words people mispronounce

lufties

In the small rural town im from, the older generation say 'londragons- lonergans' then handerden-hanrahan', my mate of 37 is an intelligent accountant but still says 'yersterday instead of yesterday. Is it just an Irish thing? I'm sure there's many more I can't think of at the mo.:cool:

Archeron

The areas of Drimnagh and Crumlin in Dublin often get a weird B put into them to become Drimblagh and Crumblin. Like chimbley does too I guess.

lufties

Archeron wrote: »

The areas of Drimnagh and Crumlin in Dublin often get a weird B put into them to become Drimblagh and Crumblin. Like chimbley does too I guess.

Ya thats probably cones with the accent..'meself and me mayhe'

Donkey Oaty

I'm sure there are loads, but I can't think of anything pacific.

Dozen Wicked Words

Midges, as in small flies. Not midgets, (old fashioned term for) small people

Mr. CooL ICE

For some odd reason, I cannot pronounce the 't' in Saturday. I sometimes feel like an Eastenders reject

BobMc

three - spoken as tree !!

Myrddin

Sambwich

dodderangler

Fearri- Ferrari. Only in dublin.
Hate when English people say free instead of three.

kneemos

Nerves pronounced as ner-ves.

The Backwards Man

Mispronunciation.

SpaceTime

Chicago! Why do Irish people call it Chick-Car-Go?

lufties

SpaceTime wrote: »

Chicago! Why do Irish people call it Chick-Car-Go?

Howayeee!! Sounds like hawaii

SpaceTime

Also Sah-er-day instead of Saturday. There are a load of Irish radio and TV presenters do that.

Sang-wich

There are lots of others too!

Mr. Incognito

All be it. Instead of albeit.

It's a conjunction, not a description.

Also- the word believable. Hate it. Credible is much better

SpaceTime

What really annoys me though is where a radio or TV presenter adopts some utterly bizzare pronunciation of a common but new word and keeps using it.

I remember one show entirely about Weeeeky Leaks instead of WikiLeaks.

Also RTE settling on totally abnormal ways of saying things like fin-nance ... Or correcting the way everyone in Portlaoise and Dun Laoghaire pronounces the place they live in because the STATE BROADCASTER knows best and needs to tell the locals they're complete idiots and have actually been saying it totally wrong for decades.

swimming in a sea

"issue"

Sam Kade

SpaceTime wrote: »

Chicago! Why do Irish people call it Chick-Car-Go?

A lot of Americans or the few that know of it call Dublin Duuublin it must be a regional thing.

Mr. Incognito

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

All be it. Instead of albeit.

It's a conjunction, not a description.

Also- the word believable. Hate it. Credible is much better

I've only ever heard it as all be it...?

Michael Weston

Not really pronounce but the amount of people that spell definitely as defiantly is ridiculous, especially when giving reviews of things and places, I will defiantly go back or I will defiantly use this service again!

Sam Kade

BobMc wrote: »

three - spoken as tree !!

It comes from Irish remember that language that was once out native language a lot of people can't grasp that nowadays.

mattser

ALL weather and roadwatch reporters...

roundabout = royned a bite,
cork = co-erk
outbound = oyt boyned
cloud = clyde,
mountains = mine tins
morning = mourning
etc

Ompala

Definitely pronounced def-in-nightly

r3nu4l

Sam Kade wrote: »

It comes from Irish remember that language that was once out native language a lot of people can't grasp that nowadays.

I'm a big fan of the Irish language but I can still pronounce 'three' correctly. That's a lazy excuse.

On topic. Some people seem to say 'afraird' instead of 'afraid'.

The Backwards Man

Heighth and lengt.

What gives?

Sam Kade

r3nu4l wrote: »

I'm a big fan of the Irish language but I can still pronounce 'three' correctly. That's a lazy excuse.

