Most annoying mispronunciation

UsBus

When i was in school, i knew a load of Keane's pronounced caine. Then all of a sudden one or two started calling themselves Keane ( keen ) and now 'caines' are all gone...!

I blame Lorraine rindabite Keane...AA Roadwatch...!!!

mackerski

LUZ wrote: »

havent read all 31 pages but i hate it when people say Peugeot "Pew-joe" when its actually "Purrr-schow"

No it isn't. Where would you get an "R" sound from? French doesn't even have such a sound.

But you're half right, because it's not Pew Joe either.

rayquinn1

Probably mentioned before but expresso instead of espresso

coffee_cake

mackerski wrote: »

No it isn't. Where would you get an "R" sound from? French doesn't even have such a sound.

But you're half right, because it's not Pew Joe either.

Getting it from the english who put an r after a vowel sound
That's not right either

I do say pewschow though. Sorry.

dxhound2005

LUZ wrote: »

havent read all 31 pages but i hate it when people say Peugeot "Pew-joe" when its actually "Purrr-schow"
on the theme of cars, i thought hyundai was easy to pronounce until i heard an ad saying HIunDYE instead of hyUNdai....
also the ad on the radio at the moment talking about tire tread depth, and hes saying "thread" instead of tread drives me bonkers. along with the usual heighTH/height thing. aaarghhh!! can't people read or spell anymore?????!!!

Not all words retain their native language pronunciation when transferred into English. An example would be Paris. French pronunciation Paree, English pronunciation Par is. The same follows for words like Peugeot and Hyundai.

kristian12

Pattren instead of pattern, we have friends who say it and the first few times I had to work out what they were on about.

LUZ

mackerski wrote: »

No it isn't. Where would you get an "R" sound from? French doesn't even have such a sound.

But you're half right, because it's not Pew Joe either.

'peu' in french then, i dont know what the phonetic for that is, but surely people can pronounce it properly?? i dont get it. its not really a translation, its a direct brand name.

mackerski

LUZ wrote: »

'peu' in french then, i dont know what the phonetic for that is, but surely people can pronounce it properly?? i dont get it. its not really a translation, its a direct brand name.

Yes, agreed on both fronts. If a bloke called Stefan comes here there's no reason to insist on calling him Stephen.

LUZ

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Not all words retain their native language pronunciation when transferred into English. An example would be Paris. French pronunciation Paree, English pronunciation Par is. The same follows for words like Peugeot and Hyundai.

and tenerife. but peugeot is a brand so should be pronounced properly! im being pedantic but its annoying!!

dxhound2005

LUZ wrote: »

'peu' in french then, i dont know what the phonetic for that is, but surely people can pronounce it properly?? i dont get it. its not really a translation, its a direct brand name.

Brand name, place name, family name it doesn't matter. There can be an English pronunciation which differs from the local language. A well known recent example is Fukushima the Japanese nuclear site. Japanese pronunciation is Fu Koosh e ma. English pronunciation Fook u shee ma. Not wrong just different.

mackerski

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Brand name, place name, family name it doesn't matter. There can be an English pronunciation which differs from the local language. A well known recent example is Fukushima the Japanese nuclear site. Japanese pronunciation is Fu Koosh e ma. English pronunciation Fook u shee ma. Not wrong just different.

So who decides on the "English" pronunciation? Do we get to vote?

dxhound2005

mackerski wrote: »

So who decides on the "English" pronunciation? Do we get to vote?

I would allow a company like Hyundai to use whatever they like. Media organisations like the BBC have pronunciation guides for staff. The rest of us don't get a vote, it is just usage, custom and practice.

pickarooney

LUZ wrote: »

havent read all 31 pages but i hate it when people say Peugeot "Pew-joe" when its actually "Purrr-schow"

Is that a 'sch' like in schedule?

Osgoodisgood

kristian12 wrote: »

Pattren instead of pattern, we have friends who say it and the first few times I had to work out what they were on about.

The self appointed authority on all matters pertaining to accents and evolving English is NOT going to be happy with your post.

jillymayr

fulfill

BuilderPlumber

The 'posh' way people say donkey as DONG (rhymes with BONG) key and monkey as MONG (rhymes with BONG) key.
The way culchies pronounce swallow as swolly and swan as schwan (rhymes with fan) and bar as baaarrr.

The_Captain

LUZ wrote: »

havent read all 31 pages but i hate it when people say Peugeot "Pew-joe" when its actually "Purrr-schow"
on the theme of cars, i thought hyundai was easy to pronounce until i heard an ad saying HIunDYE instead of hyUNdai....
also the ad on the radio at the moment talking about tire tread depth, and hes saying "thread" instead of tread drives me bonkers. along with the usual heighTH/height thing. aaarghhh!! can't people read or spell anymore?????!!!

The Hyun in Hyundai should rhyme with Fionn, it's kind of hee-un squashed into one syllable

It has probably been mentioned already but that bloody Rachel Allen one and her toosties and her pestoooo.

jimgoose

Deleted User wrote: »

It has probably been mentioned already but that bloody Rachel Allen one and her toosties and her pestoooo.

I can just about handle the toosties and pestoooo, but what makes me fling my Jimmy Beam bottle at the tellybox is the "Bisha Busher". Kill!! :mad:

Alun

LUZ wrote: »

also the ad on the radio at the moment talking about tire tread depth, and hes saying "thread" instead of tread drives me bonkers. along with the usual heighTH/height thing. aaarghhh!! can't people read or spell anymore?????!!!

Tyre.

feargale

Alun wrote: »

Tyre.

feargale

With all this godawful mispronunciation I don't know why I listen to people at all. :rolleyes:

mackerski

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

The 'posh' way people say donkey as DONG (rhymes with BONG) key and monkey as MONG (rhymes with BONG) key.
The way culchies pronounce swallow as swolly and swan as schwan (rhymes with fan) and bar as baaarrr.

Eh? How do you want us to pronounce "donkey"?

Teacher23

I would reckon this has been said already but I HATE HATE HATE the way all RTE news announcers say 'finance'. They say it with a short i and it drives me nuts. I've looked it up and it is F-EYE-NANCE, so just stop it RTE!!! It makes my blood boil!!!! Raaaaaaarrr.

dxhound2005

Teacher23 wrote: »

I would reckon this has been said already but I HATE HATE HATE the way all RTE news announcers say 'finance'. They say it with a short i and it drives me nuts. I've looked it up and it is F-EYE-NANCE, so just stop it RTE!!! It makes my blood boil!!!! Raaaaaaarrr.

You looked it up where? You do realise that in English thousands of words have more than one pronunciation accepted as standard? Let other people use their preferred pronunciation and don't get so upset.

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=finance&submit=Submit

implausible

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

The 'posh' way people say donkey as DONG (rhymes with BONG) key and monkey as MONG (rhymes with BONG) key.
The way culchies pronounce swallow as swolly and swan as schwan (rhymes with fan) and bar as baaarrr.

Sometimes I wonder if I live in a different country to the posters on this thread.

I'm from the West of Ireland (not posh) and we say 'dong-key', in Donegal it's 'dunkey'. Who the hell says 'mong-key'? I've never heard that. Despite the similar spelling, monkey and donkey are not supposed to rhyme.

Teacher23

I know, I'm totally irrational, and you're right, it actually is listed as a way to pronounce it! My mistake!

Creative Juices

weird the post above ended up in wrong thread and I cant edit it now.

Creative Juices

Creative Juices wrote: »

weird the post above ended up in wrong thread and I cant edit it now.

Creative Juices

Deleted User wrote: »

Thank you.