Words your parents cant pronounce

Cee-Jay-Cee

Following on from the many threads on words that people spell wrong and incorrectly spelled place names etc this one is on words your parents cannot pronounce.

My mother can't say Brexit, she calls it Briskit.

Hawaii comes out as Ha-wiya.

She refers to the people of Italy as Eye-Tallions yet pronounces Italy correctly.

And Portugal is called Port-ig-al.

superfurry1

I'm sorry to have to inform you but your mother is obviously a spasticated dinosaur.

suicide_circus

Harsh

keano_afc

My mother in law consistently says Chic-argo. Bugs the hell out of me.

koumi

I love you

finds it very difficult

afkasurfjunkie

Tamata for tomato.

But not patata for potato.

Pat Mustard

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

She refers to the people of Italy as Eye-Tallions

cajonlardo

Way back in the 70s there was a spectacular crash at an airshow in the UK.
My poor mother told a room full of men
" Thank God the pilot ejaculated "
Good mates to be fair - no one laughed until she had closed the door

DEFTLEFTHAND

My Dad says Ohi-o instead of Ohio. Puts too much emphasis on the the last O.

He says Mickigan instead of Michigan.

He loves the Jason Bourne movies but for some reason he pronounces Bourne as Burn.

DEFTLEFTHAND

keano_afc wrote: »

My mother in law consistently says Chic-argo. Bugs the hell out of me.

That's very common in Ireland I find.

People say Chicargo.

Peatys

Fidgetas

Mister Vain

Both my parents say Chi-chargo and Cali-fawnya. My father says yelleh instead of yellow.

davo2001

My dad has always called Bono "Bone-o".

He refuses to call him Bono for some reason, I think it's a North Dublin thing.

johnayo

My Mother in Law always says boner instead of erection.:D

Lorelli!

cajonlardo wrote: »

Way back in the 70s there was a spectacular crash at an airshow in the UK.
My poor mother told a room full of men
" Thank God the pilot ejaculated "
Good mates to be fair - no one laughed until she had closed the door

Accidentally said something like that to my maths teacher before when we were doing trigonometry. Instead of adjacent, I said ejaculent which I don't think is an actual word but still he paused for a second and said "what? It's adjacent" :pac:

corner of hells

suicide_circus wrote: »

Harsh

Da, for the last time it's hash .

theteal

Inheritance. . .

GypsyByName

Pista for pizza
Cossage for cottage

retro:electro

Chicago, she pronounces it "Chicargo".
Also chicken fillets are "chicken kievs". No matter how often I correct her she will forever refer to any kind of fillet as a kiev.

PandaPoo

Mozilla Firefox is mozzarella Firefox, tarpon springs in Florida is tampon springs....thats my dad.

My father in law calls the Pogues the Progues. Also he saw something on the news about herpes, and when we were sitting down to Christmas dinner he asked everyone "what's this her-pez"?

My mam calls tortillas torteelos.

Colonel Claptrap

Instanbul

Lorelli!

My mam does this thing sometimes where she amalgamates my name and my brothers name when shes talking to you and she doesn't notice when she does it.

rednik

That great American golfer Phil Mitchelson.

Mister Vain

Slim card is another one.

valoren

Mother says tormenting as 'tá minting'

Also in the 90's watching a Man United match was very 'tá minting', as she thought Paul Ince was actually Paul Inch and Peter Schmeichel's name was said to be Peter Mishmichael.

nelly17

My Mother says most things fine but she is 100% one of those people with a well to do phone voice - I've never really got that.

koumi

koumi wrote: »

I love you

finds it very difficult

u ok hun? u r an angle to me xxx

tuisginideach

Inlaws always refer to getting a lift somewhere as being 'show-fured' - drives me nuts!

NeonCookies

My dad says "goo-may" for gourmet. No idea how or why.

My dad calls Robbie Keane 'Robbie Kane'. Just seems very wrong.

pudzey101

The mother always asks me to get the butter buhhar out of the fridge .

Dakota Dan

keano_afc wrote: »

My mother in law consistently says Chic-argo. Bugs the hell out of me.

I've heard Americans call it that also at least your mother doesn't live in the US.
My cousins aunt was going to Chicago back in the 70's and something happened that she couldn't go. My cousin decided to taunt her about it by singing, she ca go she ca go she can't go she can't go

Then you have the younger generation that pronounce Baltimore in Cork as ball ti more.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Deleted User wrote: »

My dad calls Robbie Keane 'Robbie Kane'. Just seems very wrong.

Is he from North Tipperary or Offaly?

Certain people in that region have a weird quirk in their language. E sounds like A.


Meat , mate.


Beat, bate etc.

kam3qnwvebf4jh

My aunt asked me one day if my car had a "Catholic" converter like hers..

BENDYBINN

Melody Fresh Dude wrote: »

My aunt asked me one day if my car had a "Catholic" converter like hers..

Why would she ask you that?

Patrick_Swayze

Dad says Onion 'un yeeeen'

tuisginideach

Pitcher for picture

Conor Bourke

My dad and his friends call machines MISH-eens

Peatys

pudzey101 wrote: »

The mother always asks me to "geh da buhhar owa da fridge, baws .

I din do nahin baws

Savage93

My mother says "there's the Durex dog" when the DULUX ad comes on the telly

jbt123

Mother says 'Volka' instead of Vodka.

Mister Vain

Savage93 wrote: »

My mother says "there's the Durex dog" when the DULUX ad comes on the telly

Are you sure its not this ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI5_t8jzfCM

Del.Monte

anna080 wrote: »

Chicago, she pronounces it "Chicargo".
Also chicken fillets are "chicken kievs". No matter how often I correct her she will forever refer to any kind of fillet as a kiev.

How else are you supposed to pronounce it?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/the-chicago-school

retro:electro

Del.Monte wrote: »

How else are you supposed to pronounce it?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/the-chicago-school

Are you hearing an "r" there? I'm not.

somesoldiers

Archie-tect

Del.Monte

anna080 wrote: »

Are you hearing an "r" there? I'm not.

I am but at my advanced age perhaps my hearing needs checking. Anyway that's how I would pronounce it.

PandaPoo

My mother in law called a kebab a keebab

Pherekydes

I don't remember my own parents mispronouncing much, but my M-i-L was woeful for stuff.

Window still, chimley and scaff are three that come to mind. My wife and her sister used to copy these, and her sister still says orament instead of ornament, and uses the phrase "cornered off" in place of "cordoned off".

tuisginideach

MIL's archeries used to give problems too and lots of prostrate cancer about (not funny, I know).

FREDNISMO

Minnesota being called Minnasoty

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

My father's from Donegal. So, most words.