pronunciation pet hate

flogen

I'm just watching Oireachtas Report on RTÉ One and it's showing a clip of Joan Burton speaking, during which she kept pronouncing 'modern' as if it was spelt 'mod-rin'.

It got me thinking about pet hates in terms of pronunciation and I thought I'd ask if people had their own.

For me it's one thing if the pronunciation is different but logical (like they difference between the pronunciation of 'route' by Americans and British or Irish people or the way many people pronounce 'vehicle' with an emphasis on the 'eh' rather than the 've'), but it's a whole other thing when it's pronounced nothing like it's spelled (as above).

Any others?

MrJoeSoap

Nuke-u-lar!

vektarman

Carlsburg

FlutterinBantam

How many do you want!!!!

Border.... pron. Bawder
Carvery.. pron. Cavvery

Fás..pron Foss

Fine Gael.. pron Fyne Gael

Lotto ..pron Lottho

Get.. pron geh..Miriam O'Callaghan.

Get it.. pron gerrih.. most working class Dubliners.

France.. pron Fraaaaance..Donal Lenihan on TV3

Left instead of "let" as in "he left him go" Most people from Cork & Kerry

Waterford pron Waterford that plonker on the GAA results RTE

Human pron yooman .... Joe Duffy

Money pron Munny.. Mary O'Rourke...............

ad infinitum...................

tbh

Millons

My old history teach used to talk about the I.R.AH.

Slightly OT, but I hate "turned around" as in "Anto turned around and asked decco what he was talking about. Decco turned round and told Anto to.." etc.

musiknonstop

espresso pronounced as eXpresso

xabi

It hapens alot on boards - thought and taught getting mixed up.

On radio and TV anything begining with TH - Thailand getting pronounced thighland, Thompson = thumbson.

X.

DonkeyStyle \o/

tbh wrote: »

Slightly OT, but I hate "turned around" as in "Anto turned around and asked decco what he was talking about. Decco turned round and told Anto to.." etc.

lol yeah, they must have been quite dizzy by the end of the anecdote.

Similarly I dislike people ending sentences with "but".
It leaves you hanging a bit if you're not used to it... "eeh, but what?" - "nope that's it" - "oh"

JæKæ

People in munster often stress the wrong syllable of a word eg.
Cement - Ce-ment

FruitLover

One that crops up this time of year is people pronouncing Stephen's Day as Stephen's's Day. WTF?

MrJoeSoap

FruitLover wrote: »

One that crops up this time of year is people pronouncing Stephen's Day as Stephen's's Day. WTF?

People I work with pronounce "Texts" as "Texts's". WRECKS my head.

Wishbone Ash

JæKæ wrote: »

People in munster often stress the wrong syllable of a word eg.
Cement - Ce-ment

....and 'committee' as 'comma - tee'.

My own pet pronounciation hate is when Dorset Street is pronounced as 'DorSETT' street!

It should rhyme with corset.

JæKæ

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

....and 'committee' as 'comma - tee'.

My own pet pronounciation hate is when Dorset Street is pronounced as 'DorSETT' street!

It should rhyme with corset.

And when the English put their pronunciation on Irish names, and before we know it, it's Tim Cay-hill

Wishbone Ash

Beaumont pronounced as Beaumount.

Ashbourne pronounced as Ashburn.

Taradusk

Theeseach = Taoiseach
Thanaiste = Tánaiste:D

(RTE Special)

Creamy Goodness

JæKæ wrote: »

And when the English put their pronunciation on Irish names, and before we know it, it's Tim Cay-hill

and doherty as dock-her-tee

FlutterinBantam

Taradusk wrote: »

Theeseach = Taoiseach
Thanaiste = Tánaiste:D

(RTE Special)

What's wrong with that???

glasgowspremier

I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned Gerry Ryan, the world's biggest expert on absolutely everything, who pronounces paedophile as pay-doh-feel.

Or maybe he's right and the rest of us have it wrong. Any classical Greek scholars out there?

