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Pronunciations that drive you mad

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    #242
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,793 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    hcass wrote: »
    Nearly everyone I know says Filum instead of film. Its rare you meet someone that says it correctly.

    And pattren instead of pattern.

    Fillum is a dialect pronounciation, and not just in Ireland.

    http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-318599.html


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    #243
    thecornflake
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭thecornflake


    Tattoo, not tah-ewww.

    Scum bags, if you insist on naming your spawn after things and people you see on the television then, it's not pronounced Rihanna, it's pronounced filthy dirty untalented cow.

    That is all for now.


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    #244
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Winda (window) sangwidge (sandwich)


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    #245
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,100 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    I hate hearing anyone adding a H to assume.


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    #246
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Abi wrote: »
    I remember the first time I heard it being pronounced this way, and having asked him to repeat it several times because I couldn't understand him, I got him to spell it. I couldn't believe it. This is the same fúcking twat that told me when I used 'audacity' in a sentence that I had made the word up.

    I don't want to live on this planet anymore..

    Serious cachinnations at that. The correct word is cachinnations not 'lol'.

    When people say 'toy-leh'. It's toilet you peon. :mad:


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    #247
    earlyevening
    Registered Users Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭earlyevening


    Excape for escape.

    Threadmill for treadmill.


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    #248
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Girls from Tipp who head to UCD and by the time they come back home at Christmas they have an American accent

    How :confused:


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    #249
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    People who pronounce "racist" as ray-shist. They're usually right-on lefty types who are trying to sound sophisticated, but surely that pronunciation is just wrong?

    Also, I hate the word "lookit". It's the sort of word you hear people like Beeertie Aheeern using all the time whenever they're frustrated with lesser mortals contradicting them or asking awkward questions. "Lookit, it was just a dig-out from some friends!"


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    #250
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    lazernuts wrote: »
    Matt Cooper also says 'Eggs Cetera'. It's 'Et' for chrissake !!!!

    Could write a book on Matt Coopers 'interesting' pronunciations :))


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    #251
    BarnhallBull
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭BarnhallBull


    Mispronouncing schedule as Skedule

    Dragging out the word boss as bawwwwwws

    Also, not a pronunciation thing, but people (Dubs mainly) who put the word but at the end of a sentence when trying to make a point about something...

    Me: "I didn't enjoy that match at all"

    Idiot: "The atmosphere was pretty good, but"

    BUT WHAT!?


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    #252
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    PandaX9 wrote: »
    Nothing worse than con-TROV-a-see instead of controversy.

    And priv-ih-see instead of pri-va-see. I mean, you wouldn't normally say prov-et instead of pri-vate so I don't understand people who can say private but not privacy..

    That just sounds like foreigner logic.


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    #253
    Davidson2k9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Davidson2k9


    I hate when you pronounce 'Gullible' really slow, it sounds like 'Orange'.


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    #254
    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Modren.


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    #255
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Windy for window. Also Winda
    The colour yella.
    Torkey dinner.
    Atein' ma dinnur.



    Does anyone here pronounce Lager correctly? I tried it once and either sound Australian or Plymouth, England.


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    #256
    ziggy23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭ziggy23


    'eye-talian' instead of 'it-talian'


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    #257
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    Gbear wrote: »
    Modren.

    Modherden!


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    #258
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Gbear wrote: »
    Modren.

    Is that modern, Mothering or murdering?

    "I'm trying to moder my kids"
    "You're trying to murder your kids"
    "No, I'm trying to be a moder to them"


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    #259
    Rocky_Dennis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Rocky_Dennis


    Calling a lollipop "lullipup"

    I will "follie" you instead of I will follow you.


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    #260
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    In terms of foreign placenames, the convention is that you should pronounce foreign nouns in your own language, so it's appropriate for an English person to say "Port-oh-Prince" rather than "porr-o-prance". In exactly the same way that a French person would say "Doob-lan" rather than Dublin.
    Broadcasters often make this mistake as they try to show off their broad worldliness by pronouncing placenames in the local dialect. But it's wrong.

    People's names however should be pronounced in their local (or chosen) language. So Sarkozy should be pronounced in your best French. However, the bad French accent is optional, you can do French without the accent. Again, broadcasters tend to forget this and bizarrely switch to a French accent in the middle of an English sentence.

    New one I heard yesterday was "opingins" instead of "opinions". What is it with culchies throwing "ng"s into words where it's not even easy to make that mistake - Hang Sangwich. WTF is that?


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    #261
    languagenerd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    Sindri wrote: »
    When people say 'toy-leh'. It's toilet you peon. :mad:

    Even worse is "tie-leh".
    My brother says it all the time now cause he knows it drives me mental!

    People in primary school used to say "I have to go to me toileh". What, do you own the toilet now? :P


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    #262
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    languagenerd wrote: »
    Even worse is "tie-leh".

    It's like listening to nails scraping down a blackboard. I think it takes extra effort to draw the word out like that, so I don't get it. Missing 'T's where they are supposed to be pronounced is one of my biggest peeves.


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    #263
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Tree-ah-tee for treaty...


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    #264
    Nulty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Million is not Millen

    The A to Z is not Ah to Zed

    If you want to be specific, please do so but don't be Pacific

    If there is an obstacle in your way, calling it an oxtable will not help


    Off course I've often mispronounced things myself. Only recently when trying to ask my ex-girlfriend "Would you like to go out for dinner tonight dear?", I mispronounced it to sound like "You've ruined my life you manipulative bítch".

    So is it a Zebra or a Zeebra?

    Zed is acceptable in British English.
    In most dialects of English, the letter's name is zed /ˈzɛd/, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta, but in American English, its name is zee /ˈziː/, deriving from a late 17th century English dialectal form

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z
    As usual in most of these matters, it's we the people of the US that changed it, not the other way around. "Zed" comes from the original Greek zeta via Old French zede, and pretty much all English speakers worldwide pronounce it that way.

    http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1632/why-do-the-british-pronounced-the-letter-z-zed


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    #265
    Rastapitts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭Rastapitts


    Saoirse!


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    #266
    dpe
    Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Rastapitts wrote: »
    Saoirse!

    What about it?


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    #267
    Funnyonion79
    Registered Users Posts: 569 ✭✭✭Funnyonion79


    I shouldn't of told him

    instead of: I shouldn't have told him

    I also hate when people say that they are so unorganised. Should it not be disorganised?

    Also, what is it with people writing the word loose when they mean lose as in "where did you loose it?" This is unbelievably common.


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    #268
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    not really a pronounciation but I hate when people say 'euros' instead of 'euro' for the plural.


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    #269
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Gor-dee.


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    #270
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Do you still say Heigth?


    Sadly, yes.

    IMO, heightH makes more sense than throatH. At least there's a 'th' at the end so you can see how people might grow up thinking it's 'th' but throat just has a 't' at the end. :confused:


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    #271
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    not really a pronounciation but I hate when people say 'euros' instead of 'euro' for the plural.

    I say euros and cents. In English we add an -s to form the plural, so it makes perfect sense to do so.

    When the euro was introduced, some "barmy eurocrat" decided that the noun was invariable because it had to be the same in all languages, yet they have no problem with the Greeks even putting the word "leptá" for cents on the back of their coins.

    A massive double-standard and a ridiculous arbitrary rule!


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