Do you say "poem" or "poyme"?

hatrickpatrick

How do you pronounce "poem"?

Does it rhyme with "home" or "point"?

I've noticed a lot of Irish people seem to shorten it to one syllable and add a sort of "oy" sound which sounds... Weird.

Biggins

I say ode.

pockets3d

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

How do you pronounce "poem"?

Does it rhyme with "home" or "point"?

I've noticed a lot of Irish people seem to shorten it to one syllable and add a sort of "oy" sound which sounds... Weird.

Does it matter?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

How the hell does any word spelt like point sound anything like poem?

Also, I don't know anyone who says poyme (I'm reading it as poy-me)

Deus Ex Machina

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

How do you pronounce "poem"?

Does it rhyme with "home" or "point"?

I've noticed a lot of Irish people seem to shorten it to one syllable and add a sort of "oy" sound which sounds... Weird.

What???

Poyme rhymes with point? Done and home sound like each other? Coil and moyne?

partyatmygaff

English teachers around the globe are facepalming and crying bitterly.

cml387

Poem
Rhymes with Know Him


See what I did?

liah

Po-um. I wouldn't say 'pome' or 'poyme.'

Devil08

home and done do not rhyme. they are spelt similarly but do not rhyme. This thread is fkuced on so many levels.


Sconn or Scone?

Insect Overlord

partyatmygaff wrote: »

English teachers around the globe are facepalming and crying bitterly.

Primary School teachers are notorious for pronouncing the word poem to rhyme with "coin".

brummytom

Po (as in go)-im

zuroph

rap

FTGFOP

As a word with two syllables unless I'm using it in a poem and going with 'po'm' preserves the meter.

blockedPaT

i say poem never heard of poyme

pow wow

I thought option 2 in the thread title was what it sounds like with New Jersey accent.

TPD

Po-wum or po-wem, not sure really. Had an English teacher who would insist on saying po-em, with a little breather in between to really exaggerate the pronunciation. I wouldn't have minded, only he said 'fillum' instead of 'film' all the time.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

I say 'pome'.

tricks

Sorry what

keane2097

[X] thread is in bits

Eve_Dublin

TPD wrote: »

I wouldn't have minded, only he said 'fillum' instead of 'film' all the time.

Ehhh...don't we all??

Jeanious

Eh, let me attempt to clarify on behalf of the OP. The first versions is pronounced "po-um". The second version is kinda like "poy-im" or "poym".

To answer the question, the only people ive ever heard saying "poy-im" are w@nkery English teachers at my erstwhile secondary school, so i, like most others, would pronounce it "po-um".

liah

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

Ehhh...don't we all??

Not all of you.. I think I've met one or two Irish who say it properly :pac:

I really don't get how 'film' turns into 'fillum' in Ireland though. There's clearly no 'u' in 'film,' so where did it come from?

I say po-em and fillum

snickerpuss

Trying to imagine the word poem sounding like coil is hurting my brain.

FTGFOP

liah wrote: »

Not all of you.. I think I've met one or two Irish who say it properly :pac:

I really don't get how 'film' turns into 'fillum' in Ireland though. There's clearly no 'u' in 'film,' so where did it come from?

Gaeilge.

partyatmygaff

FTGFOP wrote: »

Gaeilge.

The word for film is scannán...

What does scannán have to do with people saying fill-um?

tricks

partyatmygaff wrote: »

The word for film is scannán...

What does scannán have to do with people saying fill-um?

At least it's not movie

Novella

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

Ehhh...don't we all??

I never pronounce film as 'fillum'. So, no.

As for this thread, what the fuck?

Asphyxia

baz2009 wrote: »

I say 'pome'.

I also pronounce it like that

Ruu_Old

po-em and the pictures! :cool:

AFC_1903

"poim" (sounds like coil, moyne, etc)

Two people speak like this? Wow. If Elmer Fudd has to be one of them, but who's the other one?

FTGFOP

partyatmygaff wrote: »

The word for film is scannán...

What does scannán have to do with people saying fill-um?

Nothing.

When I offered 'Gaeilge' as an explanation for the two-syllable pronunciation of 'film' I meant that it came from Gaelic influence on Irish English. I did some googling and more specifically it's:

Hidden vowels
Most people will have noticed that many Irish people pronounce the word film as fil’um. This is actually a transference of Irish pronunciation rules. When l, n or r are followed by b, bh, ch, g (not after n), m, or mh, and is preceded by a short stressed vowel, an additional vowel is heard between them. For example, bolg (stomach) is pronounced bol’ag; garbh (rough) is gar’ev; dorcha (dark) is dor’ach’a; gorm (blue) is gor’um, and ainm (name) is an’im.

Source

Saila

I think grammer nazi's need their owyn forum

FTGFOP

^what's that apostrophe doing there?

wonderfulname

And so begins my poem,
will I ever get it done...




...crap.

FTGFOP

AB AB can save it, buddy!

Saila

FTGFOP wrote: »

AB AB can save it, buddy!

no its AB AB bridge A outro:rolleyes:

Eve_Dublin

Novella wrote: »

I never pronounce film as 'fillum'. So, no.

As for this thread, what the fuck?

Ah right...it was a genuine question...I always thought everyone said fillum...I do anyway. Filmmmmm as one syllable is humanly impossible for me...is it a Dublin thing maybe?

Eve_Dublin

FTGFOP wrote: »

Nothing.

When I offered 'Gaeilge' as an explanation for the two-syllable pronunciation of 'film' I meant that it came from Gaelic influence on Irish English. I did some googling and more specifically it's:



Source

Thanks for that. Fascinating stuff.

Eve_Dublin

bluewolf wrote: »

I say po-em and fillum

Be proud of your Hiberno-English, Bluewolf!

wurzlitzer

Ah-hem
po-em

Liam Byrne

Saila wrote: »

I think grammer nazi's need their owyn forum

Surely you mean fow-rym?

I've never heard of either of the OP's versions.

It's poh-ehm.