Words your parents cant pronounce

Hector Bellend

I find that there is a whole host of these mispronunciations among Irish broadcasters. Some examples are:

Three has been pronounced as free.

Eight has been pronounced as ace.

City has been pronounced as cissy.

Growth has been pronounced as gross.

Taoiseach has been pronounced as feeshuck.

Del.Monte

Not to mention the highly educated Doctor Ciara Kelly who works for Newstalk but cannot pronounce the word news which she always refers to as noos.

Hector Bellend

Youtube has been referred to as Yootoob

bur

Mother keeps calling mozarella, mozarelli.

I've stopped correcting her at this point.

tuisginideach

and the one that really gets me and is heard from the "highest" levels done - Ec-cetera - the words are et (Latin for 'and') cetera (Latin for 'other things')

dee_mc

bur wrote: »

Mother keeps calling mozarella, mozarelli.

I've stopped correcting her at this point.

Mine calls parmesan 'pomma-shaaaaaaaawn'.

Ghekko

MushrooNs
Swinsford (Swinford)
Supposably

Ghekko

Junglewoman wrote: »

Troath rather than Throat

My husband says that

zcorpian88

Recently the electric shower at home started acting up, the water either freezes you out of it or roasts you out of it.

Said it to the mother...

Mother said "S**t, the thermostaf is going to go in it again like the last one."

Junglewoman

Calvary instead cavalry

_Godot_

My dad says Char-les instead of Charles.

_Dara_

keano_afc wrote: »

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

I saw it that way, I just cannot say it correctly, it sounds wrong to me.

Galadriel

Expresso instead of espresso

Mister Vain

Galadriel wrote: »

Expresso instead of espresso

Skinny latty

Peatys

_Godot_ wrote: »

My dad says Char-les instead of Charles.

Is he from Clare? My dad's family would pronounce it that way aswell..

Neames

Sorry


.....seems to be the hardest word

heldel00

America - Amerikay
Cardigan - Carnigan
Psychiatric - psych eee ash trix
Certificate - cer tiff ik it
Congratulations - congrakulations
Penguin - pengweng

BTW this is a mix of mother in law, uncle and parents. Pengweng is actually how my husband says penguin.

idnkph

My auld doll instead of he scored a goal says he scored a gold.
Also she says someone is in the hostibal and they were seen by a surgunt.

NollagShona

Oh sheen

Usheen

AndrewJRenko

Mango trouts on the menu tonight



Mange touts

Badly Drunk Boy

Del.Monte wrote: »

How else are you supposed to pronounce it?

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

Del.Monte wrote: »

Should get my kids to post this but then I've inflicted my pronunciations on them too. H as in aitch - H Block, HB ice cream etc; Gaul Tea for Galtee Cheese/Mountains etc and Dorset Street as in Daw set rather than the ubiquitous Door sett.

Cara Tiny Pediatrician wrote: »

I grew up near a place called Bellharbour. Local legend has it that when the BBC reporter, with received pronunciation, announced that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbour, a group of lads grabbed their shotguns and pitchforks and headed down to the harbour to meet them

It depends if you're a rhotic or non-rhotic English speaker. Most Irish people would be rhotic English speakers so if there's an 'r' in a word, we pronounce it. It tends to be the same with people in the north of England. As you go further south in England, people tend to drop the 'r' in certain words, so (for example) 'car' might be pronounced 'caaaaw'.

Strangely enough, these people often pronounce an 'r' where there isn't one. They might pronounce the word 'law' as 'lawr', for example. Have a read of the the link below, especially the second paragraph.

Rhotic or not?

sligojoek

My uncle bought a car with a Dublin "restoration" on it.

He has some more. I can't think of them now.

whatdoicare

My mam says California weird - I don't know where she got the pronounciation from - sort of like she is saying it like calforna??
She also says Raphael like Ray - fell instead of Raf - I - elle.
My teacher used to say Yer-sterday instead of yesterday.
My husband can't say calm but claims I can't say it - I say it like Cawm and he says it like Cam??

NollagShona

Abortion.

ignorance is strength

Mine has several, and despite my sisters and I picking her up on them regularly (and with increasing irritation) she seems to wilfully persist with them. Her most grating is Tommy Hilfinger.

heldel00

ignorance is strength wrote: »

Mine has several, and despite my sisters and I picking her up on them regularly (and with increasing irritation) she seems to wilfully persist with them. Her most grating is Tommy Hilfinger.

Mother in law calls it Tommy Highflyer

anewme

My Mum bought two new packets of instant coffees. She was all excited over them and whoever came in was given the choice.

“Well, do you want a Mucka or a Lattie”.?

AndrewJRenko

My father-in-law was almost proud when explaining to me why he called Emmental cheese 'Emmanuel' cheese. Something along the lines of Homer's explanation here;

https://youtu.be/TDHwGYAkzmc?t=20s

AndrewJRenko

davo2001 wrote: »

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.

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

He also refers to the U2 front man as "Bone-o" but it's more that he doesn't GAF.

AnneFrank wrote: »

This is nuts Davo,my dad does the very same,but he's from limerick

I always took it to be a reference to these yokes. They were a household name in the 70s and 80s.


https://www.purina.co.uk/dog/bonio

Hector Bellend

My old man says hundert instead of hundred