I refer you to my honourable friend's reply

I'm back - and I see my little teaser kept you busy

Private Eye readers argued over this point for months, and in the end the magazine renamed the section Pedantry Corner

ooops!

I got my pocket money stopped for a week when I started copying my friends & saying haitch!

that's evil!

Dave on live feed now, he means soirée...he's saying swavay...he's probably seen suave written down.

It's not the 1st time he's come out with such crap....like the time he said Mario was for capital punishment because (get this) he's a capitalist.  *head desk*

or he might have soave in mind - what you drink at a swavay

That's what I thought he meant originally when he asked Corin if she likes "swavay"...but no, then he asked her if she'd ever been to one

If JJ says, "For the druriation of the show" once more, I might have to shoot him, on his exit!

So you don't regard BB as a soap then Gel?

Wish you hadn't said that Blizz, I hadn't noticed it before - BUT I WILL NOW

I called my OH a pendant once meaning pedant.
He still laughs.. 

NO   how can you compare a classy reality programme, to a script written tragedy?  Peter you should be ashamed of yourself 

You know I have that here as a sig...but sigs don't show. **rolls eyes** 

And btw madam...tis Merthyr Tydfil not Tydvil. No "v" in Welsh. the letter "f" is pronounced "v". If you want an "f" sound it's "ff". Confused...?    It can get worse...we don't have a letter "x" either. So in Welsh taxi is spelled tacsi. My son is called Macsen - but on a day to day basis we call him Max and spell it that way because it's too much of a pain in the arse to correct. 

Now then - who's up for pronouncing Ynysybwl? 

Gordon Brown pronouncing Al Quaeda as Alky Ada....although that made me laugh

I googled, my brain still hurts.

mine OH is a git for pulling me up (publicly) & never letting me forget stuff like that.

Like the time on our honeymoon when I called the boat a catermerangue ... not only did he pull me up and point and laugh at me there & then in front of people... he then shouted across to the other group of people "Catermerangue... she thinks its a boat ontop of cake!"

I have created a monster

I'll leave that one to you  however, hubby & I always have a giggle when we're approaching the signs for Flint, as when you cross over to the other side, just for the benefit of the Welsh they spell it Fflint, is this in case you don't understand the english version?

Stop it! It hurts when I laugh out loud!

Chauffeur. <<< Hate that word, I KNOW how to pronounce it but my brain always wants to say it like chicken chasseur. 

I can't let Peter take the flak, twas me that said it.  Actually Gel I'm sort of with you, the only soap I follow is The Archers (gosh, you're really getting my demographic now, aren't you )  But I have to confess that for some reason I find BB compelling

Ooooo!!!!!! I love The Archers!!!!

Karma
That Wyndmomhahdman thing just takes the piss. If it's pronounced Windham, then spell it like that FFS. Whoever made that up was just being anal for no reason!
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Are we going to row all night?  
You know full well that place names have long and complicated histories. For example, when Edward I's wife died he was so grief-stricken he had her body carried in state across England back to London for burial. At each overnight stop he decreed a large cross be built in her memory. The Eleanor Crosses have given us Waltham Cross and Charing Cross. Charing from chere rein" = dear queen. OK...I'm arguing your point here  but historically we have Mainwaring pronounced Mannering and Bevoir pronounced Beaver (a LOT more scope for comedy there quite clearly...) It's the way English has evolved and continues to evolve. If it was that easy to speak most people on the planet would have a grasp of it. We can't make it THAT easy... 

ooops sorry peter 

Trying to do too many things at once

Off to watch Casualty now, and NO it is not a soap, it's real life real drama prog  

Peter, you and me is soul mates

Off to watch BB now - see you around

I'm gonna have to put you and Dirtyprettygirlthing on ignore. All this laughing is doing nothing for my bad back!!

 Silly I know...we have a LOT of jobsworths. But in Welsh Flint would be pronounced Vlint. A touch pendantic I know....

Right - off to watch BB

Cariad, I'll take your word for it (everything ^^^)

A HUGE bugbear of mine is when those ruddy housemates say 'up for nomination' when they talk about being up for eviction  (I know I have already grumbled about this recently but have seized another opportunity).

I like that we have daft words and place names that are pronounced differently, I think it's ace   I just think the media especially should be less London-centric and give us all the same respect

 

Window, dose any one like that saying, if you have 4 walls you are bound to have a window,
(I will see if I have a window)   WHAT.    

I'll see if I have a window is completely annoying.  It's almost as bad as "can we touch base" YUCK!

I often wonder what the origin of Effingham was

"Around c. AD 493, a Saxon noble called Aeffing built his "ham" or house in the area now known as Effingham."

*helpful face*

Does a Beavis and Butthead "hur hur hur" snigger