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Pronunciations that drive you mad

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    #302
    pickarooney
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    Buttonftw wrote: »
    "H" should be pronounced "haytch". The clue is that there's a H at the start of it.
    Wouble you


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    #303
    miralize
    Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    A guy I knew once said bongse instead of bounce...


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    #304
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,505 ✭ [Deleted User]


    People who pronounce buoy as booey.


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    #305
    whatlliwear
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    bitemybanger wrote: »
    Hostable for hospital
    Crips for crisps
    Axed for asked
    Chimbley for chimney

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

    Oh Sweet Jebus, the Hospital & Chimney ones really pi@@ me off..

    A few more that annoy me are:

    Specific pronounced as pacific...

    Necssshhhhtt instead of next

    Shteven instead of Steven..

    America pronounced Am-ur-ica.. grrrrrrrr

    Pen pronounced as Pin or visa versa...


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    #306
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "H" should be pronounced "haytch". The clue is that there's a H at the start of it.

    I think you'll find that we're in the minority of English speakers by pronouncing it "haytch." Not that it's wrong to pronounce it that way, but it's much more common to pronounce it "aitch" and if one were forced to choose a standard pronunciation of the word, that would be it.


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    #307
    [Deleted User]
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Wouble you

    "Double wou" I think you'll find.


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    #308
    BarnhallBull
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭BarnhallBull


    On the fish/fishes thing, I never even considered that fishes could be correct, I thought it was just as incorrect as sheeps, but my degree requires me to learn about comparative animal physiology and evolution and other things in which we talk about fish(es), and my lecturers, who study these things and have published multiple papers on these things all say (and write) fishes? :confused:


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    #309
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "Double wou" I think you'll find.

    "Double you," I think you'll find.

    :pac:


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    #310
    gsxr1
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    The way the hill people in the west always slur their "s" into shwwssst.

    Its retarded. Talk properly please.


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    #311
    Sea Filly
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    The King of Moo wrote: »
    I think you'll find that we're in the minority of English speakers by pronouncing it "haytch." Not that it's wrong to pronounce it that way, but it's much more common to pronounce it "aitch" and if one were forced to choose a standard pronunciation of the word, that would be it.

    I wonder why though?


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    #312
    Sea Filly
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    TroaTH :confused:

    That's a new one on me, do some people really say TroaTH?

    HEIGHT, THROAT, Simples.

    Yep, sadly, yes they do. But then, I say 'heighth'. I'm scum! :pac:


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    #313
    LordSutch
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    Sea Filly wrote: »
    Yep, sadly, yes they do. But then, I say 'heighth'. I'm scum! :pac:

    Nobody is saying that you are scum. just curious about the reversal of the TH, that's all.


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    #314
    [Deleted User]
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    BarnhallBull wrote: »
    my lecturers, who study these things and have published multiple papers on these things all say (and write) fishes?

    Yeah one of my lecturers (definitely not the type to make mistakes) says "sperms". I always thought the plural was sperm.


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    #315
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Sea Filly wrote: »
    I wonder why though?

    I'm not sure really, but I think "haitch" might just suit our accent better than "aitch."

    Like our pronunciation of "peugeot:" I think it comes more naturally to an Irish accent, unlike the French and British pronunciation of it.


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    #316
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Nobody is saying that you are scum. just curious about the reversal of the TH, that's all.

    I was joking. :) I know I'm fúcking deadly. :pac:

    I dunno why I say 'heighth'. I had an uppity sixth class teacher who gave us elocution lessons to try and rid us of our dratted West of Ireland timbre. That might explain it... but I've been saying 'heighth' my whole life. My very non-posh, non-wannabe posh parents say it, and none of my other teachers had such notions as my sixth class one.

    But 'throath' sounds REALLY weird to me. My French teacher in school said it and it never stopped sounding strange to me.


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    #317
    dxhound2005
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    Brendan97 wrote: »
    Whenever I say scone(pronounced scon) and someone else says "no you say it 'scone'(scone as in cone)", it makes my blood boil because they are infact wrong
    Because its from scotland and they named it Scone(pronounced scon)

    its like us pronoucing facebook as fak-book (never heard this happen before its just as an example)
    they named it that so why change it

    I don't mind them saying it, its just when they argue to say that I am wrong, when THEY are wrong, is what gets on my nerves

    Nobody is wrong, both pronounciations are standard. Check it here:

    http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=scone&submit=Submit

    And here is a little poem:

    I asked the maid in dulcet tone

    To order me a buttered scone.

