Film or Fillum?

Peared · 10-05-2008 12:19AM

I think 'fillum' is a bogger/north Dublin accent.

Hmm, so that leaves South Dublin with 'film'.

Disproportionate surely.

I say film.

Clare Bear · 10-05-2008 12:29AM

I used to always say fillum until a few years ago when I dated an English guy whose sister used to always take the piss out of me for saying it so I started saying film to shut her up and it's stuck. I'll never get my fillum back! Couldn't stand the biatch either so don't know why I bothered.

javaboy · 10-05-2008 12:36AM

Clare Bear wrote: »

I used to always say fillum until a few years ago when I dated an English guy whose sister used to always take the piss out of me for saying it so I started saying film to shut her up and it's stuck. I'll never get my fillum back! Couldn't stand the biatch either so don't know why I bothered.

Somebody get this girl 10cc of begorrah. Stat.

I once got a Londoner in work to say three instead of free.

Malice · 10-05-2008 09:44AM

javaboy wrote: »

I once got a Londoner in work to say three instead of free.

:eek: No way! Their "th" -> "f" conversion is hard-wired into their brains I think.

Did they start spluttering like Fr. Jack when Fr. Ted was trying to get him to say "That would be an eumenical matter"?

Tar.Aldarion · 10-05-2008 09:49AM

For a motion picture experience I usually say fillim, if it is a film of one substance surrounding another I say film.

MooseJam · 10-05-2008 11:57AM

fillim mostly, it's easier to say than film

ironictoaster · 10-05-2008 12:28PM

I say film now for some odd reason. When I was younger I used to say fillum, I don't know why It ever changed..

daisy123 · 10-05-2008 01:10PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

For a motion picture experience I usually say fillim, if it is a film of one substance surrounding another I say film.

I do too actually now that I think of it, weird...

johnnyrotten · 10-05-2008 01:14PM

movie

GhostInTheRuins · 10-05-2008 01:16PM

bit of both, depends on my mood

Davidius · 10-05-2008 01:52PM

Batman.

misslt · 10-05-2008 02:20PM

Fillum for a movie, film for the verb or a film of something.

Pythia · 10-05-2008 03:12PM

This really annoys me. Where's the 'u'? It's film. Say it correctly!

Dlite · 10-05-2008 03:38PM

I say the flicks or "Let's go see..... how quickly I can be robbed of 50 quid on **** food and drink that will have me feeling sick for the next few days - Lot's of butter on that please:)

Tar.Aldarion · 10-05-2008 09:32PM

Pythia wrote: »

This really annoys me. Where's the 'u'? It's film. Say it correctly!

There are a lot of words that are not pronounced as they are spelled. A missing u is just a minor one in comparison to others.

Film or Fillum?

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