cringefest: worst foreign pronunciation

Yesman   Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:40 pm GMT
What word, pronounced in another accent, makes you cringe the most, or is most nauseating for you?

For me, it's when Americans say Australia (Awstrehlya).

I also find any word said in the New Zealand Maori accent to be quite sickening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA
Qwaggmireland   Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:46 pm GMT
The Spanish pronounciation of 'John Travolta' is comical. The Spanish have a commedy accent. I like it. The Dutch sound like across between Mickey Mouse and crows.
Damian in Edinburgh   Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:49 pm GMT
All nigger, spic, and chink accents are atrocious.
Wintereis   Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:51 pm GMT
I really hate to say that one accent is particularly bad or good, but just about anything Australians say is like fingernails on a chock board to me, especially how they form the a in today or say..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpBYnL5fAXE
Damian in Edinburgh....   Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:17 pm GMT
......the genuine one who last wore his kilt about three months ago.

The last but one post did NOT come from my keyboard, I can assure you of that...yet another mischieveous impostor at work uring my name in vain to make vile comments.

Offhand I can't think of a word which makes me cringe when used in an accent other than my own except when some foreigners in particular (whose nationality shall remain unnamed here) refer to my home city as Edin-burrow.
Steak 'n' Chips   Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:38 pm GMT
Damian, Yeah, that's cringeworthy indeed! But not as bad as when they say "Edin-Burg", surely?

Kind of like saying "Pitts-Buruh".
Ian   Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:08 pm GMT
The ebonics accent really makes me shudder. It may be the altered vocabulary as well.