Mispronunciation/ Poor grammar that annoys you?

FunLover18 · 17-09-2014 6:24am

Listening to Matt Cooper yesterday, a man I thought was incapable of making the 'th' sound, only for him to go and introduce his next guest THomas :mad:

englander · 17-09-2014 6:51am

A scissors ?

Its a pair of bleedin scissors. Surely ?

gizmo555 · 17-09-2014 8:48am

FunLover18 wrote: »

Listening to Matt Cooper yesterday, a man I thought was incapable of making the 'th' sound, only for him to go and introduce his next guest THomas :mad:

THomas, THames, THailand, etc are all perfectly good Hiberno-English.

On the other hand, I was amused recently to hear Matt straining to achieve "proper" French pronunciation when introducing his guest, the actress Marion Co-thee-yard.

BattleCorp · 17-09-2014 9:41am

gizmo555 wrote: »

THomas, THames, THailand, etc are all perfectly good Hiberno-English.

On the other hand, I was amused recently to hear Matt straining to achieve "proper" French pronunciation when introducing his guest, the actress Marion Co-thee-yard.

Matt also does a very impressive "Sahurday". :pac:

Long Gone · 17-09-2014 9:54am

Hate it when inarticulate morons say thing like "We was...." or "The milkman never come yesterday..."

Also worked with an Indian guy once who either didn't know the word "ask" or was incapable of pronouncing it - It was always " I will axe him this ..... or I will axe someone that.... Really grated on my ears !.:mad:

Long Gone · 17-09-2014 9:56am

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Drunk last night and was discussing college, exams etc with a friend and told him that if I worked as hard all year round as I do in the weeks leading up to exams, I'd be a progeny :P

At least it's better than been a bleedin' sex mechanic....;)

ezra_pound · 17-09-2014 9:58am

Long Gone wrote: »

Hate it when inarticulate morons say thing like "We was...." or "The milkman never come yesterday..."

Also worked with an Indian guy once who either didn't know the word "ask" or was incapable of pronouncing it - It was always " I will axe him this ..... or I will axe someone that.... Really grated on my ears !.:mad:

Native Irish speakers have the same problem-speakers with English acquired later. They can run into trouble when looking for hard disks with greater capacity.

Long Gone · 17-09-2014 11:36am

ezra_pound wrote: »

Native Irish speakers have the same problem-speakers with English acquired later. They can run into trouble when looking for hard disks with greater capacity.

Do you remember floppy disks ? Originally floppy disks (usually made by Verbatim) were actually floppy, about 6" in diameter. In Ireland / UK when the smaller 4" plastic encased disks came along and replaced the 6" disks we continued to call them floppy disks. In South Africa they (much more sensibly and accurately actually) called the new 4" disks "stiffie disks" or just "stiffies". When I went to work there I was a bit taken aback the first time our (really fit Africaans blonde .;)) secretary came over to my desk and asked me if I had a stiffie ! .:D

pickarooney · 17-09-2014 11:41am

englander wrote: »

A scissors ?

Its a pair of bleedin scissors. Surely ?

it's just so long winded to be saying 'a pair of scissors', 'a set of compasses', a pair of trousers' when there's really no need for it. You can't have a scissor or a trouser.

FunLover18 · 18-09-2014 3:00am

gizmo555 wrote: »

THomas, THames, THailand, etc are all perfectly good Hiberno-English.

I completely disagree. Why not say the same about dis, dat, and dose

pickarooney wrote: »

it's just so long winded to be saying 'a pair of scissors', 'a set of compasses', a pair of trousers' when there's really no need for it. You can't have a scissor or a trouser.

'Pass me the scissors'. 'Pass me a scissors' just sounds wrong. Trousers would usually be used with possessive pronouns, my trousers, etc. and again 'the/these/those' would be the most appropriate definite articles to use. I don't think you can have a trousers either.

suicide_circus · 18-09-2014 3:05am

Birthday in which the 'd' is silent

Long Gone · 19-09-2014 3:55pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

Birthday in which the 'd' is silent

Silent 'd' s are unforgivable right enough. :mad:

I must admit that shortly after I moved abroad from Ireland I "sold out" and started to pronounce all my previously silent "t"s. I probably shouldn't have done, but to be honest I just got a bit fed up with people trying to extract the urine. No more turty trees for me.....:o I'm now strictly a thirty three man.

OldNotWIse · 19-09-2014 4:34pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

Birthday in which the 'd' is silent

Birthay? Isn't that harder to say?

Has "bockle" instead of "bottle" been done?

