Words your parents cant pronounce

Dakota Dan · 09-02-2018 07:07PM

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 · 09-02-2018 07:18PM

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 · 09-02-2018 07:21PM

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

BENDYBINN · 09-02-2018 07:28PM

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 · 09-02-2018 07:33PM

Dad says Onion 'un yeeeen'

tuisginideach · 09-02-2018 07:42PM

Pitcher for picture

Conor Bourke · 09-02-2018 07:53PM

My dad and his friends call machines MISH-eens

Peatys · 09-02-2018 07:59PM

pudzey101 wrote: »

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

I din do nahin baws

Savage93 · 09-02-2018 08:12PM

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

jbt123 · 09-02-2018 08:12PM

Mother says 'Volka' instead of Vodka.

Mister Vain · 09-02-2018 08:15PM

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 · 09-02-2018 08:23PM

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 · 09-02-2018 08:25PM

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 · 09-02-2018 08:27PM

Archie-tect

Del.Monte · 09-02-2018 08:29PM

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 · 09-02-2018 08:37PM

My mother in law called a kebab a keebab

Pherekydes · 09-02-2018 08:38PM

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 · 09-02-2018 09:46PM

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

FREDNISMO · 09-02-2018 09:52PM

Minnesota being called Minnasoty

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 09-02-2018 09:54PM

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

beertons · 09-02-2018 09:56PM

My mam says pacific, instead of specific.

Rubberlegs · 09-02-2018 10:07PM

My Dad used to read Snow White and the Seven Dwuffs to me as a child:)
Italians were Eye-talians.
Certificate was certy ficket.

tuisginideach · 09-02-2018 10:11PM

Peace-if-i v. pacify

Dakota Dan · 10-02-2018 12:07AM

pudzey101 wrote: »

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

I know a woman well into her 50's calling it budder, she never called it that before, I'd say she got it from her daughters americanisms :rolleyes:

10-02-2018 12:10AM

The mother says funiture and inacha-fact.

Dakota Dan · 10-02-2018 12:13AM

A presenter on our local radio calls the three amigos the three omegas.

captbarnacles · 10-02-2018 12:19AM

My Dad pronounces bizarre as biz-air.

Hector Bellend · 10-02-2018 12:47AM

Mister Vain wrote: »

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

Thats how Arnie pronounces it.

Hector Bellend · 10-02-2018 12:49AM

There was a old drunk that lived around our area years ago.

His famous mispronunciation has gone down in local folklore.

There was a guy reading a book about world war II in the local pub.

He asked why did world war eleven start?

dxhound2005 · 10-02-2018 12:52AM

Hector Bellend wrote: »

There was a old drunk that lived around our area years ago.

His famous mispronunciation has gone down in local folklore.

There was a guy reading a book about world war II in the local pub.

He asked why did world war eleven start?

The radio put out a request for John, who is one hundred and eleven. Oh, sorry that should read John, who is ill.

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