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    #1322
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Quinoa...pronounced keen-owah by anyone I've ever heard pronounce it from south american countries where it originates.

    I think the confusion and attempts to be hyper correct are caused by the soft "o", it's sort of under pronounced with the emphasis on the first and 3rd syllables, that said it is present and does not get skipped or turned into another sound.

    Simple enough, don't understand the fuss.

    Thighland (thailand) and thompson (pronouncing the "h") are just clumsy attempts to change the english language which should be a sackable / stoning offence in public broadcasting and punishable by corporal punishment for anyone else.


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    #1323
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    But it's fun to mock all the pronunciations of quinoa!


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    #1324
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,436 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Irish people's pronunciation of Sunderland and Birmingham :)


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    #1325
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Foster's Avenue beside Belfield. It's Foster Avenue. The sign on the road clearly says 'Foster Avenue'.


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    #1326
    implausible
    Registered Users Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Foster's Avenue beside Belfield. It's Foster Avenue. The sign on the road clearly says 'Foster Avenue'.

    Is that near Tesco's?;)


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    #1327
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Racism - rayshism! :(

    Sexual - sexooal!! :( - Anne Doyle and Pat Kenny are the only people I have heard
    using this pronunciation, so it must be right!! ;)


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    #1328
    MrCreosote
    Registered Users Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭MrCreosote


    Purr-zhoh for Peugeot. There's no 'r' in it.

    Pew-joe is better.


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    #1329
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    MrCreosote wrote: »
    Purr-zhoh for Peugeot. There's no 'r' in it.

    Pew-joe is better.

    It's French and pronounced closer to Purr-zhoh than Pew-joe


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    #1330
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    It's French and pronounced closer to Purr-zhoh than Pew-joe

    What about the R sound?


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    #1331
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    What about the R sound?

    I blame that on Jeremy Clarkson's pronunciation (or just English accents). It's pronounced Puh-zhoh, but like how Doherty becomes Dockerty in England, they drop an R in to make it easier to pronounce.


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    #1332
    DesperateDan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭DesperateDan


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    What about the R sound?

    'Peuple' or 'Soeur' are probably the handiest examples you will find, while there is no R, the letters e and u together form an 'oou' sound, and that last u is often slightly transformed into an r.

    It is most certainly not pronounced Pew-joe :pac:


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    #1333
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    I blame that on Jeremy Clarkson's pronunciation (or just English accents). It's pronounced Puh-zhoh, but like how Doherty becomes Dockerty in England, they drop an R in to make it easier to pronounce.

    When said in a French accent there's a very, very subtle 'r' sound which the English tend to amplify when they bother with the French pronunciation but not with the accent.


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    #1334
    mackerski
    Registered Users Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭mackerski


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    When said in a French accent there's a very, very subtle 'r' sound which the English tend to amplify when they bother with the French pronunciation but not with the accent.

    No there isn't. French doesn't even have an R sound like ours. The sound you're describing is made in the front of the mouth, R sounds are made in the back.


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    #1335
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    mackerski wrote: »
    No there isn't. French doesn't even have an R sound like ours. The sound you're describing is made in the front of the mouth, R sounds are made in the back.

    There is. Its sounds like an 'r' made by someone who can't make the 'r' sound. Imagine Jonathan Ross trying to say Purr-zhoe and then put it in a French accent. In fairness it's a difficult discussion to have in writing


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    #1336
    danrua01
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    There's definitely no R sound, peh-zho, with an accent on the o is how it is... confirmed by plenty of French people around me.


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    #1337
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,197 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    There is. Its sounds like an 'r' made by someone who can't make the 'r' sound. Imagine Jonathan Ross trying to say Purr-zhoe and then put it in a French accent. In fairness it's a difficult discussion to have in writing
    There's no r-sound in anything Jonathan Ross says. Saying that Peugeot contains the r-sound that Jonathan Ross uses is just a roundabout way of saying that it contains no r-sound at all.


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    danrua01
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    There's no r-sound in anything Jonathan Ross says. Saying that Peugeot contains the r-sound that Jonathan Ross uses is just a roundabout way of saying that it contains no r-sound at all.

    Or maybe meaning it should be PEWOO


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    #1339
    deadybai
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭deadybai


    I hate when people pronounce Samuel L.Jacksons name and dont pronounce the middle L. Really pisses me off grrrrr


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    #1340
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    There's no r-sound in anything Jonathan Ross says. Saying that Peugeot contains the r-sound that Jonathan Ross uses is just a roundabout way of saying that it contains no r-sound at all.

    OK well the way I say it, puh-zho, running it all together with a french accent there is the slightest hint of an 'r'.
    deadybai wrote: »
    I hate when people pronounce Samuel L.Jacksons name and dont pronounce the middle L. Really pisses me off grrrrr

    You mean when they call him Samuel Jackson? I don't get it


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    #1341
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    You mean when they call him Samuel Jackson? I don't get it

    It's when they say it fast and it sounds like Sam UL Jackson.


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    #1342
    jobbridge4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭jobbridge4life


    When people pronounce awkward something a kin to orchward


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    #1343
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    jobbridge4life wrote: »
    When people pronounce awkward something a kin to orchward

    totes orchy momo


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    #1344
    The_Captain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    People who say Awe-di instead of Ow-di


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    #1345
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    I read about this in Bill Bryson's "A Short History Of Nearly Everything", if I remember correctly it was actually named twice by the guy who discovered it. I think he first called it 'aluminum' before changing it to 'aluminium' so it would fit in with the other elements. It could be the other way around, but I suppose technically, both are correct in a way

    EDIT: I found the excerpt. I got it slightly wrong. According to Bryson 'aluminium' was invented by the Brits so it would fit in so therefore it would seem that, in this instance, the Yanks are right … or at least, not exactly wrong

    How do we feel about platinum? Where did the second I go there?


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    #1346
    V Eight
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭V Eight


    The_Captain wrote: »
    People who say Awe-di instead of Ow-di

    very true it's annoying - I wonder how it's supposed to sound - how would a German say it???


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    #1347
    madmac187
    Registered Users Posts: 653 ✭✭✭madmac187


    V Eight wrote: »
    very true it's annoying - I wonder how it's supposed to sound - how would a German say it???

    I was just about to say this aswell. My neighbour called it to my car and I told him to learn to speak ****ing properly!!!!!!!!!!!


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    #1348
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,946 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    V Eight wrote: »
    very true it's annoying - I wonder how it's supposed to sound - how would a German say it???
    Ow-di.


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    #1349
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Liqueur. Heard it pronounced as 'lickoor', admittedly on a US programme.


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    #1350
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Tim Vine joke:

    So this cowboy walks in to a German car showroom and he says "Audi!"

    source: http://www.jokes4us.com/peoplejokes/comedianjokes/timvinejokes.html


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    #1351
    danrua01
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    Eeden wrote: »
    Tim Vine joke:

    So this cowboy walks in to a German car showroom and he says "Audi!"

    source: http://www.jokes4us.com/peoplejokes/comedianjokes/timvinejokes.html


    Haha! So bad but so good.


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