Most annoying mispronunciation

pickarooney wrote: »

Check the dictionary for accepted pronunciations of the word.

Eugh! I can't believe it's a real pronunciation. It sounds disgusting, especially since the root word definitely isn't 'hy-jee-enn'.

homemadecider wrote: »

I'm still trying to get my head around how anyone could pronounce 'flour' with only one syllable. Honestly I can't figure it out! Same goes for 'hour' - it has two syllables.

Yes. What I've learned from this discussion is that a lot of people don't know what a syllable is.

Edit: why is that annoying little smilie there? Keeps happening when posting from my phone.

Edit:thankfully he's gone.

Mayo Gurl wrote: »

Eugh, drives me MAD when people talk about the craic they had in Chic-CARGO.

That and Cali-FAAWNYA.

IrishExpat wrote: »

I despise this way of extending / changing vowels on:

meat = mayt
eat = ayt

"Have you ayten your mayt?"

And the ridiculously sounding:

me, for my.

"I can't find me phone."

Last one:

How "do you know what I mean?" (six syllables) can turn into a 2 syllable groan of "no-meen".

Ahh that's just bogger accent.

wolfpawnat wrote: »

They are Irish surnames so the way they are pronounced here is the correct way. Same as the way Irish people pronounce Lukasz (Polish and the u is more of a woo I have been told) as Lucas, it's wrong because the original pronunciation in the home country is the correct one. When the Irish landed in America over the last few centuries and were processed on arrival, many Irish surnames were written incorrectly and misspelled, meaning their pronunciation was on many occasion due to the new spelling, but if it is spelled the same then there is really no excuse.

You do realise that those 'Irish' names have been anglicised and so, really, you're mispronouncing them regardless? Also, surnames change their pronunciations, it happens over time, especially if you have two surnames that find themselves removed from the other. Which, in your opinion, is the correct pronunciation? My surname has at least three different pronunciations. And that's even before we go into the different (proper) Irish versions.

I would be very surprised if the pronunciation of 'Lukasz' in Polish was completely uniform. I take it there are dialects in Polish?

wolfpawnat wrote: »

And as for Kirsten, it is my sister's name. It is German, we were told by a German how to pronounce it.

This is the same Germany that has so many dialects that people from the north sometimes have difficulty understanding those from the south? As for Lukasz, I am sure different Germans will pronounce your sister's name differently.

Why can't some Irish people say Olly Murs's name properly? It annoys me so much.
They say it like "Olly Moooooooooooors". They sound like a distressed cow. It's "u" FFS!!!

I started pronouncing definitely like defi-night-ly in an ironic way a while back and now I can't stop