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.