Mispronunciations

loike

dunno if its be mentioned
but three as tree

turdy tree - 33

lol

sbsquarepants

LordSutch wrote: »

Recently, I overheard a car salesman in a Renault dealership saying RenaulT

I'm not sure what the correct pronounciation should be, but for some reason i take an instant dislike to anybody who pronounces peugot as per-jo, im a pyoo-jo man through and through!

Fittle

G Ryan (I still miss him:() and his pronounciation of Pedophile (Ped-o-feel) used to drive me bonkers.....

Pherekydes

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I'm not sure what the correct pronounciation should be, but for some reason i take an instant dislike to anybody who pronounces peugot as per-jo, im a pyoo-jo man through and through!

There is definitely no 'Y' sound in Peugeot. Peu would be pronounced puh, as in put, but without the 'T'.

pickarooney

loike wrote: »

dunno if its be mentioned
but three as tree

turdy tree - 33

lol

Does anyone actually hear the (very noticeable) difference between the Hiberno-Irish dental post-dental 'th' sound, the British/American dental 'th' and the plain old 't' or 'd' sounds?

For example while a BBC newreader might say 'think' with his tongue protruding between his teeth, many speakers of Irish English with the tongue pressed against the upper teeth and produce it as a plosive with the tongue running down to hit the top of the lower teeth. This is quite distinct from clenching your teeth and leaving your tongue slack in your gob while you have a 'tink'.

It's funny when you hear one person 'correcting' another's pronunciation of a loaned foreign word using an equally spurious pronunciation.

Rented Mule

Mr Marston wrote: »

I was in America and I was talking to some chap and I said I'd love to go to "Yoze-might" one day. He said he'd never heard of it but there was another spectacular national park called Yosemite that I should go to. I copped my mistake and decided not to inform him of it.

There is a Yosemite 'Yoze-mite' Kentucky

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=yosemite+kentucky&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&safe=images&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Yosemite,+Casey,+Kentucky&gl=us&ei=wWTATN7HE8T8nAfH0ZX4CQ&ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA&t=h&z=14

extra-ordinary_

Con-troversy, not contro-versy.

What about advertisement? I say either.

Data? I say either


People pronouncing words ending in 'ing' as 'een'.

My Dad would never pronounce the 'h' in hospital, saying it was like the word 'hour'.
He also claimed that I mispronounced 'restaurant' by saying restaraunt. He would pronounce it 'restorant'.

pickarooney

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

He also claimed that I mispronounced 'restaurant' by saying restaraunt. He would pronounce it 'restorant'.

You should probably have listened to your Dad, although see above for them pesky forrin words.

NoHornJan

No mention of Mrs. Malaprop yet.
She was one of the" best" abusers of the english language.

MaxPower89

2 girls in the office from Louth always say "I done" instead of "I did"...it drives me insane...sounds so dumb to me!

Scuid Mhór

have had numerous embarrassments, but the only one that i can think of RIGHT NOW is my battle with 'esoteric'. pronounced it ah-soh-tir-ic. i received quite the mocking after trying to say it to look classy.

Scuid Mhór

MaxPower89 wrote: »

2 girls in the office from Louth always say "I done" instead of "I did"...it drives me insane...sounds so dumb to me!

that's not a mispronunciation, bud.

louise-x

my mother pronounces rhubarb as "roo-bob"
none of us have ever bothered to correct her :rolleyes:

KungPao

louise-x wrote: »

my mother pronounces rhubarb as "roo-bob"
none of us have ever bothered to correct her :rolleyes:

Probably comes from the English pronunciation, as in English people. Roo-bahb.

Doctah is another one.

Liber8or

What about def-in-itely versus def-in-it-ly?

Generally, I only hear culchies say "def-in-itely" sounds almost like "deaf-in-nightly".

bonzodog2

My ex used to prounounce anaesthetic as "an-as-tettic". Grrrrr!

Misanthrope

irregardless of what I seen in the thread title, I'm after deciding to point out that are grammer problems could of been an importanter topic than mear unpronounciation of boring words what nobody uses.

marcsignal

"Lehmans was a world investment bank. They had testicles everywhere"

Bertie Ahern, October 2009.

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Cat Melodeon

Pupito wrote: »

My good lady drops the 'l' from 'almond'. Is she correct, or should I sit her down and point out the error of her ways as I am keen to do, one of these fine long evenings?

I'd say she's correct.
Almond - ah-mond

Salmon, one of the Rushdies, perhaps?

Misanthrope

Mr Marston wrote: »

Happened me the other day; hyperbole. I thought it was "hyper-bowl". Felt like an idiot when corrected. Another one that happened me.

Is the Hyperbole bigger than the Superbole or is it more like the Probole?

Misanthrope

Cat Melodeon wrote: »

I'd say she's correct.
Almond - ah-mond

Salmon, one of the Rushdies, perhaps?

I loves a few amminds sprinkled on me sammin.

Terry

liah wrote: »

Words with v's being turned into words with w's, e.g. "witamin."

