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Pronunciations that drive you mad

  • 09-05-2012 8:08am
    #1
    Susie_Q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    One girl I know says "pellow" instead of "pillow". I am pedantic enough that this really bugs me.

    She also says "on-velope" for "envelope".

    Any other pronunications that annoy you?


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  • #2
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    "Arr-T-É," "podato," and, even though it's fairly common here, "th" pronounced as "t."


  • #3
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Defin-eye-tly and when people pronounce a G in tremendous.


  • #4
    Lionel Messy
    Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    Gee. Damn yanks can't say it right.


  • #5
    Dead Kennedys
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭Dead Kennedys


    Gaaaaarrrrrdeee....The RTE pronunciation of Gardai.


  • #6
    duploelabs
    Registered Users Posts: 11,126 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    Eggs-presso
    teeesue (tissue)
    eeesssue (issue)


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  • #7
    Paz-CCFC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭Paz-CCFC


    Dead Kennedys wrote: »
    Gaaaaarrrrrdeee....The RTE pronunciation of Gardai.

    The correct way?


  • #8
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Yisterday I heard a fellow say tomorra is Wehendsday.


  • #9
    KittyeeTrix
    Registered Users Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    When vehicle is pronounced Feh-heh-kill :(

    Usually done on Crimecall or Crimewatch or whatever the hell its called these days!!


  • #10
    Typewriter
    Registered Users Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Typewriter


    Lis-bon


  • #11
    Uriel.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    I axed him a question. Drives me nuts. You're not in the ghetto or Harlem ffs.

    Or sangwich. Though this doesn't quite drive me nuts.. Just yet

    Or I folleed him


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  • #12
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,109 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Eck setera.

    Anything with a 'th' by Ian Guider.

    Window Still

    Chimley

    Scaff

    Damp squid (by Bertie Ahern)

    I'll tink of more anon...


  • #13
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Many of the examples so far just sound like Hiberno English to me and that's cool. The pronunciations that would grind my gears are those that the user thinks makes them sound "posh". Riiindabite for roundabout, adding aitches where they don't exist out of a fear of dropping them where they do. HeightH a good example, throatH instead of throat another. TBH I'd rather hear someone say tirty tree and a tird than those examples.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #14
    The Big Red Button
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    Supernanny: "asseptable" :mad:


  • #15
    adamski8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8




  • #16
    Valentina
    Registered Users Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    A woman I work with describes herself as "volumptuous" and she also pronounces pyjamas as "perr-jarr-merrs".

    This bothers me immensely.


  • #17
    earlyevening
    Registered Users Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭earlyevening


    thongue for tongue. (+invariably misspelt tounge or something like it)


  • #18
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,920 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Gord as in: "Gords.. Gords protect them!"


  • #19
    Sky King
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Yea. The Gore Thee. It's an Irish word ffs!

    Pacific
    Expresso
    Ek Cetera

    Everyone says amount of people and less people whereas it should be number of people and fewer people.

    It doesn't annoy me when general peons speak like this because many of them don't know any better, but I would expect broadcasters on our national media to be able to speak properly, and many of them can't. Some of them even have atrocious speech impediments like the one with the lithshp on R1 who reads out whash itsh shayshs in the papersh.

    There are a great number of smart people who can speak out of work now. Why not give them a shot?

    Pisses me off it does!


  • #20
    .E_C_K_S.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭.E_C_K_S.


    Tissss- ooooohs when saying Tissues:mad:


  • #21
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    People saying "en-velope" (rhyming with "pen") instead of the correct "on-velope". It's a French word, like "entourage" or "ensemble".

    Plus: there is no "x" in "Espresso" (coffee).

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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  • #22
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Sky King wrote: »
    Expresso
    bnt wrote: »
    Plus: there is no "x" in "Espresso" (coffee).
    Snap!

    Another one is a "h" on the end of "height", so it becomes "heighth". Does not compute. :rolleyes:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



  • #23
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Thighland really bugs me.

    And I have a friend that doesn't say fab-uuuuuu-lous, she says fab-a-lus. Really irritiating for some reason.:p


  • #24
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Roish, and D4 accents in general.

    Also, those stupid ****ing man-bags and scarfs.


  • #25
    counterlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭counterlock


    People who don't know the difference between 'then' and 'than' and just pronounce them the same when they are speaking.

    'its better then buying it in the shop'


  • #26
    Plazaman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Million is not Millen

    The A to Z is not Ah to Zed

    If you want to be specific, please do so but don't be Pacific

    If there is an obstacle in your way, calling it an oxtable will not help


    Off course I've often mispronounced things myself. Only recently when trying to ask my ex-girlfriend "Would you like to go out for dinner tonight dear?", I mispronounced it to sound like "You've ruined my life you manipulative bítch".


  • #27
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    counterlock wrote: »
    People who don't know the difference between 'then' and 'than' and just pronounce them the same when they are speaking.

    'its better then buying it in the shop'

    This one really annoys me, moreso when its written than anything because I dont really notice it much when its spoken. How in the name of christ do people not know the difference between these? :mad:


  • #28
    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    My old boss could not pronounce secretary and instead pronounced it sec-ertary!! Did my head in.

    Also people who are trying to be "pacific" about something!!


  • #29
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,468 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    the kiwis pronounce mullet as mouleé :mad:


  • #30
    harney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭harney


    ash-hume instead of assume :(


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Apperantly.


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