Column - how do you pronounce it?

pickarooney · 03-12-2009 12:49PM #1

I went to say 'column' the other day and was suddenly unsure of whether it was pronounced like 'volume' or 'Gollum'. After asking, nobody has ever heard it pronounced 'kolyoom' but I'm sure I didn't just invent that pronunciation in my head... or did I?

mink_man · 03-12-2009 12:50PM

column

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-12-2009 12:51PM

Colm - as in the boy's name.

mink_man · 03-12-2009 12:51PM

and what are gollums or kolyooms??? :pac:

IvySlayer · 03-12-2009 12:52PM

I've said it too much, I don't think it's a word anymore!

Liam Byrne · 03-12-2009 12:53PM

pickarooney wrote: »

After asking, nobody has ever heard it pronounced 'kolyoom' but I'm sure I didn't just invent that pronunciation in my head... or did I?

Sounds like one of those madey-uppy marbles-in-mouth/D4/Miriam O'Callaghan
pronunciations...

....like rindabite! :rolleyes:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-12-2009 12:54PM

mink_man wrote: »

and what are gollums or kolyooms??? :pac:

Gollums - I think - are mythologial clay-life figures that come to life
Kolyooms - Dose tings dat hold up da stone pillars outside da court, Bud, when ya've bin 2 c de judge.

Keano · 03-12-2009 12:54PM

Today we learn to to say column

AnonoBoy · 03-12-2009 12:56PM

None of yer fancy talk around here.

Call a Pillar a Pillar for feck's sake. :mad:

pickarooney · 03-12-2009 12:59PM

I've no interest in how dictionary voices pronounce it.
So far nobody has said they've ever heard it directly, but three people have said it sounded like a particular accent, namely:

a) old man from rural Antrim
b) D4 marble-mouth
c) story-wha' track-suiter

which is a bit mad

GLaDOS · 03-12-2009 01:01PM

It's coll-um, no idea where you got coll-yume from

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-12-2009 01:03PM

Choir. Now there's a word that's tricky to see when you don't know how. Choir.

Beasty · 03-12-2009 01:10PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Choir. Now there's a word that's tricky to see when you don't know how. Choir.

starts like "queer", but ends in "aya" - "Quaya":)

D-Generate · 03-12-2009 01:11PM

I say Kol-yume too! Trying hard now to change it to coll-um since i have to say the word every day a couple of times and they laugh at my Kol-yume talk.

pickarooney · 03-12-2009 01:16PM

D-Generate wrote: »

I say Kol-yume too! Trying hard now to change it to coll-um since i have to say the word every day a couple of times and they laugh at my Kol-yume talk.

Phew! Any harm to ask where you're from?

mental07 · 03-12-2009 01:19PM

Another kol-yoomer here!

powerfade · 03-12-2009 01:24PM

eeder eyeder

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-12-2009 01:35PM

Beasty wrote: »

starts like "queer", but ends in "aya" - "Quaya":)

Eer-eh, thank you, Guvena Quimby!

Liam Byrne · 03-12-2009 01:47PM

Beasty wrote: »

starts like "queer", but ends in "aya" - "Quaya":)

Miebe ova in Cay-ens in Queenslan', mahte, but not 'round these parts!

Pronunciation of "choir" is "quire".

TobyZiegler · 03-12-2009 02:03PM

Definitely Kol-yume for me too. I woulda thought most people say Kol-yume!

I hate Schedule - Shed-ule or Skedule?!

Liam Byrne · 03-12-2009 02:09PM

TobyZiegler wrote: »

Definitely Kol-yume for me too. I woulda thought most people say Kol-yume!

I hate Schedule - Shed-ule or Skedule?!

American English : Sk
European English : Sh

It's like "leftennent" vs "lootennant".

Useful.Idiot · 03-12-2009 02:18PM

stupid thread tbh

MOH · 03-12-2009 02:22PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Choir. Now there's a word that's tricky to see when you don't know how. Choir.

HUh? How is that tricky? It's pronoinced exactly loike it's spelled. Choir. It's what oi sit on after a hard day counting moi millions.

Aodan83 · 03-12-2009 02:24PM

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

stupid thread tbh

I like the name.

ejmaztec · 03-12-2009 02:25PM

They have collyums in Kerry.

They also have kommerties instead of committees.:eek:

pickarooney · 03-12-2009 02:34PM

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

stupid thread tbh

Haha - you're an outed kolyummer and can't stand the shame.

Liam Byrne · 03-12-2009 02:37PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

They have collyums in Kerry.

They also have kommerties instead of committees.:eek:

Sticking in non-existent, ridiculous "r" is a Cockney / Newcastle and D4 trait.

In West Cork they do have komet-teeeeeeees, though!

dudara · 03-12-2009 02:43PM

Koll-yume here too. Like legume.

Liam Byrne · 03-12-2009 02:46PM

dudara wrote: »

Koll-yume here too. Like legume.

Can I ask why, though ?

"legume" has an "e" at the end, after the "m" which obviously softens the "yoummmme"

Whereas "column" has an "n", which is a harder sound. Think banging your knee off a counter and going "nnn!".

Not being funny, just wondering where this pronunciation came from ?

sam34 · 03-12-2009 02:48PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

They have collyums in Kerry.

They also have kommerties instead of committees.:eek:

no we don't, we have commiteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

i pronounce "column" as kol-yume

parasite · 03-12-2009 02:51PM

it's koll-yume tbh, I can't imagine anyone saying it like gollum

must be a cork thing :pac:

Column - how do you pronounce it?

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