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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Good.
Sometimes you can pick up incorrect pronunciations and not know it: my father, bless him, insists on pronouncing 'nachos' like a fucking Greek island.
(, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:51, 1 reply, 16 years ago)
god, my dad prounces some things terribly
as do his parents. makes me want to slap them
(, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 17:00, Reply)
My father does it deliberately sometimes,
I am certain, to give the impression of ignorance about something he disapproves of, even though he knows perfectly well how it's said.

I'm struggling to think of an example - band names or popular culture stuff generally. Rather like the Fry & Laurie sketch where they go on about 'that ghastly Mervyn Briggs', meaning Melvyn Bragg.

As irrelevant posts go this is a corker.
(, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 17:03, Reply)
that's the sort of thing my dad would do
he loves to describe things as 4th rate. The day I find myself doing that I will seriously think about ending it all.
(, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 17:07, Reply)

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