Most annoying mispronunciation

Sparkrite · 15-10-2014 4:12pm

People who say "I should of done......" or "I would of done......." instead of saying "I should have done...." and "I would have done.......".

Worse still are the people who actually write it like the former, how can they possibly think it makes any sense at all?

Another one is the herb Thyme being pronounced as Thime. It is an exception to the "TH" rule.

And just one more, for the time being anyway, people who say...."Yes he thought me at school....".

Last one, defin I tly, where does the extra syllable come from when "ty" is added to "safe" ? As in "safe eh tee" instead of "safe tee" ?

danrua01 · 15-10-2014 4:37pm

van GO

just no!

I get annoyed at football commentators who mispronounce names, surely it's not that hard to do a little bit of work before a game if you're unsure...

kingchess · 15-10-2014 10:27pm

maybe more of a grammar question but -my daughter must write a pretend letter of complaint for her English class and the teacher gave the class the first few lines ,which includes this part ".....a game entitled "titian fall".... ./To my eyes the use of the word entitled looks wrong in this case and the word- titled-should be used instead imo.

Teacher23 · 15-10-2014 10:44pm

kingchess wrote: »

maybe more of a grammar question but -my daughter must write a pretend letter of complaint for her English class and the teacher gave the class the first few lines ,which includes this part ".....a game entitled "titian fall".... ./To my eyes the use of the word entitled looks wrong in this case and the word- titled-should be used instead imo.

Hi kingchess!

As far as I know, you can use both entitled and titled in the place of named. So you're both right

implausible · 15-10-2014 11:39pm

Sparkrite wrote: »

People who say "I should of done......" or "I would of done......." instead of saying "I should have done...." and "I would have done.......".

Worse still are the people who actually write it like the former, how can they possibly think it makes any sense at all

Thanks for the grammar lesson, underlining and all!

Very few people enunciate 'should have', the majority contract it to 'should've'. Dropping the h and a naturally leaves an 'ev/of' sound, or even 'a' as in "should, woulda, coulda" ... It's completely wrong obviously, but it makes sense to write 'should of', as people are just writing it down as they hear it. I regularly find that students are completely unaware that the phrase is actually 'should have. '

coffee_cake · 15-10-2014 11:54pm

kingchess wrote: »

maybe more of a grammar question but -my daughter must write a pretend letter of complaint for her English class and the teacher gave the class the first few lines ,which includes this part ".....a game entitled "titian fall".... ./To my eyes the use of the word entitled looks wrong in this case and the word- titled-should be used instead imo.

Entitled is right. They both are. I would use entitled but I'm told it's the less common form nowadays

gormdubhgorm · 15-10-2014 11:59pm

I don't know if this has been said but GARDAI is NOT pronounced Goooordeee.
If ever there was a time for media outlets to learn a flat a this is the word for it!:mad:

It's "Gar-dee" NOT Goooooordeeeee

Eeden · 16-10-2014 12:03am

People sure do get worked up about others' (quite valid) pronunciations if they are different from their own...!

FunLover18 · 16-10-2014 12:10am

implausible wrote: »

Thanks for the grammar lesson, underlining and all!

Very few people enunciate 'should have', the majority contract it to 'should've'. Dropping the h and a naturally leaves an 'ev/of' sound, or even 'a' as in "should, woulda, coulda" ... It's completely wrong obviously, but it makes sense to write 'should of', as people are just writing it down as they hear it. I regularly find that students are completely unaware that the phrase is actually 'should have. '

I agree with the first half about it being contracted when speaking into 'should've' but there's no justification for writing "should of" I know you weren't doing so but saying it makes sense it sort of redundant. It makes sense that people don't know the difference between 'you're' and 'your', because they're writing how they hear it. It's wrong. End of.

The King of Moo · 16-10-2014 12:18am

danrua01 wrote: »

van GO

just no!

Do you use this pronunciation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLTQv8RH1TE

Peregrinus · 16-10-2014 3:30am

Van Gogh signed all his paintings "Vincent", because he thought that French prospective purchasers would be unable to pronounce "Van Gogh".

He was right.

Teyla Emmagan · 16-10-2014 7:35am

Eeeeeeeeeeeebola.

Only appears to be Rte One as usual though.

Peregrinus · 16-10-2014 7:57am

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Eeeeeeeeeeeebola.

Only appears to be Rte One as usual though.