Then again that's from people who have English as a second language.. doesn't make it any more logical, though. In German, the letter "v" makes an "f" sound, how they keep replacing "v" with "w" is well beyond me.

Ask Pavel Checkov.

Benny Lava wrote: »

Catch is pronounced as its spelling would suggest: catch. Not "ketch"!!! That one does my head in.

I know it was mentioned already but this "Chicargo" thing drives me crazy. Before the city would rarely be mentioned in conversation but that changed with the creation of Chicago Town pizza!

Book is pronounced in a way that it rhymes with look, shook, crook etc. and not "bewk".

"Sandwich" is not "sangwidge" (mentioned before already as well).

I can't think of any examples at the moment, but some English and American newsreaders constantly put "r"s into words where they don't belong. It really ****ing annoys me.

johnnyfardel wrote: »

yizzerselves - as in , you have to try and win the
match yizzerselves....

Or - you lot would want to take a good long look at
yizzerselves

How do you pronounce it, Fardeller?

knird evol wrote: »

and some people say 'Jobstown' when its clearly pronounced 'No Jobstown'

This and this.

bluewolf wrote: »

They are fir trees, not fear trees

I always preferred Pine trees.
There was a man who used to live here back in the 1950's and he had huge Pine forests. He claimed to have seen an alien back in 1955.

pickarooney wrote: »

Does anyone actually hear the (very noticeable) difference between the Hiberno-Irish dental post-dental 'th' sound, the British/American dental 'th' and the plain old 't' or 'd' sounds?

For example while a BBC newreader might say 'think' with his tongue protruding between his teeth, many speakers of Irish English with the tongue pressed against the upper teeth and produce it as a plosive with the tongue running down to hit the top of the lower teeth. This is quite distinct from clenching your teeth and leaving your tongue slack in your gob while you have a 'tink'.

It's funny when you hear one person 'correcting' another's pronunciation of a loaned foreign word using an equally spurious pronunciation.

I'm quite aware of it.
I can still remember my first class teacher explaining how to pronounce 'th' words, and then having the piss ripped out of me when I followed his instructions. I innored the idiots and continue to (mostly) pronounce words properly to this day.

tampopo

Sardonicat wrote: »

Hate the way Jo Frost pronounces acceptable "assceptable" "That behaviour is NOT assceptable, onto the naughty step!"

yeah, hate that too...


also, Library, it has two rs, and secretary, not secretry. I say skedule, not schedule....

Ruu_Old

I think this is the American way of pronouncing.

I say leisure (lezure), they say leesure.
I say semi final (semee), they say sem-eye final.

EverybodyLies

MazG wrote: »

Oh yeah! Fillums... I love them

For years I pronounced voluptuous as 'volumptuous'. I have no idea where I got that letter m from, but it made sense in my head at the time.

:eek: There's no 'm'! Really? Wow. Revelations.

Also, not really mispronunciation, but a lot of people in Dundalk say I done/I seen which drives me crazy! Also the book/bewk thing.

EmacB

Cur-full
instead of
Care-full

Whats up with that?

hubba

pickarooney wrote: »

Unless you're some sort of drooling slackjaw, ire, like fire, pyre, mire and dire are all monosyllabic words. OK, that's a little unfair, as a great many people do pronounce these as two syllables, but having a posh English accent has nothing to do with this.

Collins English dictionary, which shows phonetic pronounciation, would seem to disagree with you.

PsychoSue

Im a secondary school teacher and I hear ALOT of different pronunciations.

In Dublin I think there's 3 groups
1) 100% correct 2) "Posh" mispronunciation and 3) "Common" mispronunciation

2) My friend says
Skurt = Skirt
flurt = flirt
Cor = car
roysh = Right
lioke = like

3) I'm hearing the following from more and more kids
Crips = Crisps
hosdibal = hospital
wah ur = water
teat = teeth
chocleh = chocolate
mineh = minute
teached me (not bad pronunciation but ANNOYS the hell out of me!!)

I'm going to stop before I crack up...

Terry

PsychoSue wrote: »

Im a secondary school teacher and I hear ALOT of different pronunciations.

In Dublin I think there's 3 groups
1) 100% correct 2) "Posh" mispronunciation and 3) "Common" mispronunciation

2) My friend says
Skurt = Skirt
flurt = flirt
Cor = car
roysh = Right
lioke = like

3) I'm hearing the following from more and more kids
Crips = Crisps
hosdibal = hospital
wah ur = water
teat = teeth
chocleh = chocolate
mineh = minute
teached me (not bad pronunciation but ANNOYS the hell out of me!!)

I'm going to stop before I crack up...

I really hope that you do not teach English.

Pwpane

hubba wrote: »

Collins English dictionary, which shows phonetic pronounciation, would seem to disagree with you.

Fire, ire etc contain a triphthong: ah-ee-er.

They still qualify as one syllable.

From yourdictionary.com - triphthong = a complex vowel sound involving three continuous vowel sounds in one syllable (Ex.: fire, as in the British pronunciation, IPA [faə])