How do you pronounce the letter R?

Cathaoirleach

Do you pronounce the letter R like "or" or "are"?

eg. RTÉ: is it "or tee ee" or "are tee ee"?

I say "or".

A very important issue, and certainly a candidate for Thread Of The Year.

ps. How do you pronounce "issue"? Is it like "ish-oo" or "iss-yew"? I ask because a couple of years ago, RTÉ reporters started saying "iss-yew". Why?

chin_grin

It's pronounced tee arr oh ell ell.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

'or' and 'ishoo'.

It pisses me off when people call Ireland 'Areland'.

brummytom

Are and ish-oo. But I'm from Birmingham so my pronunciation of everything's retarded

Pherekydes

Where's the option for "aw"?

Wound and wound the wascally wabbit wan...

Dangerous Man

Well, Landlubber, I prounce it yaarrrrrgh.

Daegerty

Oar, iShoe

bonerm

"Я"

up for anything

OrTE anseo agaibh! Makes me cringe. Are all the way.

stephendevlin

R

SirenX

I pronounce it 'are' and 'ishoo'
my OH pronounces R like 'or' but then again he pronounces a lot of thing funny...





Oh god I hope he doesn't read this, I'll be in some trouble !

Cat Melodeon

I voted 'atori jaguor' because I say neither 'or' not 'are', it's more of an aahrrr - so caahrr and baahrr, or aahrr tee ee, think thick culchie accent. Caused me no end of trouble when I used to teach English abroad - RP-English speaking colleagues would lose their mind when I did the pronunciation classes and all the Krauts ended up with flat Irish accents saying eeer and beeer instead of ee-ah (ear) and bee-ah (beer) or poooer instead of poo-ah (poor).

I don't mind 'r' so much, but I hate it when people can't pronounce 'o' properly - eau neau, moi i-pheaun died dahling. pukes.

Iwasfrozen

I pronounce it "are" and "iss-yew". You damm Dublin people with your "or-tee-eee"

Noo

"Or" all the way, "are" when i'm in pirate-mode.

or

Hookah

Rarr.

Rubberlegs

Are. Or is for posh folk:)

MadameCholet

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

Do you pronounce the letter R like "or" or "are"?

eg. RTÉ: is it "or tee ee" or "are tee ee"?

I say "or".

A very important issue, and certainly a candidate for Thread Of The Year.

ps. How do you pronounce "issue"? Is it like "ish-oo" or "iss-yew"? I ask because a couple of years ago, RTÉ reporters started saying "iss-yew". Why?

I'd say r like are. My children say ore though. I correct them.

Issue is issyoo. Rhymes with tissyoo.

Larianne

Anne Doyle pronounces sexual is a weird way too.

I say 'or' when saying the letter R but say are-tee-ee.

I neva use that letta......................init

marcbrophy

Some people pronounce 'or' as 'oar'

snooleen

Pronouncing it 'or' doesn't mean you have a posh, over-exaggerated accent. That's 'ooooaaaarrrr'.

And I say 'or' and 'ishoo'.

Yeah she says 'secs-ewal'.

Nothing annoys me more than hearing Americans pronounce 'route' as 'rowt' instead of 'root' :mad:

Joonaspp

are!

Dangerous Man

It's pronounced Or. That is it.

Capt'n Midnight

IIRC it's an erotic R

or was it an erattic R

something like that anyways

Pride Fighter

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michelledoh

I say "or" and "ish-u"

Why do RTE news readers say "iss-yew" it sounds liks a sneeze!

bnt

73Cat wrote: »

Are. Or is for posh folk:)

Or is for Irish folk. It doesn't happen anywhere else in the world AFAIK. It confused the heck out of me when I moved here, and it still sounds uncultured to me.

OutlawPete

Rawwwrrrrrr!!

pickarooney

[ɔɹ]

or, haitch, sometimes even ah

kraggy

Presenters and newsreaders on RTE pronounce the R as "Are" and not "or" because in Gaeilge, the letter R is pronounced "Are".

And RTE is Raidio Teilifis Eireann, which of course is Gaeilge so, they are correct when they pronounce it like that.

pickarooney

kraggy wrote: »

Presenters and newsreaders on RTE pronounce the R as "Are" and not "or" because in Gaeilge, the letter R is pronounced "Are".

And RTE is Raidio Teilifis Eireann, which of course is Gaeilge so, they are correct when they pronounce it like that.

I never knew Irish had its own names for the letters of the alphabet. I always found it a bit weird actually. What are all the other letters called?

Ickle Magoo

Arrrrrrrr

With that fine scottish roll

Ghost Buster

I pronounce it correctly

starlit

Usually say the letter 'R' properly, 'or' but my mouth might slip out 'are' the odd time.

orourkeda

r

What is it good for?

Ghost Buster

Isnt pronouncing it 'Oar' just a little bit Ross O'Carrol Kelly?

Fizgig Bandicoot

'or', ''ishyew'. I thought they pronounced it 'are-tee-ee' on the telly, and that pronunciation of it really annoys me.

Rubberlegs

bnt wrote: »

Or is for Irish folk. It doesn't happen anywhere else in the world AFAIK. It confused the heck out of me when I moved here, and it still sounds uncultured to me.

OK, its for posh IRISH folk:p

Cathaoirleach

kraggy wrote: »

Presenters and newsreaders on RTE pronounce the R as "Are" and not "or" because in Gaeilge, the letter R is pronounced "Are".

And 'issue'?

ISH-oo is how it's pronounced in Ireland, but some gobshíte in RTÉ decided to send a memo to everyone telling them they should pronounce it ISS-yew.

Tissue as well. It's TISH-oo in Ireland. Why are RTÉ now saying TISS-yew? :rolleyes:

And the letter 'H'.

In Ireland, we say HAYCH, but now RTÉ are saying "AYCH". Why??

Basically, someone in RTÉ has sent a memo telling everyone to follow BBC's pronunciation guide and to ditch Irish pronunciations.

And that French arsehole Sarkozy. In English, it is pronounced "Sar-CO-see", but now RTÉ are trying to pronounce it in French: "Zar-co-ZEEEEE".

Basically, I hate RTÉ.

ootbitb

are and I also say film not fillam and safety not sayfity:D

beks101

'Or' in Ireland, 'are' in Canada.

OldmanMondeo

Like a priate arrrrr

Oranage2

'pee'

Aoifey!

Only pirates say "are".

G.K.

'are'

The King of Moo

Arr...




















...ah would ya go away our that with your fancy pronunciation!

Krusader

shouldn't it be, Are Tee Aye

Catari Jaguar

Not this thread again!!

:rolleyes:

Plebs.

Tayla

baz2009 wrote: »

'or' and 'ishoo'.

It pisses me off when people call Ireland 'Areland'.

I pronounce it like Areland can't help it though, I also say ar-en instead of Iron.

I hate the way RTE say fa-nance instead of Fi-nance :mad:

Zapho

Where's the "L" option?

Flied Lice!!!