Most annoying mispronunciation

summerskin · 03-04-2013 10:25AM

The King of Moo wrote: »

I hate plebs who can't pronounce my name, the idiots!!

Lord Mainwaring Menzies Featherstonhaugh Beauchamp Cholmondley-Cockburn, Earl of Buccleuch.

Lord Mannering Mingus Fanshaw Beecham Chumley-Coeburn. Earl of Buckloo, please to meet you.

I'm Sir St. John Dalziel Leveson-Gower Belvoir Leominster, Marquis of Slaithwaite and Heckmondwike.

Sam Kade · 03-04-2013 10:37AM

smurfs5 wrote: »

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!!!

Olly who?

Here Precious2 · 03-04-2013 11:00AM

don't get me started , The word Specific. Don't know how many people I know can't say the word........When using the word they say "PACIFIC"....wrecks my head:mad:

ButtersSuki · 03-04-2013 11:03AM

Here Precious2 wrote: »

don't get me started , The word Specific. Don't know how many people I know can't say the word........When using the word they say "PACIFIC"....wrecks my head:mad:

There was a guy I worked with who used to always say "pacifically"; I used to reply with "atlantically". I still think he's confused.

wilson10 · 03-04-2013 11:10AM

123 LC wrote: »

anyone notice the way ellen degeneres says hilarious? like 'hil-arr-ious'. It annoys me (love her though!)

Yeah he's great

pickarooney · 03-04-2013 11:19AM

wolfpawnat wrote: »

How do you pronounce it then? The American's pronounce it i-er-land, it is a two syllable word not three.

And as for Kirsten, it is my sister's name. It is German, we were told by a German how to pronounce it. What people find annoying is a personal thing, what irks me may not irk you and vice versa.

Yes, two syllables, 'ire' as in anger, to rhyme with 'hire' and 'lyre' but not 'higher' and 'liar'.

Kirsten has a long 'i' in German (like Keersten thus) so your pronouncing it 'Kursten' (which you're entitled to do) is the equivalent of an English Cahill pronouncing her name Kay-hill.

mike65 · 03-04-2013 11:19AM

There is a fella on rte radio right now who has ****ed up every th sound for the 10 minutes he has been on air.

pickarooney · 03-04-2013 11:28AM

Aspiring wrote: »

I'm not sure if I'm wrong here and missed something but did anyone else notice the way when talking about Nelson Mandela the RTE presenters say apartheid as a-par-thayed whereas I thought it's supposed to be a-par-thide.

No, there's no 'th' sound. The t and h are pronouced separately.

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.

'hour' and 'flour' have one syllable in my accent; 'power' and 'flower' have two. Some people are unable to pronounce them, or even hear them as one syllable, like with 'film'.

homemadecider · 03-04-2013 11:31AM

pickarooney wrote: »

'hour' and 'flour' have one syllable in my accent; 'power' and 'flower' have two. Some people are unable to pronounce them, or even hear them as one syllable, like with 'film'.

Film has one syllable, I agree.

But how do you pronounce 'flour'? I say it exactly like 'flower' so can't get my head around the other way. Is it like 'flur' or something the way you say it?

Lollipops23 · 03-04-2013 11:45AM

Pacific/specific and sangwhich are the ones that bother me the most.

I was in a cafe a while ago and there was a middle aged woman who KEPT saying sangwhich in all seriousness. There was no way she didn't know it was wrong, she just didn't fancy speaking properly that day.

Speak like a grown up, woman. :mad:

circadian · 03-04-2013 11:57AM

I dislike the way I say how now brown cow.

Solair · 03-04-2013 12:16PM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Hostible is more moronic

Both are usually a speech impediment or a sign that someone may be a bit hard of hearing.

There are loads of people who don't know they're slightly deaf.

666irishguy · 03-04-2013 12:26PM

The way a certain RTE newsreader pronounces 'sexual' she always say sexsual.

Fionne · 03-04-2013 12:44PM

Fifth is not fith
fifty is not fitty
Dust is not desht

Grr!

