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Pronunciations that drive you mad

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    #62
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Heard column pronounces colyoum by a lecturer


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    #63
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    Genu-eye-n instead of genuine... bloody awful.


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    #64
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    YURsterday instead of yesterday - wtf, I knew an English teacher that used to pronounce it like this!

    Also everyone I know pronounces calm wrong- its CAWLM not CAM! Cam dowen - everytime I hear it I get a little closer to that murder spree! Ironically it'll be someone trying to get me to calm down that will send me over the edge!


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    #65
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    commm - a - teeeeeee instead of committee.

    Im so glad that aine lawler one is gone from Morning Ireland. Remember, the one that couldn't read the time. She put me in a bad mood every morning. Thank goodness we are not subjected to that anymore.

    although there is a new one on it that I think is going to wet herself every morning when she is giving out tidbits of absolute rubbish, and raving about it as if its the best news ever.

    doesn't work. Sounds like an idiot.

    rant over. :D:D


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    #66
    SNORBEAST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭SNORBEAST


    Tony Fenton Toon= Tune
    Michael McMullen- Every thing that comes out of his mouth
    Matt Cooper- Saherday= Saturday


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    #67
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    bnt wrote: »
    No sh!t, Sherlock. That explains everything. See previous thread on the topic, here.

    So it's scone as in cone then, thanks for that!


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    #68
    Whispered
    Registered Users Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    Supprise. :mad: Surprise

    Aneg. It's An Egg; two separate words

    Murrrr - Mirror


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    #69
    Rastapitts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭Rastapitts


    your man on the carlsberg saying "the fields of Athenry"


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    #70
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Com-it-TeeeeEEEE - (The Cork pronunciation of committee)

    Sangwich (The Limerick/North Cork way of saying Sandwich)

    The Garda / West of Ireland pronunciation of vehicle "Vee-heee-heee-ikle" or "Veh - hickle"

    RTE artificial forced pronunciations:

    Gardaí - Gowhr-Dee.
    Portlaoise - Pohrt-Laoisha (Nobody says this except RTE)
    Dun Laoghaire - Normally = "Dun-Leary" RTE = "Dun Laoraighah"

    It's a bit insulting to correct how people pronounce their own home places. In my opinion, that's just arrogance and it's RTE who are incorrect.

    English people correcting how Irish names are pronounced e.g. splitting the "G-H" in Gallagher etc. Or, when they find these correct pronunciations amusing.
    They get very cranky when someone from the US pronounces Worcestershire as "Wor-cester-shire" rather than "Wooostahshahh"
    Double standards apply! Lots of English surnames, place names etc do not follow rules of standard phonetics.

    The most extreme example being the surname Featherstone which is pronounced as "Fanshaw" !!


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    #71
    oranbhoy67
    Registered Users Posts: 2,803 ✭✭✭oranbhoy67


    Ive noticed since living here that most people pronounce the word safety as safe-ety,not that it annoys me i find it slightly amusing and quirky :-)


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    #72
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    oranbhoy67 wrote: »
    Ive noticed since living here that most people pronounce the word safety as safe-ety,not that it annoys me i find it slightly amusing and quirky :-)

    That's US/Hiberno-English vs UK-English.

    Irish and US speakers tend to put more equal emphasis on all syllables.
    Where as UK speakers tend to use specific stress patterns and use them very absolutely/extremely.

    E.g. Sectretary - Sec-re-tary in the US/Ireland (usually).
    Secret-ry - Always in the UK.

    Irish dialects of English are *FAR* closer to North American (particularly Eastern US/Canada) English than Southern English dialects in England itself.

    Also, for some reason teenage/20 something females tend to speak like Californians.


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    #73
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    why do black people pronounce the word "asked" as "axed"

    as in I axed him a question?

    also why do brits in cambridge say "I brought a pack of cigarettes from the shop" instead of "i bought a pack of cigarettes from the shop"


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    #74
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Athlete when said as ath-ah-lete or a-hah-lete.


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    #75
    dpe
    Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Pew-joe for Peugeot.


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    #76
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    why do black people pronounce the work "asked" as "axed"

    as in I axed him a question?

    The asked / axed pronunciation is a throw-back to old English oddly enough.

    It possibly came into dialects via the US deep south.
    African-Americans have a different migration patterns i.e. fleeing slavery and oppression in the South.
    So, their accents / dialects would have a different origin than the dialects in the Northern US cities.


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    #77
    mikemac1
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    wren old is a brand of car


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    #78
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Typewriter wrote: »
    Lis-bon

    What's the correct way so :confused:


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    #79
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    dpe wrote: »
    Pew-joe for Peugeot.

    I wouldn't worry about it too much. Peugeot is difficult to pronounce in English!

    The UK common pronunciation of it is totally incorrect too!

    "Pair-jo"

    If anything, the Irish attempt at it is slightly better than the British mispronunciation of it :D

    Neither are accurate, but it's a French word!

    The Germans would just pronounce every letter of it, same with the Spanish.
    Renault in Spain is R-E-N-A-U-L-T vs "Rehnn-Oh!"
    If anything, someone from Drogheda would have a better chance of getting it right, with the French-style uvular-R


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    #80
    summerskin
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    Solair wrote: »
    I wouldn't worry about it too much. Peugeot is difficult to pronounce in English!

    The UK common pronunciation of it is totally incorrect too!

    "Pair-jo"

    If anything, the Irish attempt at it is slightly better than the Britishisation of it :D


    WTF? never heard anyone say that in England. it's Puhh-zho


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    #81
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    omahaid wrote: »
    Hate to break this to you, we're not in Scotland

    we're not in England either


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    #82
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Opel, I hear it pronounced as Vauxhall ;)


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    #83
    Kev_2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    People saying me instead of my e.g. I need to get me haircut. Can't stand it!

    I know it's scone, but I always say scon just to p!ss people off :)

    Mom instead of mam. We're in Ireland not the states!!!

    And I think I'm the only Irish person that pronounces it yog-urt instead of yo-gurt, but why do Irish people pronounce it the american way?


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    #84
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    summerskin wrote: »
    WTF? never heard anyone say that in England. it's Puhh-zho

    Have a listen to how Top Gear make a hash of it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNBPQe4dFxk

    To a French speaker, it's a bad a pronunciation as "l'oueeek-endh" is in English :)


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    #85
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    we're not in England either

    Your point?


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    #86
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    People saying me instead of my e.g. I need to get me haircut. Can't stand it!

    I know it's scone, but I always say scon just to p!ss people off :)

    Mom instead of mam. We're in Ireland not the states!!!

    And I think I'm the only Irish person that pronounces it yog-urt instead of yo-gurt, but why do Irish people pronounce it the american way?

    Because the sound fits Irish phonetics better than the English version.
    The English also insist on calling perfectly good 'scallions' salad-onions!
    Scallions works fine in the US and Ireland :D

    I mean, you might as well start calling satsumas "baby oranges".


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    #87
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    people who say Saaaab, its Sarrb!


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    #88
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    When people pronounce Westminster as "westminister"

    Where are they getting this extra I from?


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    #89
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    mike65 wrote: »
    people who say Saaaab, its Sarrb!

    Check with a Swedish speaker. It's probably neither :D


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    #90
    A.Partridge
    Registered Users Posts: 680 ✭✭✭A.Partridge


    Can you be a bit more pacific...(instead of specific. :mad::mad:).

    Ahhhhhh!!!!


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    #91
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    hostapal

    Mary is gone to the hostapal for an operation


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