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Pronunciations that drive you mad

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  • #122
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    "Sah-her-day" for "Saturday" really drives me mad!

    There are some very odd pronunciations of London in Ireland too.

    I don't actually mind mispronunciations that much but it's the kind of guttural lazy sounding ones that really get me. If it sounds awful, and provokes a bad reaction, you'd think people might consider that maybe they might try and figure out a different way of saying it?


  • #123
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Peugeot is pronounced "puh-joe" (where the j is softer and rolls a little. it's not like the name "Joe")

    Not really a pronunciation but I can't stand when people type "off" in instead of "of".


  • #124
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,803 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


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

    Really now?



  • #125
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Opel, I hear it pronounced as Vauxhall ;)

    opel brand name is not registered as a car brand in the uk hence why they use vauxhall


    similarly why bulmers cider in ireland is called magners in the uk.. cos there is actually another cider brewery in the uk called bulmers.


  • #126
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Think you missed the smilie there

    I wasn't being serious


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  • #127
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Really now?

    Correct pronunciation is at the end of this clip: (Skip to about 0:25 to avoid a lot of soppy shots of people looking unusually sloppily happy with their car mechanic!)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZZFl8OoYTw


    It's actually hard enough to find any French YouTube clips saying "Peugeot" as the company's own ads never speak the name, it's all logos and flashy animations and car reviewers never refer to the name it's always the "306" or whatever :D

    Maybe it's just one of those words that nobody likes pronouncing!

    Basically, to pronounce it correctly develop a breathless female French VO artist voice :D


  • #128
    plys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭plys


    Ward-ropes...


  • #129
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    'Tay' for tea and 'babby' for baby :mad:. I also have a cousin who refers to me as his cousint


  • #130
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    A N.E. Donegal thing:

    Windies = Windows.
    Windystools = Windowsills.
    Cyar = Car.

    Dublin ones :

    "Me Ma " - My Mother.
    "Me Da" - My Father

    Cork verb mix-up:

    to leave ≠ to let.

    For example, the Beatles did not sing "Leave it be".
    You do not "leave the cat out" unless you are trying to snub the cat during a conversation.
    You were not "left out of the bus" unless the bus driver hates you!
    The judge did not leave him off lightly. He let him off lightly!


  • #131
    whatsername42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭whatsername42


    When the Yanks pronounce Iraq "Eye-raq" - drives me crazy!


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  • #132
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


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

    Its Gore-Dee.


  • #133
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    It's Mammy, not mom ya wannabe Yank


  • #134
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    The other Cork one that surprised me:

    Two (correctly pronounced)
    Too (correctly pronounced)
    and
    to (pronounced as Tuh!)


  • #135
    Krispie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Krispie


    Solair wrote: »
    .........
    For example, the Beatles did not sing "Leave it be".
    You do not "leave the cat out" unless you are trying to snub the cat during a conversation.
    You were not "left out of the bus" unless the bus driver hates you!


    Great thread. Each response from Solair just reminds me soooooo much of the great Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory). Keep it up bud, fascinating stuff:cool:


  • #136
    Zechariah Colossal Owl
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Zechariah Colossal Owl


    Solair wrote: »
    Cork verb mix-up:

    to leave ≠ to let.

    For example, the Beatles did not sing "Leave it be".
    You do not "leave the cat out" unless you are trying to snub the cat during a conversation.
    You were not "left out of the bus" unless the bus driver hates you!
    The judge did not leave him off lightly. He let him off lightly!

    I was wondering if I was the only one who goes demented at this

    "she was queueing outside until the shop opened, she should have been left in"
    ?!?!
    left in from when? the night before?
    or "can you please leave me know"
    that just doesn't make any sense at all


  • #137
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I amn't liking this thread


  • #138
    The Little Fella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭The Little Fella


    My big culchie accent produces a few variations.