    The silly girl has been and gone

    And ordered me a buttered scone.


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    #318
    Sea Filly
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    true-or-false wrote: »
    Yeah one of my lecturers (definitely not the type to make mistakes) says "sperms". I always thought the plural was sperm.

    Isn't there some instances where 'fish' (plural) is the correct word to use, and some where 'fishes' is correct, or something? Maybe kinda like 'people' and 'persons'?


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    #319
    RobbingBandit
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    hoors instead of Whores.


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    #320
    The King of Moo
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    BarnhallBull wrote: »
    On the fish/fishes thing, I never even considered that fishes could be correct, I thought it was just as incorrect as sheeps, but my degree requires me to learn about comparative animal physiology and evolution and other things in which we talk about fish(es), and my lecturers, who study these things and have published multiple papers on these things all say (and write) fishes? :confused:
    Sea Filly wrote: »
    Isn't there some instances where 'fish' (plural) is the correct word to use, and some where 'fishes' is correct, or something? Maybe kinda like 'people' and 'persons'?

    I'm not sure, but I think it's more like the difference between "people" and "peoples" ("of the world," for example).

    "Fish" is used to talk about more than one fish in general.

    But "fishes" is used when you're specifically talking about different types of fish.

    For example:
    "There are lots of fish in that pond."
    "The fishes of the Atlantic include cod and herring."


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    #321
    Pherekydes
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    Just heard on the radio right now, incidences in place of incidents. :rolleyes:


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    #322
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Thung instead of tongue.

    Parmiston instead of parmesan (cheese)

    Rubbidge instead of rubbish

    Sh-oww-dere instead of CHOWDAH


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    #323
    missbelle
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭missbelle


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    hoors instead of Whores.

    Think Nikita off Tallafornia as a prime example :D


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    #324
    joolsveer
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    Yossie might instead of Yosemite.


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    #325
    seandeas
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    anything said by that big thick sounding mucker from the RTE News, Ciarán Mullooley. He really should go to elocution lessons and definitely should NOT be on national television with a disgraceful accent like that..


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    #326
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    seandeas wrote: »
    anything said by that big thick sounding mucker from the RTE News, Ciarán Mullooley. He really should go to elocution lessons and definitely should NOT be on national television with a disgraceful accent like that..

    Hmmm, I'm in two minds there, because there are plenty of extreme accents in RTE, for example reyal Duubs Joe Duffy and Brian Dowling (the news correspondent, not the Big Brother guy), as well as Emma MacNamara, who sounds like something out of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.

    Their health correspondent Fergal Bowers, while not having an extreme accent, was on Drivetime the other evening saying "hostipal" over and over again. I had read people's comments about that pronunciation on this thread and had never heard it being used, until I tuned into RTE that evening on the way home! :D

    Still though, Ciarán has some accent, God bless him. One pronunciation of his that drives me cracked is when he pronounces words like "meeting" as "meeteeen".


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    #327
    delricyo
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭delricyo


    English is changing all time with Americanisms slipping in ....

    Harassment - people who put emphasis on the ASS :)
    Finance - people saying figh-nance when it should be finn-ance

    Rte doing half and half when it comes to Irish place names.
    Port Laois - it is either port leesh. Or purt leesha. Don't mix and match !
    Same for Dun Laoghaire

    My father (very different generation) insists that the Irish pronounce the letter R incorrectly. He says we should not be saying arrrrr like pirates :) It should be closer to the way the Brits say it - ahhhh


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    #328
    delricyo
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭delricyo


    Back to the euro and cent issue :

    I always use the singular versions of these words - I thought everyone did ??
    As for the French. Is the reason they use centimes not because their old currency had centimes ?


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    #329
    mikemac1
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    I say lef tenant

    American TV tell me it is loo tenant

    Now I don't know which to use


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    #330
    billox
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭billox


    i know a guy who says idear instead of idea its painfull


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    #331
    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Having played both football and basketball, i've been acquainted with both defence and defence. :P


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