Most annoying mispronunciation

ButtersSuki

A few that grate on my ears are:
Adver-tizz-ment (advertisement)
Comm-mitt-tee (committee)
Millun (million)
Tousind (Thousand)
Sangich, especially when prefaced by "hang"

The Big Red Button

Us pronounced as Uzz

Asked pronounced as Axed

Mister Jingles

English people who can't say 'Doherty' properly but instead say 'Dockerty'

krudler

People who say "dat" instead of "this" and can't pronounce their th's in general sound like idiots.

macsauce

Troath instead of Throat

Pronouncing the letter "H" as haych, "Z" as zee, "R" as or.
And to the person who said there is no one way to pronounce words correctly, yes there is. The position of broad and slender vowels will dictate how a word is pronounced. In the case of "throat" the position of all the words will dictate how its pronounced!

Taltos

Howarye - instead of How are you?
or other extreme
Roight - instead of right.

Not sure if my family can figure out where they think they're from but sometimes I just wish they would stop talking for a bit...

CaraMay

The King of Moo wrote: »

Can you explain the difference?

I did

Arpa

People who pronounce the word "ask" as "aks"

Let me awks you a question....that kind of thing. Particularly irritating when a person with a London accent does it.

CaraMay

Youz instead of you (plural)

Cuz instead of cos / because

Nordies who say cearr instead of car.

markc1184

My other half pronounces hospital as hostipal and balcony as bankley. They annoy me. Also people who pronounce Cahill as Cayhill.

The King of Moo

CaraMay wrote: »

I did

Poor trolling or laziness, I can't tell.

macsauce wrote: »

Troath instead of Throat

Pronouncing the letter "H" as haych, "Z" as zee, "R" as or.
And to the person who said there is no one way to pronounce words correctly, yes there is. The position of broad and slender vowels will dictate how a word is pronounced. In the case of "throat" the position of all the words will dictate how its pronounced!

What are the correct ways to pronounce the following: "either," "neither," "tomato," "schedule" and "controversy?"

Oh, and "car."

When people call their children "Leem" and "Dave-it":mad:

Brian_Zeluz

Seans_Username wrote: »

We had a teacher in Transition year who constantly said 'pacific' instead of specific. The word specific came up so much in the class it got so annoying. Always reminds me of this

Worse still, the word 'specificity' came up a good bit too. His way of pronoucing it: 'pis-if-ity'

It wrecked my head

Oddly enough it was my leaving cert geography teacher who said pacific. You would think that teachers of all people would understand correct pronunciation.

CaraMay

The King of Moo wrote: »

Poor trolling or laziness, I can't tell.


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Maybe you say dissipline instead of discipline and that's why you can't tell the difference.

The King of Moo

CaraMay wrote: »

Maybe you say dissipline instead of discipline and that's why you can't tell the difference.

I also probably say "trole" instead of "troll" too.

Vojera

kingtiger wrote: »

I presume the OP means hi-genie

No, I'm obviously just crap at explaining myself.

Most people pronounce 'Hygienic' as 'high-jean-ic' or 'high-jenn-ic', but this woman said 'high-jee-enn-ic'. She was a home ec teacher too, so it came up a lot.

ruthloss

Brian_Zeluz wrote: »

Oddly enough it was my leaving cert geography teacher who said pacific. You would think that teachers of all people would understand correct pronunciation.

Did he say The 'Specific' Ocean.?:P

Think_then_talk

Oregano http://tinyurl.com/czblr8mnice on pizza
However it has been called http://tinyurl.com/c4tm983

Meangadh

Lenth. As in giving up sweets for Lenth. There's no h dammit!

And also the D4 accent. I know it's an accent and not a deliberate way of pronouncing things wrong, but it's just awful. Any vowel sounds just come out all wrong in that accent, ruining most words.

The King of Moo

Think_then_talk wrote: »

Oregano http://tinyurl.com/czblr8mnice on pizza
However it has been called http://tinyurl.com/c4tm983

In the original Italian, the emphasis is on the second syllable, "origano." In American English you tend to hear a similar pronunciation (with the "i" changed to "e" of course), and here and in the UK you hear that pronunciation as well as another pronunciation with an emphasis on the the third syllable, "oregano."

If you wanted to be picky you could say that the former pronunciation is preferable as it's closest to the original Italian.

April O Neill

The King of Moo wrote: »

I hate the way Irish people mispronounce "car," "bar," "star" etc. by using the short vowel sound and pronouncing the "r."

You sound like my uppity, elocution obsessed sixth class teacher. That's not a mispronunciation, it's how people with Irish accents say those words.

Raekwon wrote: »

Everybody from outside the pale saying "Ye" instead of "You"

Delighted nobody thanked this. 'Ye' isn't a mispronunciation, it's a colloquialism.

Lapin

Guess who this is?


Liz-Bonne.

Stock-Hollum.

Mee-Shell.

Eliza-Beth.

:pac:

The King of Moo

April O Neill wrote: »

You sound like my uppity, elocution obsessed sixth class teacher. That's not a mispronunciation, it's how people with Irish accents say those words.



Delighted nobody thanked this. 'Ye' isn't a mispronunciation, it's a colloquialism.

I know, that was my point.
In fairness, I was aware before posting that the sarcasm wouldn't come through, but I went with the post anyway for punchiness. It bugs me when anyone complains about "correct pronunciation," but particularly when Irish people do it without acknowledging the perfectly acceptable fact that most of us pronounce lots of words differently to the vast majority of English speakers.
The inconsistency of internal logic really bugs me.

And I also hate people complaining about "ye." It's a perfectly cromulent word that's quite useful, making it clear you're talking to multiple people.

ruthloss

I also hate the 'do be' and the 'does be' brigade.

I was always taught that it was the height of bad manners to correct people's speech and spelling mistakes and yet, here I am., I'm ashamed of myself.:o

April O Neill

The King of Moo wrote: »

Both pronunciations are common enough to be considered standard.

I have never heard someone pronounce the 'i' in genuine.

Daveysil15

When a Guard pulls you over and says, "Shtay in your vehicle. Loosh the haaitittude."

herisson

People saying veh-hicle instead of ve-hicle

The King of Moo

April O Neill wrote: »

I have never heard someone pronounce the 'i' in genuine.

It's quite common in the US, particularly, I believe, in southern states.

I also hear both pronunciations in Ireland, but "gen-yoo-inn" is more common.

April O Neill

krudler wrote: »

People who say "dat" instead of "this" and can't pronounce their th's in general sound like idiots.

I've discovered that to a lot of English people, we all sound like this.

April O Neill

CaraMay wrote: »

Maybe you say dissipline instead of discipline and that's why you can't tell the difference.

As it's a soft c in discipline, I can't figure how they'd sound different.