I am forced to shout at the telly when

[ElaineCA]

people say broccli instead of broccoli. It drives me insane!!! Is it just me? The greengrocer at our farmers market actually writes it 'broccli' on his signs. Jamie Oliver is guilty of this and last night a doctor type person on that programme about people who have poor diets said it over and over again. Brockley is a London superb, not a green vegetable. Urrgh

[bobsyouruncle]

you are so right!

[FAQ]

[ElaineCA]

No, no, it's not an accent thing, honestly. It's just entirely leaving out a letter. I am from the same neck of the woods as Jamie but I can mamange broccOli!!!!

[ElaineCA]

Ha ha, or even manage. What a place for a typo!!!

[Threadworm]

My DH drinks 'orin juice'. Drives me mad.

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

Now Elaine, Jamie is a very busy man. He is busy saving chickens and poorly fed schoolchildren and disaffected youth. He obviously has more important things to do with his time than say 'broccOli'.

[FAQ]

but it is an accent thing

it's like southerner's putting an "aa" into words such as glass and grass (glaass and graass) - whereas the northener's say it as it's written

[ElaineCA]

Tell me about it! I am a glaass, graass and baaath girl myself but my son (Scarborough born and bred) is a glass, grass and bath child - and now he's learning phonics I can't even indoctrinate him to the Southern way!

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

Are you another Essex girl living in Yorkshire then Elaine? I'm one myself, but my dad was from Yorkshire and we spent our childhood mocking him for saying 'bath'.
Now t'boot is on t'other foot.

[ElaineCA]

Technically, a North London/Herts girl living in Yorkshire. I do love it here but I miss the civilising influences of London (24 hour shopping, essentially!)

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

Yes if you like shopping Scarborough wouldn't be the place to be - unless your favourite things to buy are fish and offal.

We are near York and have no complaints about the shopping!

[ElaineCA]

I really should be very rich, as there is nothing to shop for here. Clearly I'm making some fundamental error!

[Go]

I think the worst, worst, worst thing is "haitch" instead of "aitch". There is no excuse. Look it up in a dictionary. It's wrong, just wrong. No "it's my accent". NO, IT'S JUST WRONG. DON'T DO IT!!!!

[Monkeybird]

no no no, the very VERY worst thing is pacific for specific. I will kill the next pundit, voxpopper or student I see saying that.

[champagneSupernova]

and bought/brought being interchanged too. Grr

[nkf]

Even worse is people saying that something happened "literally" when they're just making a comparison.

EG: "The crash was just like a bomb falling. Literally."

Blimey, that is really pedantic isn't it?

And "discrete"

[Monkeybird]

You mean discrete in the wrong circs, obv?

[nkf]

Yes. For "discreet." It sets my teeth on edge.

What else?

Oh, so many.

[ElaineCA]

Pacific for specific is a good one. My teeth are on edge reading this lot! Also laughed to see the local maternity shop sells bra's. They didn't say what is was they sold that belonged to the bras though.

[barnstaple]

My dh reckernises things. Drives me demented.

Luckily it is a very 'pacific' problem!

[unknownrebelbang]

No you don't HAVE to shout at the telly. Really you don't.

And shouldn't it be television?

[ElaineCA]

yes, I think it probably should have!