Some others are gramattically wrong but I quite like.

Hundred pronounced as hundert
Wednesday pronouned as Winge-dy (as in rhymes with whinge)

I must say I prefer people on TV who use their own accent rather than attempting to adopt a neutral accent that just makes them all sound alike and not in a good way.

SicklySweet · 03-04-2013 12:49PM

Digital - I've heard people say it like Digi-kal

Another one goes back to when i was in school and annoys me to this day is "chung gums"

It's chewing gum you dummy!

homeless student · 03-04-2013 12:56PM

CaraMay wrote: »

Just heard a woman say fabolous aghhhh it's not 'fabolous' it's fabulous!! People who say disSipline instead of discipline are very annoying.

she was clearly talking about this guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuFfPdlfmzo

runawaybishop · 03-04-2013 12:57PM

asshume instead of assume

DeanAustin · 03-04-2013 12:58PM

Califawnya annoys me - my mother does it all the time. Can't say much else really gets on my nerves.

One that makes me laugh is instead of "Do you remember", you get "Jamember".

Loomis · 03-04-2013 01:45PM

Astrix instead of asterisk.

TheDriver · 03-04-2013 02:12PM

"bollix", ITS ya f**king BOLLOCKS

LindowMan · 03-04-2013 03:42PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

I hate plebs who can't pronounce my name, the idiots!!

Lord Mainwaring Menzies Featherstonhaugh Beauchamp Cholmondley-Cockburn, Earl of Buccleuch.

I can pronounce it.

It's pronounced like this: Lord Mannaring Mingies Fanshaw Beecham Chumly-Coburn, Earl of Buckloo.

You can't get a more British name than that.

Funkfield · 03-04-2013 04:25PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

I hate plebs who can't pronounce my name, the idiots!!

Lord Mainwaring Menzies Featherstonhaugh Beauchamp Cholmondley-Cockburn, Earl of Buccleuch.

Weren't you married to Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, 3rd Viscountess of Moldavia?

Wurly wrote: »

My mam INSISTS on calling the local Spar, Paddy's. Because it was called Paddy's about 30 years ago.

I still call it Paddy's......

pickarooney · 03-04-2013 04:36PM

homemadecider wrote: »

Film has one syllable, I agree.

But how do you pronounce 'flour'? I say it exactly like 'flower' so can't get my head around the other way. Is it like 'flur' or something the way you say it?

[flaʊ̯ɹ]

Daveysil15 · 03-04-2013 06:54PM

Give us a cup of tay and a corn baif sandwich. Ye can't bait that mait.

kilkenny12 · 03-04-2013 07:15PM

Hemlet instead of helmet

Seriously though, some of ye (lol) are so pretentious. There's nothing wrong with leaving out a few t's or adding an extra syllable in words like film. Different accents are natural and interesting ffs.

LindowMan · 03-04-2013 07:19PM

Funkfield wrote: »

Weren't you married to Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, 3rd Viscountess of Moldavia?

Yeah, I was. Her name is pronounced Lady Smith.

Daveysil15 · 03-04-2013 07:32PM

kilkenny12 wrote: »

Hemlet instead of helmet

Seriously though, some of ye (lol) are so pretentious. There's nothing wrong with leaving out a few t's or adding an extra syllable in words like film. Different accents are natural and interesting ffs.

Amen to that. Even within our own country there's so many different accents and ways of pronouncing words. You can't please everybody.

TadhgL16 · 03-04-2013 07:37PM

Do you know? being replaced with Joe?

Hidalgo · 03-04-2013 07:45PM

If people from every corner of Ireland spoke and pronounced their words in exactly the same way, would the country not be far more bland?
Likewise if everyone in the English speaking world pronounced every word the exact same, we'd live in a fairly boring world

danslevent · 03-04-2013 10:08PM

Was typing the word 'vulnerable' earlier and realised I thought it was spelled 'vunerable'..I guess I don't pronounce the L.

I am one of those annoying people.

Most annoying mispronunciation

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