    Normal no.....noooooo

    Sulking no.....no

    Angry no.....nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    film comes out as filum, sandwich is sangwich and so on


  • #139
    noddyone2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭noddyone2


    British pronouncing bra as brar, and the shampoo ad for your hay


  • #140
    noddyone2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭noddyone2


    The Little Fella wrote: »
    My big culchie accent produces a few variations.

    Normal no.....noooooo

    Sulking no.....no

    Angry no.....nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    film comes out as filum, sandwich is sangwich and so on
    Did you never have a hang sangich in Limerick?


  • #141
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I was wondering if I was the only one who goes demented at this

    "she was queueing outside until the shop opened, she should have been left in"
    ?!?!
    left in from when? the night before?
    or "can you please leave me know"
    that just doesn't make any sense at all

    'By your leave' is close enough to 'allow me / let me' that you can see where it comes from. Don't really get why you're bothered by it.


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  • #142
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    There's some promo on Sky that runs before Modern Families. Sponsored by Bath Store...

    I hear it as "Bar Stool"

    The UK pronunciations of Bath are quite odd.

    Varies from "Barf" to "Bah-th"

    Also the classic London One, Two, Free, Four ...


  • #143
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Really now?


    Am I missing something? They both said "puh-jo".


  • #144
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Solair wrote: »
    There's some promo on Sky that runs before Modern Families. Sponsored by Bath Store...

    I hear it as "Bar Stool"

    The UK pronunciations of Bath are quite odd.

    Varies from "Barf" to "Bah-th"

    Also the classic London One, Two, Free, Four ...

    "Bah-th" if you're southern/posh, "Bath" (flat 'a') if you're northern. "Barth" if you're actually from Bath.


  • #145
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    dpe wrote: »
    Am I missing something? They both said "puh-jo".
    I think people are hearing Rs that aren't there in the English pronunciation of Peugeot. Which is probably why some people drink Larger in Ireland. (Over-compensating for their non-rhotacism.)


  • #146
    beegirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭beegirl


    Girl I work with says 'exossted' instead of exhausted and 'slepp' instead of slept - these often occur in the same sentence which makes it all the more annoying!

    Also, when people say 'could of' instead of could've or could have :mad:


  • #147
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,257 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Solair wrote: »
    Also the classic London One, Two, Free, Four ...

    "I faw you wanted to go to the fuhbow match?"


  • #148
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    FTGFOP wrote: »
    I think people are hearing Rs that aren't there in the English pronunciation of Peugeot. Which is probably why some people drink Larger in Ireland. (Over-compensating for their non-rhotacism.)

    They're not 'hearing' it. The speakers are throwing in an intrusive R-sound because their phonetic system cannot cope with the EU sound jumping to a soft G.

    The other Dublin/ East coast issue:

    I was cuking dah recipe from me cukery buke.


  • #149
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    A lot of these are just because of accents which I think is a good thing, I pity the day when we all speak in a crap generic accent, what gets me is simple things that people say rather than pronounce like when most soccer players say 'at the end of the day, our backs were against the wall but we done well to get back into the game'.:o


  • #150
    fricatus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,919 ✭✭✭fricatus


    Where I'm from, we say "sangwidge" all the time (although the blaa is the preferred accompaniment for our ham!).

    Back in the day, I remember walking by a shop in Madrid that was selling "Sangüiches" for 250 pesetas a pop. How I would have liked to snap that one on my camera phone and post it up on Facebook, but that was back in the day when all that sort of stuff was in the futuuuure...


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  • #151
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    Solair wrote: »
    They're not 'hearing' it. The speakers are throwing in an intrusive R-sound because their phonetic system cannot cope with the EU sound jumping to a soft G..
    Solair wrote: »
    The British one to my ears sounds like "Pair-jo".

    An English person* doesn't pronounce the R in 'pair' so what's the point of saying they pronounce Peugeot as 'pair-jo'?


    *(with exceptions such as those from Devon)


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