You say pavalovia I say pavlova

[candycane]

Watching the Yankee Candle hour - Stephen refered to chandlers (the bods who produce the candles) but pronounced it shahndler. I can find no pronounciation for either US or UK English that didn't start with a chuh sounding ch. That one bugs me./QUOTE]

Isn't a chandler something to do with boats?

I don't like "yergeddin", when QVC did crafts, Leonie used to say it all the time. Terrible. I DO like Lulu Guinness when she says "Yah" lol.

CC

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Or vase, vass or vos?

 

[louise66]

It annoys me when Alison "your resident beauty expert" Young calls parfum parfam, but the funniest is when she pronounces longevity as long-gevity instead of lon-jevity.........she maybe a beauty expert but she's quite thick really.

That is quite a nasty, and unnecessary, comment to make.

 

[louise66]

I speak french, and it is correct to pronounce it parfam. No reason why people can't pronounce it as it is spelt either, of course.

Me too. I agree.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

"If you are SAT at home wondering ......" Sitting! Sitting! Sitting!

 

[thatu]

I do not like the word scone to be pronunced SCON, it's got an 'e' on the end which makes it SCONE, as is PHONE.

Just as well you don't live round here because that's what you'd hear all the time. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, both pronunications are acceptable.

scone, n.
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Pronunciation: /skəʊn/ /skɒn/

 

[thatu]

Back to mecharlie, btw, I see he's changed his twitter name to mecharliebrook. (Have you read this forum, Charlie?) But you'll always be mecharlie to me.

 

[Bid Up Side Down]

I may turn my ankle if I 'Jump on the phones, before they all go'..

 

[Miss Ellie]

Watching the Yankee Candle hour - Stephen refered to chandlers (the bods who produce the candles) but pronounced it shahndler. I can find no pronounciation for either US or UK English that didn't start with a chuh sounding ch. That one bugs me./QUOTE]

Isn't a chandler something to do with boats?

I don't like "yergeddin", when QVC did crafts, Leonie used to say it all the time. Terrible. I DO like Lulu Guinness when she says "Yah" lol.

CC

Oh Lord no - 'yah' the only thing worse is 'OK yah'. Awful. Just say 'yes'.

 

[shopperholic]

That is quite a nasty, and unnecessary, comment to make.

If you think that's a nasty comment, you really need to get out more.

 

[spartacus]

It does suggest a lack of awareness, or education. It infuriates me when a guest repeatedly gives the correct pronunciation but the presenter ignores it and persist with their own variation.

Not necessarily, I have a colleague who mispronounces certain words. She's not lacking intelligence or awareness, she knows the correct pronunciation, she simply can't pronounce them correctly- she doesn't have a speech deficiency just struggles with pronouncing certain words.

 

[Bid Up Side Down]

Barker Gold ....


"Good evening. I am the president of the Loyal Society for the Relief of Suffers from Pismronunciation, for the relief of people who can't say their worms correctly, or who use the wrong worms entirely, so that other people cannot underhand a bird they are spraying. It's just that you open your mouse, and the worms come turbling out in wuck a say that you dick not what you're thugging to be, and it's very distressing.

"I'm always looing it, and it makes one feel umbumftorcacle, especially when one is going about one's diddly tasks. Slopping at the Sloopermarket, for instance. Only last wonk, I approached the chuckout point, and I shooed the ghoul behind the crash desk the contents of my trilly, and she said 'All right, granddad, shout 'em out.' Well, of course, that's fine for the ordinary man in the stoat who has no dribble with his wolds. For someone like myself, it's worse than a kick in the jackstrop.

 

[sharon-s]

My biggest annoyance is when Alison young says SPF factors, as the resident beauty expert you would think she would know that the F stands for factor
Also when she says murror instead of mirror

 

[Radiomike]

Not really a mispronunciation, but the one that grates with me - and it's an official QVC thing, not specific to any presenter - is "advanced" orders.

Surely - SURELY - it should just be "advance"?

An "advanced order" would be one that's a cleverer order than the other ones. Or one that's a bit Stephen Hawking and ahead of its time.

An "advance" order is just one that's in the future.

Yes? No?

 

[Miss Ellie]

Not sure, but is it not an an order that has been advanced to a date in the future ?

 

[maymorganlondon]

Just as well you don't live round here because that's what you'd hear all the time. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, both pronunications are acceptable.

scone, n.
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Pronunciation: /skəʊn/ /skɒn/

Regional differences - I'd never dream of pronouncing scone to rhyme with stone or phone. Same as I wouldn't dream of pronouncing bath as bahth... One reason why phonetic spelling in UK would be an absolute minefield!

On chandlers... here's a definition of the word: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chandler
It can mean a variety of things, including working with wax products.

 

[lynnonthelake]

I hate it when AY takes the pee out of American guests for the way they pronounce words,downright rude.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

I don't normally watch beauty but every time I hear Mally and her Miss Alli this Miss Alli that I keep thinking I've landed in the middle of Gone with the wind

 

[AndiK]

Not really a mispronunciation, but the one that grates with me - and it's an official QVC thing, not specific to any presenter - is "advanced" orders.

Surely - SURELY - it should just be "advance"?

An "advanced order" would be one that's a cleverer order than the other ones. Or one that's a bit Stephen Hawking and ahead of its time.

An "advance" order is just one that's in the future.

Yes? No?

Good point! I think I have got so used to hearing that, I don't think about it being wrong. It should definitely be advance order because you are placing the order ahead of (in advance of) the item being available to buy, as it's not yet in stock.

 

[maymorganlondon]

One bugbear for me is "until stocks last". Why not "while stocks last"??