I hate

I initially thought that's how the locals pronounced it and the jounalists were just doing the whole choritho/chorizo pandering. Kyiv is the way forward

I was surprised at how quickly the supermarkets rebranded to Chicken Kyiv

I may have created a monster…

You must be proud.

Comic books are great, but they aren't really books

More like graphic novels.

If it gets the little shits reading anything it's good, but they're probably just taking it as dress up as Spiderman from the films day.

Worked in a design place in 99 ... the lead designer had a c90 with Wu-Tang Clan on one side and Eminem on the other playing on constant repeat all day for the whole two months I worked there.

Did they? Not living in UK so would not know

use the accent of that country to pronounce the name.

Yeah, fuck trying to use people's names how they would want to be called, while we're at it let's stop pronouncing Bombay like Mumbai and Rhodesia as Zimbabwe. It's called fucking English yeah!

Americans saying Wor-cester-shire should be hung drawn and quartered until they start getting that said properly though. It's Worcestershire sauce mate, it comes from worcestershire, say it like a fucking person from worcestershire would you daft yank.

And news/sports presenters who, when pronouncing the name of someone from another country, use the accent of that country to pronounce the name. Aaaahhh. Stop pretending to sound authentically foreign. It doesn't work.

And then you get Kate Abdo...

Yep

I drove a band on tour years ago, the only guy who wanted to DJ kept playing his own band's shit album on repeat. Nightmarish. They were arseholes as well.

How are you supposed to pronounce "chorizo" if not "choreetho"? And why would you want to? If a word is in another language isn't it automatic to pronounce it in an approximation of what it actually is? You don't have to do the accent, but why would you choose a different (wrong) pronunciation?

Mary Anne Hobbs off of 6 Music pronounces Sofia Kourtesis's surname with a stronger Spanish accent than Sofia Kourtesis does.

Pub bores who whinge about people pronouncing a word or a name as it is in its native language can fuck right off.

Can’t we just gang up on the the Chor-ritz-o people

And the crossont twats

Bruschetta pricks?

I say cho-ritz-o. And all the h8ers can suck my balls. I also say sham-pain not shom-parnye.

Surely he’s been included before but

Nick Ferrari

How are you supposed to pronounce "chorizo" if not "choreetho"?

"Choritzo" springs to mind.

My parents insist on pronouncing the Ibis hotel chain as "eeebeee".

I once heard them talking about the eebee in Paris. (Not Pareee).

Aggggghhhh

My parents insisted on talking.

It is a bit of a minefield

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39735870

I always find this debate about criticising how another person pronounces things says more about the person criticising. It shows their inability to embrace differences or to consider another persons cultural experiences. Even in the UK we have regional variations of bath or scone.

I lived in Norway as a child and learned the Norwegian pronunciation of IKEA. I have been criticised for using that version but it is how it sounds in my head when I read it and also when I utter the word. There may be people whose first encounter with words was in their native setting so why should they anglicise how they say the words?

Whistling & people who whistle

why should they anglicise how they say the words?

Because sometimes it's only those who love you the most that can tell you that you sound like a knob and perhaps you might like to not sound like a knob.

And someone needs to point out when people are ignorant judgemental pricks.