Yes, and actually it sounds fine to me to hear someone with a natural British accent say it that way. Just, y’see, Lloyd isn’t British. When he says it, it just sounds pretentious.
As a francophone, I agree with you.
Bah. Maybe it’s been too long since I’ve shopped in Montreal.
My parents do that as well. And “tYuna” for tuna.
If we’re getting into archaic stuff, my grandmother pronounced “margarine” with a hard G, and “tissue” with an S sound not an SH. And my grandfather pronounced “golf” as “goff”.
The Received Pronunciation version of “Jaguar” in same car company’s ads. Especially since the company is American.
The schwa inserted at random into two-syllable words to make them three-syllable words. “Real-a-tor” was mentioned, and “ath-a-letic” and “arth-a-ritic” are other irritating ones.
Sounds like an American/British distinction to me. Do people say those both ways over there, too?
I’ve never heard any of these. Do people actually use those pronunciations in TN?
It really bugged me the other day when I saw a soccer game between Newcastle United and (I believe) Southampton and the (British) commentator kept calling Australian forward Mark Viduka “Viduker”. I was familiar with the player but it took me a while to figure out what he was saying.
That’s the authentic pronunciation, though.
How on earth do you expect people from the other 49 states to get “Bane-gore” out of “Banger”? You Northeasterners are weird, with your Worcesters and your Bangers. We ought to just give you all back to the British empire. 
That’s how I’ve always heard it. How are you supposed to pronounce it?
The San Diego Padres have a minor league team there, so the more hardcore baseball fans here talk about the city every once on a while, and it’s always “MO-beel”. May be a regional thing, but I’d never heard of the stress on the second syllable before now.
BTW, what’s up with the overpronounced H in “wh-” words? And the “H” that gets thrown in before “Ramon”?
That one sounds like an American talking quickly, to me. A lot of my basketball teammates in high school dropped "L"s and "R"s whenever they got the chance (from “hole”, “forward”, etc.)
SPEE-Sheez
JEZH-oo-it
PAR-me-zhahn
Yes, it probably is. I hear “pruh-meer” most in American-voiced film trailers and the like. It could be a question of America and Britain having different second languages - you’re more familiar with Spanish, which is why you wince at Brits saying Nick-a-rag-you-uh, whereas we’re more au fait with French. I’ve never heard a Brit pronounce “premiere” pruh-MEER. Although come to think of it, that first vowel might be closer to the French than the British PREM-ee-air. The American attempt at the second syllable is all wrong though. Maybe the US version is an Anglicisation and, as such, excusable.
“Israel” is always pronounced IZ-rail here (occasionally IZ-ray-el if you want to sound biblical).
[ETA] Re “lingerie”, see posts above.
He was Scots northern Irish via 50 years in the British Navy (IOW very posh English). The explanation would make sense if he had pronounced “wolf” as “woof” though, but he didn’t.
I think it’s a genuine archaic pronunciation of the game. I recall a conversation with his sister, my great aunt, who kept on saying “goff”. I said “surely you mean ‘golf’” and she replied “I think most goffers would disagree with you.” No answer to that!
The one that always used to bug me was when Johnny Carson pronounced it “POO-berty.” I don’t know if he was just being funny, but it annoyed the heck out of me.
LIE-berry for library. That first r must be invisible to some.
EYE-tal-yun for Italian. People who say this are not from EYE-taly.
Electorial College. Nuff said.
is-RYE-el for Israel in The First Noel.
boogers pronounced like boo-gers. I have no idea how to type how it should be said.
CHOCK-lut instead of CHALK-let candy bars
Las Vegas Nee VAH dah instead of Nuh Vaa Duh
San-TEE instead of San-ta Claus
EYE-talian regarding things from Italy.
FLAHR uh duh instead of FLOOR i duh where kids go for spring break.
So you’d go bats watching the New Yankee Workshop and hearing Norm Abram describing how there’s a measured drahwr-ring available for sale and there’ll be more information on that at the end of the program. And even more bats when he’s building something like a dresser and how he’s cutting the dovetails to make the drahwrs.
Really? Having gone to a…well, one of those high schools, I heard it both ways just about equally. I suppose I’m more of a JE-zoo-it guy myself.
Holy Hypatia, yes. I’ve known educated people who say “lib’arian”. Every time I want to inform them that I’m not a descendant of former slaves who were returned to Africa, thank you very much (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
I used to work in a lib’ary where the admin assistant said "lib’ary everytime she answered the phone or otherwise had to say the word. You’d be amazed how many @#($ed times you have to say “lib’ary” when you work in a @#(U(8&*@ing lib’ary.
Don’t forget the people who drop the “S” in “specific”.
Those two sound exactly the same to most Californians, myself included. It’s hard to imagine how you’re supposed to pronounce them differently. As a linguistics major currently studying phonetics I think I can approximate it, but I’m sure it’d still sound exactly the same to me.
I know this is a regional thing, and there’s really no reason why it should get up my nose the way it does, but I cannot stand to hear the word pronounced 'IN-shernce" rather than “in-SHORE-unce.” Several of the announcers on the local NPR station use the former pronunciation and it causes me to gnash my teeth every time.
I hear that a lot as well. Yuck.
The one that bugs me the most is DEE-troit as opposed to De-TROIT.
Noooo… “Banger” is the annoying pronunciation, and Bangor the proper spelling of the town’s name.
I believe the difference is the first vowel, i.e. “ah” vs “aw”.