Column - how do you pronounce it?

pickarooney

I went to say 'column' the other day and was suddenly unsure of whether it was pronounced like 'volume' or 'Gollum'. After asking, nobody has ever heard it pronounced 'kolyoom' but I'm sure I didn't just invent that pronunciation in my head... or did I?

mink_man

column

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Colm - as in the boy's name.

mink_man

and what are gollums or kolyooms??? :pac:

IvySlayer

I've said it too much, I don't think it's a word anymore!

Liam Byrne

pickarooney wrote: »

After asking, nobody has ever heard it pronounced 'kolyoom' but I'm sure I didn't just invent that pronunciation in my head... or did I?

Sounds like one of those madey-uppy marbles-in-mouth/D4/Miriam O'Callaghan
pronunciations...

....like rindabite! :rolleyes:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mink_man wrote: »

and what are gollums or kolyooms??? :pac:

Gollums - I think - are mythologial clay-life figures that come to life
Kolyooms - Dose tings dat hold up da stone pillars outside da court, Bud, when ya've bin 2 c de judge.

Keano

Today we learn to to say column

AnonoBoy

None of yer fancy talk around here.

Call a Pillar a Pillar for feck's sake. :mad:

pickarooney

I've no interest in how dictionary voices pronounce it.
So far nobody has said they've ever heard it directly, but three people have said it sounded like a particular accent, namely:

a) old man from rural Antrim
b) D4 marble-mouth
c) story-wha' track-suiter

which is a bit mad

GLaDOS

It's coll-um, no idea where you got coll-yume from

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Choir. Now there's a word that's tricky to see when you don't know how. Choir.

Beasty

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Choir. Now there's a word that's tricky to see when you don't know how. Choir.

starts like "queer", but ends in "aya" - "Quaya":)

D-Generate

I say Kol-yume too! Trying hard now to change it to coll-um since i have to say the word every day a couple of times and they laugh at my Kol-yume talk.

pickarooney

D-Generate wrote: »

I say Kol-yume too! Trying hard now to change it to coll-um since i have to say the word every day a couple of times and they laugh at my Kol-yume talk.

Phew! Any harm to ask where you're from?

mental07

Another kol-yoomer here!

powerfade

eeder eyeder

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Beasty wrote: »

starts like "queer", but ends in "aya" - "Quaya":)

Eer-eh, thank you, Guvena Quimby!

Liam Byrne

Beasty wrote: »

starts like "queer", but ends in "aya" - "Quaya":)

Miebe ova in Cay-ens in Queenslan', mahte, but not 'round these parts!

Pronunciation of "choir" is "quire".

TobyZiegler

Definitely Kol-yume for me too. I woulda thought most people say Kol-yume!

I hate Schedule - Shed-ule or Skedule?!

Liam Byrne

TobyZiegler wrote: »

Definitely Kol-yume for me too. I woulda thought most people say Kol-yume!

I hate Schedule - Shed-ule or Skedule?!

American English : Sk
European English : Sh

It's like "leftennent" vs "lootennant".

Useful.Idiot

stupid thread tbh

MOH

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Choir. Now there's a word that's tricky to see when you don't know how. Choir.

HUh? How is that tricky? It's pronoinced exactly loike it's spelled. Choir. It's what oi sit on after a hard day counting moi millions.

Aodan83

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

stupid thread tbh

I like the name.

ejmaztec

They have collyums in Kerry.

They also have kommerties instead of committees.:eek:

pickarooney

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

stupid thread tbh

Haha - you're an outed kolyummer and can't stand the shame.

Liam Byrne

ejmaztec wrote: »

They have collyums in Kerry.

They also have kommerties instead of committees.:eek:

Sticking in non-existent, ridiculous "r" is a Cockney / Newcastle and D4 trait.

In West Cork they do have komet-teeeeeeees, though!

dudara

Koll-yume here too. Like legume.

Liam Byrne

dudara wrote: »

Koll-yume here too. Like legume.

Can I ask why, though ?

"legume" has an "e" at the end, after the "m" which obviously softens the "yoummmme"

Whereas "column" has an "n", which is a harder sound. Think banging your knee off a counter and going "nnn!".

