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Mispronunciation/ Poor grammar that annoys you?

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    #722
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    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.)

    It's 'pleaded'. On that note I know someone who used to think the past tense of clean was 'clen' as in 'I clen my room yesterday'


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    #723
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,125 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    garancafan wrote: »
    It's "hanged" not "hung" (unless it was already dead).

    He was hanged like a horse.

    Doesn't sound right.

    Here's another one: Stephenses. St Stephenses day, St Stephenses Green.


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    #724
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    He was hanged like a horse.

    Doesn't sound right.

    Here's another one: Stephenses. St Stephenses day, St Stephenses Green.
    I wonder if anybody says Jervises street? :pac:


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    #725
    _Kaiser_
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    Wreckless instead of RECKLESS


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    #726
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,125 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Wreckless instead of RECKLESS

    Is that a mispronunciation?

    Here's another one I've noticed lately on Newstalk: ath-eh-lete. It's athlete.


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    #727
    AnLonDubh
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭AnLonDubh


    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???
    Ye is the original correct plural, Shakespeare uses 'ye' for instance. You as the plural is a alteration that emerged in Southern English dialects, other dialects kept 'ye'.


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    #728
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,188 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    medjium instead of medium
    and
    witch instead of with (Matt Cooper!!)


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    #729
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    I notice recently that Newstalk's Ian Guider has got over his problems addressing Jonathan Healy by calling him Jonno instead of Jonnatin. Another university graduate no doubt. :D


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    #730
    pickarooney
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    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???

    Yes, it is difficult when you need to differentiate between singular an plural, which gives rise to regional solutions such as ye/yous/you guys/y'all/you lot/youse boyz/yinz...

    'Ye' was the singular in British English back in the day. For some unfathomable reason they discarded it and kept the plural for both.


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    #731
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    It's 'pleaded'. On that note I know someone who used to think the past tense of clean was 'clen' as in 'I clen my room yesterday'

    'Pled' is a perfectly correct form of the preterite of 'plead'.


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    #732
    AnLonDubh
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭AnLonDubh


    pickarooney wrote: »
    'Ye' was the singular in British English back in the day. For some unfathomable reason they discarded it and kept the plural for both.
    Ye was the nominative plural, where as you was the accusative plural:

    Ye find the horse.
    The horse findeth you.

    Thou was the nominative singular and Thee the accusative singular.

    Thou findest the horse.
    The horse findeth thee.


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    #733
    Slot Machine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭Slot Machine


    Literally everything annoys me. My head literally exploded from the annoyance. I am literally dead right now and literally typing this as a ghost.


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    #734
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    AnLonDubh wrote: »
    Ye was the nominative plural, where as you was the accusative plural:

    Ye find the horse.
    The horse findeth you.

    Thou was the nominative singular and Thee the accusative singular.

    Thou findest the horse.
    The horse findeth thee.
    Agreed and the genitive plural in my dialect is "yizzer";)


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    #735
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Slot Machine wrote: »
    Literally everything annoys me. My head literally exploded from the annoyance. I am literally dead right now and literally typing this as a ghost.

    You need to go to the Trivial things that annoy you" thread:D


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    #736
    gizmo555
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    This is one that I'd forgotten how much I'm irked by, until I saw it again in the paper today.

    "Flaunting" a law would be waving the law about and going "Hey, look at this law!"

    If the intended meaning is open disregard for a rule or law, the word is flout.

    If you've got good grammar, flaunt it . . .


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    #737
    ezra_pound
    Registered Users Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭ezra_pound


    AnLonDubh wrote: »
    Ye was the nominative plural, where as you was the accusative plural:

    Ye find the horse.
    The horse findeth you.

    Thou was the nominative singular and Thee the accusative singular.

    Thou findest the horse.
    The horse findeth thee.

    That's slightly simplified. Remember that there was a polite and impolite version also.


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    #738
    MJ23
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    I notice recently that Newstalk's Ian Guider has got over his problems addressing Jonathan Healy by calling him Jonno instead of Jonnatin. Another university graduate no doubt. :D

    I have to switch station when that fella is on.
    "Wit tanks to Grant Tornton"


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    #739
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    MJ23 wrote: »
    I have to switch station when that fella is on.
    "Wit tanks to Grant Tornton"

    I had to stop listening to the movies on George Hook because Philip Molloy has the exact same problem


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    #740
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    gizmo555 wrote: »
    This is one that I'd forgotten how much I'm irked by, until I saw it again in the paper today.

    "Flaunting" a law would be waving the law about and going "Hey, look at this law!"

    If the intended meaning is open disregard for a rule or law, the word is flout.

    If you've got good grammar, flaunt it . . .

    Oh yes. I just laugh when I see it now. It's so often flaunted , I mean flouted :D, I mean...


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