Most annoying mispronunciation

Pherekydes · 18-04-2013 07:38AM

Has anyone mentioned Yooroogway (Uruguay) yet? Or Kewba?

Peregrinus · 18-04-2013 07:54AM

kingofslaves wrote: »

. . . But the thing that really bugs me is pronouncing R as OAR Like Oar T É, or that hair place H. OAR. B. OAR.

"Or" for the name of the letter 'R' is correct. It's just that in England they have no idea what the proper name of this letter is, poor dears, so they just have a wild stab in the dark and come up with "are".

Americans have a similar problem, except their blind spot is the name of the letter 'Z'.

That's my theory, anyway.

Peregrinus · 18-04-2013 07:58AM

cazzzzz wrote: »

Is that not just a phonetical spelling as they are both said the same??

No, they're not. The standard pronunciation of "thorough" in Hiberno-English is "thurr-uh", with stress on the first syllable, but for many US speakers it's "thurr-oh", with equal stress on both syllables.

Peregrinus · 18-04-2013 08:03AM

Pherekydes wrote: »

Has anyone mentioned Yooroogway (Uruguay) yet? Or Kewba?

Those are fine. It's true that's not how the natives pronounce them, but if we don't pronounce "France" as it's pronounced in French or "Portugal" as it's pronouned in Portuguese, there's no reason why we should pronounce "Uruguay" and "Cuba" as they are pronounced in Spanish.

newmug · 18-04-2013 09:09AM

Peregrinus wrote: »

"Or" for the name of the letter 'R' is correct. It's just that in England they have no idea what the proper name of this letter is, poor dears, so they just have a wild stab in the dark and come up with "are".

Americans have a similar problem, except their blind spot is the name of the letter 'Z'.

That's my theory, anyway.

It shouldn't be "oar" or "are", or "ah" for that matter! Its just feckin "OR"!!! As in, rhymes with foreigner! You don't say fore-ingner, or far-eigner. Why do TV hiring people especially ALWAYS hire people who don't pronounce it properly!

But my real pet hate is "Ahhrland". Just fcuk off with yourself. Its Eye-er-land!

LordSutch · 18-04-2013 10:31AM

newmug wrote: »

But my real pet hate is "Ahhrland". Just fcuk off with yourself. Its Eye-er-land!

Three syllables, are you sure?

summerskin · 18-04-2013 11:48AM

newmug wrote: »

It shouldn't be "oar" or "are", or "ah" for that matter! Its just feckin "OR"!!! As in, rhymes with foreigner! You don't say fore-ingner, or far-eigner. Why do TV hiring people especially ALWAYS hire people who don't pronounce it properly!

But my real pet hate is "Ahhrland". Just fcuk off with yourself. Its Eye-er-land!

But you do say "car" and "far" and "bar".

R is pronounced "are", only 4m people in Ireland say it any differently to the rest of the English speaking world. I wish they'd just say it properly.

summerskin · 18-04-2013 11:55AM

Another one that bugs me is Irish sports presenters talking about Sunder-LAND and Birming-HAM. Its SUN-der-luhnd and BIR-mingum.

And as for the prat on Newstalk who calls Joe Schmidt "Joe Schmidth"..... sack him, along with the fool in the morning who says "westren" and "modren" because he must have been "thaught" it at school.

mike65 · 18-04-2013 12:56PM

Advertizzment I just heard! :mad:

(The fella just said between a rock and a hard shoulder, and he the GRA rep!)

Jimoslimos · 18-04-2013 01:33PM

Raekwon wrote: »

Everybody from outside the pale saying "Ye" instead of "You"

Youse are both wrong.

Used to have a lecturer in college who would pronounce amino (as in the acid) a-my-no instead of a-mee-no.

garancafan · 18-04-2013 05:22PM

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Used to have a lecturer in college who would pronounce amino (as in the acid) a-my-no instead of a-mee-no.

Your lecturer was using the British pronunciation whereas you seem to prefer the American. Having studied chemistry both here and in Britain, I have developed a preference for the latter. In my experience the British format gives rise to fewer misunderstandings. This is particularly the case when having dialogue with non-English speakers.

Jimoslimos · 18-04-2013 05:39PM

garancafan wrote: »

Your lecturer was using the British pronunciation whereas you seem to prefer the American. Having studied chemistry both here and in Britain, I have developed a preference for the latter. In my experience the British format gives rise to fewer misunderstandings. This is particularly the case when having dialogue with non-English speakers.

Probably, though the US pronunciation seems to make more sense when you consider how amine is pronounced.

Gamayun · 18-04-2013 06:09PM

I'm sure it's been posted aleady but I find the pronounciation of sixth as sikth very annoying. Jeremy Paxman is murder for it and I've heard a fair few sports commentators use it too.

newmug · 18-04-2013 07:04PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Three syllables, are you sure?

Yes, of course its three syllables!

summerskin wrote: »

But you do say "car" and "far" and "bar".

R is pronounced "are", only 4m people in Ireland say it any differently to the rest of the English speaking world. I wish they'd just say it properly.