Not being funny, just wondering where this pronunciation came from ?

sam34

ejmaztec wrote: »

They have collyums in Kerry.

They also have kommerties instead of committees.:eek:

no we don't, we have commiteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

i pronounce "column" as kol-yume

parasite

it's koll-yume tbh, I can't imagine anyone saying it like gollum
must be a cork thing :pac:

ScumLord

I've heard and said it both ways, if someone said it either way before me I'd just follow the way their saying it.

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Today we learn to to say column

Euuuuu, yank speak no thanks.

AnonoBoy wrote: »

None of yer fancy talk around here.

Call a Pillar a Pillar for feck's sake. :mad:

No a piller is a small spliff.

pickarooney

So that's what 6, 7 (8 including Useful.Idiot) kolyume-sayers in 30 posts... it's an epidemic!

ejmaztec

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Can I ask why, though ?

"legume" has an "e" at the end, after the "m" which obviously softens the "yoummmme"

Whereas "column" has an "n", which is a harder sound. Think banging your knee off a counter and going "nnn!".

Not being funny, just wondering where this pronunciation came from ?

I think that it started as a concerted effort to massacre the English language in an attempt to drive out the British. In the end, this didn't do the trick, so people had to resort to violence.

Ruu_Old

kol-yume.

az2wp0sye65487

pickarooney wrote: »

Column - how do you pronounce it?

It - but why are you calling me Column?

pickarooney

There should be a "pity thanks" button.

Abi

Kol-yum

Do all you freaks pronounce the month "Ought-yume" then as well?

liah

As far as I know it sounds like "col-um." Rhyming with gollum or Colm.

Wasn't even aware there were alternate pronunciations for the word. :eek:

minidazzler

liah wrote: »

As far as I know it sounds like "col-um." Rhyming with gollum or Colm.

Wasn't even aware there were alternate pronunciations for the word. :eek:

Nah, that just sounds wrong TBH!!

Kol yoom sounds right to me!

Liam Byrne

liah wrote: »

As far as I know it sounds like "col-um." Rhyming with gollum or Colm.

That sounds spot-on to me!

LordSutch

'Coll-yum' is quite prevalent in parts of Ireland > dunno why? then there's ''thought' being confused with 'taught'

pickarooney

Is there any kind of a regional bias to the kolyum pronunciation?

Do you people who speak Irish say 'koleen' or 'kolyeen' for cailìn? (can't do a fada, sorry)

BTW, is Colm not pronounced 'kullum'?

pickarooney

pickarooney wrote: »

Do you people who speak Irish say 'koleen' or 'kolyeen' for cailìn? (can't do a fada, sorry)

Why would anyone say Kolyeen?

(for the fada, hold down the "Alt Gr" button to the right of the space bar and press the relevant vowel (or alternatively use ctrl + Alt and the letter).

schween

Collum

Someone laughed at me recently when I said mobile as in mow-bile.
Himself Irish and a German rounded on me and said I was the only one and it's pronounced mow-bill

Also
Million: Millon vs. Mill-yun
Population: Pop-pull-ation vs. Pop-yull-ation

pickarooney

Deleted User wrote: »

Why would anyone say Kolyeen?

Seems to be a fairly standard pronunciation, but I'm not an expert.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cail%C3%ADn

Deleted User wrote: »

(for the fada, hold down the "Alt Gr" button to the right of the space bar and press the relevant vowel (or alternatively use ctrl + Alt and the letter).

French keyboard fails

spacetweek

schween wrote: »

Someone laughed at me recently when I said mobile as in mow-bile.
Himself Irish and a German rounded on me and said I was the only one and it's pronounced mow-bill

That's the American pronunciation! Gasp!

Davidius

I'm absolutely certain it's coll-um.

schween wrote: »

Million: Millon vs. Mill-yun

I've always said milly-on. I think I'm the only person I know that does that.

MizzLolly

I say it like 'volume'. Column.

Liam Byrne

MizzLolly wrote: »

I say it like 'volume'. Column.

And, like "legume", "volume" has an "e" after the "m"; not an "n".