DefinItely

gazzer

This is something really bugs me and i dont know why.

People who say 'definItely' as opposed to the normal sounding 'definitely'... i am always hearing it on those last night phone in shows...

Do many people pronounce it the weird way and if so why?????

Jim

Safety?

Safe-ety!

Argh!

Lenny

Its code talk amongst each other to show we're nazi's

Dave

Why does anyone pronounce anything differently? You have way too much time on your hands to be worrying about such trivialities.

Spalk0

Sometimes bugs me when people pronounce Renault or Peugoet wrong!....the 'T' should be silent!

RE*AC*TOR

Dave wrote:

Why does anyone pronounce anything differently? You have way too much time on your hands to be worrying about such trivialities.

Dave

:rolleyes:

PeadarofAodh

One that always gets to me is when people say Nik-ey for Nike (Where's the 'y'!) A whole lotta people say this though so I could be in the minority!

Well played btw RE*AC*TOR Someone reward that man with rep, he's too bloody fast at deserving it!

Jim

PeadarofAodh wrote:

One that always gets to me is when people say Nik-ey for Nike (Where's the 'y'!) A whole lotta people say this though so I could be in the minority!

Well played btw RE*AC*TOR Someone reward that man with rep, he's too bloody fast at deserving it!

It is pronounced "Nike-ey".
The company is named after the Greek God for victory, Nike, pronounced "Nike-ey"

koneko

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

Safety?

Safe-ety!

Argh!

Oh god...


Irish water safehtay. PRONOUNCE IT RIGHT DAMMIT!

RE*AC*TOR

It is pronounced "Nike-ey".
The company is named after the Greek God for victory, Nike, pronounced "Nike-ey"

Well according to Back To The Future Part III Nike is of Native American origin!
:P

Gang Member 3: Take a look at them moccasins. What kind of skins is them? What's that writing mean? (reading the "Nike" on Marty's trainers) Neekay...what is that, some sort of Injun talk or something?

Spalk0

I think pretty much all americans called it Nike-ey!.....Sounds stupid that way though!.....Nike is better!

monkeyfudge

yep.. the DefinITely drives me nuts... I used to work with someone who used it all the time when they were on the phone.

Adobe is one of my pet hates. It's another of those words like Nike, except I think the Adobe were an actual tribe of native Americans. I won't hire anyone who gets the pronunciation wrong.

karlh

any time someone says 'Happy Days', I want to punch them them in the face.

pickarooney

Maybe because lots of people spell it wrongly as "definately"?
Clutching at straws a bit.

RE*AC*TOR

karlh wrote:

any time some says 'Happy Days', I want to punch them them in the face.

"Run, Dougal. Now. Quite fast."

pickarooney

monkeyfudge wrote:

yep.. the DefinITely drives me nuts... I used to work with someone who used it all the time when they were on the phone.

Adobe is one of my pet hates. It's another of those words like Nike, except I think the Adobe were an actual tribe of native Americans. I won't hire anyone who gets the pronunciation wrong.

So anyone who doesn't say Adobay is out? You must have a fairly low staff count.

It's a type of brick used in Mexican houses btw.

pickarooney

'Nike' is like 'Pheobe' or 'Persephone', with a pronounced final 'ee'. Live with it.

Jim

pickarooney wrote:

'Nike' is like 'Pheobe' or 'Persephone', with a pronounced final 'ee'. Live with it.

Greek Goddess Of Victory.
I apologise.

monkeyfudge

pickarooney wrote:

So anyone who doesn't say Adobay is out? You must have a fairly low staff count.

It's a type of brick used in Mexican houses btw.

Not so much 'out' more 'never let in'

Mexican bricks it is then!

But it is prounouced ah-doh-bee or uh-doh-bee not ah-dobe. Little things like this start alarm bells in my head. Recently I had someone who wanted to train people in MS Word, who had the word 'computer' spelled wrong on their CV.

Jim

"Spelt"

It begins!

Gordon

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

It is pronounced "Nike-ey".
The company is named after the Greek God for victory, Nike, pronounced "Nike-ey"

Really? Then it should be pronounced Neekee if you want to go the whole hog.

Kêrmêttê

I used to work with a guy from the sticks who used to say;
definITEly (definately), sahurdeh (saturday), hofface (office), ewe-nee-forum (uniform), over-aaaaaaaaaaalls (overalls).
I constantly felt like ripping the face off him with my bare hands!!! :mad:

/me counts to 10 and goes to my happy place :cool:

Jim

Gordon wrote:

Really? Then it should be pronounced Neekee if you want to go the whole hog.

Pedantic mofo.

pickarooney

Now that is bad!
In the last few places I've worked, there's been a different standard prounciation for 'Adobe'
1) a dobb
2) a doe beuh
3) a doe bay
4) a doe bee

All correct, in their own way, I suppose, but I digress...