ErnieBert · 19-09-2014 10:54pm

The constant mispronunciation of place names:

Chicargo for Chicago
Shligo for Sligo
Cark for Cork
Tarone for Tyrone
New Yark for New York
Oireland for Ireland
Idily for Italy

garancafan · 20-09-2014 12:25am

Long Gone wrote: »

Do you remember floppy disks ? Originally floppy disks (usually made by Verbatim) were actually floppy, about 6" in diameter. In Ireland / UK when the smaller 4" plastic encased disks came along and replaced the 6" disks we continued to call them floppy disks. In South Africa they (much more sensibly and accurately actually) called the new 4" disks "stiffie disks" or just "stiffies". When I went to work there I was a bit taken aback the first time our (really fit Africaans blonde .;)) secretary came over to my desk and asked me if I had a stiffie ! .:D

My own interaction with computers predates floppy disks - I operated initially with cassette tapes! My first introduction to flopppy disks was on a machine-linked computer (ie not a PC) that utilised a 16" floppy disk! So my response to your Afrikaans blonde could have been .."no, but I have a 16" floppy"!

LorMal · 20-09-2014 12:57am

Henry Sidney wrote: »

Any time I would be talking to someone about leaving the house in the rain. I would never say "bring" anything with you, it's simply wrong. Only the Irish would do that. Just pick a language and stick to it.

That is definitely very poor grammar. And you can take that with you home to England.

gizmo555 · 20-09-2014 11:11am

Contrary to the thread title, I don't actually find this one annoying. Because it seems to be (unless you know different) confined to Waterford, I regard it more as an endearing local idiosyncrasy.

I'm talking about the way Waterford people often mangle the verb to have, e.g., "I has a blaa.", "He have two blaas."

(Blaas are another thing I like about Waterford!)

LorMal · 21-09-2014 11:30am

gizmo555 wrote: »

Contrary to the thread title, I don't actually find this one annoying. Because it seems to be (unless you know different) confined to Waterford, I regard more as an endearing local idiosyncrasy.

I'm talking about the way Waterford people often mangle the verb to have, e.g., "I has a blaa.", "He have two blaas."

(Blaas are another thing I like about Waterford!)

I worked in Waterford for a few months. Very nice people in general but they did go on and on about Blaas and how special and unique they are to Waterford.
White floury bread baps. Not exciting.

gizmo555 · 21-09-2014 12:45pm

LorMal wrote: »

I worked in Waterford for a few months. Very nice people in general but they did go on and on about Blaas and how special and unique they are to Waterford.
White floury bread baps. Not exciting.

Heresy!

Not2Good · 21-09-2014 1:00pm

Didn't the Waterford Blaa get some (European?) recognition in the last year or two? Oh yes ….. PGI status (Protected Geographical Indications) as a European Protected Food Product. And oh yes ….. " YUUUUMMMMYYYYYY"

LorMal wrote: »

I worked in Waterford for a few months. Very nice people in general but they did go on and on about Blaas and how special and unique they are to Waterford.
White floury bread baps. Not exciting.

HeidiHeidi · 21-09-2014 3:46pm

There's a whole half-hour documentary on them tonight on TG4

TheSheriff · 21-09-2014 3:53pm

Yous,,,,,,,,,

I absolutely detest the term "yous", its you or him/her/us - stop saying "yous"

FunLover18 · 22-09-2014 2:38am

TheSheriff wrote: »

Yous,,,,,,,,,

I absolutely detest the term "yous", its you or him/her/us - stop saying "yous"

I'm a 'ye' man myself. I hate 'yous', rarely hear it outside Dublin though

garancafan · 22-09-2014 9:52am

I enjoy "yous", particularly the possessive "yizzer"!

LorMal · 22-09-2014 3:30pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

I'm a 'ye' man myself. I hate 'yous', rarely hear it outside Dublin though

'Ye' is an abomination. I just cannot grasp why so many Irish people cannot understand that the plural of you is you. Is it that difficult?
Grrrrr.
And as for sangwidge, sammwidge etc...WTF???

HeidiHeidi · 22-09-2014 3:32pm

He "pled" guilty. (This may actually be correct for all I know, but it drives me nuts!)

I "text" him. (As in five minutes ago, in the past.)

LorMal · 22-09-2014 3:33pm

gizmo555 wrote: »

Heresy!

Honestly, I tried to get excited but just couldn't....(I'm Blaa impotent)

kleefarr · 22-09-2014 10:29pm

It's 'Drowned' not Drowneded!

It's BEAT not BET!!

garancafan · 22-09-2014 11:42pm

It's "hanged" not "hung" (unless it was already dead).

FunLover18 · 23-09-2014 1:51am

LorMal wrote: »

'Ye' is an abomination. I just cannot grasp why so many Irish people cannot understand that the plural of you is you. Is it that difficult?
Grrrrr.
And as for sangwidge, sammwidge etc...WTF???

Well, 'ye' is actually a legitimate Old English term, and yes I know we don't speak Old English anymore but sure we're always taking bits and pieces from others languages.

'Yous' is the abomination.

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