Most annoying mispronunciation

The_Captain

brooke 2 wrote: »

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

Sure it wasn't the word liquor they were saying?

Oakboy

I've yet to hear anyone pronounce Dún Laoighre correctly

mackerski

Oakboy wrote: »

I've yet to hear anyone pronounce Dún Laoighre correctly

Agreed. And very few people write "Dunleary" correctly.

brooke 2

The_Captain wrote: »

Sure it wasn't the word liquor they were saying?

She mentioned a few 'lickoors'!

Wibbs

mackerski wrote: »

Agreed. And very few people write "Dunleary" correctly.

Kingstown? :pac:

Peregrinus

Oakboy wrote: »

I've yet to hear anyone pronounce Dún Laoighre correctly

Or spell it correctly, apparently.

Pherekydes

Just heard a woman on Newstalk saying 'renumeration'. :mad:

suicide_circus

Pherekydes wrote: »

Just heard a woman on Newstalk saying 'renumeration'. :mad:

And?

Pherekydes

suicide_circus wrote: »

And?

And a lot of other stuff, but only remuneration was mispronounced.

suicide_circus

Pherekydes wrote: »

And a lot of other stuff, but only remuneration was mispronounced.

Sorry, it's early

Peregrinus

suicide_circus wrote: »

And?

Its remuneration. From the Latin munera, gifts.

Qualitymark

Peregrinus wrote: »

Its remuneration. From the Latin munera, gifts.

Munificent!

ToddyDoody

The schutters... its the scutters, please!

HeidiHeidi

OK, I didn't get it at first, but even I'm now sick of hearing Hollowe'en.

Seems to have become an official RTE pronunciation.

HAllowe'en, it's HAllowe'en.

thunderdog

brooke 2 wrote: »

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

All I know is that it's liquor in the front, poker in the rear

DK man

X cetra instead of etcetera et et et et et.... Brenda Donahue rte is a regular abuser of the lovely Latin derived word/s

mikeym

Data not Date a.

Alice1

Why do the newsreaders on RTE pronounce Hallow E'en as "Hollow E'en"?
It's not hollow - it's hallow.

BrensBenz

Irish examples:

• Neview for nephew;
• Paaaaaaatrick for Patrick;
• Paaaaaaaris for Paris;
• Werdn't for weren't;
• Differd'nt for different;
• Brine Rine for Brian Ryan;
• Fawder and farder for father.

Cockney examples:

• Shtudent for student;
• Reshtronh for restaurant;
• Shtupid for....well, guess;
• Droring for drawing;
• Yawrup for Europe;
• Lillez for lillies;
• Wo'hah for water;
• Futbow for football;
• Spoh for sport.

Welsh examples:

• Yuhh for year;
• Moozec for music....

Language experts, Dubs, Culchies, Cockneys and Welsh have had time to load so.........retreats behind sofa......

earlyevening

Prof. John Fitzgerald on Marian Finucane this morning reminded me of this one, "inshulate" for insulate.

FunLover18

I've heard several people in the last week pronounce Georgia as 'Georg-ee-a'

lurker2000

3. 'Brang' the Irish equivalent of 'Brought'....

2. To reduce an English person to tears of laughter, get a Dub to say 33 - Turty tree - never fails !


1. But my worst pet hate is way the English pronounce '6th' -
ie. George the Sick-th..........seriously listen to any of them saying it and they sound like they have a speech impediment which means they cannot pronounce the X.

Alice1

Cheryl Cole doing the ad for Ice Shine Shampoo
"Eye shine shampoo" - wrong it's Ice Shine fer gunness hake!

feargale

Are there any more endearing mispronunciations than those of auld wans in Dublin?
The Dublin Millenium was referred to as the Aluminium.
And when Francois Mitterand got cancer 'twas said he had his prostitute removed.

John Doe1

I hate the way people from down the country say 'Ve-hicle'

deise08

When Americans say STOOPID.

Its STUPID!!!!!!

dxhound2005

lurker2000 wrote: »

3.

1. But my worst pet hate is way the English pronounce '6th' -
ie. George the Sick-th..........seriously listen to any of them saying it and they sound like they have a speech impediment which means they cannot pronounce the X.

It's not a speech impediment. It's a standard pronunciation. Some words have more than one pronunciation accepted as standard.

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

KungPao

People saying "rash" instead of "rat" or God forbid "ra'". We couldn't use a glottal stop, now could we?

Budder.
Ciddy.
Whaddever.
etc.

Peregrinus

dxhound2005 wrote: »

It's not a speech impediment. It's a standard pronunciation. Some words have more than one pronunciation accepted as standard.

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

The Oxford English dictionary only recognises one pronunciation (with the 'x') and they're generally pretty good about listing alternative standards. I think "sickth" is regarded as non-standard in most dialects of English.

feargale

deise08 wrote: »

When Americans say STOOPID.

Its STUPID!!!!!!

It's stewpid in British English, stoopid in American English.