The British accent is, I think, probably one of the most pleasing to the ears.

...until any of them utters the word "cuppa" as in, "Won' you dro' in for a nice cuppa?" Its one of the most annoying truncations of speech I've come across. Cuppa? Cup of what? Milk? Coffee?

Heh. I always thought it was "terra" or "turr".

tea. "Cuppa" is always tea.

I once dated a lad who repeatedly pronounced "specifically" as "pacifically*
In all fairness he wasn't the sharpest tool in the kit .....His most attractive feature ( to me) was that he fancied me......Being as I was 15 at the time and pretty much the only girl in my circle without a boyfriend, that was enough for me.....at least it was enough for me for about 8 months.

The worst thing about dating him was that I became horribly embarrassed by his inarticulacy and obvious lack of intelligence.......Then again I think there is something of the fascist in most teenagers.

Teens are just especially conscious of the definitions of and membership in the in-group and the out-group.

Even the out-groupers form their own kind of in-group.

Er ... that would be "The British accents are ..." :3_eyes: . Newcastle, Birmingham (west midlands, not alabama), London, Glasgow all sound vrrry different, ya know. To me (an English person living in Scotland) Birmingham is one of the least attractive, and Newcastle (aka "Geordie") the most incomprehensible.

mis-pronounciations
 

We we were dating, I thought I was in the clear as he didn't have any glaring mispronounciations in his vocabulary. Then I met his family. His mom grades the cheese and steams the aspargras..but only just varley. :eek:

Nothing wrong with a little graded cheese on your pauster. Yer pauster, you know, yer sperghetti.

OMG you've been talking to my customers!

They eat scrimps on da screet den go watch their digikal (or diginal) cayb-oe.

Ugh.

And when I first met my husband, who spent 12 years in Jersey, EVERY time he would say coah-fee, I would repeat it like that. EVERY time. It was cute then. Now half the time I don't notice it.

I LOVE the scottish brogue, and find broad yorkie and liverpudian to be the hardest to get.

And I'm from Manchester....

A friend of mine was a paramedic for a while. Every so often he'd head into the ethnic hinterlands to go pick somebody who had run out of their peanutbutterball...

See if you cna figure that one out.

Just when you thought you were safe from the badger badger thing...

It's Harry Potter Potter Potter's turn :yelsick:

Phenobarbital.

Guess them folks was having some major convictions, eh?

Yeah, but they're staying scrong and keepin' it real...

Is it wrong that I thing that is beyond fabulous? Too cute! :p

This is more of a linguistic pet peeve than a mispronunciation but, for some reason it really irks me when people say stuff like "I love my tomatoes". Why does it have to be your tomatoes? Can't they just say "I love tomatoes"? :(