Reply to: Things that are pronounced differently to how they used to be

[d000hg]

Pacharan, you have done something I thought was not possible! You make gricerboy, d00hg and Wilmslow sound super interesting.

Trying to make sure you keep your "biggest CUK loser" rep level as Pachy makes a challenge for it?

[landl]

Imagine my surprise after filling the car up this morning when the chap at the till pronounced the word "gallon" as "litre" when telling me how much fuel I'd bought for £90.

[shaunbhoy]

I remember being surprised when I went to uni at how many words were pronounced differently than I thought. The problem was I had never heard anyone use them, I had only ever seen them in books.

One of the pitfalls of growing up in the Midlands I guess!

[doodab]

I remember being surprised when I went to uni at how many words were pronounced differently than I thought. The problem was I had never heard anyone use them, I had only ever seen them in books.

[OwlHoot]

I think vitamin is a word invented quite recently. Short for "vital minerals." So the first pronunciation is correct.

Relatively recently, but it's been around for over a century.

[IR35 Avoider]

"vytamin" instead of "vittamin"

I think vitamin is a word invented quite recently. Short for "vital minerals." So the first pronunciation is correct.

Edit: Wikipedia disagrees with me slightly. Say it is a combination of "Vital" and "amine", invented in 1912.

[Spacecadet]

Shouldn't it be "Things that people in my local have only recently learned to pronounce properly"

WHS

[shaunbhoy]

Pacharan, you have done something I thought was not possible! You make gricerboy, d00hg and Wilmslow sound super interesting.

I've told you a million times russell, don't exaggerate!

[Lockhouse]

I bought my house from someone with the middle name "St John" pronounced "sin gin".

[wobbegong]

"Gordon Brown"/"One eyed, slack jawed, incompetant, indiscrete, gold selling, economy mismanaging, c**t"

. . . at least that's how it's pronounced around here.

[MrMark]

Rhodesia

Ceylon

Deputy Prime Minister

[NotAllThere]

Nestlé is a derived from a Schwäbisch word - it's not in fact French.

[russell]

Pacharan, you have done something I thought was not possible! You make gricerboy, d00hg and Wilmslow sound super interesting.

[OwlHoot]

Was up the Hungry Horse & the blokes at the bar were talking about words that are now pronounced differently to how they used to be years ago.

Though the conversation lasted the whole of my 2 pints of Triple Crown allocation, I can only remember 2 words.

They are (with old pronunciation followed by new in parentheses):

Nestles (nessulls/nestlays)
Lichen(lichinn/liken)

I'm sure there are loads more. Let's start a list.

"Yoagert" instead of "yoggut" for yoghurt

Even my granddad, born in the 1880s, used to pronounce some of his "a"s as "e"s, such as "Chairing Cross" instead of "Charrying Cross", and "Pell Mell" instead of "pal mal" (and if you asked him the time, he'd say "five and twenty past .." like the blackbirds in the pie )

"BalCONEY" instead of "BALcony"

Going back a couple of hundred years, the changes get even more bizarre, such as "obleege" instead of "oblige", "Rooom" for "Rome".

"forrid" instead of "fore head"

"vytamin" instead of "vittamin"

[doodab]

Shouldn't it be "Things that people in my local have only recently learned to pronounce properly"