Strange pronounciations

py2006

Something that gets on my tits (if I had a pair) is the way some people pronounce 'book'.

Its not b-eww-k its buk! :mad::mad::mad:


Are there any regular mispronounced words that we hear on a daily basis?

chin_grin

Pro-noun-see-ay-shuns

or

Pro-nun-see-ay-shuns?

Big Nasty

There might be bad grammer but how do you know people mispronounce by reading there posts 'here on boards'?

FatherLen

cuk
cewk

py2006

MCMLXXV wrote: »

There might be bad grammer but how do you know people mispronounce by reading there posts 'here on boards'?

emeraldstar

"iss-yoo" and "sex-yoo-al", a la Anne Doyle.

Also sikth. Thomas, Thailand, thongue

Einhard

How the feck is "colonel" pronouced "kernel"? It doesn't even have a frickin "r"!

Big Nasty

py2006 wrote: »

What? You said 'here'.

Not 'here' on boards then? Here, where, there or hear, wear, their?

Big Nasty

Einhard wrote: »

How the feck is "colonel" pronouced "kernel"? It doesn't even have a frickin "r"!

Was Kevin in Home Alone a left-tennant?

Kojak

Often notice that some people, especially from Cork, pronounce galway as Gal-Waay.

py2006

MCMLXXV wrote: »

What? You said 'here'.

Not 'here' on boards then? Here, where, there or hear, wear, their?

Ah ya know what I meant!!


(fixed the typo)

KungPao

Mayoooooooooooooooooooh

CucaFace

We had this discussion in the office a few years ago about how you pronounce book.

I felt that there is an invisable line in Ireland where if you are south of it you say buk and north of it B-ewwwww - k

Same goes for all the the other similar words to book.

The line starts above Clare for what its worth.

CucaFace

Donkey and Dunkey is another one.

Thud

Sa-hur-day

py2006

I have a mate who says 'arfter' instead of 'after'

Villette

It has to be the word 'film'. I can never understand why everyone feels the need to turn it into a two syllable word.
It makes me wonder if it's widely misspelled as a result.

At least with book, it may be annoying to hear it spoken as 'bewk' but at least that could be described as a localised accent - usually in parts of Northern England. I rarely hear it said in Ireland, except maybe by Cavan people. Everyone says 'filim'!

Big Nasty

My cousend had to go to hostiple because he hurt his head in an accident off his bike. The doctor axed him why he wasn't wearing his hemlet.

CiaranMT

My mam: Dunkay and waah-sp. (Donkey, wasp)

In general:

Modrin (Modern)

Loylatty card (loyalty card)

Samhain

Piscetti instead of Spaghetti, Pacific instlead of Specific, Brickits instead of Briquettes....the list goes on

Big Nasty

The Pacific is a Specific ocean.

orourkeda

Gross isn't growth.

Three isn't free.

Wealth Rate isn't well freight

Solair

The Cork pronunciation of "Committee" - "Comm-it-TEE" with the stress on TEE, like French!

chucken1

orourkeda wrote: »

Gross isn't growth.

Three isn't free.

Wealth Rate isn't well freight

It is if you're in Sarf Landan innit.

py2006

Solair wrote: »

The Cork pronunciation of "Committee" - "Comm-it-TEE" with the stress on TEE, like French!

Don't forget Ve Hick al for vehicle.

Frank Black

'a-shume' instead of assume.

uch

Jaysus you people have too much time on yer hands, worrying about this sh1te

RhubarbCrumble

Thud wrote: »

Sa-hur-day

And "SOT-or-day"

leviathon

For the last goddamn time those tasty little layers of teary goodness are pronounced Un-Ee-On

Not Oing-In

Ahhhh feel better now.

EverEvolving

Einhard wrote: »

How the feck is "colonel" pronouced "kernel"? It doesn't even have a frickin "r"!

This confused me for ages and I remember reading Catch 22 years ago and not being able to pronounce the Colonel word

Morkeshing

Basically, where people substitute esh instead of the real word.

chucken1

leviathon wrote: »

For the last goddamn time those tasty little layers of teary goodness are pronounced Un-Ee-On

Not Oing-In

Ahhhh feel better now.

Its an ing-in

Naykid

Ham sandwiches or Hang Sangwedges. For feck sake like.

Little Acorn

Emm, I don't say "buk" or "b ewwww k".

I just pronounce it as it is spelled - book.

Boo -like what you might say if you were giving somebody a fright , k -just the k sound, except these two sounds joined and used as a one syllable word
-book.

I pronounce cook the same except with a c instead of d obviously.

How does everyone here pronounce envelope?

Do you pronounce it EN-vel-ope
or

---

ON-vel-ope ?

Seannew1

I'm one of the minority in Ireland who pronounces book as bewwk and it drives my friends from other parts of ireland up the wall......

AdMMM

Little Acorn wrote: »

Emm, I don't say "buk" or "b ewwww k".

I just pronounce it as it is spelled - book.

