Words your parents cant pronounce

ToddyDoody

My dad says Tommy Hilfinger.

smilerf

My mam can't say tough. She keeps putting a h after the t it's so annoying

tuisginideach

Thought for taught - the teacher thought me English ...

igCorcaigh

Envelope

igCorcaigh

Committee

igCorcaigh

Height. It's height, not heighth

NollagShona

Solisiher

foxy farmer

Hamburgers are hamburglars.

PandaPoo

heldel00 wrote: »

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.

How do you say certificate?

dennyire

Hang Sangwidge anyone?

heldel00

PandaPoo wrote: »

heldel00 wrote: »

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.

How do you say certificate?

Its very hard to write it phonetically. He just says it weird!

freshpopcorn

Not my mother but her friend once said somebody had sexicemia instead of septicemia

bilbot79

I take my folks to cumiskeys pub. Without fail they can only refer to it as McComiskey's. Go figure.

Galwayguy35

somesoldiers wrote: »

Archie-tect

The oul boy used to always say that as well.

Hospital was ospidal

jos28

My late Mam told us that the man next door was off work sick, he couldn't go up a ladder cos he had verdigris
She also knew someone who had a Zanussi in her bathroom

AndrewJRenko

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Not my mother but her friend once said somebody had sexicemia instead of septicemia

I knew that friend well. She died of ammonia in the end.

LirW

My MIL can't pronounce Lidl. She calls it LidEEEEll

sligojoek

When I was growing up my father was in the motor trade. I heard a good few mispronunciations of model names

Morris Marrina
Toyota Carrina
Kamasaki
Triumph Vietnamese (Vitesse)

A guy came in once looking for a Philosophy (Velocity) joint to be replaced.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Del.Monte wrote: »

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.

Like poor old Tony Fenton who always referred to the noo’s the ‘toons’ but I heard him slip up once and call them tunes (choons) I suppose it’s hard to fake talk all the time without slipping up.

My grandad called petrol..., pet-earl

Plopsu

No exactly a mispronunciation but my mother, when she was alive, would regularly add an 's' to the names of famous people, 'Alfred Hitchcocks', 'Marylin Monroes', etc.
Where did she get all these extra letters? She'd steal them from the names of people who actually had an 's' at the end.
Used to drive me mental.

suicide_circus

LirW wrote: »

My MIL can't pronounce Lidl. She calls it LidEEEEll

Lidl is pronounced LEEEDL

Not Liddle
Not Liddles

mojesius

My mam can't pronounce 'bladder'. She pronounces it 'bladthharr'. Husband can't pronounce 'mirror', he pronounces it 'myrrrr'

cantdecide

On the occasional instance when my dad uses the word 'porn', he pronounces it as 'pawrn'. I think it's a generational thing but it's a creepy pronunciation... at least it is when me dad says it.

cantdecide

suicide_circus wrote: »

Lidl is pronounced LEEEDL

Not Liddle
Not Liddles

I worked with a girl under thirty for about 2 years and she kept telling about this or that for sale in "Lildi". The whole time, I had lidli no idea whether she was talking about LIDL or ALDI.

ignorance is strength

suicide_circus wrote: »

Lidl is pronounced LEEEDL

Not Liddle
Not Liddles

I hope you're faultlessly consist with that principle and pronounce IKEA as "ee-KAY-ah".

Alun

ignorance is strength wrote: »

I hope you're faultlessly consist with that principle and pronounce IKEA as "ee-KAY-ah".

I do, yes I cringe every time I hear it pronounced as eye-key-ah.

kg703

Dad can't pronounce 'goal' for some reason. He scored a 'gold'

Husband cant pronounce miracle. Apparently it's 'meracle'

Although I found out last week some lad in work is putting 'noo-tella' on his pancakes. Cue everyone giving him dogs abuse. What is that made with again? Hazel-noots?

ignorance is strength

Alun wrote: »

I do, yes I cringe every time I hear it pronounced as eye-key-ah.

Fair enough! It sounds rather pretentious to me, though.

heldel00

Our dog has epilepsy. Father in law calls it "elipepsi". It is now stuck in my head and i have regularly rang the vet for the dog's elipepsi prescription!

sligojoek

A girl I went out with used to call a scissors a "sidders"

I spent two hours one night trying to get her to say it properly. It was like trying to get Father Jack to say "That would be an eccummenical matter." I gave up