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Pronunciations that drive you mad

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  • #152
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


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

    When I was living in London a guy I know with a cockney accent explained to an American we were working with that he was going home to have a "barf" before we went out.

    Being Californian she responded by suggesting that he visit a therapist as bulimia is a really serious illness!

    A British friend of mine was also very confused in Texas. She asked for the 'fitting room' and the response was 'mam, we don't have a fishing department. You need to try a sports store"

    "could I have some wah tah" also lead to confusion in bars. "we ain't got that drink here in Texas" ohhh you mean waaREeer"


  • #153
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,803 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    dpe wrote: »
    Am I missing something? They both said "puh-jo".
    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.)

    I can definitely hear 'r's as to me they are saying 'per-joh'.


  • #154
    Statistician
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭Statistician


    The problem with reading pronunciation threads is that I start getting confused and can no longer pronounce words. Even words that I used to be able to pronounce correctly.

    So how do you pronounce 'scone'? I'm sure I used to be able to pronounce it correctly.


  • #155
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Statistician wrote: »
    So how do you pronounce 'scone'? I'm sure I used to be able to pronounce it correctly.
    How about "horrible, dry, heavy foodstuff that is neither cake nor bread"?


  • #156
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Lootenent instead of Leftenant in the word Lieutenant
    Buuke instead of Book
    Birthsday


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  • #157
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    How about "horrible, dry, heavy foodstuff that is neither cake nor bread"?

    They're nice if baked correctly! They absolutely have to be fresh baked and they have no self life. A few hours old and they're gross!

    A Spanish friend of mine called them Irish Stone Cakes.


  • #158
    mickstupp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    For all intensive purposes, there is no F in lieutenant, said the man with the umberella, who is clearly bias, and tries to rhyme cook, look, hook and book with puke.


  • #159
    fenris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭fenris


    edna kenny - treaty = tree ahhhh tae - if he wants people to vote for something he could at least learn to pronounce the word!


  • #160
    @rti-shm@rti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭@rti-shm@rti


    Pacific = Specific

    So irritating, especially when said over and over again.

    Can't believe that we're 11 pages in and noone has mentioned pernament instead of permanent. Another annoying one, one colleague repeated it to a client over and over again on a conference call we were on. Was going out of my mind wanting to correct him!


  • #161
    @rti-shm@rti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭@rti-shm@rti


    mickstupp wrote: »
    For all intensive intents and purposes, there is no F in lieutenant, said the man with the umberella, who is clearly bias, and tries to rhyme cook, look, hook and book with puke.

    FYP :)


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  • #162
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Thigh-land.

    Correctly pronounced as Tieland.


  • #163
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Lootenent instead of Leftenant in the word Lieutenant

    It's Lyootenent.
    Just because English words get improperly pronounced doesn't mean we should let them do the same to French words.
    Lieu=Lyoo.

    I hate (despise) when someone talks about people's pronunciation, but says proNOUNciation.
    Most people do this, with the last famous case being Enda Kenny prattling on about the Queen's Irish pronunciation.
    Geebag.


  • #164
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,803 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Lootenent instead of Leftenant in the word Lieutenant
    Buuke instead of Book
    Birthsday

    Can you not see though that there is no "left" in Lieutenant?

    It's a mispronunciation that has now become standard.

    Also, why do TV presenters now say 'sikth' for 'sixth'?


  • #165
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    murpho999 wrote: »
    I can definitely hear 'r's as to me they are saying 'per-joh'.

    They would pronounce per-joh and pugh-joh more or less identically so can you really be sure they're putting an R in there?


  • #166
    paul71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭paul71


    I hate the use of

    "I could of" instead of "I could've"

    I have even seen this become a very common error in written English.


  • #167
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    grindle wrote: »
    It's Lyootenent.
    Just because English words get improperly pronounced doesn't mean we should let them do the same to French words.
    Lieu=Lyoo.

    Sorry to disappoint you, but Lieutenant is correctly pronounced 'Leftenant' in Ireland. This is a fact.


  • #168
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    FTGFOP wrote: »
    They would pronounce per-joh and pugh-joh more or less identically so can you really be sure they're putting an R in there?

    Um, no, "pugh" is pronounced "pew" (Pugh is actually a Welsh surname). So "per-joh" and "pugh-joh" are rather different. There is a very soft "r" sound in the English pronunciation, but its barely there, a breath rather than a hard consonant, sort of "puh(r)-joh". Its pretty difficult to write phonetically, but the point is in English and French the the opening syllable of Peugeot is a uh or uhr sound, NOT, a "you" sound like you get in Irish-English.


  • #169
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Sorry to disappoint you but Lieutenant is incorrectly pronounced 'Leftenant' by people over the age of thirty in Ireland. This is a fact.

    FYP.
    Who'd've thought American TV would have given us a single linguistic benefit?
    Yet here it is.
    Lyoooooooooootenent.


  • #170
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    grindle wrote: »
    It's Lyootenent.
    Just because English words get improperly pronounced doesn't mean we should let them do the same to French words.
    Lieu=Lyoo.

    Actually both versions are French. The British version is (probably) derived from old French where the "luw" sound was pronounced "luf", which subsequently became "lef". It is weird though and is undoubtedly a bit English class snobbery.


  • #171
    TheChevron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭TheChevron


    People who say pelanty instead of penalty.

    Chris Waddle commentating on a Premier league match:

    "That was a definite pelanty"


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  • #172
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    im just glad that we won't be hearing much more about that french fella,
    ZARCOOOZEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    It's Sarkozy, for goodness sake.

    Why do we insist on calling him ZarCooozeeeeeeeeeeeeee with a french accent - we're IRISH. We don't do French accents. Sounds so stupid.


  • #173
    mickstupp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    @rti-shm@rti wrote: »
    FYP :)

    Slightly missed my point there...


  • #174
    joolsveer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭joolsveer


    Weelin instead of Whelan


  • #175
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    mickstupp wrote: »
    For all intensive purposes, there is no F in lieutenant, said the man with the umberella, who is clearly bias, and tries to rhyme cook, look, hook and book with puke.

    intensive purposes :D:D:D:D:D
    nice one.


  • #176
    @rti-shm@rti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭@rti-shm@rti


    mickstupp wrote: »
    Slightly missed my point there...

    Ah....the bank holiday has killed off a few too many brain cells!


  • #177
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    mickstupp wrote: »
    Slightly missed my point there...

    not really, though it was quite funny, especially with the umberella.


  • #178
    joolsveer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭joolsveer


    Gorilla for guerilla.


  • #179
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    --- and, even though it's fairly common here, "th" pronounced as "t."

    On the other hand, I can't wait to hear people from the Midlands refer to the new king, now Bigears, as "Charles the Turd" when the aul Windsor wan kicks the bucket. :):)

    Expect elocution lessons to become a new growth industry among the wannabe West Brits in Tullamore, Athlone, Mullingar, Portlaoise and places like that.:D:D


  • #180
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    The azoo!



    And pronouncing xavier as ex zavier.


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  • #181
    missbelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭missbelle


    Katgurl wrote: »
    SolpHadeine
    Used to be guilty of that one, till I realised there was no H in it :o
    I would also say umberella sometimes :P

    I'm in fits of giggles at some of the mispronunciations and how irritating it is :D

    Hate when people drop the "t" in words, eg toma-o, potayo - stop swallowing your words :rolleyes:


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