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By: Neil G

Neil G — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:56:35 +0000

I think Tw*t. I listened to his Desert Island Discs and was struck by his idiosyncratic pronunciation of ‘any’ as ‘anny’. Listen from 16 mins – “Annybody who had anny interest in film and literature …”, “It’s very difficult in pop music to find annybody, anny musician who has annything to say…”. Definite tw*t. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p068y
He did choose The Black Angel Death Song by the Velvet Underground, so perhaps there is hope for him.
No, there isn’t any hope – he speaks of W Haitch Auden. Unforgivable

By: Third Rate Les

Third Rate Les — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:43:20 +0000

Wow – in all this time I’ve never noticed that Cemetry Gates thing.

Another one he does is pronouncing Wunderkind “wonder kind”, but I suppose it’s possible that’s deliberate. As Viz once memorably put it: “Morrissey: Genius or Tw*t?” I went to see him last month and I still can’t make up my mind.

By: TWO FAT FEET

TWO FAT FEET — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:03:04 +0000

Good call Nobby, can’t believe I missed that one …

By: Norbert D

Norbert D — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:51:56 +0000

Still not as bad as people saying “Asterix” when they mean “asterisk”. Mental image of the letter F followed by three little Gauls with swords drawn…

By: Gregg Z

Gregg Z — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:09:52 +0000

Fine banter, this. I’ve always wondered why The Smiths track is misspelt “Cemetry Gates”– thought it was a literary reference beyond my ken. The worst transgression I’ve noticed of late is the dropping of the second “s” in the word ‘asterisk” (“asterik”?!?). It’s almost pandemic on these American shores (keeping in mind, the land that brought you Dubya’s “nucular” and the most horrifying Americanism of all, the word “awesome”. God, I can barely type that fucking word).

So, yeah, the word “asterisk” is being truncated as we speak. It’s enough to make you reach for the Book of Revelation(s)..

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:04:51 +0000

And there was me thinking Ricardo had answered the query with considerable aplomb.

By: Vendor of Quack Nostrums

Vendor of Quack Nostrums — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:19:11 +0000

The mispronunciation of lackadaisical which most makes me want to twist my own brain out is ‘lapsadaisical’. Cringe! I used to be lazy and disinterested but, due to a lack of effort, find I no longer am.

Whilst referencing Mozza’s dodgy pronunciation, it is perhaps also worth mentioning that he didn’t earn his gold star for spelling either on The Queen Is Dead, having called the song ‘Cemetry Gates’ rather than ‘Cemetery Gates. Perhaps if he’d paid more attention at school rather than giving up education as a bad mistake.

By: Third Rate Les

Third Rate Les — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:30:29 +0000

Yes, it’s clearly a dig at people who mispronounce words. My boss says “lacksadaisical” and thanks to HMHB it now makes me smile rather than grind my teeth. There’s no “s”. Well, there’s one.

It’s also a slightly clumsy and ugly word (why not just say “lazy” or “careless”? I suppose it’s a bit of a mixture of both) but that’s not what he’s getting at here.

One I notice a lot is pronouncing the word “mnemonic” as “pneumonic”. And Morrissey’s pronunciation of “plagiarise” in Cemetery Gates still gets on my wick every time.

By: TWO FAT FEET

TWO FAT FEET — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:20:55 +0000

Stuck in a timewarp as I frequently am, I notice that we never really answered Grim’s question about “lacksadaisical”. To me it’s always been about the subject’s mispronunciation of the word rather than its actual use. See also – pantomine, cerstificate, statellite, acrost …

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:28:13 +0000

I’ve always heard it as “coolant shade” but I’m not sure that makes sense.