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Mispronouncing Ireland

luckat · 2007-04-14 09:22:36

Is it some kind of slavish servility or what - when English TV stations cover an Irish story and mispronounce the name of the place they're talking about, Irish stations start to mispronounce it too! This has notably happened recently with Meath and Louth, both of which are correctly pronounced with a *hard* 'th' sound…

14-04-2007 9:22am

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luckat

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Is it some kind of slavish servility or what - when English TV stations cover an Irish story and mispronounce the name of the place they're talking about, Irish stations start to mispronounce it too!

This has notably happened recently with Meath and Louth, both of which are correctly pronounced with a *hard* 'th' sound (the 'th' rhymes with that in 'breathe'), but which I've recently heard often pronounced with a *soft* 'th' (to rhyme with 'breath' or 'death').

Weird.

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#2 14-04-2007 9:31am

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News Just In! The media here for as long as I've known tends to say the "th" sound on a soft Urban-Dublin 4 way! When its pronounced in the hard 'bogger' fashion it catches my attention cos it happens rarely.

edit - the title's a bit misleading.

Mike.

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