Incorrect corrections

[Answerprancer]

(Oxymoron of the day?)

Don't you just hate it when someone 'corrects' you with something you KNOW is incorrect ?
eg. I pointed towards the fridge in the pub last week and asked for a bottle of Zyweic pronouncing it "zhe-vee-ets" - which was taught to me by a young Polish friend of mine.
The bar person ummed and erred until I pointed right at it, then she grabbed one out and said "Ah, zvee-eck!"

[Andyvon]

I had an argument with my geography teacher once when he asked the class what was the capital of Uganda. I said Kampala but he insisted it was Entebbe! That's the international airport. I left it alone after a while with him still insisting to the class it was Entebbe. I was never one of his favourites after that!

[ladyalex]

People who correct me after I have said 'between you and me' drive me nuts.

They just will not believe that it is NOT 'between you and I'.

[Count-A-Strong]

Jesus, lifes too short to worry about such anal trivialities.

[Andyvon]

So there you go AP!

What happened to the portly chap with the top hat and cigarette holder?

[dotty.]

I'm always right but I suffer in silence, they'll get theirs

[woofgang]

I deal very badly indeed with being told that I am wrong when I am right......

[Hopkirk]

You are wrong, Woofgang

[squarebear]

I was only wrong once. It was when I thought I got something wrong but I was mistaken.

[Buenchico]

Your question, AP, assumes that we should reject all Anglicised pronunciations as incorrect.

If that's correct, I assume that you'll be booking your travel to 'Paree', Munchen, Wien and Den Haag, rather than to Paris, Munich, Vienna and The Hague.

[woofgang]

Lol hopkirk........

[pa___ul3]

I had an argument years ago about the difference in pronunciation of lieutenant, it was an old boss and she just would not accept that it's pronounced differently in English to the American. Really got my goat!!

[pa___ul3]

oh and I hate it when people pronounce chorizo - chor-eet-zo!

[Andyvon]

My first wife insisted upon pronoucing pot pourri as it's spelled in English. She pronounced pot as in flower pot and pourri as 'pooree'. I always explained the term was French (for rotten pot I believe) but it was in vain as she always insisted upon pronouncing the 'T' of pot and her version of 'pooree'. She was the same with Liebfraumilch.

Dreadful woman.

[Eve]

I was doing some work experience in a school in France and was assisting with an English lesson.

The native French English teacher was teaching the students to pronounce words wrongly. I politely pointed out the correct way of pronouncing the words but was told I was wrong - I apparantly don't know how to pronounce my own native language!

[Buenchico]

Paul___3:
Despite studying Spanish at school, I have to plead guilty to that one!

However I find it annoying when people refer to 'Barthelona' or 'Barkelona'. The Catalan pronunciation of Barcelona is the same as the English one!

[mike11111]

I think we have Manuel from Fawlty Towers to blame for that one, Chris.

[squarebear]

As long as the beer was cold, anything else is immaterial AP.

[flobadob]

The term incorrect corrections is not an oxymoron.

[Answerprancer]

Chris, there's a distinct difference between the use (or not) of Anglicised versions of foreign words and ones which have been blatantly mis-pronounced.
Then again, I suppose by pronouncing foreign words properly I sail close to the rocks of pretentiousness (TILT: do I ask for "Lowen-brow" or Leu-ven-broi"?!) and I am no Angela Rippon !

Count a Strong - "Jesus, lifes too short to worry about such anal trivialities".
Yet here you are worrying and therefore joining in !
(Then again - you could be pulling my p!sser).

"The term incorrect corrections is not an oxymoron"
W-e-e-e-e-e-l it nearly is !

I should have know better that this post might plunge me (as it has) into the murky depths of one of AB's favourite areas - pedantry.

I was hoping for more examples that weren't just to do with discrepancies in mispronunciation.

[flobadob]

Pedantic Pat, and dat is dat!