Column - how do you pronounce it?

ScumLord · 03-12-2009 02:52PM

I've heard and said it both ways, if someone said it either way before me I'd just follow the way their saying it.

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Today we learn to to say column

Euuuuu, yank speak no thanks.

AnonoBoy wrote: »

None of yer fancy talk around here.

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

No a piller is a small spliff.

pickarooney · 03-12-2009 02:53PM

So that's what 6, 7 (8 including Useful.Idiot) kolyume-sayers in 30 posts... it's an epidemic!

ejmaztec · 03-12-2009 02:53PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

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 ?

I think that it started as a concerted effort to massacre the English language in an attempt to drive out the British. In the end, this didn't do the trick, so people had to resort to violence.

Ruu_Old · 03-12-2009 02:55PM

kol-yume.

az2wp0sye65487 · 03-12-2009 03:18PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Column - how do you pronounce it?

It - but why are you calling me Column?

pickarooney · 03-12-2009 03:29PM

There should be a "pity thanks" button.

Abi · 03-12-2009 03:44PM

Kol-yum

03-12-2009 06:11PM

Do all you freaks pronounce the month "Ought-yume" then as well?

liah · 03-12-2009 06:16PM

As far as I know it sounds like "col-um." Rhyming with gollum or Colm.

Wasn't even aware there were alternate pronunciations for the word. :eek:

minidazzler · 03-12-2009 06:18PM

liah wrote: »

As far as I know it sounds like "col-um." Rhyming with gollum or Colm.

Wasn't even aware there were alternate pronunciations for the word. :eek:

Nah, that just sounds wrong TBH!!

Kol yoom sounds right to me!

Liam Byrne · 03-12-2009 06:18PM

liah wrote: »

As far as I know it sounds like "col-um." Rhyming with gollum or Colm.

That sounds spot-on to me!

LordSutch · 03-12-2009 06:20PM

'Coll-yum' is quite prevalent in parts of Ireland > dunno why? then there's ''thought' being confused with 'taught'

pickarooney · 03-12-2009 06:24PM

Is there any kind of a regional bias to the kolyum pronunciation?

Do you people who speak Irish say 'koleen' or 'kolyeen' for cailìn? (can't do a fada, sorry)

BTW, is Colm not pronounced 'kullum'?

03-12-2009 06:33PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Do you people who speak Irish say 'koleen' or 'kolyeen' for cailìn? (can't do a fada, sorry)

Why would anyone say Kolyeen?

(for the fada, hold down the "Alt Gr" button to the right of the space bar and press the relevant vowel (or alternatively use ctrl + Alt and the letter).

schween · 03-12-2009 06:36PM

Collum

Someone laughed at me recently when I said mobile as in mow-bile.
Himself Irish and a German rounded on me and said I was the only one and it's pronounced mow-bill

Also
Million: Millon vs. Mill-yun
Population: Pop-pull-ation vs. Pop-yull-ation

pickarooney · 03-12-2009 06:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Why would anyone say Kolyeen?

Seems to be a fairly standard pronunciation, but I'm not an expert.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cail%C3%ADn

Deleted User wrote: »

(for the fada, hold down the "Alt Gr" button to the right of the space bar and press the relevant vowel (or alternatively use ctrl + Alt and the letter).

French keyboard fails

spacetweek · 03-12-2009 06:46PM

schween wrote: »

Someone laughed at me recently when I said mobile as in mow-bile.
Himself Irish and a German rounded on me and said I was the only one and it's pronounced mow-bill

That's the American pronunciation! Gasp!

Davidius · 03-12-2009 06:57PM

I'm absolutely certain it's coll-um.

schween wrote: »

Million: Millon vs. Mill-yun

I've always said milly-on. I think I'm the only person I know that does that.

MizzLolly · 03-12-2009 07:06PM

I say it like 'volume'. Column.

Liam Byrne · 03-12-2009 07:17PM

MizzLolly wrote: »

I say it like 'volume'. Column.

And, like "legume", "volume" has an "e" after the "m"; not an "n".

WindSock · 03-12-2009 07:21PM

It depends on what mood takes me. Sometimes Coll yewwmmnnnn. Othertimes a simple Col-yum will do. I don't think I say just Collum. I don't know I don't really use the word much, 'cept when trying to display a pseudo knowledge on neo-classical architecture.

MizzLolly · 03-12-2009 07:25PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

And, like "legume", "volume" has an "e" after the "m"; not an "n".

Colyoooooooooooom!

Davidius · 03-12-2009 07:31PM

Dictionary.com says it's kol-uhm.

So there.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 03-12-2009 07:34PM

Colm, since my primary school days. Everyone in my primary school said pronounced it colm, but now in my secondary school everyone says collyum, I'm the only one that says colm.(Different secondary school to pretty much everyone in my primary school:()

Rougies · 03-12-2009 07:34PM

Col-yum

There's no E at the end of it, so none of your col-yooooms pls!

Although there is a small argument for Col-um ... say the word autumn ... same last three letters as column.

But still it's Col-yum. Because that's the why.

Edit: Here's another one ... "Vacumn" ...Definitely vac-yooom for me. Maybe Vac-yum but no way is it Vac-um!

D-Generate · 03-12-2009 07:40PM

I think it might be a southern thing. I am from Cork and I think most people that I know say col-yoom come from down here.

Liam Byrne · 03-12-2009 07:49PM

Rougies wrote: »

Edit: Here's another one ... "Vacumn" ...Definitely vac-yooom for me. Maybe Vac-yum but no way is it Vac-um!

That's probably because it's spelt "Vacuum", not "Vacumn" !!!

Wertz · 03-12-2009 07:55PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

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

Coll-um is how I'd say it too...but I've heard col-yum at various times, sometimes on RTÉ and from people who should know better (journalists for example), but have heard it occasionally IRL too.
I thought it might be a regional thing, but I've since come to the conclussion that it's a stupidity thing...

MizzLolly · 03-12-2009 08:02PM

Wertz wrote: »

but I've since come to the conclussion that it's a stupidity thing...

Kindly fcuk off please

Latchy · 03-12-2009 08:09PM

Has this bit being done yet ?

oh good

not to be confused with

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jkinteriordesign.co.uk/columns/roman-column-2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jkinteriordesign.co.uk/ornamental-pillars.htm&usg=__K-nPyKQYc3z2QD6Aq2qxB23KhDw=&h=560&w=195&sz=53&hl=en&start=4&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=fKG4-PwPmLSh4M:&tbnh=133&tbnw=46&prev=/images%3Fq%3Da%2Broman%2Bcolumn%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

Column - how do you pronounce it?

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