Pronounciation

HugoBradyBrown · 09-11-2011 04:54PM

And "Higginbotham" is pronounced "Coburn."

Hugo Brady Brown

Da Shins Kelly · 09-11-2011 04:58PM

People who say 'per-scription' instead of 'pre-scription'. I only really properly noticed last night when I was in the hospital, and overheard some woman saying it repeatedly.

Also, one of my teachers used to say 'blozzom' instead of 'blossom'. I know a few people who say it like that. Doesn't bother me, but I always notice.

TheChevron · 09-11-2011 04:58PM

I have a habit of adding a h to words in parts where they shouldn't be, especially when the word has another h in it.

Whirlwind = Whirl-whind

skregs · 09-11-2011 05:01PM

ibarelycare wrote: »

Misschievous. There are three syllables in that word. For some reason, people tend to add a third "i" after the "v", making it into a four syllable word.

I hate when people add an extra "s" into mischievous.

Ellis Dee · 09-11-2011 05:06PM

I -a- wish -a- people -a- would learn -a- to -a- pronounce -a- the -a- surname -a- of our EU -a- master Olli Rehn -a- correctly. It -a- rhymes -a- with "rain" (wet -a- stuff), not "wren" (a small -a- bird).:):):)

AhSureTisGrand · 09-11-2011 05:07PM

Chapelizod

How the fück do you pronounce that?

Captain Graphite · 09-11-2011 05:07PM

Anyone who pronounces the word scone as "sconn" is instantly on my list of enemies. :mad: It's pronounced "scoan" - it rhymes with bone, lone, drone etc.

I've never been to Scotland, I think I'd just want to kill everyone over there for pronouncing it in that horrible way.

HugoBradyBrown · 09-11-2011 05:11PM

AhSureTisGrand wrote: »

Chapelizod

How the fück do you pronounce that?

"Chapel Lizard", if you believe James Joyce!

Consider also 'sacrifice' pronounced 'sarcrifice'.

Or 'throat' pronounced 'troath'.

Or 'paraclete' pronounced 'pharisee'.

Hugo Brady Brown

landsleaving · 09-11-2011 05:12PM

ibarelycare wrote: »

Another one that annoys me, but this is more use of a wrong word, rather than mispronunciation, is "pacific" instead of "specific"...sorry but when I hear people use that they just come across as completely thick!

That's because they are. That has to be the worst one of all, and people who actually say 'specifically' still manage to come out with it.

It's up there with 'intensive purposes' for things that warrant a dictionary over the head.

09-11-2011 05:14PM

Perfect V Pearfect

Specifically V Pacifically (this is particular drives me crazy...)

Undoubtedly V Undoubtably

ibarelycare · 09-11-2011 05:14PM

skregs wrote: »

I hate when people add an extra "s" into mischievous.

Goddammit!!!!

Darkginger · 09-11-2011 05:14PM

Registry Office as opposed to the (correct) Register Office.

09-11-2011 05:15PM

07438991 wrote: »

Perfect V Pearfect

Specifically V Pacifically (this is particular drives me crazy...)

Undoubtedly V Undoubtably

Anybody with me..? Or am I all alone again...

landsleaving · 09-11-2011 05:15PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs

flutterflye · 09-11-2011 05:16PM

Darkginger wrote: »

Registry Office as opposed to the (correct) Register Office.

I didn't believe you, so I googled it.
You're right! :eek:

Galtee · 09-11-2011 05:24PM

Darkginger wrote: »

Registry Office as opposed to the (correct) Register Office.

Are you referring to The General Register Office?

Chuck Stone · 09-11-2011 05:28PM

Had an English teacher in secondary school who pronounced Aphrodite (Aff-ro-die-tee) as (afro-deet). I remember thinking 'Why the **** are you saying it that way?.'

This same teacher gave us a spelling exercise where we had to put 1 x 30 words into 3 sentences each i.e. 90 sentences. I thought that it was a really stupid exercise so I put great effort into squeezing all 90 sentences of this silly exercise onto one side of one page of a small copy book in tiny writing.

I proudly handed it to her and she looked at me as if to say 'touché you little fucker'.

Galtee · 09-11-2011 05:31PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Had an English teacher in secondary school who pronounced Aphrodite (Aff-ro-die-tee) as (afro-deet). I remember thinking 'Why the **** are you saying it that way?.'

This same teacher gave us a spelling exercise where we had to put 1 x 30 words into 3 sentences each i.e. 90 sentences. I thought that it was a really stupid exercise so I put great effort into squeezing all 90 sentences of this silly exercise onto one side of one page of a small copy book in tiny writing.

I proudly handed it to her and she looked at me as if to say 'touché you little fucker'.

I'm pretty sure that's illegal

flutterflye · 09-11-2011 05:33PM

Galtee wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that's illegal

You are so sure, you said it 3 times!

09-11-2011 05:34PM

Audi = Owdi not Awwwdi. That one really annoys me.

Galtee · 09-11-2011 05:34PM

flutterflye wrote: »

You are so sure, you said it 3 times!

Sorry, connection just went a little mental there for a min.

Darkginger · 09-11-2011 05:37PM

Galtee wrote: »

Are you referring to The General Register Office?

Not specifically. I got married, in the UK, in a register office, not a registry office, for example.

castletownman · 09-11-2011 05:41PM

It's pronounced nu-cle-er. Nu-cle-er

Galtee · 09-11-2011 05:41PM

Darkginger wrote: »

Not specifically. I got married, in the UK, in a register office, not a registry office, for example.

Oh, Ok. Well, taking the General Register Office as an example, it is a Registry Office isn't it?

JerryHandbag · 09-11-2011 05:45PM

I've often sat awake at night and pondered....

Why is Ralph Fiennes pronounced as Ray Fiennes??

Shenshen · 09-11-2011 05:46PM

drumlover22 wrote: »

I was just watching tv there, and the news presenter pronounced the word lieutenant as "lef-tenant". I've always pronounced it as "loo-tenant" and it really bugs me when people pronounce it "lef-tenant"*. So any pronounciations of words that annoy any of the AHer's here?

*waiting to get told I'm wrong :P

There is one pronounciation phenomenon that never ceases to puzzle me : English and Irish people pronouncing foreign word half in the original way, half English.

Examples :

Jalapeno
Original pronounciation would be Ha-la-pen-yo. People here pronounce it Ha-la-pee-no...

Peugot
Original pronounciation pø-sho, people in these parts pronounce it Pyu-sho...

Ibiza
Original pronounciation EE-be-tha, people here insist on calling it Eye-be-tha...

What on earth is that about, where does that come from?
It does my head in, I never know which syllable to pronounce original, and which "English"???

ibarelycare · 09-11-2011 06:07PM

JerryHandbag wrote: »

I've often sat awake at night and pondered....

Why is Ralph Fiennes pronounced as Ray Fiennes??

It's actually pronounced Rafe Fiennes! It's an old English pronunciation apparently. I used to think Ralph Fiennes and Ray Fiennes were two separate actors

09-11-2011 06:16PM

Prefer.

Drives me mental when people say prefare.

Also when people say hour (which I would pronounce as 'our) as something that sounds like a mix of "ah", "eh" and "uh". I can't even think of a phonetic way of spelling it, it's like their mouth just gives up on the word.
"I'll be there in a few uhs". - What?
Sounds both posh and thick at the same time.

Eroticfishcake · 09-11-2011 06:19PM

Chicago - Chicargo annoys me.

flutterflye · 09-11-2011 06:20PM

Awkward.
It reeeeaaally annoys my husband when someone says orkward.
So many people do though.

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