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Pronunciations that drive you mad

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    #32
    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Milk & Honey


    I blame the parents!


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    #33
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Yer one on RTE who says fin-ance instead of fy-nance.


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    #34
    Paz-CCFC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭Paz-CCFC


    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!


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    #35
    Dub Ste
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭Dub Ste


    Why can't people on the radio/tv pronounce the rather simple word OFF.

    OFF is spelt OFF,that's why it's OFF,not ORF,as in kick ORF is at three.

    OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF !!!!!!

    Shower of feckers :mad::mad:


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    #36
    Lionel Messy
    Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    Oym Moykull McMullen and oym going to get my head kicked in if i keep talking like that.


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    #37
    [Deleted User]
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    Car-pen-ter
    Cal-en-der
    Pass-en-ger

    Electreeeeshan
    politeeeeeshan

    Mote Cotrol


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    #38
    celticbest
    Registered Users Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭celticbest


    Curcle instead of Circle.
    Wan instead of One.


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    #39
    not yet
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    Forehead pronounced forit. Our your for it i.e your getting it pronounced for et.


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    #40
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Wibbs wrote: »
    The pronunciations that would grind my gears are those that the user thinks makes them sound "posh"... aitches

    'dafuq's an aitch??
    Do you mean haich?:p:p


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    #41
    Carlos_Ray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭Carlos_Ray


    English pronunciations of Irish names especially football players. A lot of Irish people are starting to use the English pronunciation now ffs.


    KAY-HILL instead of Cahill.

    Dough-herty instead of Doherty.


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    #42
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Lionel Messy wrote: »
    Oym Moykull McMullen and oym going to get my head kicked in if i keep talking like that.

    I HATE his voice, accent and being!
    The worst is when he tries to say Aironi (rugby team) in his fake accent.


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    #43
    damienirel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭damienirel


    turty tree and a turd!!

    Nearly all Irish people are guilty of pronouncing a three (3) as 'tree'
    Newstalk radio is worst for this.

    Oh and the Marathon Sports ad. on newstalk - 'Mariton sports'

    - why does the whole country speak like they've got stones in their mouths('moutts')


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    #44
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    Scone - when the cone part is pronounced like gone.


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    #45
    ablelocks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,708 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    Comm-i-tae instead of committee


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    #46
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    Chicargo... drives me bananas!

    Also when Dubs say words with a short vowel where there should be a long one:

    FÁS = "foss"
    Audit = "oddit"

    I heard one particular journalist on RTE call the new president of France François "OllANday". :eek:


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    #47
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,967 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    omahaid wrote: »
    Scone - when the cone part is pronounced like gone.
    Hate to break this to you, but that is the correct pronunciation in Scotland, where Scones were invented. The "s-cone" pronunciation is an English affectation.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #48
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    omahaid wrote: »
    Scone - when the cone part is pronounced like gone.

    Ah here now. If you pronounce it your way then this joke doesnt work.

    What's the fastest bun in the world?

    Scone


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    #49
    silverwood
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭silverwood


    People who call the iPod Touch an iTouch. Drives me bonkers, but then that's not too difficult :mad:


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    #50
    coffee_cake
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    Dub Ste wrote: »
    Why can't people on the radio/tv pronounce the rather simple word OFF.

    OFF is spelt OFF,that's why it's OFF,not ORF,as in kick ORF is at three.

    OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF !!!!!!

    Shower of feckers :mad::mad:

    how orkward

    i'm off to drink some larger in chicargo


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    #51
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    bnt wrote: »
    Hate to break this to you, but that is the correct pronunciation in Scotland, where Scones were invented. The "s-cone" pronunciation is an English affectation.

    Hate to break this to you, we're not in Scotland


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    #52
    Skerries
    Registered Users Posts: 12,345 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Safe-a-ty
    Untitled Image




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    #53
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Politicians saying "millons and billons". Idiots. Or that annoying American accent on the "Liberdee insurance" ad.


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    #54
    chakotha
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    The fella on Guy's Big Bite and when he pronounces basil like bay-sil.


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    #55
    SNORBEAST
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    Sang- wiches, and DBOO- debut


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    #56
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,967 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    omahaid wrote: »
    Hate to break this to you, we're not in Scotland
    No sh!t, Sherlock. That explains everything. See previous thread on the topic, here.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #57
    bitemybanger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,475 ✭✭✭bitemybanger


    Hostable for hospital
    Crips for crisps
    Axed for asked
    Chimbley for chimney

    Just a few small ones but annoying ones all the same.


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    #58
    Sar_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭Sar_Bear


    "onin" and "millinaire" instead of onion and millionaire. GRRRR ARRRGH!!!!


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    #59
    dancingqueen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭dancingqueen


    My cousinD ? WTF is a cousinD?

    Showlder (shoulder)

    Tay-Ohs (taytos) which by the way, is not the general name for all crisps!!!

    I'm going on me holliers .... WHAT?!

    Ten after three.. it's ten minutes past three. Or ten before four.

    :mad:


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    #60
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    My missus says arr-land for Ireland, they all pronounce it that way were she's from. It's like talking to pirates!:mad:
    I also have a cousin who says package of crips, for packet of crisps.:mad:
    I'm not sure which one is worse


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    #61
    dancingqueen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭dancingqueen


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    :mad:
    I also have a cousin who says package of crips, for packet of crisps.:mad:
    I'm not sure which one is worse

    FACEPALM!!!


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