Wishbone Ash

glasgowspremier wrote: »

the world's biggest expert on absolutely everything, who pronounces paedophile as pay-doh-feel

That just reminds me (althought not pronounciation related) of all those media people who constantly refer to 'sexual abuse' as 'sex abuse'. :rolleyes:

BendiBus

There's a documentary on Channel 4 at the moment about WW3 almost starting in 1983.

The bloody woman narrating it is using the word nucular every few seconds. It is driving me so mad I've stopped watching and come here to vent my spleen instead :mad:

Mweelrea

JæKæ wrote: »

And when the English put their pronunciation on Irish names, and before we know it, it's Tim Cay-hill

dont forget keogh pronounced "key oh"

FlutterinBantam

glasgowspremier wrote: »

I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned Gerry Ryan, the world's biggest expert on absolutely everything, who pronounces paedophile as pay-doh-feel.

Or maybe he's right and the rest of us have it wrong. Any classical Greek scholars out there?

Actually he is right, but the other "Pee-doh feel" is also right.

Nothing to do with classical greek,it's a latin derivation

remember the Latin grammar !ae! as in Mensae can be pronounced either

"Men-say" or "menss-eye.

there ya go now:D

spurious

The mispronunciation of 'would HAVE' has a great deal to answer for.

spurious

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

....and 'committee' as 'comma - tee'.

My own pet pronounciation hate is when Dorset Street is pronounced as 'DorSETT' street!

It should rhyme with corset.

Only culchies and southsiders say Dorset to rhyme with corset - people who live there say Door-SETT.

I knew a man once who used to say 'Rah-henny' for Raheny. He was probably close to the original pronunciation, though I doubt he was quite that old.

FlutterinBantam

I knew a fella who always called "Phibsboro" "Fizzboro"

who called "Chapelizod" "Chapelizard"

who called "Blanchardstown" "Blancherstown"

who called "Rathfarnham" "Rathfarm"

who called "Sandyford" ""Samford"

who called"Lisbon" "Lisburn"

who called "Latvia" "Latua"

who called "Tesco" "Texaco"


Fcuker nearly put me into a mad house.

**Timbuk2**

People who don't say vee-ic-le but instead veh-hickle (yes I know its spelt that way)

Its more common than you think it is

TJJP

Not English of course, but Kyoto (Kyo-to) as key-yoto or kai-oto irks me.

Aard

musiknonstop wrote: »

espresso pronounced as eXpresso

This is only irritating when the speaker is a native English-speaker. I forgive foreigners, as in French -the home of coffee- it is spelled with an "x". Although the fact that they call it just "un café" makes this somewhat redundant.

I don't mind different accents affecting how words are pronounced, such as most inner city Dublin accents dropping final "t"; it's all part of sound change. What *does* get my goat, however, is -as has been mentioned previously- when people mispronounce things based on how they're spelled. The only example that comes to mind is the word "definitely" when spoken by some inner city Dubs: [,dE.fIn"aI.tli], which would rhyme with "nightly".

tolosenc

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

What's wrong with that???

Everything.

There is no phoneme in Gaeilge which even closely corresponds to the "th" phoneme in English.

I hate people who either can't pronounce "th", or those who hyper-correct most "t" sounds to be pronounced as a "th".

Caveat

Yep.

Like in Thigh-land which I find fantastically annoying.

Also, ek-cetera and pacifically (for specifically)

derek27

Pronunciation being spelt pronounciation <-- not an English word.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/pronounciation.html

Binka

or...

children pronounced as chidren

or...

Gerry Ryan pronouncing Portugal as Portagul

balon

Sangwidges and Janguary

Pherekydes

George Hamilton saying sikth instead of sixth. My other half saying mellingitis.

