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Pronunciations that drive you mad

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    #392
    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Milk & Honey


    celtictiger32 wrote: »
    then you must be in your 90's, and lived on a road with the black and tans

    I am not in my 90s. I go to military functions from time to time. No lieutenant calls himself lootenant.


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    #393
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    The Nooze - Instead of the News


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    #394
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    My mom says book rhymes with Luke, the same with cook. Drives me mad but i suffer in silence.


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    #395
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Not pronunciation but it still annoys me:

    The growing propensity of advertisements stating "2 times" instead of "twice".
    This new gizmo is 2 times more powerful than brand x.


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    #396
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Chuck and Larry


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    #397
    Sittingpretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭Sittingpretty


    Milk & Honey wrote: »
    celtictiger32 wrote: »
    then you must be in your 90's, and lived on a road with the black and tans

    I am not in my 90s. I go to military functions from time to time. No lieutenant calls himself lootenant.

    I'm 35, have always said lef-tenent. Nothing to do with age and everything to do with American TV influence :)


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    #398
    Susie_Q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    This one gave me a laugh today; "Streptococcal throat" being written (not just pronounced but actually WRITTEN) as "Septic cockled throat". LOL.


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    #399
    joeperry
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    People who can't pronounce Ireland correctly, i.e they say Areland :confused:


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    #400
    blzbear
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭blzbear


    Portugal is commonly pronounced Port-a-gal almost universally in Ireland- even on RTE... It's Port-u-gal....


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    #401
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    The scummers who always say "I trun it over!".
    really? The ****ing word is "threw"!!


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    #402
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    I seen xyz or I done xyx - no you didn't, you saw xyz or you did xyz.

    Also hate when people pronounce their 'th's as 'd' ie. De for the, dere for there, dis for this.

    And when 't's mysteriously vanish from the end of words ie. 'i' instead of 'it' or 'wha' instead 'what.


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    #403
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    Tesco Massacre wrote: »
    Indeed.

    And it's aluminium, you daft yanks, not aluminum. No wonder everyone hates you.

    Actually, it started out being pronounced and spelt 'aluminum', from latin. Twas the British who decided to start saying 'aluminium'.


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    #404
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    joeperry wrote: »
    People who can't pronounce Ireland correctly, i.e they say Areland :confused:

    That's a hell of a lot of people who don't pronounce Ireland correctly so. :confused:


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    #405
    Cassidy28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭Cassidy28


    "Alre" instead of "Alright"

    I bleedin drives me Scarleh :D


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    #406
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    This is hard to admit... But this is one that I do.
    I'm trying reeeeally hard to stop it.

    I call penguins... pengwengs...

    And I FWAwKinG hate myself for it.
    I'm such a vile, ignorant cunnt.


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    #407
    JamJamJamJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭JamJamJamJam


    People pronouncing words like "huge" or "humour" like "yooooge and "yoooomor".

    No.


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    #408
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    blzbear wrote: »
    Portugal is commonly pronounced Port-a-gal almost universally in Ireland- even on RTE... It's Port-u-gal....

    It's far worse than that, If you listen closely, their actually saying 'Porch-iggle'.


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    #409
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Sea Filly wrote: »
    That's a hell of a lot of people who don't pronounce Ireland correctly so. :confused:

    For me it'd be more of a non-standard pronunciation than an incorrect one, but that pronunciation does annoy me.

    I'd always say "Eyereland" because, well, it's an "I" :).

    But you're right, a lot of people nowadays pronounce it "Arrland," so I'd hesitate to say it's wrong.

    It reminds me of the way lots of people now pronounce "our" like "arr."
    There's a guy on the already-annoying Heineken or Carlsberg Euro 2012 ad who says "We'd change the name of arr local!"
    Really annoys me, but then, it seems to be becoming the standard pronunciation.


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    #410
    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    But you're right, a lot of people nowadays pronounce it "Arrland," so I'd hesitate to say it's wrong.

    Not pronunciation but does it piss anyone else off when Brits go on about Eire? You don't say Italia or Deutschland - it's Ireland you gob****es. :mad:


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    #411
    Osgoodisgood
    Registered Users Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Osgoodisgood


    Lapin wrote: »
    Not a pronunciation, but the growing occurance of people starting a sentence with the word 'so' drives me nuts.

    Happens a lot with new threads here too - Examples

    So, I'm heading to Twickenham next weekend and realised my passport.....

    So I was sitting in Knock Airport after the long weekend at home....

    So last night, the kids are in bed, my wife and myself are watching "game of thrones".....

    Cut it out FFS - No need for it. :mad:

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I can't stand it any more!

    My wife and I. It's "My wife and I"


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    #412
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    I'd always say "Eyereland" because, well, it's an "I" :).

    But you're right, a lot of people nowadays pronounce it "Arrland," so I'd hesitate to say it's wrong.

    I rarely here people pronoucing it EYErland. It was ever thus. I don't think ARRland is wrong in any way.


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    #413
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Sea Filly wrote: »
    I rarely here people pronoucing it EYErland. I don't think ARRland is wrong in any way.

    Are you in Dublin? I think the Arrland pronunciation is more common with Dublin accents, as it comes more naturally to those with the accent, I'd say.

    I can't speak for the rest of the country, but I think Eyerland is still the most common pronunciation here in Galway, though I hear plenty of Arrlands as well.

    Alternatively, everyone you know might be a pirate :pac:.


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    #414
    Sea Filly
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    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Are you in Dublin? I think the Arrland pronunciation is more common with Dublin accents, as it comes more naturally to those with the accent, I'd say.

    Nope, I'm from the West.


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    #415
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Sea Filly wrote: »
    Nope, I'm from the West.

    I think I'm just out of touch and behind the times with my pronunciations so. :(


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    #416
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I wish there was a happy medium between the revolting American "EYE-er-land" and the more comfortable "Ar-land", but there isn't for me so I go with arland.


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    #417
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Sea Filly wrote: »
    I rarely here people pronoucing it EYErland. It was ever thus. I don't think ARRland is wrong in any way.
    Zillah wrote: »
    I wish there was a happy medium between the revolting American "EYE-er-land" and the more comfortable "Ar-land", but there isn't for me so I go with arland.

    I heard this song the other day and it struck me that when they're singing "You'll never beat the Irish!" it sounds like how I like to pronounce it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r532khFSIHg


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    #418
    prescar
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭prescar


    Dead Kennedys wrote: »
    Gaaaaarrrrrdeee....The RTE pronunciation of Gardai.

    Ciaran Mullooly by any chance?!


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    #419
    celtictiger32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭celtictiger32


    that other dzzzzzzzzope on tv3 pronounces it gorda aaaaargh!:mad:


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    #420
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,703 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Not really pronunciation but when people say "should of" or that something was "robbed" when they mean stolen


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    #421
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The one I rrrrrreeeally can't stand is EYE-taly and EYE-talian for Italy and Italian.... Like someone said before for "EYE-ran" and "EYE-rak", not all countries beginning with an "I" HAVE to be pronounced as "EYE"!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad: .
    I mean, nobody gets confused with India and Indian, or Indonesia!! IT IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO LEARN, PEOPLE!!! :D

    Oh, and another one: I.D. instead of IDEA...


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