Most annoying mispronunciation

Vojera

Cousind instead of cousin.

Pumpture instead of puncture.

newmug

Peregrinus wrote: »

Your problem there is not the pronunciation; it's what you're eating.

(What part of the chicken is the "nuggets", anyway?)

The cocks testicles.

heldel00 wrote: »

Cer-tif-ic-ate! (So hard to write it as I mean it but ya know what I'm tryin to say. My da is a divil for it!!!)

That's way better than the other way of pronouncing it, CERT -A- FIKKIT

Pherekydes

I heard Ivan Yates saying "central tennants" this morning. :mad:

This guy was a fcuking government minister. :rolleyes:

Cpt Sh!t Craic

Garda: Sthep outha da 'veh ha kal'

Cpt Sh!t Craic

Garda: Sthep outha da 'veh ha kal'

brooke 2

Pherekydes wrote: »

I heard Ivan Yates saying "central tennants" this morning. :mad:

This guy was a fcuking government minister. :rolleyes:

Obama also says it - also 'pundints'!!

Inspector Dhar

bodhrandude wrote: »

Instead of saying chicken nuggets at the takeaway I always end up saying chicken nuckets, I don't know why I do it, I just do. :mad:

I asked for a fiver's worth of 'chicken gougers' instead of chicken goujons yesterday in Supervalu. Morto.

brooke 2

'Molloy-daw-aye-ee'

(Molloy.ie)!!

steveone

Anything sharon ni bheolain says that ends in 'tion'. Listen and be horrified

FunLover18

Coming up to that time of year again … Stephens's Day

dambarude

'Thought' instead of 'taught'.

"She thought me how to do it".

Though I suppose it's better than "She learned me how to do it"

suicide_circus

Cousin pronounced cuzint

Absolutely no excuse for it

Max Carr

Pacifically does not equal specifically

ratmouse

Def in ite lee!

everlast75

Chris O'Donoghue on Newstalk this morning..

the word - skeletal..

the way he said it - skeleeeetal

KungPao

'for' being said like 'fur'.

LordSutch

Was in a book shop recently looking for a publication and the assistant pointed to the 'a to zee' of . . .

1st time I've heard an Irish person say zee instead of zed.

ratmouse

Pronouncing the word sorbet with the 't' on the end!!

FatherTed

3:33 pronounced as tree-tirty-tree

brooke 2

ratmouse wrote: »

Pronouncing the word sorbet with the 't' on the end!!

Pronouncing Möet without the 't' at the end!!

Ray D'Arcy got his knuckles rapped for making this mistake recently.
Was none too happy about it either!!

COYVB

The strange habit some Irish folk have of adding an r into the word Chicago

brooke 2

Skel-eet-al for skeletal.
Take note, Chris Donohue!!

COYVB

LordSutch wrote: »

Was in a book shop recently looking for a publication and the assistant pointed to the 'a to zee' of . . .

1st time I've heard an Irish person say zee instead of zed.

I've always said zee, because the alphabet rhyme doesn't work with zed, and I wasn't willing to ruin a perfectly good rhyme

COYVB

The_Captain wrote: »

I hate the way Americans pronounce the letter T

Chemical Brothers - Galvanise
"The time has come to push the buh-in"

Dora the Explorer is awful for it too
"I'm pain-ing a moun-in"

A good chunk of Ireland does the very same thing, albeit with a different accent

Karen23

Sorry for your lost instead of loss, drives me mad

COYVB

"top draw" instead of "top drawer" when referring to the quality of something
"he's very bias" instead of "he's very biased"

gazzamc

"Santy" instead of "Santa"
"Phota" instead of "Photo"

Right Turn Clyde

Philip Molloy, the film critic for Newstalk, regularly pronounces actors names wrong. It's very irritating. Recently he pronounced JK Simmons as JK 'Simons' (as in Simon Says). JK Simmons won Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards on Sunday night, and in the build up to it his name was all over the place. How on earth did a film critic not know how to pronounce his name, especially when he had also been raving about how good his performance was in Whiplash?

gormdubhgorm

only one winner in this the "gooor-deeeee" mispronunciation of gardai.

So much so I think that "gooor-deeeee" is almost accepted in mainstream Irish media.

Right Turn Clyde

gazzamc wrote: »

"Santy" instead of "Santa"

That's not mispronunciation. It's a different word. I always thought Santa was very American. I didn't know anyone that used that word when I was a kid. I'm with you on 'phota' though. It makes people from the city seem like culchies, and it makes culchies seem like talking apes. Note: I am a talking ape.