Most annoying mispronunciation

Garzard · 02-04-2013 04:45AM

One of my college lecturers is from Northern Ireland and always pronounces ''look'' as ''luke''. Does my head in!

Amirani · 02-04-2013 05:45AM

Certain Dubliners saying Pih-jar-mas instead of Pih-ja-mas. In a similar sort of way to the Chicago/Chicargo nonsense.

The Big Red Button · 02-04-2013 07:00AM

homemadecider wrote: »

I've always pronounced them exactly the same. What is the difference?

I'd pronounce flour with one syllable and flower with two.

I.e. flour to rhyme with hour. Flower to rhyme with power.

demanufactured · 02-04-2013 07:12AM

Sumpin ( something)
Agin (when)
E.g. ...you'll be out in hospital agin I'm finished with ya.

Weathering · 02-04-2013 07:22AM

Port-A-gal it's Portugal

suicide_circus · 02-04-2013 07:25AM

Accent and regional variation is one thing but adding in whole new syllables or replacing certain letters with different ones must be down to ignorance.

Take "expresso" for example. The only reason someone would pronounce this with an 'x' sound is if they never took the time to read the word. Es-press-o. It's spelled phonetically, there should be no confusion.

gramar · 02-04-2013 07:27AM

A joke about three, tree etc

Paddy wants a job, but the German foreman won't hire him until he passes a little math test. Here is your first question, the foreman said. 'Without using numbers, represent the number 9.' 'Without numbers?' Paddy says, 'Dat's easy.' and proceeds to draw three trees.
What's this?' the boss asks. 'Vot! you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine,' says Paddy.

'Fair enough,' says the boss. 'Here's your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.' Paddy stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. 'Dar ya go.'

The boss scratches his head and says, 'How on earth do you get that to represent 99?' 'Each of da trees is dirty now. So, it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99.'

The boss is getting worried that he's going to actually have to hire this Irishman, so he says, 'All right, last question.

Same rules again, but represent the number 100.' Paddy stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, 'Dar ya go. One hundred.'

The boss looks at the attempt. 'You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!' Paddy leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, 'A little dog come along and pooped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, which makes one hundred.'
'So, when do I start?

Irish Guitarist · 02-04-2013 07:34AM

I once saw the Flaming Lips play in Kilkenny and the lead singer, Wayne Coyne, said something like "it's great to be here in Kilkaney".

suicide_circus · 02-04-2013 07:36AM

Vomit wrote: »

What you are referring to is the difference between rhotic and non-rhotic accents. These differences date back centuries and are well established. Dutch is another example of a language spoken rhotically by most and non-rhotically by others (German is the opposite).

None of this has anything to do really with mispronunciation. However, saying 'trothe' for 'throat' is clearly wrong and stupid, and a mind bogglingly ignorant violation of the most basic rules of the English language that exists only on this island, which accounts for a tiny percentage of the English-speaking world.

Ah yes, "trothe" - if someone says that word instead of "throat", one can safely assume that they are a complete window licker.

sparky10 · 02-04-2013 07:38AM

People who mispronounce "mispronunciation".

Always hear people saying "mispronounciation".

Ironic and very annoying...

Weathering · 02-04-2013 07:43AM

Loads of Irish people pronounce "bate" instead of "beat". Doesn't annoy me though,only an observation

suicide_circus · 02-04-2013 07:57AM

Weathering wrote: »

Loads of Irish people pronounce "bate" instead of "beat". Doesn't annoy me though,only an observation

bate is also used as the past tense of beat sometimes

hefferboi · 02-04-2013 08:07AM

Adeedas instead of Adidas.

Al Capwned · 02-04-2013 09:15AM

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

4. People who don't know the difference between prostrate and prostate.

My father is just finishing tratment for his "prostrate cancer", as he calls it. Should be easy to beat so. :pac:

Wurly wrote: »

Yeah, it's my boyfriend's dad's actual way of saying it. Jaysis, it drives me mad. Rail for real, wake for weak etc. When he says fine gael, he says fine instead of fin-na! JAYYYYSSIS.

Not a mispronunciation but he also calls computers 'televisions' and refers to soda bread as brown cake.:mad:

It's "Jesus".....

