Words that people mispronounce!

Chocoholic84

My friend says "recetchin" and opposed to "reception")

Someone else I know said "demin" (denim)

Ayone else got any?

mike65

Turty tree and a turd.

javaboy

Furty free and a furd.

ibarelycare

SolFadeine instead of Solpadeine

WindSock

Expresso

ep71

hostipal
praytees

Sleipnir

Acklantic Ocean.
Antartica.
Crips.

Sulmac

'Heighth' for height.

Dozen Wicked Words

crinimal
sangwich
prostrate (instead of prostate)

Iang87

Mirror,

i have heard many variations

mink_man

people say follyed instead of followed
i know someone who says pumptured instead of punctured!

IvyTheTerrible

DEE-monstration

Four-Percent

ugh.... this thread reminds me of Gerry Ryan yesterday, sh*teing on about a couple who got 16 toasters as a wedding present.... here's a little sample of his show:

"1 thoaster, 2 thoasters, 3 thoasthers, 4 thoasters, 5 thoasters, 6 thoasters, 7 thoasters, 8 thoasters, 9 thoasters, 10 thoasters, 11 thoasters, 12 thoasters, 13 thoasters, 14 thoasters, 15 thoasters, 16 thoasters!

:pac:

consultech

OP what's your problem, pacifically?

Cookie_Monster

probly

goverment

Sleipnir

Advertizzment
Advertiesment

mike65

Treemenjuss, that one seems to be a bit passe at this point, back in the 70s/80s
it was still a popular word esp in the sticks.

murf313

guy i used to go to school with said

cimena = cinema

wesenday = wednesday

pesghetti + spaghetti

latenia

ibarelycare wrote: »

SolFadeine instead of Solpadeine

I think both exist in the UK-something to do with codeine content. An easy way to spot an ignorant person is their pronunciation of et cetera as ec cetera.

Chocoholic84

craythur - creature
schtick, shtay, shcrap, musshel, etc (culchie speak)

and2

some people say crisps instead of Tayto

Dord

and2 wrote: »

some people say crisps instead of Tayto

Shouldn't that be the other way around?

PirateShampoo

Tree = Three
Tanks = Thanks
Tink = Think

ibarelycare

latenia wrote: »

I think both exist in the UK-something to do with codeine content. An easy way to spot an ignorant person is their pronunciation of et cetera as ec cetera.

Yeah I hate that one :mad:

People always mispronounce Thailand as "Thigh-land"

Hate when people say "pacific" instead of "specific"

and2

Dord wrote: »

Shouldn't that be the other way around?

yeah! was hoping someone would point that out.

JimmyFloyd

Every bloody RTE newsreader says

GOOORRR-THEEEEE for Gardai.

keano_afc

People outside the Pale say commitTEE instead of committee.

CreepingDeath

I pronouce "property developers" as "pack of thieving scum".

JimmyFloyd

And people who use the word "Package" in the place of "Packet"

"Giz a PACKAGE ah crips!"

lucylu

hospickal hospital

cosmic

Mischievous

It wrecks my head when people say mischievious :mad:

Twee.

I knew someone who said "supposenly" for supposedly. Oh dear.

Walsh

Bascetti instead of Spaghetti..

fricatus

Aglantic (for "Atlantic")
Pacific (for "specific")
Azoo, azed (for "zoo", "Z")
Portiggle (for "Portugal")

My uncle says "sassiges" instead of "sausages".

Once heard a Cork girl talking about a builder mixing "SEMment". She turned purple when I asked her did she mean "ceMENT".

VEH-hicle and commit-TEE also do my head in.

keefg

Fillem.

No, it's film you moron. It has one syllable not two :mad:

mobius42

Sathurday

zonEEE

Catch - Cetch

aoibhebree

Probberly for probably.
Nartural for natural
Libery for library
Enviromint for environment
See-ya-batta for ciabatta
Ax for ask (really hate that one!)
Drownded for drowned
Sumptimes for sometimes

consultech

Chocoholic84 wrote: »

Words that people mispronounce

OP; This thread effectively should've been called:
"Words that annoy Dubs when slackjawed muckers mispronounce them", in fairness.

glaston

Chicargo

Where the fcuk is that????
Kills me every time.

Dozen Wicked Words

Pyjamasis, the plural for pyjamas is pyjamas!
Midgets, when they are talking about small flying insects Midgies.

Quazzie

consultech wrote: »

OP; This thread effectively should've been called:
"Words that annoy Dubs when slackjawed muckers mispronounce them", in fairness.

Or

Words that Dubs think the pronounce right but don't

ibarelycare

Twee. wrote: »

I knew someone who said "supposenly" for supposedly. Oh dear.

Another one is "supposebly" :mad:

consultech

I say "Peng-GWEN" for penguin, and "THIGHland for Thailand", but know I'm making a mistake, which annoys me more!

consultech

Quazzie wrote: »

Or

Words that Dubs think the* pronounce right but don't

* they

WindSock

I like some of the Irishisms such as folly for follow, cooke, booke and yizzers.

nedd

"I have a great IDEAR". and "Can I AXE you a question"

TPD

keefg wrote: »

Fillem.

No, it's film you moron. It has one syllable not two :mad:

Was going to post the same one. An english teacher of mine took great care in pronouncing poem (po-wem), but always said film (fillum). Really got on my nuts.

glaston

Anybody remember Jana Novotna?
I vant tu vinn vimbledon
:P

nedd

glaston wrote: »

Anybody remember Jana Novotna?
I vant tu vinn vimbledon
:P

I don't think accents can really be included in people pronouncing a word incorrectly.

Tupins

keano_afc wrote: »

People outside the Pale say commitTEE instead of committee.

Generalise much?

******************

I hate when people put R's in where they're not supposed to be:

eg Chicargo
Aurdrey
Plus there's a town in Cork called Buttevant and people often say Buttervant :mad:

I think Expresso annoys me the most though.