Boo -like what you might say if you were giving somebody a fright , k -just the k sound, except these two sounds joined and used as a one syllable word
-book.

I pronounce cook the same except with a c instead of d obviously.

How does everyone here pronounce envelope?

Do you pronounce it EN-vel-ope
or

---

ON-vel-ope ?

You're wrong. It's "buk"

py2006

Little Acorn wrote: »

I just pronounce it as it is spelled - book.

Boo -like what you might say if you were giving somebody a fright , k -just the k sound, except these two sounds joined and used as a one syllable word
-book.
?

Slaaapppppppppppppp!!!

hidinginthebush

Package of crip

[shudder]

Davidson2k9

"Patrin" instead of "pattern"

"Davison" instead of "Davidson" :pac:

mikeyboy

Einhard wrote: »

How the feck is "colonel" pronouced "kernel"? It doesn't even have a frickin "r"!

Italian spelling, French pronunciation. It comes from Middle French 'Coronel' but was respelt to keep it in conformity with the older Italian 'Colonello'
Hope this helps

Rented Mule

The word film. It is pronounced just as it is spelled. One syllable.

It is not fill-um !!

Billy Joel's last name is also one syllable.

It is not Billy Jo-el !!

Mongarra

My pet hate de jour is Kilometre. An "ometer" is something that measures like "speedometer, thermometer, odometer etc etc" and has "er" as the last 2 letters. A Kilometre ends in "re" and is 1,000 metres so it should be pronounced "kilo-meet-er" and not "kil-om-eter" with emphasis on underlined syllable.

If you follow the incorrect pronunciation a kilogram would be pronounced kil-og-ram and no-one does that.

KungPao

Little Acorn wrote: »

How does everyone here pronounce envelope?

Do you pronounce it EN-vel-ope
or

---

ON-vel-ope ?

Either way is grand.

Or is it "either"

Hmm.

KungPao

Rented Mule wrote: »

Billy Joel's last name is also one syllable.

It is not Billy Jo-el !!

Maybe he's from the planet Krypton though?

Aglomerado

"Modern" as "Mod-der-en."

Fcuk off, y'old git...:mad:

Caraville

I don't understand why people in Kildare say "herse" instead of horse. Riding herses sounds like you sit on top of a funeral car.

They also say brickits instead of brick-ettes (as in peat briquettes).

Bu-er (butter), wa-er (water), Kay-ie (Katie)... all problems around the midlands/Kilkenny/parts of Tipp.

And also most things pronounced with a D4 accent are strange... and very very irritating.

Little Acorn

AdMMM wrote: »

You're wrong. It's "buk"

Probably, but it isn't classed as wrong where I'm from. Almost everyone I know pronounces it book, the only time I used to hear it pronounced as "buk" was on television or by people who were putting on an accent. Like they grew up saying book and cook, then hit their mid twenties and started calling it "buk" and "cuk" along with a general change in their entire accent. Perhaps they just realised that they had been pronouncing it wrong all along and decided to amend that.

I did notice though that in college most of my friends from different parts of the country pronounce it "buk", but they pronounce cook as cook, and not "cuk".

I guess it just depends on what you grow up hearing, and whatever you get used to.

I don't pronounce look as Loo-k though, I pronounce it as "luck", so I guess the same principle is applied to book and cook for some people depending what they grew up hearing.

As has already been mentioned, I find people saying pacific instead of specific a bit annoying, but it wouldn't bother me greatly.

py2006
Quote:

Slaaapppppppppppppp!!!

Ouch, that one stung!:mad::P

chucken1

Little Acorn wrote: »

Probably, but it isn't classed as wrong where I'm from. Almost everyone I know pronounces it book, the only time I used to hear it pronounced as "buk" was on television or by people who were putting on an accent. Like they grew up saying book and cook, then hit their mid twenties and started calling it "buk" and "cuk" along with a general change in their entire accent. Perhaps they just realised that they had been pronouncing it wrong all along and decided to amend that.

I did notice though that in college most of my friends from different parts of the country pronounce it "buk", but they pronounce cook as cook, and not "cuk".

I guess it just depends on what you grow up hearing, and whatever you get used to.

I don't pronounce look as Loo-k though, I pronounce it as "luck", so I guess the same principle is applied to book and cook for some people depending what they grew up hearing.

As has already been mentioned, I find people saying pacific instead of specific a bit annoying, but it wouldn't bother me greatly.



Ouch, that one stung!:mad::P

You say Boo-k?? Thats the same sound as b-eeeew-k
Buk---Book

Luk---look

Cuk---cook

AllYourBass

Colon
Coughlan

Zuh?

RichieC

I started saying bewk and cewker for a laugh and it kinda stuck after a while...

also - yewro for euro.

LeeHoffmann

a foreign relative insisted on calling Drogheda 'doghead'. Didn't matter how many times I correctly pronounced it to get the point across

Frank Black

Apparently D4 dogs bork.