Scallops! Correcting other people's speech?

[Two_Sheds]

Happisburgh
Wymondham

go on, have a go (not you Rusty)

[rustylady]

Happisburgh
Wymondham

go on, have a go (not you Rusty)

Spoilsport!!! How about Mousehole?

[rustylady]

Or Launceston?

[burnie]

I am constantly told off for pronounciation of local villages,Gaelic is bad enough,but when you get to old pictish doric,I give up.I do correct folk who pronounce whisky names wrong,I'm good at those as I'm drinking my way through all the malts,only another 650 to go,hic.

[Glutton4...]

Happisburgh
Wymondham

go on, have a go (not you Rusty)

Now even I know it's Hays-bru and Wind-um, and I'm from Essix innit! LOL

[Glutton4...]

Oh, yeah, nearly forgot; It's Scollops rhyming with dollops, but if you were brought-up to say Scallops rhymes with gallops, that's fine by me.

We could get back on to cowch/cooch, grass/grarse, clemmatis/clemaytis, or any of the others that we've already thrashed out!

[Suky]

Scallops here
My 'favourite' mispronounciation is 'Foilage' instead of foliage and my husband hates it when I refer to the 'Gaze bow'. Gazebo to anyone else I love winding him up.

[FionaH]

Spoilsport!!! How about Mousehole?

Or Launceston?

Mowzle, moa sle oh heck I know how to pronounce it just not how to write it aaaargh

Oh and Lawnston

[di]

Happisburgh
Wymondham

go on, have a go (not you Rusty)

We went to the 'Happy' place for a holiday when I was little...seem to remember several folk correcting me then.
Grundisburgh and Debach are the two villages near me non locals never manage to get right.

Would I correct or be put out if corrected?...depends how it's done.
I remember a dinner party years ago where a rather snooty girl looked down her nose at a chap and patronisingly told him 'it's mokka not motcha'...you could see him wish the ground to swallow him up...a couple of us spent the rest of the evening intentionally mispronouncing things like mangey towts just to infuriate her and make him see the funny side of it.

At the same time though,I'd rather be politely corrected by someone to save making a prat of myself by continually making the same mistake.

[Two_Sheds]

Did you have can-apes at that dinner party?

[rustylady]

Mowzle, moa sle oh heck I know how to pronounce it just not how to write it aaaargh

Oh and Lawnston

Well done Fi. Some of the locals pronounce Launceston as Lanson though.

[jackie j]

Scollops down here, and I dont tell people how to speak proper. lol. I was born in Teignmouth, we say Tinmoth, visitors say Tynemouth.

[reetnproper]

Lol. Scollops here.

And here's a place name for you:

Masham

My OH irritates me as he insists on pronouncing rear (simple enough word) as 'rare' . We have "rare" tyres on our car, apparently - although I'm usure I saw the same tyres on the Kwikfit website .

I started referring to 'gare' (gear) and, when he complained of an ear-ache, I sugested 'air' drops .

I'm not usually that perdantic but I don't need my 6 and 3 year old picking up this particular speech oddity.

Reet
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[Polly Fouracre]

Spoilsport!!! How about Mousehole?

I would pronounce it Mousel

[Polly Fouracre]

Or Launceston?

Well, 'tis Lanston of course!