Poochie05

Ontroprenoower - I know it's a foreign word but it's not that difficult. There's an add on the radio for some ethnic entrepreneurship awards and it is mispronounced every time (which is lots of times). You'd think if they had to say it so often they'd at least find out how to pronounce it. And don't get me started on the Newstalk presenter who puts the emphasis on the middle bit - onTROPenoower :mad:

FlutterinBantam

Slow coach wrote: »

George Hamilton saying sikth instead of sixth. My other half saying mellingitis.

She must be a true Dub??

The true Dub usually throws in the "L" instead of 'N'

As in "Where did you go on your holidays last year??

Oh we were in "Telleriffe"!!!

Pherekydes

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

She must be a true Dub??

She is. North Inner city. Despite a Trinners' degree, she pronounces a lot of things the same way as her mother.

A package of Crip.
Chimley
Window still. (I'm wincing while typing )

Aard

That must be really frustrating, Slow Coach. Those little things would drive me mad. Next time she says it, just say, "You mean chimney, right?" and see what reaction you get; she may not notice that she's doing it.

niceonetom

irish people who pronounce chicago as shi-car-go annoy me.

americans who pronounce anything ending with ing as if it ends with een. "e.g. i was feeleen, like, ok n stuff". they're the same ones who usually intonate up at the end of every sentence, as if asking a question. the fools.

i like some mispronunciations though. i finds dubs who say "yizzer" for your quaintly charming, though it's hard to take them too seriously.

i have singaporean cousins who have perfect engish, but with many strange 'singlish' characteristics: contra-bute for con-trib-ute is one that offends me as it shows a lack of understanding of how that word is constructed.

if you say "would of" to me you will forever be thought of as an idiot. sorry.

FlutterinBantam

Aard wrote: »

That must be really frustrating, Slow Coach. Those little things would drive me mad. Next time she says it, just say, "You mean chimney, right?" and see what reaction you get; she may not notice that she's doing it.

heh heh ....Not a chance in hell I would say, better chance of snow in Aurgust

Pherekydes

Aard wrote: »

That must be really frustrating, Slow Coach. Those little things would drive me mad. Next time she says it, just say, "You mean chimney, right?" and see what reaction you get; she may not notice that she's doing it.

I wince every time she says it. What's more she has the kids saying it, too. :mad:

Yes, I correct it every single time. Even in company. So much so that if she's about to say one of "her" words in company she checks herself and tries to say it right. Mission accomplished.

I have to admit to one or two bad ones myself, like everton instead of everything. :rolleyes:

Hugh_C

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

....and 'committee' as 'comma - tee'.

My own pet pronounciation hate is when Dorset Street is pronounced as 'DorSETT' street!

It should rhyme with corset.

Wrong.

People who live on Dorset ST pronounce it DorSETT Street. I imagine they're right.

Wishbone Ash

Hugh_C wrote: »

Wrong.

People who live on Dorset ST pronounce it DorSETT Street. I imagine they're right.

It was named after the Earl of Dorset, not the Earl of DorSETT.

IanCurtis

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Left instead of "let" as in "he left him go" Most people from Cork & Kerry

What's wrong with saying "he let him go"?

PS Anyone who says "DORset street" should be kicked out of the country.

Hugh_C

obl wrote: »

I hate people who either can't pronounce "th", or those who hyper-correct most "t" sounds to be pronounced as a "th".

you clearly have issues ...

Hugh_C

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

It was named after the Earl of Dorset, not the Earl of DorSETT.

Doesn't matter where the fecker was from, north inner city inhabitants have modified it for their own purposes and DorSETT Street it is, and always will be. Except of course to southsiders who rarely venture over, except as a minor inconvenience on their way to the Airport or a yummy plate of prawn sandwiches at The Creauker.

FlutterinBantam

IanCurtis wrote: »

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Left instead of "let" as in "he left him go" Most people from Cork & Kerry

What's wrong with saying "he let him go"?

PS Anyone who says "DORset street" should be kicked out of the country.

Nothing at all Ian nothing at all.

Brian

Committee, film, advertisement, worm, Corolla. Cork people.