No its NOT! Its pronounced OR. I say car because there's an A before the R. Going by your logic, car should just be spelled CR. R should be pronounced the way it is in sorry, not story or starry.

daithi1970 · 18-04-2013 07:14PM

English people who call Ireland Eire. Nobody outside of Germany would call it Deutchesland, or non-Finnish people referring to Finland as Suomi..

daithi

LordSutch · 18-04-2013 07:34PM

newmug wrote: »

Yes, of course its three syllables!

That is the 1st time I have ever heard anyone claim that there are three syllables in IRELAND.

Ranelite · 18-04-2013 07:43PM

Bord Gáis not Bord Gosh.

Chauncey · 18-04-2013 08:00PM

I have an English girl working for me, she's nice and all, but she mangles so many words.

Margaret Thatcher = Mahhgwuh Fahcha
Think = Fink
Thought = Fort
Saw = Sore
Something = Sumfink
America = Merwicuh
Water = Wohtuh
Animals = Anermows
Pork = Pohk
Thanks = Fanks
Things = Fings
Pot = Poh
Bucket = Buckih
Fork = Fohk
Knife = Noyf
Plate = Play
Money = Muhnayyy
Castle = Car so
After = Arftuh
Wales = Wayohs
Talk = Tork
Holiday = Ollerdi
Cable = Cayborl
India = Ind yer
Saturday = Sattidy

And so on.

Luckily, she's only a temp so she'll be gone soon! Or should I say gorn, hehe.

Also, anyone who pronounces music as moosic should be slapped.

LordSutch · 18-04-2013 08:07PM

Chauncey wrote: »

I have an English girl working for me, she's nice and all, but she mangles so many words.

Luckily, she's only a temp so she'll be gone soon! Or should I say gorn, hehe.

Sounds like she's either a hard core Cockney from the East End of London, or she has a speech impediment

The King of Moo · 18-04-2013 09:10PM

Chauncey wrote: »

I have an English girl working for me, she's nice and all, but she mangles so many words.

Margaret Thatcher = Mahhgwuh Fahcha
Think = Fink
Thought = Fort
Saw = Sore
Something = Sumfink
America = Merwicuh
Water = Wohtuh
Animals = Anermows
Pork = Pohk
Thanks = Fanks
Things = Fings
Pot = Poh
Bucket = Buckih
Fork = Fohk
Knife = Noyf
Plate = Play
Money = Muhnayyy
Castle = Car so
After = Arftuh
Wales = Wayohs
Talk = Tork
Holiday = Ollerdi
Cable = Cayborl
India = Ind yer
Saturday = Sattidy

And so on.

Luckily, she's only a temp so she'll be gone soon! Or should I say gorn, hehe.

Also, anyone who pronounces music as moosic should be slapped.

It sounds like she has an accent, of all things.

Chauncey · 18-04-2013 11:51PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

It sounds like she has an accent, of all things.

Really? :eek:
And there was I thinking there's something wrong with her!

Of course she has an accent, that's the very thing that's causing her to pronounce everything arseways.

thomur · 18-04-2013 11:55PM

Bray people pronouncing 'horses' as 'hearses'. I used to slag them all the time about the hearse races. They didn't laugh

saltyjack silverblade · 18-04-2013 11:59PM

When pronouncing 'kilometre', people say 'kil-ometer' instead of 'kilo-metre'. The first is the American pronunciation that has somehow worked its way into our use of the language and is accepted as the correct form.

sligojoek · 19-04-2013 12:01AM

I had two sauhages and a bag of chips for lunch

Wacker The Attacker · 19-04-2013 01:14AM

Joe Duffy pronouncing "th" emanates extreme douchechillery

Wacker The Attacker · 19-04-2013 01:16AM

daithi1970 wrote: »

English people who call Ireland Eire. Nobody outside of Germany would call it Deutchesland, or non-Finnish people referring to Finland as Suomi..

daithi

That's right. It's still the fatherland.

19-04-2013 01:17AM

People who pronounce the name 'Karl' as 'Carol'

Ger Canning, I'm looking at you :mad:

Dave147 · 19-04-2013 01:22AM

Ireland as Arland.
Christmas as Christmus.

Peregrinus · 19-04-2013 02:29AM

newmug wrote: »

Yes, of course its three syllables!

Two syllables ("Ire-land"). But the first syllable contains a diphthong.

Peregrinus · 19-04-2013 08:32AM

saltyjack silverblade wrote: »

When pronouncing 'kilometre', people say 'kil-ometer' instead of 'kilo-metre'. The first is the American pronunciation that has somehow worked its way into our use of the language and is accepted as the correct form.

The default rule in English is that in a multisyllabic word the stress goes on the third last syllable; upHOLSTerer, DEFinite, rePUBlican, deMOCracy, ANTHracite, carbonIFerous - and kilOMetre. It's true that the latter word is differently stressed in French, which is where English gets it from, but its standard for loan-words coming into English to be stressed according to English conventions, and not the conventions of the source language.

So, kilOMetre would the the standard English pronunciation. KiloMETre would be an affectation, orginally adopted by someone keen to highlight that he knows this word is yer' genuine proper French. Like "garaahhzh" instead of "garridge" for the place where cars are parked, or "onvelope" instead of "envelope" for the thing you put a letter in.

Most annoying mispronunciation

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