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Most annoying mispronunciation

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  • #392
    kingcobra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭kingcobra


    This one doesn't seemed to have been mentioned yet: I absolutely despise when RTE presenters or politicians pronounce "fi-nance" as "finn-ance" despite every ordinary person saying the former. Just another way for them to put distance between themselves and us peasants :rolleyes:







    Well as far as I can see, most ordinary people say "fi-nance," or maybe I'm deluded :pac:


  • #393
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,233 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Gash ...it is Gáis actually. :D

    Uiscí instead of Iascaigh.

    And thats just what the muppets in RTE manage on a regular basis.


  • #394
    Hidalgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭Hidalgo


    kingcobra wrote: »
    This one doesn't seemed to have been mentioned yet: I absolutely despise when RTE presenters or politicians pronounce "fi-nance" as "finn-ance" despite every ordinary person saying the former. Just another way for them to put distance between themselves and us peasants :rolleyes:







    Well as far as I can see, most ordinary people say "fi-nance," or maybe I'm deluded :pac:

    It's definitely a Brian Dobson thing anyway.


  • #395
    Condatis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Condatis


    Data pronounced as DATEa.

    Status pronounced as STATEus.


  • #396
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Condatis wrote: »
    Data pronounced as DATEa.

    Status pronounced as STATEus.

    neither of which are mispronunciations, and are completely acceptable.


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  • #397
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    How do people decide whether they're mispronunciations or acceptable pronunciations?


  • #398
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    How do people decide whether they're mispronunciations or acceptable pronunciations?

    Dictionaries.


  • #399
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    summerskin wrote: »
    Dictionaries.

    Yeah but how do the people that write the dictionary decide?


  • #400
    RainMaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 459 ✭✭RainMaker


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Yeah but how do the people that write the dictionary decide?

    They use a thesaurus :P


  • #401
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,703 ✭✭✭jmcc


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    How do people decide whether they're mispronunciations or acceptable pronunciations?
    It is an irregular verb: I pronounce, you mispronounce, he mangles it completely. :) Pronounciation changes with external influences. The RTE/Dortspeak is influenced by East Enders, Home and Away, failed attempts at BBC received pronounciation (RP), Northern Irish and other imported UK programmes whereas TV3 is influenced by imported US programmes.

    Regards...jmcc

    Regards…jmcc



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  • #402
    homemadecider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭homemadecider


    pickarooney wrote: »
    [flaʊ̯ɹ]


    :confused:


  • #403
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    How do people decide whether they're mispronunciations or acceptable pronunciations?

    They usually just go by what's considered to be the norm by the majority of experts, but we don't have any kind of Academy (mercifully) for English to insist on usage and pronunciation.


  • #404
    Condatis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Condatis


    summerskin wrote: »
    Dictionaries.

    Some dictionaries include evolved usage as pronunciation which has become common parlance – even when such usage deviates from the original pronunciation.


  • #405
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat




  • #406
    DeltaWhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭DeltaWhite


    Hostipal - hospital
    Pacific - specific
    Buke - book
    Cuke - cook
    Swally - swallow
    Wan - one

    I'm sure there's many more but they are the ones that annoy me most.


  • #407
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭shedweller


    In Drogheda they say "frikened" instead of "frightened"
    :pac::pac:


  • #408
    Wise Old Elf
    Moderators Posts: 3,554 ✭✭✭Wise Old Elf


    I needed directions in James' hospital yesterday and I had to FOLLY a road. Made me smile :-)


  • #409
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    The way Yanks pronounce thorough, they say it like "thurrow". Really gets my goat.


  • #410
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    I've heard some Irish people say that too.


  • #411
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Disco Stuart wrote: »
    I needed directions in James' hospital yesterday and I had to FOLLY a road. Made me smile :-)
    At least you weren't trying to get to Oz:
    Folly the yella brick road.

    Don't know if it's been mentioned but say-fa-tee for safety.


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  • #412
    Havermeyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    Any word ending in 'ous' such as horrendous etc, which some people seem to add an 'i' to so that their pronounciation is more like 'horrendyuss' or 'tremendyuss'.

    The amount of supposedly 'educated commentators' you see and hear on the tv and radio that do this is beyond irritating. :mad:


  • #413
    kilkenny12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭kilkenny12


    The way Cork people say chair, it's like "cherrr"

    And when people say "Jan-uh-ry", they sound thick as sh*t


  • #414
    kingcobra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭kingcobra


    shedweller wrote: »
    In Drogheda they say "frikened" instead of "frightened"
    :pac::pac:

    Drogheda people say many strange things but wow, I've never heard "frikened" before :pac:


  • #415
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭shedweller


    ^^^
    The mother in law does it and either ignores or doesn't see my very obvious double take when she says it! Her husband is much more open with it and openly acknowledges that frikened is a mispronounciation. Lols all round. Or is that "around"?


  • #416
    Maggie Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Maggie Benson


    I know someone who pronounces it 'butatoes'?


  • #417
    Maggie Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Maggie Benson


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Do you mean spuds?
    It is better than 'butatoes'?


  • #418
    Maggie Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Maggie Benson


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Do you mean spuds?
    amacca wrote: »
    cousint

    sangwich

    coley (for collie - as in the breed of dog)
    Familiar with those and what about sauusagges and botatoes?


  • #419
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,397 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    The way Yanks pronounce thorough, they say it like "thurrow". Really gets my goat.

    Can't say I get this one. :confused:


  • #420
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    Orkward instead of awkward :pac:


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  • #421
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Mill-in for Million.

    On top of that some special people and an 's' for the plural i.e €10 mill-ins will be required to upgrade the road from my pub to my Constituency office (no one in particular comes to mind)


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