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Elvery Sports now selling garden plants ?

Liam Byrne

Just heard an ad that said to head there to "buy tree items".

Does anyone vet ads anymore, between "Meedy-yor" and now this, it seems that you don't need to be able to speak in order to v/o an advert.

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chughes

Similarly, I heard an ad on the radio recently which mentioned the Oliver St John Gogarty pub. The person reading this ad pronounced St John as Saint John rather than the proper pronounciation of this name.

PaddyBomb

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Just heard an ad that said to head there to "buy tree items".

Eh, I taught us Irish have always pronounced the number three like tree. You've only noticed?

And it gets us our hole on holidays aswell. So I'm not changing.

Minstrel27

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Just heard an ad that said to head there to "buy tree items".

Does anyone vet ads anymore, between "Meedy-yor" and now this, it seems that you don't need to be able to speak in order to v/o an advert.

Any mention of the prices is Euros?

Run_to_da_hills

Our local church is now doing vegitables, last week someone died and there was a large turnup at the service.

deisedevil

Turty tree and a turd!

fakearms123

Do you know what else is crazy, Elvery Sports sells women's clothing! WOMEN SPORTS! Oh my God that is hilarious! What kind of women sports clothing is there besides from runners to get them around the kitchen quicker, am I right! Am I right lads?!

Hells Belle

chughes wrote: »

Similarly, I heard an ad on the radio recently which mentioned the Oliver St John Gogarty pub. The person reading this ad pronounced St John as Saint John rather than the proper pronouniation of this name.

How is it pronounced then

Bloody Nipples

Sin-gee-uhn. Seriously.

Bloody Nipples

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_%28surname%29

KevinVonSpiel

chughes wrote: »

Similarly, I heard an ad on the radio recently which mentioned the Oliver St John Gogarty pub. The person reading this ad pronounced St John as Saint John rather than the proper pronouniation of this name.

I made this mistake consistently for years, then again I used to pronounce pronunciation as pronounciation... they should just call it Buck Mulligan's.

Hells Belle

Bloody Nipples wrote: »

Sin-gee-uhn. Seriously.

I always thought only gay/english people said it like that

sbsquarepants

chughes wrote: »

Similarly, I heard an ad on the radio recently which mentioned the Oliver St John Gogarty pub. The person reading this ad pronounced St John as Saint John rather than the proper pronouniation of this name.

Everybody in Dublin, where the pub is, pronounces it as Saint John, therefore i would argue it IS the correct pronounciation, pronounciations do change over time and from place to place, thats how language evolves.

mikom

“Dere's more to Oireland dan dis.”

mathie

PaddyBomb wrote: »

And it gets us our hole on holidays aswell. So I'm not changing.

Was he any good Paddy?

chughes

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Everybody in Dublin, where the pub is, pronounces it as Saint John, therefore i would argue it IS the correct pronounciation, pronounciations do change over time and from place to place, thats how language evolves.

I've always known the pronunciation as Sinjin because my older brother has a friend with that name. In relation to the person Oliver St John Gogarty, I can remember learning about him during English for the Leaving Cert. Our teacher also pronounced it as Sinjin.

While you would argue that because everybody in Dublin, where the pub is, pronounces it as Saint John, I would argue that all these people are mispronouncing it. It's an understandable error as it's a very unusual name and if you haven't heard it before, you would naturally pronounce it as it looks. The link in the above post to Wikipedia is an excellant explanation of the name.

Millicent

Marty Whelan keeps saying "millonaire" in the new Tesco clubcard ad. It's driving me insane! There are two i's in millionaire dammit!

ElaElaElano

This is OwenC's dream thread. He's been waiting for this one.

What drives me fúcking ballistic is the McDonald's ad with the posh lad, y'know the one- 'how bout an apple tort, when you're on the dort'.

m@cc@

Liam Byrne wrote: »

it seems that you don't need to be able to speak in order to v/o an advert.

So a local dialect now qualifies as being mute?

eoin5

Meh, if you can understand it then why care. Maybe all ads could be done in jive mothafcuka!

CorsetIsTight

Millicent wrote: »

Marty Whelan keeps saying "millonaire" in the new Tesco clubcard ad. It's driving me insane! There are two i's in millionaire dammit!

Three actually.

Millicent

CorsetIsTight wrote: »

Three actually.

Dammit! Looks like my English degree is getting good use! *hangs head in shame*

HavingCrack

Paul Reyonolds, OARRRRRRRRRRRRR T E news.