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Words that on first seeing their actual spelling blew your mind.

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    #152
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Meme is pronounced phonetically!

    I can't see how pronouncing it like 'cream' is phonetic!


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    #153
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,976 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    The surnames Featherstonehaugh and Beaulieu. How on earth did they get from those to Fanshaw and Bewley???


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    #154
    mojesius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,324 ✭✭✭mojesius


    The surname 'Cockburn'

    The word rhythm. Why the y? Why oh y


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    #155
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Sadhbh, Tadhg, Terpsichore, Beaulieu
    Yeah its pronounced like 'Bewley', visited the town a few years back. Nice place.

    I actually had the opposite problem, I started reading before fully talking and words on the page 'sounded' different in my head. Demense being one example.


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    #156
    [Deleted User]
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    Miss Olenska wrote: »
    I can't see how pronouncing it like 'cream' is phonetic!

    If a word ends in vowel-consonant-"e", the vowel is pronounced hard, so "e" is pronounced "ee" as in "bee", and the end "e" isn't pronounced. So "meme" is pronounced like "cream" minus the "cr" and beginning with "m".

    Beauchamp. It's pronounced Beechum. Mad.


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    #157
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    true-or-false wrote: »
    If a word ends in vowel-consonant-"e", the vowel is pronounced hard, so "e" is pronounced "ee" as in "bee", and the end "e" isn't pronounced. So "meme" is pronounced like "cream" minus the "cr" and beginning with "m".

    Beauchamp. It's pronounced Beechum. Mad.

    "ee" doesn't seem like the hard pronunciation of 'e'.


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    #158
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Meme is pronounced phonetically!
    Surely then it would be spelled meem


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    #159
    Blisterman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,452 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    It's mime with an e sound.


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    #160
    wnolan1992
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Blisterman wrote: »
    It's mime with an e sound.

    Before I heard someone pronounce it right, I was pronouncing it may-may or meh-me.


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    #161
    [Deleted User]
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    Miss Olenska wrote: »
    "ee" doesn't seem like the hard pronunciation of 'e'.

    Apologies, I meant long, not hard.


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    #162
    ImpossibleDuck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭ImpossibleDuck


    Paradigm.


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    #163
    Isolt
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Isolt


    Aloysius. :eek:


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    #164
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    true-or-false wrote: »
    Apologies, I meant long, not hard.

    Durty. ;):p


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    #165
    missbelle
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭missbelle


    Sky King wrote: »
    Everyone in Ireland calls Maryland Mary-Land but it's pronouncified Maryl-and.

    But Chicken Maryland would be pronounced that way?


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    #166
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,652 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    NUN I thought there was more to them.


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    #167
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Worked with a guy call Seosamh -pronounced like Joseph with an 's' instead of a 'j'.

    We used to have callers from the uk looking for a See-o-Sam-ah.
    They thought he was Japanese.


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    #168
    Fran1985
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭Fran1985


    Mantlepiece. Only ever saw it written down once. always facinated by it


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    #169
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,007 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Dotrel wrote: »
    Aspergers

    They sell arse-burgers in McDonalds.


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    #170
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    Youghal and also picturesque.


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    #171
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Delft. As is cups and saucers. Always thought is was spelt delph. The name Ralph. Once you become a movie star, its pronounced Rayf apparently.


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    #172
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Gateaux Cakes


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    #173
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Sky King wrote: »
    Heard someone on the radio say Ek-Cetera this evening, and thought of this thread.

    Firstly, I want to know how these people get radio jobs when there are plenty of people who can speak properly out of work.

    Secondly, it's ET Cetera.

    And you see this bad boy? *

    That's an asterisk, not an Astrix.

    How come you can't just read the thread and post on topic instead of dragging this tired old crap into yet another thread?

    Catarrh and Phoebe just didn't compute for me.

    I can't understand why 'meme' would throw anyone. 'Theme' and 'supreme' are spelled the same way.


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    #174
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I can't understand why 'meme' would throw anyone. 'Theme' and 'supreme' are spelled the same way.

    Hmmm, well when you put it that way...


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    #175
    scoobymunster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 170 ✭✭scoobymunster


    Not sure if it's been said before but realising the word bed kinda looks like a bed was pretty mind blowin':pac:


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    #176
    silvervixen84
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    Giselle wrote: »
    Youghal and also picturesque.

    When I worked in a petrol station years ago, American tourists used to ask me for directions to Yo-gul and Cob-v :D


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    #177
    How so Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭How so Joe


    scoobymunster wrote: »
    Not sure if it's been said before but realising the word bed kinda looks like a bed was pretty mind blowin':pac:
    the word shark looks like a shark too!


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    #178
    Feeona
    Registered Users Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Feeona


    Pneumonia
    Cousin
    Seeing any prayers written down also blew me away :
    womb (not woom)
    hallowed (not hallo)
    it is (not i tis)
    trespasses
    apostle

    oh and Amen (not Eamon):pac:


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    #179
    Davidson2k9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Davidson2k9


    Whore

    Hallelujah

    Honour


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    #180
    portumnadaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 170 ✭✭portumnadaz


    http://www.stoopidfunny.com/image/3399


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    #181
    Teddy_Picker
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭Teddy_Picker


    For me, it's usually the other way round, that is, seeing the word in print and being surprised by the pronunciation. It's place names mostly, like Norwich, Greenwich, and oh, who would have thought Southwark in London would be pronounced "Suth-ark"


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