Pronunciation watch

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

To may-oral - mayoral with a pronounced "may" as in Theresa May - we now have may-or also pronounced as in Theresa May.

That was in the news section of a sports service commenting on Mr Burnham.

And, today, in regard to Mr Pellegrini, Chi-lay-an which might be right but I prefer Chilly-un.

Of perhaps Chee-leh-an.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Of course, I'm still wondering why Suzy Klein pronounces the word "programme" as shoa or show.

[Lat-Literal]

Of perhaps Chee-leh-an.

Don't tell me the answer to this one.

Let me guess.

Was it Angela Rippon who introduced it?

[Lat-Literal]

I would be quite interested to be given the origins of "chimbley sweep" which many people were still using when chimneys were being phased out.

While plain wrong, it does seem to have been on the border of having had some credibility. Was it Dickens or someone similar who was to blame?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q3gO4LSPxk

[oddoneout]

Sloppy speech plus possibly also ignorance can produce unfortunate results.
Interred and interned are not interchangeable, but appear in print incorrectly, and in recent weeks a R3 announcer sounded very much as if he was saying 'interred' instead of 'interned' when giving some details of a musician.
Rather less serious - and probably not the result of either of the two circumstances mentioned above - was Elizabeth Alker's use(twice) of 'Imitations'(of Mortality) rather than 'Intimations' in relation to the Finzi piece played last Sunday morning.

[french frank]

'Imitations'(of Mortality) rather than 'Intimations' in relation to the Finzi piece played last Sunday morning.

Aaaah … That's as good as 'In auditorium meum intende.'

[oddoneout]

Aaaah … That's as good as 'In auditorium meum intende.'

'I hear what I want to hear?'
I imagine that many such examples are the result of the brain doing clever things with what the eyes see or the ears hear - a word that doesn't initially make sense or seem familiar is converted to one that does or is. A newspaper report some years ago described the sudden appearance of 'effervescence' on the new brickwork of a commercial development, which presumably looked and sounded close enough to 'efflorescence' to fool the editor. Once the mistake has been made it can be hard to avoid repeating it, and frustrating when one has recognised the mistake but still repeats it. A childhood mistake with reading 'Shopfitters' on the side of a van as 'Shoplifters' has proved impossible to shift(most recent example typing the wrong version first just now.....)
EA's mistake did prompt some musings about what imitations of mortality might be or look like - the tactics used by prey animals to avoid being a predator's next meal perhaps?

[Serial_Apologist]

EA's mistake did prompt some musings about what imitations of mortality might be or look like - the tactics used by prey animals to avoid being a predator's next meal perhaps?

The House of Lords on an average afternoon?

[gradus]

Mischeevious, Wesminister, Seckertary. Don't really mind but why?

[Serial_Apologist]

Mischeevious, Wesminister, Seckertary. Don't really mind but why?

Indeed, gradus; I've had adVERsary and elecTORal (even elecTORial) written down on a piece of paper, waiting to raise on the forum.

ADversary and eLECtoral - both sound more... inwardly balanced.

[Stanfordian]

Mischeevious, Wesminister, Seckertary. Don't really mind but why?

The many people who say Wem-BER-LEEE rather then Wembley. I think they have got the name of the stadium mixed up with the football chant.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

EA's mistake ...

Uh?

[verismissimo]

Uh?

Come on Alpie. Time to own up …

[LMcD]

In this part of the world, some folk go to the doctor's to get a perscription - possibly as a result of seeing Ipswich Town miss a pelanty. Others sometimes need to produce a cerstificate on occasions.
I'm with SA regarding ADversary and eLECToral.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Come on Alpie. Time to own up …

What did I say!