Ébola (with an accent) is the name (in French) of a river and a district in northwestern Zaire where an outbreak of a particular haemorrhagic fever was noted in 1976. Up to that point the fever had been known as “green monkey fever”, but since then Ebola fever (without an accent) has been the usual name (in English) of the disease.

English is, of course, full of words taken from French, and it is not customary to retain the French pronunciation -- especially when accents are dropped. The first syllable of the English word can be pronounced either with the vowel sound from fleece or with the vowel sound from square; both are regarded as acceptable.

Regardless of which vowel sound is used, the stress goes on the seciond syllable.

danrua01 · 16-10-2014 10:20am

The King of Moo wrote: »

Do you use this pronunciation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLTQv8RH1TE

ah i'll have to look at that when i'm not at work...unless you wanna give me a wee phonetic pronunciation..

mackerski · 16-10-2014 10:36am

danrua01 wrote: »

ah i'll have to look at that when i'm not at work...unless you wanna give me a wee phonetic pronunciation..

Picture two occurrences of a high-phlegm version of the ch sound you get in Irish words like "loch".

danrua01 · 16-10-2014 10:44am

mackerski wrote: »

Picture two occurrences of a high-phlegm version of the ch sound you get in Irish words like "loch".

Almost! I've heard Dutch speakers say it HALF like that, but the last syllable was definitely more of an 'ff' sound.

OldNotWIse · 16-10-2014 10:45am

Bockel instead of bottle and "ions" pronounced "ins" - such people should be taken out and publicly flayed - millins and millins of times :P

mackerski · 16-10-2014 10:49am

danrua01 wrote: »

Almost! I've heard Dutch speakers say it HALF like that, but the last syllable was definitely more of an 'ff' sound.

Two things:

There's only one syllable

No it wasn't. If anything, a Dutch gh is harsher than th g. In the Netherlands anyway - Belgium is rather different.

jimgoose · 16-10-2014 10:50am

mackerski wrote: »

...No it wasn't. If anything, a Dutch gh is harsher than th g. In the Netherlands anyway - Belgium is rather different.

Dutch is just German-While-High. :pac:

mackerski · 16-10-2014 10:52am

jimgoose wrote: »

Dutch is just German-While-High. :pac:

Jonathan Swift, in Gulliver's travels, refers to both High- (meaning German) and Low- (meaning Nederlands) Dutch. Funny how word meanings change.

danrua01 · 16-10-2014 10:56am

mackerski wrote: »

Two things:

There's only one syllable

No it wasn't. If anything, a Dutch gh is harsher than th g. In the Netherlands anyway - Belgium is rather different.

Syllable was the wrong word but you understood what I meant.

I'm not saying it was an F sound, like our F sound, but sounded more like that to me. It's incorrect to say it wasn't- that's what it SOUNDED like to me.

mackerski · 16-10-2014 10:57am

danrua01 wrote: »

Syllable was the wrong word but you understood what I meant.

I'm not saying it was an F sound, like our F sound, but sounded more like that to me. It's incorrect to say it wasn't- that's what it SOUNDED like to me.

I have to concede that point, indeed

jacksie66 · 16-10-2014 10:59am

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danrua01 · 16-10-2014 11:09am

mackerski wrote: »

I have to concede that point, indeed

Ah good, I'll get ye a pint!

OldNotWIse · 16-10-2014 11:38am

CaraMay wrote: »

Yeah but they say dis sipline

As opposed to.....

danrua01 · 16-10-2014 11:43am

OldNotWIse wrote: »

As opposed to.....

As opposed to that-ipline... which is, not this-ipline.

recylingbin · 16-10-2014 11:55am

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I don't know if this has been said but GARDAI is NOT pronounced Goooordeee.
If ever there was a time for media outlets to learn a flat a this is the word for it!:mad:

It's "Gar-dee" NOT Goooooordeeeee

pronounced 'c*nt of a gard' down my way.

mackerski · 16-10-2014 11:59am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO569fBzUO8

danrua01 · 16-10-2014 12:08pm

I'm gonna save myself some time and just say words/names with accents, umlauts, stresses, etc.

Fafasmurf · 16-10-2014 12:09pm

Pissent.... THE WORD IS PERCENT PEOPLE!

Bryan Dobson has said it, Lord Pat Kenny has said it, nearly all economic correspondants and newsreaders say it... Ministers say it. And it really really really really annoys me!

The other one is tongue. There is NO 'h' in tongue... it's not 'My thongue is sore' it's 'My tongue is sore'....

I need a drink.....

Most annoying mispronunciation

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