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Pronunciations that drive you mad

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    #452
    Osgoodisgood
    Registered Users Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Osgoodisgood


    Fluid when pronounced as a single syllable "flewd" is maddening


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    #453
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Coll-Yum

    Docament (document).

    Noos (instead of News)

    Thigh-land

    Tre-à-ty


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    #454
    Dr.Strange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 181 ✭✭Dr.Strange


    What's with people saying 'off-er' instead of offer?

    It's usually said in a D4 type accent.

    Most annoying.


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    #455
    Cokeistan
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭Cokeistan


    Not sure if it's been mentioned here or not but...

    I hate it when people say "Scon" instead of "Scone", drives me mental!!!!


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    #456
    plys
    Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭plys


    Auld Dubliners replace 'by the time' with "AGEN"

    ie instead of:

    'By the time I got to the shops...'

    they say..

    'Agen I got to the shops...'

    might be a little OT since, istead of being a mispronunciation, they've INVENTED A NEW F**KING WORD!!!! :eek:

    (any Dubs care to try explain this to me..??!)


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    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,506 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Cokeistan wrote: »
    Not sure if it's been mentioned here or not but...

    I hate it when people say "Scon" instead of "Scone", drives me mental!!!!

    See post #317 on page 22.


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    #458
    slievenamon fella
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭slievenamon fella


    wat really drives me mad is when someone says huse instead of hose or hummer instead of hammer:mad:


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    #459
    Breadcrusts
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Breadcrusts


    Was gonna say the 'Scon' one, ridiculously annoying.

    I also have a friend who says BURTday instead of Birthday which just wrecks my head...


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    #460
    Ruralyoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Ruralyoke


    plys wrote: »

    'Agen I got to the shops...'

    :confused:

    Lived in the place for years and never heard this one.

    Heard package o' crips more times than I would have liked alright.


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    #461
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Another Hiberno-English thing IIRC BC. Again IIRC(and Irish scholars look away:)) as Gealige you don't get the hard D in the middle of a word like that the way you do as Bearla, it's more a G/J sound. Another one is "Garjian" for Guardian.

    But tremendous doesn't have a broad vowel after the D so I don't think that theory stands up to much scrutiny (lots of Irish words have a hard D, albeit less hard than in English, before a broad vowel and the lenition of the D before a narrow one is not particularly Irish). The 'j' sound is more a product of the speaker seeing a phantom 'i' after the D. The error is quite common in other English speaking countries as well, to the point that it's listed in many 'what not to say' books.


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    #462
    Mance Rayder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Mance Rayder


    AARland instead of Ireland bugs me.

    When people (particularly dubs) say Wor instead of We're as in "Wor going to the shop".


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


    Dr.Strange wrote: »
    What's with people saying 'off-er' instead of offer?

    It's usually said in a D4 type accent.

    Most annoying.

    Which syllable is the emphasis on?


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    Dr.Strange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 181 ✭✭Dr.Strange


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Which syllable is the emphasis on?

    It's more like they say 'aww-fer', with an empahsis on the 'aww'.

    I've heard it a few times and it sounds really pretentious.


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    #465
    missbelle
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭missbelle


    Dr.Strange wrote: »
    It's more like they say 'aww-fer', with an empahsis on the 'aww'.

    I've heard it a few times and it sounds really pretentious.

    Sounds a bit culchie too the way it's written :D


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    #466
    Dr.Strange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 181 ✭✭Dr.Strange


    missbelle wrote: »
    Sounds a bit culchie too the way it's written :D

    Try saying it, as if you're like, from D4?!


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    #467
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Dr.Strange wrote: »
    It's more like they say 'aww-fer', with an empahsis on the 'aww'.

    I've heard it a few times and it sounds really pretentious.

    Yeah, I hear that the odd time. I think it might come from people picking it up from American accents they hear on TV, some of which elongate the first part of the word a bit like you described.


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    plys
    Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭plys


    Ruralyoke wrote: »
    :confused:

    Lived in the place for years and never heard this one.

    Heard package o' crips more times than I would have liked alright.

    It's alive and well I'm afraid, try hanging around Fingerless, The Mun or Blanch.


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    #469
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    The way Americans say urbs instead of herbs. Makes my ears hurt.


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    #470
    missbelle
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭missbelle


    Dr.Strange wrote: »
    Try saying it, as if you're like, from D4?!

    When I think Awww, I think of a Cavan/Monaghan twang - don't get me started on their accents/pronunciations!! :p


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    #471
    Susie_Q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    Today my colleague tried to say the word 'medicinal'. What came out was 'med-ih-see-nal'.

    PAINFUL.


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    #472
    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    ree-ock-a (Rioja)


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    #473
    Coeurdepirate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭Coeurdepirate


    "Troath".


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    #474
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    People that say 'fearri' instead of Ferrari
    Really annoys me Don't hear it often but odd time I would


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    #475
    AllyMcFearless
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭AllyMcFearless


    Scone as 'scon'.. that one has always irked me!
    Dart as dorsh, window sill as window still, chimney and chimley and my all time favorite..your as yisser..

    WHAT IS A YISSER?!


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    #476
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    AllyMcFearless wrote: »
    WHAT IS A YISSER?!

    Yisser

    Youse are.

    You are.

    :(


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    #477
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Double Postenetration.


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    #478
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    AllyMcFearless wrote: »
    Scone as 'scon'.. that one has always irked me!
    Dart as dorsh, window sill as window still, chimney and chimley and my all time favorite..your as yisser..

    WHAT IS A YISSER?!

    Scon is the British/Anglo-Irish version of scone and if it's good enough for Monty Python it's good enough for me. :D
    Definitive pronunciation at 0.56 on video below.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg


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    #479
    KingKongMofo
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭KingKongMofo


    When people say "irregardless"


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    #480
    Ruralyoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Ruralyoke


    Coeurdepirate wrote: »
    "Troath".

    For "throat" ?

    Oh yeah. That's a very bad one.


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    #481
    real stig
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭real stig


    Comm-it-eeeeee


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