Most annoying mispronunciation

Sgt. Al Powell · 21-09-2013 05:06PM

This one cost a contestant a load of dosh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqojPvEZScQ

Mysteriouschic · 21-09-2013 05:25PM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Who uses muhnt? Ment!

dxhound2005 wrote: »

According to this guide your preferred version is American English, if I read you correctly. Anyway there are thousands of words with alternative pronunciations and I can't see any harm in that.

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

I mean like this http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/advertisement
the second pronunciation if you listen to it is the way he says it not as the first like most people.

cantdecide · 21-09-2013 06:07PM

I hate when people try to say 'died' but it sounds more like 'pasta way'.

On a serious note, why can't people just say 'he died' when some someone... err... dies?

earlyevening · 15-07-2014 12:13PM

At the moment, its got to be GARETH Brooks.

ButtersSuki · 15-07-2014 12:14PM

earlyevening wrote: »

At the moment, its got to be GARETH Brooks.

Or Gareth Brukes/Brooooookes.

Drives me crazy - "I'm his biggest fan" - really? Why can't you say his name correctly then?

15-07-2014 12:15PM

Like all the RIP "Micheal" Jackson posts saying they were such fans

Maybe you could get his name right so

Einhard · 15-07-2014 12:26PM

I like different pronunciations. It makes things more interesting and even funny. Would be a lot less interesting listening to everyone pronounce words in the exact same way all the time. Of course, the caveat is that they must be understandable!!

I like the way old people in particular prounce the Eye-talians. Those Eye-talians are fierce good at football. Cracks me up every time.

Buzz Killington the third · 15-07-2014 12:30PM

Why do a lot of people from down the country replace an S with an SH in words? Like the father in that Irish lad driving test video.

ButtersSuki · 15-07-2014 12:54PM

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

Why do a lot of people from down the country replace an S with an SH in words? Like the father in that Irish lad driving test video.

SHupermacs, SHlacks, SHnake etc.? Yes, I've heard that a lot!

KTRIC · 15-07-2014 01:04PM

ITS CHOWDER, CHOWDER !! :mad:

Pherekydes · 15-07-2014 01:06PM

When Joe Duffy says "defibulator".

Archery in place of artery. Boils my er blood.

Buzz Killington the third · 15-07-2014 01:08PM

The amount of times this over the last two weeks that I've heard about "Gareth Brooks" is doing my head in!

Day Lewin · 15-07-2014 01:15PM

When people say the name Sorcha as SORE SHA

If you mean Sorcha ("bright") (a girl's name) then it should sound like SUR rucka (the final ch being like...as in loch, or a throat-clearing sound)

If you mean Seoirse ("George") (a boy's name) then it should be SHORE SHA

No other versions are correct!!

Ghost Buster · 15-07-2014 01:19PM

Gareth:mad:

Peadar_85 · 15-07-2014 01:22PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Or Gareth Brukes/Brooooookes.

Drives me crazy - "I'm his biggest fan" - really? Why can't you say his name correctly then?

I'm guessing you pronounce it Brucks which could be as equally annoying to somebody correctly pronouncing the double o to sound like Brukes

brooke 2 · 15-07-2014 01:33PM

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

Why do a lot of people from down the country replace an S with an SH in words? Like the father in that Irish lad driving test video.

I notice that 'sh' sound being used a lot by some Americans lately, as in Michelle
Obama saying 'shtruggle', 'shtrife', etc. Even heard John Travolta pronounce
Hairspray as 'Hairshpray'!!

franer1970 · 15-07-2014 01:43PM

Z, the last letter of the alphabet - seems quite common for people to say "a-zed" (rhymes with "ahead") instead of just "zed".
I'd almost prefer an American "zee" to that.

Canard · 15-07-2014 01:46PM

franer1970 wrote: »

Z, the last letter of the alphabet - seems quite common for people to say "a-zed" (rhymes with "ahead") instead of just "zed".
I'd almost prefer an American "zee" to that.

I had a maths teacher who used to do that, so it being maths, he had a lot of opportunities to say it

How must those people say the alphabet! "W, X, Y, and A-ZED" :pac:

emeldc · 15-07-2014 01:52PM

Gerry Ryan always pronounced 'paedophile', 'paid-o-feel'.

ButtersSuki · 15-07-2014 01:56PM

Certain Dubs are fond of saying that "they're going to the Ah-Zoo"

Day Lewin · 15-07-2014 02:06PM

Oh, as a Dubliner, I would stoutly defend the a-zoo, spelt with an a-zed! (just joking. But it is vernacular)

MsBubbles · 15-07-2014 02:42PM

While listening to a radio breakfast show I heard the newsreader repeatedly called it The River Thaymes.

My other pet peeves

Thaught instead of taught

Trothe instead of throat

budayduhs instead of potatoes

Fiolina · 15-07-2014 02:47PM

I've noticed a lot of tv chefs say cardamon instead of cardamom and tumeric instead of turmeric.

People who say rosta instead of roster

Alun · 15-07-2014 03:07PM

For me it has to be the mispronunciation of 'nuclear' as 'nucular'. There was even some professor (ironically a Professor for the Public Understanding of Science) on a BBC4 program about metrology the other night who said it like that multiple times. The television is lucky to have survived.

Almost as annoying is that twat Ben Fogle, again on the BBC, who consistently refuses to use 'an' before words beginning with a vowel, i.e. 'a island', 'a ocean'. Grrrrrr.

KungPao · 15-07-2014 04:20PM

MsBubbles wrote: »

While listening to a radio breakfast show I heard the newsreader repeatedly called it The River Thaymes.

My other pet peeves

Thaught instead of taught

Trothe instead of throat

budayduhs instead of potatoes

And when you tell these people it's "tems" they think you are full of shoite. Same for people that don't realise Thyme is not some fancy word...it is pronounced "time". No tongue action required!

emeldc · 15-07-2014 04:26PM

KungPao wrote: »

And when you tell these people it's "tems" they think you are full of shoite. Same for people that don't realise Thyme is not some fancy word...it is pronounced "time". No tongue action required!

You might links to prove those two.

davmol · 15-07-2014 04:27PM

My mate baz did 4 year in the joy

Its 4 years

every scummer i know says that

KungPao · 15-07-2014 04:32PM

emeldc wrote: »

You might links to prove those two.

Its not that hard to research in fairness.

But here:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/thyme & http://www.thefreedictionary.com/thames

Buzz Killington the third · 15-07-2014 04:34PM

davmol wrote: »

My mate baz did 4 year in the joy

Its 4 years

every scummer i know says that

How many scummers do you know?

emeldc · 15-07-2014 04:37PM

KungPao wrote: »

Its not that hard to research in fairness.

But here:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/thyme & http://www.thefreedictionary.com/thames

Sure that's just t'interweb like us.

Is 'this, that, these and those', dis, dat, deez, and doze

Most annoying mispronunciation

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