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Most annoying mispronunciation

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  • #752
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Some people in the North tend to pronounce Derry as Londonderry.


  • #753
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    zcorpian88 wrote: »
    Adults that still pronounce hospital as "hospill" like the way a 5 year old would say it!

    You mean hostabble?


  • #754
    V.W.L 11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭V.W.L 11


    the most annoying one i regularly hear in cork is "buttervant" where as its BUTTEVANT


  • #755
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Mispronunciation followed by correct pronunciation.

    Thigh-land (Tieland)
    Chapel-izzard (Chapelizod)
    Boat (Both)
    True (through)
    Thought (Taught)
    Millon (Million)
    Porta-gal (Portugal)
    Gibraltarrr (Gibralta)
    RenaulT (Renault)

    just a few Hibernoisms . . .


  • #756
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Gibralta?


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  • #757
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,639 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Stradberried:Strawberry
    Badated:Potato
    Crips:Crisps
    Fiarie:Ferrari
    Soodbaroo:Subaru


  • #758
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Mispronunciation followed by correct pronunciation.

    Thigh-land (Tieland)
    Chapel-izzard (Chapelizod)
    Boat (Both)
    True (through)
    Thought (Taught)
    Millon (Million)
    Porta-gal (Portugal)
    Gibraltarrr (Gibralta)
    RenaulT (Renault)

    just a few Hibernoisms . . .

    I don't pronounce Paris the way French people do.


  • #759
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Damp squid. It's SQUIB, Damp Squib.


  • #760
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    Gibralta?

    Silent r in Gibraltar, silent h in Thailand.


  • #761
    Raic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭Raic


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Silent r in Gibraltar, silent h in Thailand.

    Only in non-rhotic accents. It's fine to pronounce the r in an Irish accent or a rhotic English West Country dialect. You're probably just used to hearing it said in a generic English accent.


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  • #762
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Never ever heard the 'R' pronounced in either a British accent or a Gibraltarian accent!

    Here's one of many examples > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lji7k8eTeCM&feature=player_detailpage


  • #763
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Stradberried:Strawberry
    Badated:Potato
    Crips:Crisps
    Fiarie:Ferrari
    Soodbaroo:Subaru

    If you genuinely do hear these pronunciations outside of a creche, I'd really like to know who you're surrounding yourself with.


  • #764
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Silent r in Gibraltar, silent h in Thailand.

    Time for another poll?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76553060


  • #765
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Time for another poll?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76553060

    Well actually this time the correct pronunciation may win (silent h).

    That's right folks, Thigh-land (with an audible h) was voted the correct pronunciation in the English forum!


  • #766
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,740 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    litrally


  • #767
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    litrally

    Sounds about right.

    http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=literally&submit=Submit


  • #768
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,639 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    whirlpool wrote: »
    If you genuinely do hear these pronunciations outside of a creche, I'd really like to know who you're surrounding yourself with.

    Hear them everyday in Dublin City Centre, damn skangers are responsible for the car related ones and the street traders for the fruit and veg related.


  • #769
    Heathen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Heathen


    A package of crips :D


  • #770
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Heathen wrote: »
    A package of crips :D

    Yes indeed. Crisp pronunciation is important.


  • #771
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    I hate the way Irish people mispronounce "car," "bar," "star" etc. by using the short vowel sound and pronouncing the "r."

    I hate it too especially when it's exaggerated


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  • #772
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Chicargo.

    It's Chicago FFS. There's no "R".


  • #773
    Raic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭Raic


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Never ever heard the 'R' pronounced in either a British accent or a Gibraltarian accent!

    Here's one of many examples > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lji7k8eTeCM&feature=player_detailpage

    That's because their accent is non-rhotic. E.g. They would pronounce "player" somewhat like "playuh", that does not make the Irish pronunciation wrong! If your accent is rhotic, but you don't pronounce the r at the end of Gibraltar then that's a bit odd, to be honest.

    For proof that you can pronounce the r in rhotic accents (Irish, American, etc.) just read the very beginning of the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar
    You can see that the IPA shows this is correct (/dʒɨˈbrɔːltər/). If Wikipedia isn't trustworthy enough for you it cites 2 dictionaries.


  • #774
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


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  • #775
    FreeFallin94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭FreeFallin94


    A few years ago I found out my friend pronounces wardrobe as "wardrum". I had no idea what she was talking about and she had to explain it by saying "the thing with all your clothes in it". She knows how wardrobe is spelled, but somehow still puts an m in there. She said she thought that was how everyone pronounced it- hadn't noticed any difference in the way everyone else pronounced the word :L .

    Apparently it is a local thing and everyone from her area says it, but I have literally never heard anyone pronounce it like that. None of our other friends had a clue what she was talking about either when she said it.

    Anyone here ever heard someone say "wardrum" before?


  • #776
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    FreeFallin94 wrote: »
    A few years ago I found out my friend pronounces wardrobe as "wardrum". I had no idea what she was talking about and she had to explain it by saying "the thing with all your clothes in it". She knows how wardrobe is spelled, but somehow still puts an m in there. She said she thought that was how everyone pronounced it- hadn't noticed any difference in the way everyone else pronounced the word :L .

    Apparently it is a local thing and everyone from her area says it, but I have literally never heard anyone pronounce it like that. None of our other friends had a clue what she was talking about either when she said it.

    Anyone here ever heard someone say "wardrum" before?

    Never heard that one before tbh.


  • #777
    Caonima
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    "Halcyon" days


  • #778
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,401 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Caonima wrote: »
    "Halcyon" days
    What's your problem with "halcyon days"? How do you think it ought to be pronounced, and what pronunciation do you observe that you object to?


  • #779
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,401 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    litrally
    Pronunciation on this one is optional. Both "lit-er-al" and "lit'ral" are standard, as far as the OED is concerned.

    In fact this is a social class marker in the UK. There is a small number of words - regiment, medicine, literal, maybe a couple of others - which are pronounced with two syllables by the socio-economic elite, and with three syllables by everyone else, and how you pronounce these words enables you to be placed in your social class. In the 1950s Nancy Mitford wrote a half-serious, half-joking about this and similar linguistic social markers in the UK - U and non-U.


  • #780
    Caonima
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    What's your problem with "halcyon days"? How do you think it ought to be pronounced, and what pronunciation do you observe that you object to?

    I don't have a problem with "halcyon" days... just a lot of people I know do


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  • #781
    grahamor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭grahamor


    Modren when the word is clearly 'modern' :)


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