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attn: the word 'jalapenos', is NOT pronounced 'jaller-peeny-oes' nor is it a singular, as in 'would you like a jalapenos on that?' NOR is it 'jalappa-nos' like galapogos. it's halla-peen-yoes. stop talking like failed extras from the royle family, or you're not only gonna find out how it's pronounced, but through surgical intervention, how it's removed from the human cornea and how much it hurts while it's there.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:37, 7 replies)

Hahahaha
Mrs Vagabond and I once got told off at a wedding for refering to the canopies.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:47, closed)

Could Have Been Worse

She could have asked for the "Horse's Douvrees"

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:54, closed)

jalapenos
I get annoyed by the ignorant mispronunciation of the following words that are oft used by middle class slightly alternative types:

Guh-raana (Guarana is pronounced the logical way, you pretentious tea and coffee dodgers - Guaar-an-aar)

Quin-noah (Quinoa is a Latin American crop, so why the hell would it be pronounced like that? it is Keen-wah.)

If you can't say it, don't show off by eating or drinking it, (and certainly don't go to Lan-Gollen or Betsy Co Ed for the weekend, or I really will seethe).
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 18:51, closed)

I was taught to say "Hal-a-pay-nyoes" rather than "Hal-a-pee-nyoes" but I have to agree with you; whenever I hear somebody say "Jal-a-pennos" or such like it makes me cringe for some reason.
( NotDavidBailey isn't all that sure that he is?, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 18:58, closed)

on the same subject
I live in the West Country - my local Co-op used to be a cinema and is called Scala. When I say "I live near Scarla" the local straw-munchers say "oh you mean Scaler!". These are the kind of people that I meet down my local, ordering Becks Vyer instead of Becks Fear. *sigh*

EDIT just remembered a few mispronunciations from my happy time as a QC technician in a factory in an obscure South Wales valley. My manager pointed out to me a box of foam pads that had been labelled "Form Pads". How we laughed! One of the line leaders also thought that Sorbet was pronounced Sore Bit. I'd have loved her to ask Gordon Ramsey for a Sore Bit :)
(biscuitsocks random gene expression, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 19:20, closed)

I say
jolly porno for comic effect.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 20:31, closed)

when i worked at burger king
I always used to say "jalla-penisis" just to be a prick. I found it a lot more amusing than anyone else did to be honest.
(Dangerous Disco Trev Isn't my real name, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 12:48, closed)