Strange pronounciations

py2006 · 23-08-2011 01:53PM #1

Something that gets on my tits (if I had a pair) is the way some people pronounce 'book'.

Its not b-eww-k its buk! :mad::mad::mad:

Are there any regular mispronounced words that we hear on a daily basis?

chin_grin · 23-08-2011 01:54PM

Pro-noun-see-ay-shuns

or

Pro-nun-see-ay-shuns?

Big Nasty · 23-08-2011 01:54PM

There might be bad grammer but how do you know people mispronounce by reading there posts 'here on boards'?

FatherLen · 23-08-2011 01:55PM

cuk
cewk

py2006 · 23-08-2011 01:55PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

There might be bad grammer but how do you know people mispronounce by reading there posts 'here on boards'?

emeraldstar · 23-08-2011 01:57PM

"iss-yoo" and "sex-yoo-al", a la Anne Doyle.

Also sikth. Thomas, Thailand, thongue

Einhard · 23-08-2011 01:58PM

How the feck is "colonel" pronouced "kernel"? It doesn't even have a frickin "r"!

Big Nasty · 23-08-2011 01:58PM

py2006 wrote: »

What? You said 'here'.

Not 'here' on boards then? Here, where, there or hear, wear, their?

Big Nasty · 23-08-2011 01:59PM

Einhard wrote: »

How the feck is "colonel" pronouced "kernel"? It doesn't even have a frickin "r"!

Was Kevin in Home Alone a left-tennant?

Kojak · 23-08-2011 02:01PM

Often notice that some people, especially from Cork, pronounce galway as Gal-Waay.

py2006 · 23-08-2011 02:01PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

What? You said 'here'.

Not 'here' on boards then? Here, where, there or hear, wear, their?

Ah ya know what I meant!!

(fixed the typo)

KungPao · 23-08-2011 02:02PM

Mayoooooooooooooooooooh

CucaFace · 23-08-2011 02:03PM

We had this discussion in the office a few years ago about how you pronounce book.

I felt that there is an invisable line in Ireland where if you are south of it you say buk and north of it B-ewwwww - k

Same goes for all the the other similar words to book.

The line starts above Clare for what its worth.

CucaFace · 23-08-2011 02:04PM

Donkey and Dunkey is another one.

Thud · 23-08-2011 02:07PM

Sa-hur-day

py2006 · 23-08-2011 02:08PM

I have a mate who says 'arfter' instead of 'after'

Villette · 23-08-2011 02:11PM

It has to be the word 'film'. I can never understand why everyone feels the need to turn it into a two syllable word.
It makes me wonder if it's widely misspelled as a result.

At least with book, it may be annoying to hear it spoken as 'bewk' but at least that could be described as a localised accent - usually in parts of Northern England. I rarely hear it said in Ireland, except maybe by Cavan people. Everyone says 'filim'!

Big Nasty · 23-08-2011 02:13PM

My cousend had to go to hostiple because he hurt his head in an accident off his bike. The doctor axed him why he wasn't wearing his hemlet.

CiaranMT · 23-08-2011 02:15PM

My mam: Dunkay and waah-sp. (Donkey, wasp)

In general:

Modrin (Modern)

Loylatty card (loyalty card)

Samhain · 23-08-2011 02:25PM

Piscetti instead of Spaghetti, Pacific instlead of Specific, Brickits instead of Briquettes....the list goes on

Big Nasty · 23-08-2011 02:27PM

The Pacific is a Specific ocean.

orourkeda · 23-08-2011 02:29PM

Gross isn't growth.

Three isn't free.

Wealth Rate isn't well freight

Solair · 23-08-2011 02:40PM

The Cork pronunciation of "Committee" - "Comm-it-TEE" with the stress on TEE, like French!

chucken1 · 23-08-2011 02:41PM

orourkeda wrote: »

Gross isn't growth.

Three isn't free.

Wealth Rate isn't well freight

It is if you're in Sarf Landan innit.

py2006 · 23-08-2011 02:43PM

Solair wrote: »

The Cork pronunciation of "Committee" - "Comm-it-TEE" with the stress on TEE, like French!

Don't forget Ve Hick al for vehicle.

Frank Black · 23-08-2011 02:46PM

'a-shume' instead of assume.

uch · 23-08-2011 02:48PM

Jaysus you people have too much time on yer hands, worrying about this sh1te

RhubarbCrumble · 23-08-2011 02:51PM

Thud wrote: »

Sa-hur-day

And "SOT-or-day"

leviathon · 23-08-2011 02:53PM

For the last goddamn time those tasty little layers of teary goodness are pronounced Un-Ee-On

Not Oing-In

Ahhhh feel better now.

EverEvolving · 23-08-2011 02:53PM

Einhard wrote: »

How the feck is "colonel" pronouced "kernel"? It doesn't even have a frickin "r"!

This confused me for ages and I remember reading Catch 22 years ago and not being able to pronounce the Colonel word

Morkeshing

Basically, where people substitute esh instead of the real word.

chucken1 · 23-08-2011 02:58PM

leviathon wrote: »

For the last goddamn time those tasty little layers of teary goodness are pronounced Un-Ee-On

Not Oing-In

Ahhhh feel better now.

Its an ing-in

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