Most annoying mispronunciation

Bigcheeze · 15-07-2014 11:16PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Not really as it is the standard pronunciation used by most people in the south east of England, draw a line from the Wash to Bristol.

So multiple pronunciations are correct if you have enough people using them?

Dat's what I taught :pac:

Pherekydes · 16-07-2014 12:05AM

LordSutch wrote: »

Port-oo-gal (meaning Portugal).

Porch-a-gal?

Port-oo-gal is correct. As is Oo-roo-gway for Uruguay (not You-roo-gway), Kooba for Cuba (not Q-ba).

dxhound2005 · 16-07-2014 01:31AM

Pherekydes wrote: »

Porch-a-gal?

Port-oo-gal is correct. As is Oo-roo-gway for Uruguay (not You-roo-gway), Kooba for Cuba (not Q-ba).

They are correct in Portugese and Spanish. Well your Cuba is almost correct. They are not correct in English. English has a different pronunciation of Portugal, Uruguay and Cuba than the native languagues. Also France is pronounced differently by French people and English speakers as another example. Not just countries either, cities also as with Paris, Paree.

You can try them on this English pronunciation site to hear what they recommend.

http://www.howjsay.com/

Manc Red · 16-07-2014 01:39AM

"Escape goat"

fineso.mom · 16-07-2014 01:49AM

Manc Red wrote: »

"Escape goat"

We had an escape goat once,,no matter how well we thought we had her fenced in,she would get out. Eventually gave her to a farmer who didn't mind not having nice flowers in his garden.

abutler101 · 16-07-2014 02:09AM

I really hate when people say "ur" instead of our and "axed" instead of asked.

Manc Red · 16-07-2014 02:42AM

fineso.mom wrote: »

We had an escape goat once,,no matter how well we thought we had her fenced in,she would get out. Eventually gave her to a farmer who didn't mind not having nice flowers in his garden.

http://artgoats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/escape-goat1-238x300.jpg

osarusan · 16-07-2014 03:40AM

donegal_man wrote: »

As far as British pronunciations go my pet gripe is the extra "r" that seems to have crept onto the end of words. So seesaw becomes seesore, China becomes Chinaar etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R

Bigcheeze wrote: »

So multiple pronunciations are correct if you have enough people using them?

This is a little simplified, but basically what a lot of people believe, yes.

When is something an error, and when is it a legitimate variation? The argument is often that if enough people in a particular area are saying it the same way, it can be considered vernacular, and it's not 'wrong'.

Osmosis Jones · 16-07-2014 04:24AM

1890 do do do do do do

Tigger · 16-07-2014 02:17PM

Garath

emeldc · 16-07-2014 02:21PM

Tigger wrote: »

Garath

Keep up there Trigger

LordSutch · 16-07-2014 02:41PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

Porch-a-gal?

Yes, I've heard that too!

Pherekydes wrote: »

Port-oo-gal is correct. As is Oo-roo-gway for Uruguay (not You-roo-gway), Kooba for Cuba (not Q-ba).

Maybe in some parts of the country? Indeed I have heard Pat Kenny on his radio show telling people that "we say" Port-OO-gal, but that's Pat's world of how Hiberno English should be spoken (according to him), but having grown up in South Dublin I can safely say that the norm here has always been Port-you-gal.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 16-07-2014 03:29PM

It's definately "def-in-eye-tly" who the **** even says that

buck65 · 16-07-2014 03:31PM

Definately - wtf is that?

LordSutch · 16-07-2014 03:34PM

Collie-yum

Meaning column.

emeldc · 16-07-2014 03:45PM

Mitz-a-bussey for Mitsubishi

YFlyer · 16-07-2014 03:52PM

emeldc wrote: »

Mitz-a-bussey for Mitsubishi

Especially when their mashed on them.

legrand · 16-07-2014 03:57PM

ctenophorous

Inspector Dhar · 16-07-2014 04:16PM

Friend of mine speaking about giving lessons to a selected number of people. He said 'I'll only thrayne tree of them'. Infuriating. His sentence demonstrated his ability to pronounce TH but his south Meath accent did not allow him to use the TH in the correct place. Noel Dempsey speaking about Thransport in Thrim used to set my teeth on edge with this mullarkey.

pickarooney · 16-07-2014 04:18PM

Fat Christy wrote: »

Has the pronunciation of 'scone' been discussed yet?

As in scone that rhymes with cone or scone that rhymes with con?

I'm a cone man myself.

you're a man now? or did you just mispronounce woman?

Fat Christy · 16-07-2014 04:35PM

pickarooney wrote: »

you're a man now? or did you just mispronounce woman?

It's Wednesday, don't you know?

16-07-2014 07:43PM

Fat Christy wrote: »

It's Wednesday, don't you know?

Don't you mean wensday

Fat Christy · 16-07-2014 10:37PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't you mean wensday

I'm really confused, have yiz all be stalking me?

Although I kinda pronounce it more like: weh-ins-day

mojesius · 16-07-2014 10:40PM

Issue wrongly pronounced 'iss-yew'. RTE news presenters I'm looking at all of you!

dee_mc · 16-07-2014 11:14PM

brooke 2 wrote: »

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'!!

Tyra Banks saying 'schtrong' instead of 'strong' in America's Next Top Model adverts drives me insane. I hadn't noticed anyone else doing it but I'll hear it now after reading this thread!

dxhound2005 · 16-07-2014 11:19PM

mojesius wrote: »

Issue wrongly pronounced 'iss-yew'. RTE news presenters I'm looking at all of you!

I'm not certain what way that is meant to sound. But as with thousands of other words there is more than one standard pronunciation for issue. You can hear the two standard pronunciations here.

http://www.howjsay.com/

If I read you correctly you are saying the British English pronunciation is wrong?

Trebor176 · 17-07-2014 12:39AM

FebUary. It's, of course, February. One that really gets on my wick is Itly. ITLY??? Where the feck is that country? A newsreader last night referred to it as that, and she's not the only newsreader/broadcaster or indeed person that does that.

Why do newsreaders, particularly on RTE, refer to the Gardaí as Gordai? Is it something they learned in training? Aengus MacGrianna on RTE refers to Dun Laoghaire as Doon Leera (spelt as pronounced).

electric applause · 17-07-2014 01:02AM

a-loom-in-um

Hotfail.com · 17-07-2014 01:18AM

electric applause wrote: »

ChicaRgo insteal of Chicago. Irish are feckers for this.
The same with them saying mall like shall instead of saying it like wall. Bad form altogether

They mispronounce enough of our words.

They can shove their "rowt" up their hole.

greenflash · 17-07-2014 01:51AM

My sister-in-law loves doing sudoku puzzles but always pronounces it 'sodoko'.

She's also a big fan of gazpacho soup but always pronounces it 'gazpachio'.

I just do not understand how she gets these wrong every time when she sees them written in front of her so often.

Most annoying mispronunciation

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