Mad replacement words

Saft Hans

My friend always pronounces "Oprah" as "Opera". So I'm always hearing about her watching Opera on TV3 and all the guests Opera had on and Opera's put on weight again.:mad:

Oh and why do people say festibal instead of festival? And medcin instead of medicine?? And tremenjous instead of tremendous??? It's madness!:rolleyes:

ldxo15wus6fpgm

Sangwich for sandwich.

KungPao

"We'll come to that bridge when we cross it"

Love that one.

Kimia

I remember the one that inspired me to begin this thread!

Learning curb

:eek:

Liam Byrne

A mate of mine says he gets "flustrated".......maybe he is indeed both flustered and frustrated simultaneously!

their and there are regular ones on boards

Double-negatives are the ones that really get me in Ireland,e.g. when someone does something "without impunity", or when I'm asked "if I'm not going out tonight", I never know which to answer : in reality, "No" means I am going out, and "Yes" means "You're correct - I'm not going out tonight", but to avoid confusion I have to consciously use the word "Yes" for "No", and vice-versa!

coffee_cake

Liam Byrne wrote: »

A mate of mine says he gets "flustrated".......maybe he is indeed both flustered and frustrated simultaneously!

their and there are regular ones on boards

Double-negatives are the ones that really get me in Ireland,e.g. when someone does something "without impunity", or when I'm asked "if I'm not going out tonight", I never know which to answer : in reality, "No" means I am going out, and "Yes" means "You're correct - I'm not going out tonight", but to avoid confusion I have to consciously use the word "Yes" for "No", and vice-versa!

I think it's so cool there's a german word for that, "doch". We should have one.
But yeah the only way to answer a negative question is with a statement ;s "are you not giong out tonight" "I am going out tonight"

achtungbarry

A good few years ago my dad was having a look at my sister's wedding presents and said while picking up a set of John Rocha glasses - "Jaysus would you look at those fancy Simon le Bon glasses".

Kimia

Preturbed! :eek:

enda1

I used to say bolgonese instead of bolognese for years!

Damn Mammy!

W.Shakes-Beer

In the RTE report about boy racer culture.

Some aul fella from a clerical background -

"Ah they do all be in the carparks at night, doing their buns and doughnuts"

enda1

Liam Byrne wrote: »

A mate of mine says he gets "flustrated".......maybe he is indeed both flustered and frustrated simultaneously!

their and there are regular ones on boards

Double-negatives are the ones that really get me in Ireland,e.g. when someone does something "without impunity", or when I'm asked "if I'm not going out tonight", I never know which to answer : in reality, "No" means I am going out, and "Yes" means "You're correct - I'm not going out tonight", but to avoid confusion I have to consciously use the word "Yes" for "No", and vice-versa!

No problem with the double negatives for me.
At least English is logical in that sense. Two negatives make a positive as confusing as it may be to remember how many negatives are in a sentence and therefore the message.

But in French/Italian/Spanish its not always the case.

Damn Romance languages!

Stench Blossoms

Had a customer start their email with 'Firstable' instead of 'First of all'.

Ms. Captain M

I hear a lot of people saying "volka" meaning vodka.

Qualitymark

Medcin is correct, as is Garthee (if you're pronouncing the 'th' as the broad-syllable 'd' in Irish). But I hate it when people pronounce Louth and Meath with a soft 'th' rather than the hard sound that's correct.

Love Sarah Palinsms: refudiate for repudiate/refute:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalin/a/palinisms.htm

Another beauty from that page:

"Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense." --Sarah Palin, on opposition to offshore oil drilling, Facebook note, June 13, 2010

Liam Byrne

Here's one for the midlanders on boards ..... Port-leash or Port-leash-EH ?

And to follow up on an earlier poster's Charlie Hockey, don't get me started on the lazy English (UK ?) commentators with their Ken Docker-T and Donnerka O Caller-gann & Tom-ass O'Leary, or the pundits and players' penchant for using "was" everywhere, whether it's "I was", "We was" or "They was"......

Hasmunch

Its funny how so many people can get common phrases wrong...

I mean its not rocket surgery

--Kaiser--

You guys would love Trailer Park Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfq3c4Cf1Fs

gagiteebo

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

You guys would love Trailer Park Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfq3c4Cf1Fs

Haha brilliant

candy-gal1

sheside for seaside

sacket for sachet :rolleyes::o - I ve said this for years and its just stuck no matter what anyone says lol

HorsesNHarleys

I used to date a guy that when we disagreed on something he'd say "What exactly are you preferring to"....it was just so darn hard to keep a straight face when he'd say it, I'd have to turn my head away.

Soswozere

instead of "chimney", saying chimley, and even chimbley

Jaxxy

A man I worked with once accused someone of "casting asparagus" we assumed he meant casting aspersions.

Same man, "your point is mute."

xoxyx

I had a huge row with a mate when I said something about a staple diet. She insisted there was no such thing and I meant a stable diet. I still think I was right, but she made some pretty good points.

Best one was "why the hell would they be eating staples???"

:pac:

uberalles

Kimia wrote: »

It should be 'head honcho', as in the boss or whatever.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=head%20poncho

CorsetIsTight

These are typed ones I've seen...

"Here, here", when what they mean is "hear, hear".

"Wallah", when what they mean is "voila".

Dunjohn

It bugs when people say "on the count of" in sentences like "He didn't see it on the count of having to go away at the time," because it means they're adapting "on a count of" which is the wrong way to say "on account of." It's, like, one whole other thing past wrong.

Star Bingo

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

You guys would love Trailer Park Boys

<No text speak please/biko>

shinikins

I knew a girl who thought the line "like a death-row pardon, two minutes too late" in Alanis Morrisettes Ironic, was actually "death-row hard-on". She had an argument for it too, that male prisoners get a hard-on when they're executed. One of the lads downloaded the word for the song and she told him he must have edited it to prove her wrong!

face1990

CorsetIsTight wrote: »

"Wallah", when what they mean is "voila".

Or viola instead of voila.

A woman once described something to me as 'scarifying', presumably a mix of scary and terrifying. Although I can kind of forgive her since English wasn't her first language.

high horse

I got a sub in subway once and asked for jalapenos on my roll. I pronounced it correctly but the woman serving me corrected me on how to say it by deliberately saying it back to me with a "j" sound instead of a "h" sound. It was tough not to laugh in her face but i will never do that to someone who is making my food (at least until they hand it over! )