Pronunciations that drive you mad

Wibbs wrote: »

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.

Is that not another effect of Hiberno-English, to some degree at least? In Irish, when Ts are next to a broad vowel, it's not pronounced as a hard T. It's sounds somewhat like a TH - maybe halfway between a hard T and a TH, if that makes any sense?

I wouldn't know how to write this phonetically, but for words like "Tá", "Taoiseach", "Tóg" etc., when you say the T part, the tip of your tongue should be hitting off the bottom inside of your teeth. It creates a sort of a TH sound, but not as strong as what it's like in English (here, the flat top part of your tongue seems to hit off the very bottom, narrow/sharp part of the teeth).

A similar "process" is done when Ds and Ns are next to broad vowels. That's why, when RTÉ say "na Gardaí Síochána", it sounds more like "Gore-thee" (the Ns in the first and third words are also affected), rather than "gore-dee".

Not sure if that makes sense to you!