Al Capwned · 02-04-2013 09:17AM

hefferboi wrote: »

Adeedas instead of Adidas.

Friend of mine very guilty of this. Granted, he move to California 10 years ago, but he also fond of saying "Pooma" instead of Puma.
And this fella makes a living (a good one) out of reviewing football boots (or "soccer cleats")

hollster2 · 02-04-2013 09:28AM

Knew a girl who said "mag-itch" for magic annoyed the hell out of me.

In School my teacher was from the country hated when she said "Mohter-vehhicle"

People who say c"EEW"king for cooking grr......!

Weathering · 02-04-2013 09:28AM

Al Capwned wrote: »

Friend of mine very guilty of this. Granted, he move to California 10 years ago, but he also fond of saying "Pooma" instead of Puma.
And this fella makes a living (a good one) out of reviewing football boots (or "soccer cleats")

Omg I hate your friend

Nailz · 02-04-2013 09:34AM

hollster2 wrote: »

Knew a girl who said "mag-itch" for magic annoyed the hell out of me.

Maybe she was talking about some unknown Serbian football player??

giant_midget · 02-04-2013 09:36AM

Crips (Crisps) the mark of the moron...

krudler · 02-04-2013 09:38AM

It's chow-dah, chow-DAH! say it right Frenchie!

seamus · 02-04-2013 09:39AM

I'm surprised I'm such a stickler for this stuff, my parents can be pretty bad. Especially with acronyms.

I think "fillum" for film is fair enough. Think of other words which end with a consonant + m - Rhythm, schism, prism - they all end with a soft "-um", so why not "film"?

I tend to make exceptions when people don't realise some pronunciations are the exception, like film. Same for Thailand.

It's the straight up incorrect stuff that annoys me. Like my Mum saying "Satnab". We've explained to her that it's short for satellite navigation but she insists on using her word.

Or hang sanger. WTF is that, it's not even close to the correct word.

Al Capwned · 02-04-2013 09:40AM

Weathering wrote: »

Omg I hate your friend

I bet it's nothing to do with how he pronounces words either???

seamus · 02-04-2013 09:47AM

chatterpillar wrote: »

I'd pronounce flour with one syllable and flower with two.

I.e. flour to rhyme with hour. Flower to rhyme with power.

I think most people's brains just exploded. I would say that "hour" and "power" rhyme, though with the latter having a little more emphasis on the "weh" in the middle.

Are you English?

Most Irish people (in my experience), pronounce "hour" as a fairly hard ow-er, whereas "our" is softer and closer to "owr". English people pronounce "our" closer to "are" and probably "hour" almost the same (the h being silent).

Thus "flour" is pronounced "fl-ow-er" rather than "flahr".

Columbia · 02-04-2013 09:56AM

There was some water safety ad years ago where the narrator (who was a well-known Irish person but I've forgotten who) pronounced "safety" with three syllables. Say-feh-tee.

seamus · 02-04-2013 10:00AM

I just remembered the one which drives my wife mad.

Those Cost Plus Sofa ads are annoying as hell already, but whenever they have a "Huge" sale, the voiceover guy pronounces it as "youj". My wife goes mad screaming at the telly, "It's pronounced hewj!!"

mitosis · 02-04-2013 10:09AM

People who pronounce the word "football" as "Man Utd" :pac:

Inchicore girls who brush their "hear"

pickarooney · 02-04-2013 10:13AM

Vojera wrote: »

No, I'm obviously just crap at explaining myself.

Most people pronounce 'Hygienic' as 'high-jean-ic' or 'high-jenn-ic', but this woman said 'high-jee-enn-ic'. She was a home ec teacher too, so it came up a lot.

Check the dictionary for accepted pronunciations of the word.

Shenshen · 02-04-2013 10:15AM

KungPao wrote: »

Comes from this I guess.

Modren or moderin for modern is a good one.

Mentioned previously...Flour and Flower being mixed up. Same pronunciation no?

Japan has an honourific for tea? :eek:

Maudi · 02-04-2013 10:20AM

amacca wrote: »

cousint

sangwich

coley (for collie - as in the breed of dog)

ha.that "cousint" gets on my nerves!!

Tar.Aldarion · 02-04-2013 10:33AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I still say cleek.

Fight the good fight!

Most annoying mispronunciation

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