I wouldn't be a great fan of pronouncing th's and it has nothing to do with laziness. If English people call three free I think we can be excused calling it tree

preston johnny

Forty Fahsund Fevvers Rand a Frushes Froat

pickarooney

Was the other thread full or what?

r3nu4l

Sam Kade wrote: »

I wouldn't be a great fan of pronouncing th's and it has nothing to do with laziness. If English people call three free I think we can be excused calling it tree

I said the excuse was lazy, not the inability to speak properly, some people have impediments, some are just thick or ignorant. It takes all sorts and I celebrate that diversity.

tonycascarino

Percent...Many people say procent

Bang_Bang

Trun, instead of throw, now I have to say I have only heard skangers using this one. "I'll bleeeedin trun ih ah ye."

BarryD

lufties wrote: »

In the small rural town im from, the older generation say 'londragons- lonergans' then handerden-hanrahan', my mate of 37 is an intelligent accountant but still says 'yersterday instead of yesterday. Is it just an Irish thing? I'm sure there's many more I can't think of at the mo.:cool:

How do you know they are mispronouncing the words above?? You learn your language from your elders in the normal course of events, so presumably they are quite correct in a local context and you are 'wrong'......

Deadzone

dodderangler wrote: »

Fearri- Ferrari. Only in dublin.
Hate when English people say free instead of three.

Better 'free' mate than 'tree'

GoodBridge

Someone visiting here from the Netherlands told me that Irish people can't pronounce Ikea properly.

We also have a habit of saying "Tescos" and "Euros" when it should be singular.

A friend of mine says "crips" instead of crisps. I knew another person who said "hemlet" instead of helmet but I don' know him anymore on account of that very issue.

Buona Fortuna

hospical - hospital

windys - windows

Arch-ee- tek - Architect

Annasopra

Myrddin wrote: »

Sambwich

Sangich

bmc58

lufties wrote: »

In the small rural town im from, the older generation say 'londragons- lonergans' then handerden-hanrahan', my mate of 37 is an intelligent accountant but still says 'yersterday instead of yesterday. Is it just an Irish thing? I'm sure there's many more I can't think of at the mo.:cool:

Deffinetly not an Irish thing.Ever hear them on Eastenders saying "three"..Free!

KERSPLAT!

A package a crips instead of packet of crisps, annoys me more than it should

Annasopra

bluewolf wrote: »

I've only ever heard it as all be it...?

I think its meant to be "al bite"

GoodBridge

GoodBridge wrote: »

We also have a habit of saying "Tescos" and "Euros" when it should be singular..

Euros is a legitimate plural, it's in the documentation that if you add an s normally in your language you can pluralise with Euros

Shop belonging to Tesco, tesco's
I think that's where that one came from

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

I think its meant to be "al bite"

Definitely not!


http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/albeit
maybe someone can check the sound on that and let us know

Annasopra

Aye talians

nelly17

I love the way kids say Hostible

And my 6 year old has taken to calling things a thing-y-maggiddy

pickarooney

It's pronounced "all be it", unsuprisingly as it's a contaction of "all be it".

Buona Fortuna

bluewolf wrote: »

I've only ever heard it as all be it...?

You're annoying Mr Icognito then

D

I used to pronounce Arkansas as Ar-Kansas.
I thought that there was a separate state called Ar-kan-saw.


Edit: Sorry I had to google, just to make sure and I'm not the only one with this problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas

In 1881, the pronunciation of Arkansas with the final "s" being silent was made official by an act of the state legislature after a dispute arose between Arkansas's then-two U.S. senators as one favored the pronunciation as /ˈɑrkənsɔː/ AR-kən-saw while the other favored /ɑrˈkænzəs/ ar-KAN-zəs.[c]

Beano

D wrote: »

I used to pronounce Arkansas as Ar-Kansas.
I thought that there was a separate state called Ar-kan-saw.

What's weird is that they don't pronounce Kansas as Kan-saw. those yanks need to get their act together.

MJ23

Gubberment.
Millon and Billon

Aphex

Myrddin wrote: »

Sambwich

Wouldn't mind a crip sambidge now actually.

Absoluvely

pickarooney wrote: »

It's pronounced "all be it", unsuprisingly as it's a contaction of "all be it".

A contaxion you say

catallus

Any chick I chat up mispronounces "yes" as "no".....

Annasopra

MJ23 wrote: »

Gubberment.
Millon and Billon

Michael Noonan does this "billuns in two fourteen"