Most annoying mispronunciation

FunLover18

LordSutch wrote:

Lots of Irish people say Thigh-land instead of Thailand (Tieland). Same goes for Thigh food 

Same goes for THomas, THames, and THyme.

SoftMicro

FunLover18 wrote: »

Same goes for THomas, THames, and THyme.

THanks

CUCINA

Haven't read all of this thread so don't know if anyone has yet mentioned a word that gets mangled in pronunciation land: POTATOES.

Variously pronounced as BIDAY-ES, BIDAYRAS, PIDAY-IS

dxhound2005

CUCINA wrote: »

Haven't read all of this thread so don't know if anyone has yet mentioned a word that gets mangled in pronunciation land: POTATOES.

Variously pronounced as BIDAY-ES, BIDAYRAS, PIDAY-IS

You can Search this Thread at the top of the page. Two more examples other people have heard apparently.

budayduhs and bih-day-ids.

My pronunciation would be something like pit eight as in normal speech. Do you always say pot eight ohs ?

earlyevening

LordSutch wrote: »

Tree instead of three (3).

Tirty tree, trett (threat).
Thought meaning taught.
Taught meaning thought.
True meaning through.

Thigh-land

Nah, troath for throat is the worst of them all.
Or maybe it's heighth for height.

Liam McPoyle

Donegal people pronounce FÁS as fas, as you would pronounce fast without the t on the end.



/twitch

FunLover18

Heard a lad in Subway the other day call them Ja-lap-in-ohs

Wacker The Attacker

Miles Dungan needs to realise that three is not free.

dxhound2005

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Miles Dungan needs to realise that three is not free.

Do you think his pronunciation is Myles out?

Michael D Not Higgins

FunLover18 wrote: »

Heard a lad in Subway the other day call them Ja-lap-in-ohs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st3jCUMO2no

Wise Old Elf

From 2FM: follow Ryan on twidder

BENDYBINN

Yogggg-urts

SimonTemplar

I just heard someone pronounce "medium" as "mejum"

Gamer Bhoy 89

Not so much as a mispronunciation as it was complete lack of proper reading but I think it deserves an honourable mention; A woman on the radio, a few years ago, called it "Call of Duty: Modern Welfare 2" instead of "Warfare". I giggled

As for mispronunciations, my tech graphics teacher pronounced "height" as "hythe" instead of emphasizing a solid "T" at the end
Others that I can't grasp are;

"Welsh" instead of "Walsh"
Waterford girls replacing names with an "a" at the end with "eh" instead. For example: "Law-reh!" instead of "Laura" or "Bree-deh" instead of "Breda"
People referring to me as "Day-veh" instead of "David"

Another one for me (maybe it's just dialect) is "bo-tah" instead of "butter"

Buona Fortuna

Listening to local radio today and the reporter was talking about a study of Tubber-coo-low-sis. I thought it was a place to begin with.

A reporter has never heard of Tuberculosis

dxhound2005

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Listening to local radio today and the reporter was talking about a study of Tubber-coo-low-sis. I thought it was a place to begin with.

A reporter has never heard of Tuberculosis

Doesn't sound too far off to me. It all depends on whether you sound Tub to rhyme with Hub or Chewb. Both are recognised as standard forms.

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

ciaramc

Audi

Says

maebee

Sharon Ni Bheolain pronouncing "police" as "plice"

eternal

Stomarch instead of stomach.

xXxkorixXx

I can't stand the way posh people say yogg harsh in my world its pronounced yo gurtt (yogurt) (I'm a Dublin girl!) *wink*

Frigating

Tirty or toity for thirty is bad enough, but yesterday I heard a far worse one. Shorty. I don't even know how he got to that

Peregrinus

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

. . . Others that I can't grasp are;

"Welsh" instead of "Walsh"

"Welsh" is the standard pronunciation in the South-East (which, as it happens, is where the name most often occurs).

And, arguably, it's more correct than "Walsh", since the name was originally applied to people who came over from Wales with the Norman settlement. It means Welsh.

So it's not that the surname in question is mispronounced as "Welsh"; more that it's misspelled as "Walsh"!

CiDeRmAn

Some one came into the shop years ago to buy Gran Turismo.
He actually said Grand Tiramisu.
Another gentleman wanted to buy Alien Trilogy, though he pronounced it Alien TryOlogy.

At the same time, I don't get too worked up about it.
People from different (diff-rint or defer-rent?) regions naturally develop accents and consistent though at odds pronunciation.
The more isolated a community is the most likely it is to have divergence with the norm.
And this isolation is no longer simply geographical, but also economic and, hence, educational and simple ignorance, not being exposed to more, to be asked to continue to learn outside the class and throughout adulthood.

Not to be too high and mighty though.
Specific/Pacific drives me nuts.
But I recognise a few here as things I do.
I say th-ree, tee-th and hy-th.

SepTomBer

The word falling to fooling

invicta

Thisss and thatthss,any word ending in 'th'
Cue Rachel Allen,or female presenters on TV3

brooke 2

Heard a Newstalk newsreader refer to Vanuatu as Vanootu!

dxhound2005

brooke 2 wrote: »

Heard a Newstalk newsreader refer to Vanuatu as Vanootu!

That's how the Vanootooans say it.

Dramatik

Heor ma, willu getus a packo dem der crips

El_Duderino 09

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

As for mispronunciations, my tech graphics teacher pronounced "height" as "hythe" instead of emphasizing a solid "T" at the end

Oh no I've been putting a 'th' sound at the end of height. Thanks.

I'm from the Midlands and I remember a tongue twister as a child;
Betty bought a bit of butter,
the bit of butter Betty bought was bitter
Betty bought another bit of butter,
This bit of butter Betty bought was better.

Translate to midlandeese by removing all the th sounds and insert Hs all over the shop

Be-he bough a bih of buh-er
Bih of buh-er Be-he bauh was bihher...

FunLover18

There are no th sounds in that tongue twister ...