Kêrmêtt&#234 wrote:

I used to work with a guy from the sticks who used to say;
definITEly (definately)

See, he can't pronounce it, you can't spell it. My theory gains credence

So... IKEA, who wants to bítch about the way we pronounce that

Jim

Edit button you spamming whore!

Third_Echelon

Kêrmêtt&#234 wrote:

I used to work with a guy from the sticks who used to say;
definITEly (definately), sahurdeh (saturday)....

I used to have a landlord that spelt saturday like that in our rent book!!!

sahurdah!!! OMFG!!!

Sleepy

It's just one of those generally annoying "D4" words really isn't it?

Kêrmêttê

pickarooney wrote:

See, he can't pronounce it, you can't spell it. My theory gains credence

So... IKEA, who wants to bítch about the way we pronounce that

Firstly, I'm female.
Secondly, I'm at work and typing quickly while the boss is wandering about is quite difficult, so, typos are going to happen. :rolleyes:

Spalk0

My sister used to pronounce 'iron' as 'i-ron'!....but then agin at that age it allmost sounded like she was drunk!

Furp

I used to deal with a guy that constantly said definitely a lot it used to drive me mad.

Another one that really gets up for wick for some reason is vehicle pronounced veh-hic-l. aaarrrgh :mad:

steveland?

Veh-hickle... i hate that one

Spalk0

Allways hear the gaurds pronounce it that way!.....tis annoying!

monkeyfudge

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

"Spelt"

It begins!

Yes. You are quite right. But it's not exactly my CV is it?

climaxer

Kêrmêtt&#234 wrote:

Firstly, I'm female.
Secondly, I'm at work and typing quickly while the boss is wandering about is quite difficult, so, typos are going to happen. :rolleyes:

Me too, boss on the major prowl today and v busy here.

What about Lidl - I pronounce it Lid-L and my cousin annoys the sh*t out of me by calling it Lid-elle.

Another thing that really annoys me is people calling me Emma instead of Gemma (nothing wrong with the name Emma) but people who've been calling to this office for years still say Hi Emma :mad:

pickarooney

Kêrmêtt&#234 wrote:

Firstly, I'm female.
Secondly, I'm at work and typing quickly while the boss is wandering about is quite difficult, so, typos are going to happen. :rolleyes:

Yeeeeaah, HE is your co-worker, YOU is YOU.

skittishkitten

Welp .....I'ms happy I talks da proper englash . I ain'ts got to worry 'bout noones gettin' riled at me .

Miss Mann

Modren. (modern)
Ecscape.
Mould. (pronoucing the "oul" as "owl")

and so forth...

xx

steveland?

Can i axe you's if this kinda talk annoys yis?


Have to say I use yis a lot

PurpleFistMixer

"Excetera."
I had a teacher who said that ALL THE TIME. And every time he did it I wanted to stab him in the forehead with a biro.

Moriarty

L'eye-Dahl (Lidl)

L'eye-noks (linux)



But only to annoy pernickety bástards

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

"Excetera."
I had a teacher who said that ALL THE TIME. And every time he did it I wanted to stab him in the forehead with a biro.

The sad thing is that the overwhelming majority of people have no idea what it actually is, or how to write it properly.

SantaHoe

Moriarty wrote:

The sad thing is that the overwhelming majority of people have no idea what it actually is, or how to write it properly.

Easy.... "etc."

Moriarty

How many people do you think will seriously agree? =/

I lost hope with humanity years ago, but stuff like that just reinforces it even further.

SantaHoe

Moriarty wrote:

How many people do you think will seriously agree? =/

eh?!
You mean people get that wrong aswell?
I thought you were just talking about the full spelling of etcetera and was being cheeky

Calibos

"2 refuge bags please."

"Its refuse bag you general populace moron"

"Gimme a Package of crips"

"Its packet of crisps you skanger moron"

Moriarty

SantaHoe wrote:

eh?!
You mean people get that wrong aswell?

Most people think 'etc' is the correct full spelling for it.

elivsvonchiaing

Food for thought: ignoring the plural of pound; skanger speech used to be "3 pound 20" (distinct absence of plural!!!). The Euro has no plural form - scary or what? Saying 3 Euros and twenty cents is gramatically incorrect BTW.

I have come under the influence of my skanger guru: Decko - er could've been Anto - I was locked - and see things differently now

So doannbe annoiyed. Jus confrm! Reeght! Diz de future reeght!

billy the squid

is it dido or d'eye-do

remember when the we had the punt

can ya lend us ten umps or fy umps for the coke machine?

there was one person his g/f name was Sandra

you say Sandra he would say "No its Sawn-dra

gazzer

Do you ever see the guests on Rickie Lake??? They always say

'I axsed him' instead of 'I asked him'

pickarooney

That's Eubonics though, so that's okay. Apparently.

Armen Tanzerian

I hate them so much.