Are there any words you're never quite sure on the pronunciation?

Wheety

I still have to stop myself before saying hyperbole. The temptation is to just say hyper bowl :mad:

Segue is another.

GF says I pronounce colander the American way. Even when I think about it and try sayin it the 'right' way, I end up saying the American way.

Also, data. I hear people saying it differently and I'm never sure if I should say dayta or da ta.

Elemonator

Far too people pronounce column like colyoom for my liking.

I struggle with pronouncing the name 'Enda'

I'm not sure if it's pronounced 'cúnt' or díckhead'

brevity

Hyperbole

HYPERBOWL!!!

Mr. Incognito

I hate peope that use hard Es

Comimittee becomes Comit-EE

Area becomes Air-EE

Nothing screams bogger more and I'm a culshie myself

Gunmonkey

Oxymoron.

Is it Ox-e-moron (so a dumb but tech literate beast of burden) or Oxe-merin (some kind of oxygen cleaning based meringue)

brevity

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

I hate peope that use hard Es

Comimittee becomes Comit-EE

Area becomes Air-EE

Nothing screams bogger more and I'm a culshie myself

Vehicle = Veh hicle

uch

Is it Bollocks or Bollix I should use ?

runnerholic

Falafel. Is it Fa-la-fel or Fa-lafel?

Esel

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

I hate peope that use hard Es

Comimittee becomes Comit-EE

Area becomes Air-EE

Nothing screams bogger more and I'm a culshie myself

Comimit-EE, no?

runnerholic

uch wrote: »

Is it Bollocks or Bollix I should use ?

Just use it

Harry Angstrom

Floccinaucinihilipilification.

zoobizoo

Albeit..........

I used to think it was pronounced Al-Bite when I would see it in print. Later in life I heard it used on the radio and figured it out.


An ex of mine used to think, and possibly still does, that "awe" was pronounced........ Ow-wee.

As in "he was in Ow-wee of his boss"

Little CuChulainn

I worked in a bookies for a while. English tracks like Worcester and Towcester caused a lot of issues for people.

Harry Angstrom

Little CuChulainn wrote: »

I worked in a bookies for a while. English tracks like Worcester and Towcester caused a lot of issues for people.

Wooster and Toaster.

I always found it funny the way English commentators would pronounce Thurles.

runnerholic

Colonel. I used to read it Col-on-el instead of Curnel. Lieutenent/Leftenent another tricky one.

Danjamin1

I hate hearing 'specific' pronounced as 'pacific'

D0NNELLY

Wheety wrote: »

I still have to stop myself before saying hyperbole. The temptation is to just say hyper bowl

You've used that word in real life? Thought it was just fourm speak. Like et al and strawman

Academic

I don't understand the aversion to consulting dictionaries ...

IvyTheTerrible

Academic wrote: »

I don't understand the aversion to consulting dictionaries ...

The phonetic alphabet is not the easiest to get your head around, though!

jcsoulinger

Said pengwing instead of penguin for far longer than I'd care to admit, until someone called me on it and embarrassed the hell out of me as we were in a crowd at the time, to this day I will concentrate while saying it for fear of getting it wrong.

Rubberlegs

My family snigger at me for saying on-velope for envelope

MadamRazz

Tortilla. I mispronounced it so many times and got correct but still never learn.

Wheety

D0NNELLY wrote: »

You've used that word in real life? Thought it was just fourm speak. Like et al and strawman

Usually in jest.

Gf: You haven't done the dishes in 2 weeks

Me: Now come on, that's just hy-per-bol-ee

DaeryssaOne

Myriad - one of those words I know from seeing it written down but always find odd when I hear it said out loud!

I almost had a car accident a few weeks ago when the radio played Natasha Beddingfield's song "These words" and she actually pronounces it hyperbowl - like did nobody at all in the studio think that might not be right???

I still can't quite believe it's remuneration, just doesn't sound right!

Hearing excape, expresso or excetera drives me nuts.

And don't aks me about ask!

Cortina_MK_IV

When I try to explain to little Fuinneog about Antidisestablishmentarianism.

KyussBeeshop

It took me a couple of months to be able to pronounce my GF's name properly.

hullaballoo

Quite annoyingly, I know there are numerous words I pronounce incorrectly but I never remember which ones until I go to say them.

It can be awkward launching into a lengthy submission only to have to stop to attempt a word like a dope. A judge will sometimes take over your attempt and pronounce it for you.

The worst I've seen, though thankfully it was not me this time, was when some poor devil butchered a Latin phrase and had to endure a good 10 minute lecture from the bench on Latin pronunciation and lamenting that the language is so routinely butchered.

Junkyard Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZmwn0LNhGo

frag420

I live n London, it bugs me that they call that brown ****ty river the Tems...

They invented the fooking language, its pronounced THAMES!!

Southwark is not Suvvik!!

Greenwich is not Grenich!!

And 'you fooking c*nt' is not 'ya faaaackin cant'

eisenberg1

"It's pronounced Frankensteen!"

Cortina_MK_IV

@ Frag420. - That could be a whole topic.

Where you stay... An O'teol.
Sumfink.
Nuffink.
Innit.
'Avin a Turkish... Because Turkish Bath rhymes with laugh.

selwyn froggitt

Budweiser......................pronounced píss

Teyla Emmagan

Capuchin, like the monks. I have awful trouble with it.

endacl

Deleted User wrote: »

I struggle with pronouncing the name 'Enda'

I'm not sure if it's pronounced 'cúnt' or díckhead'

:mad:

The Backwards Man

In sat I able

DEFTLEFTHAND

I always end up making a balls of saying Qatar.

Thoie

Aspartame

Ass-part-a-me?
Ass-par-tame?
Asp-art-amy?

sjb25

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHR1tk5xvU

Pac1Man

Finite.

Is it fine-ite or fin-it?

Lu Tze

Quinoa. Damn that word

Was years before I realised I was revealing my culchie heritage the way I was pronouncing! Also had no idea what keenwa was!

Mountainsandh

Ah sure, I'm French, and although I've been here 20 years and can fool people for a few minutes, mispronouncing or being unsure is still the story of my life.

I still want to stress longer words on the wrong syllable, like "advertisement". It's worse when I'm tired, or when I'm thinking more in French at that moment.

Words with AN, I just want to say Ãn as in "slÃn" (without the N). Like mango.

Words that I can see come from French : it feels very wrong to say them the Irish way.
In a lot of instances I have no choice but to say them the Irish way, as otherwise the people won't understand or I don't want to sound like an oddball (like a girl in a petrol station, if I was asking for a "jambon"), other times I'll happily say it the French way. (like "genre", the Irish pronunciation really really annoys me)

frag420

frag420 wrote: »

its pronounced THAMES!!

No its not.

Southwark is not Suvvik!!

True.

Greenwich is not Grenich!!

Yes it is.

Pac1Man

Pac1Man wrote: »

Finite.

Is it fine-ite or fin-it?

Finite = Fy-night
Infinite = In-fin-it.

freshpopcorn

I've often heard a debate about how people pronounce LIDL!

Corkgirl18

Almond gets me. I pronounce the l but get told off. I feel like a dope saying
A-mond.

Beasty

Zaph....

....so I try and keep below his radar!

MonkieSocks

Blücher....Not Blooker :mad:

frag420

frag420 wrote: »

I live n London, it bugs me that they call that brown ****ty river the Tems...

They invented the fooking language, its pronounced THAMES!!

Southwark is not Suvvik!!

Greenwich is not Grenich!!

And 'you fooking c*nt' is not 'ya faaaackin cant'

As a Londoner, they are pronounced as .....

The Tems
suv irk
Grenich