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Pronunciations that drive you mad

  • 09-05-2012 08:08AM
    #1
    Susie_Q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    One girl I know says "pellow" instead of "pillow". I am pedantic enough that this really bugs me.

    She also says "on-velope" for "envelope".

    Any other pronunications that annoy you?


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  • #2
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    "Arr-T-É," "podato," and, even though it's fairly common here, "th" pronounced as "t."


  • #3
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Defin-eye-tly and when people pronounce a G in tremendous.


  • #4
    Lionel Messy
    Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    Gee. Damn yanks can't say it right.


  • #5
    Dead Kennedys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭Dead Kennedys


    Gaaaaarrrrrdeee....The RTE pronunciation of Gardai.


  • #6
    duploelabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    Eggs-presso
    teeesue (tissue)
    eeesssue (issue)


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  • #7
    Paz-CCFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭Paz-CCFC


    Dead Kennedys wrote: »
    Gaaaaarrrrrdeee....The RTE pronunciation of Gardai.

    The correct way?


  • #8
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Yisterday I heard a fellow say tomorra is Wehendsday.


  • #9
    KittyeeTrix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    When vehicle is pronounced Feh-heh-kill :(

    Usually done on Crimecall or Crimewatch or whatever the hell its called these days!!


  • #10
    Typewriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Typewriter


    Lis-bon


  • #11
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,058 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    I axed him a question. Drives me nuts. You're not in the ghetto or Harlem ffs.

    Or sangwich. Though this doesn't quite drive me nuts.. Just yet

    Or I folleed him


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  • #12
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,257 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Eck setera.

    Anything with a 'th' by Ian Guider.

    Window Still

    Chimley

    Scaff

    Damp squid (by Bertie Ahern)

    I'll tink of more anon...


  • #13
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,298 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Many of the examples so far just sound like Hiberno English to me and that's cool. The pronunciations that would grind my gears are those that the user thinks makes them sound "posh". Riiindabite for roundabout, adding aitches where they don't exist out of a fear of dropping them where they do. HeightH a good example, throatH instead of throat another. TBH I'd rather hear someone say tirty tree and a tird than those examples.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #14
    The Big Red Button
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    Supernanny: "asseptable" :mad:


  • #15
    adamski8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8




  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A woman I work with describes herself as "volumptuous" and she also pronounces pyjamas as "perr-jarr-merrs".

    This bothers me immensely.


  • #17
    earlyevening
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,334 ✭✭✭earlyevening


    thongue for tongue. (+invariably misspelt tounge or something like it)


  • #18
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Gord as in: "Gords.. Gords protect them!"


  • #19
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Yea. The Gore Thee. It's an Irish word ffs!

    Pacific
    Expresso
    Ek Cetera

    Everyone says amount of people and less people whereas it should be number of people and fewer people.

    It doesn't annoy me when general peons speak like this because many of them don't know any better, but I would expect broadcasters on our national media to be able to speak properly, and many of them can't. Some of them even have atrocious speech impediments like the one with the lithshp on R1 who reads out whash itsh shayshs in the papersh.

    There are a great number of smart people who can speak out of work now. Why not give them a shot?

    Pisses me off it does!


  • #20
    .E_C_K_S.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭.E_C_K_S.


    Tissss- ooooohs when saying Tissues:mad:


  • #21
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    People saying "en-velope" (rhyming with "pen") instead of the correct "on-velope". It's a French word, like "entourage" or "ensemble".

    Plus: there is no "x" in "Espresso" (coffee).

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #22
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Sky King wrote: »
    Expresso
    bnt wrote: »
    Plus: there is no "x" in "Espresso" (coffee).
    Snap!

    Another one is a "h" on the end of "height", so it becomes "heighth". Does not compute. :rolleyes:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #23
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Thighland really bugs me.

    And I have a friend that doesn't say fab-uuuuuu-lous, she says fab-a-lus. Really irritiating for some reason.:p


  • #24
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Roish, and D4 accents in general.

    Also, those stupid ****ing man-bags and scarfs.


  • #25
    counterlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭counterlock


    People who don't know the difference between 'then' and 'than' and just pronounce them the same when they are speaking.

    'its better then buying it in the shop'


  • #26
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,024 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Million is not Millen

    The A to Z is not Ah to Zed

    If you want to be specific, please do so but don't be Pacific

    If there is an obstacle in your way, calling it an oxtable will not help


    Off course I've often mispronounced things myself. Only recently when trying to ask my ex-girlfriend "Would you like to go out for dinner tonight dear?", I mispronounced it to sound like "You've ruined my life you manipulative bítch".


  • #27
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    counterlock wrote: »
    People who don't know the difference between 'then' and 'than' and just pronounce them the same when they are speaking.

    'its better then buying it in the shop'

    This one really annoys me, moreso when its written than anything because I dont really notice it much when its spoken. How in the name of christ do people not know the difference between these? :mad:


  • #28
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    My old boss could not pronounce secretary and instead pronounced it sec-ertary!! Did my head in.

    Also people who are trying to be "pacific" about something!!


  • #29
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,645 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    the kiwis pronounce mullet as mouleé :mad:


  • #30
    harney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭harney


    ash-hume instead of assume :(


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Apperantly.


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