wiz Beach (Wisbech). Lots of East Angulars will be chuckling

Old'uns call it Wiz Beck, or so an Old'un once told me!

[susieq100]

This is a really difficult one. Place names are OK to correct, because everyone knows that there are local dialects. But when it's a word that you 'ought' to know .... A few years ago my eldest was working in a Video Hire Shop (you can tell how long ago it was!) and a customer came in and asked him for a copy of Sham-E-lon. It took him a moment to realise that the guy meant Chameleon. Now if you've never heard the word how are you going to know how to say it?

[Nicos]

Old'uns call it Wiz Beck, or so an Old'un once told me!

OMG...I call it that...and I've never even been near the place!!!

[Jeanied]

How about Magheera?

(pronounced Ma- her aaa!)

[Glutton4...]

What about Loughton (Essex) and Sproughton (Suffolk)?