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Most annoying mispronunciation

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    #1382
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    earlyevening wrote: »
    Prof. John Fitzgerald on Marian Finucane this morning reminded me of this one, "inshulate" for insulate.

    That 'sh' sound seems to be creeping insidiously into various pronunciations
    recently. 'Shtruggle', 'shtrife', 'conshumer', 'hairshpray'. :(:(:(:(:(


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    #1383
    The_Captain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    brooke 2 wrote: »
    That 'sh' sound seems to be creeping insidiously into various pronunciations
    recently. 'Shtruggle', 'shtrife', 'conshumer', 'hairshpray'. :(:(:(:(:(


    Tishoo instead of tissue


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    #1384
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    The_Captain wrote: »
    Tishoo instead of tissue

    Hankie ftw


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    #1385
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,123 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    The_Captain wrote: »
    Tishoo instead of tissue
    Not a mispronunciation. The -sh- pronuncation of "tissue" is the older and still dominant one, according to the OED, and in fact a lot of the older spellings of the word reflect this. ("Tishew", "tisshue", etc.) At some point the spelling was "frenchified", and at some later point some people adopted a "spelling pronunciation", as has also happened to some extent with words like often, forehead, etc.


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    #1386
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Sahurda


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    #1387
    danrua01
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    So many mispronunciations here attributed to dialects.


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    #1388
    To Elland Back
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭To Elland Back


    People who say 'mill-in' for million. That one really grates on me.


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    #1389
    paperclip2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭paperclip2


    Babby.
    It's BABY people!


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    #1390
    mackerski
    Registered Users Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭mackerski


    Oober.


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    #1391
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Not a mispronunciation. The -sh- pronuncation of "tissue" is the older and still dominant one, according to the OED, and in fact a lot of the older spellings of the word reflect this. ("Tishew", "tisshue", etc.) At some point the spelling was "frenchified", and at some later point some people adopted a "spelling pronunciation", as has also happened to some extent with words like often, forehead, etc.

    Pat Kenny says tiss-ue...............so, it must be right! ;)


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    #1392
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    dod.ie instead of dot.ie -
    as per Miriam O'Callaghan and Maura Derrane saying
    RTE-dod-ie.


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    #1393
    ghogie91
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ghogie91


    The most annoying of them all for me is someone saying TV 'serious' instead of 'series'

    swiftly inducing rage fit coupled with a falcon punch in the throat


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    #1394
    Username here
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭Username here


    There was a woman where I worked who pronounced "secretary" without the first "r", so it sounded like "se-keh-terry".


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    #1395
    ghogie91
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ghogie91


    Or the ones my family are guilty of:

    re-dick-less instead of ridiculous
    Bo-hen-iums instead of bohemians
    tie-let instead if toilet
    It-ly instead of Italy
    points instead of pints
    or worst of all,
    Ine instead of I am i.e. Ine heading to the shop instead of I'm/I am heading to the shop
    Pun-kin instead of pumpkin

    I cant comprehend the ignorance and then arrogance when corrected


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    #1396
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,672 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    brooke 2 wrote: »
    dod.ie instead of dot.ie -
    as per Miriam O'Callaghan and Maura Derrane saying
    RTE-dod-ie.

    They must be speaking American.



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    #1397
    gingernut79
    Registered Users Posts: 961 ✭✭✭gingernut79


    ajiculture instead of agriculture
    arjitect instead of architect

    makes my ears go aagh!


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    #1398
    braddun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭braddun


    TAE


    tea


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    #1399
    Cpt Sh!t Craic
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭Cpt Sh!t Craic


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    That's a 'mute' point.

    It's a 'moo' point.

    Like a cows opinion, it doesn't matter, it's moo...


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    #1400
    heldel00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Psy-tree-ash-trix for psychiatric. No joke! She says it at least twice/three times a week!

    (Maybe these have below have been covered)

    Congrakulations

    Cer-tif-ic-ate! (So hard to write it as I mean it but ya know what I'm tryin to say. My da is a divil for it!!!)


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    #1401
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    heldel00 wrote: »
    Psy-tree-ash-trix for psychiatric. No joke! She says it at least twice/three times a week!

    (Maybe these have below have been covered)

    Congrakulations

    Cer-tif-ic-ate! (So hard to write it as I mean it but ya know what I'm tryin to say. My da is a divil for it!!!)

    Who?


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    #1402
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users Posts: 5,939 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    MJ23 wrote: »
    Sahurda

    Hi Matt Cooper:)


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    #1403
    EchoIndia
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    Several RTE reporters (e.g. Martina Fitzgerald, David McCullough, Ciaran Mulloooly) seem to have an inability to pronounce any word ending in "..ing". They say "walk-een", "talk-een" and so on. I don't know when this became fashionable but I notice it a lot.


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    #1404
    heldel00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Who?

    The bane of my working life!


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    #1405
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,417 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Instead of saying chicken nuggets at the takeaway I always end up saying chicken nuckets, I don't know why I do it, I just do. :mad:

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #1406
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Instead of saying chicken nuggets at the takeaway I always end up saying chicken nuckets, I don't know why I do it, I just do. :mad:
    My mother says 'chicken dippiz", and 'wedgies' instead of wedges.

    :)


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    #1407
    Ranchu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Ranchu


    When people say an instead of a. Example: an radiator. Dickheads.


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    #1408
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,123 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Instead of saying chicken nuggets at the takeaway I always end up saying chicken nuckets, I don't know why I do it, I just do. :mad:
    Your problem there is not the pronunciation; it's what you're eating. ;)

    (What part of the chicken is the "nuggets", anyway?)


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    #1409
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    gingernut79 wrote: »
    ajiculture instead of agriculture
    arjitect instead of architect

    makes my ears go aagh!

    One of my pet hates - archery for artery. :(


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    #1410
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    (What part of the chicken is the "nuggets", anyway?)

    Same part as the spice burger and the sausage.. The tastiest part!


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    #1411
    The_Captain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    I hate the way Americans pronounce the letter T

    Chemical Brothers - Galvanise
    "The time has come to push the buh-in"

    Dora the Explorer is awful for it too
    "I'm pain-ing a moun-in"


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