Most annoying mispronunciation

NIMAN · 17-07-2014 02:51AM

Matt Cooper pronouncing "with" as "witch".

... "here's xxx witch your news"

AliBaba2010 · 17-07-2014 03:10AM

When my mam say's I-talian instead of Italian.

LynnGrace · 17-07-2014 03:16AM

NIMAN wrote: »

Matt Cooper pronouncing "with" as "witch".

... "here's xxx witch your news"

And he says 'nooooze' for news.

gctest50 · 17-07-2014 03:51AM

electric applause wrote: »

a-loom-in-um

That's grand though sometimes ? Americans spell it " aluminum "

Dracula! · 17-07-2014 06:52AM

Portagill instead of Portugal and twomond park instead of Thomand park . Mainly in the Limerick area for both.

SeantheMan · 17-07-2014 07:03AM

Hostipal

or anything in that fake D4 accent such as Roish (right) , basically what is written by Ross Carroll O'Kelly.

I would go as far to say I could never date someone with that accent, it annoys me that much.

ewj1978 · 17-07-2014 07:06AM

Safety.. Safe tee. Simple enough. Not safe e tee. Where's the bloody extra e coming from...

Fanny Wank · 17-07-2014 07:10AM

RTE presenters (Anne Doyle the main culprit) pronouncing pretty much all vowels as "a"

The badget instead of budget etc

Anne Doyle used to also call Bertie Ahern "Baatty Ahawn"

gerrybbadd · 17-07-2014 07:19AM

Day Boo... George Hamilton during the World Cup, butchering debut

Badly Drunk Boy · 17-07-2014 08:02AM

NIMAN wrote: »

Matt Cooper pronouncing "with" as "witch".

... "here's xxx witch your news"

I've never listened to Matt Cooper but I could guess that he'd only pronounce is because of the following word. If it were "Here come xxx with my dinner", he probably wouldn't pronounce 'with' as 'witch'.

Bigcheeze · 17-07-2014 08:09AM

NIMAN wrote: »

Matt Cooper pronouncing "with" as "witch".

... "here's xxx witch your news"

Ah here, Matt needs a thread to himself.

"The match is on Saherrrday"

And as for Ian Guider on Newstalk breakfast.

LynnGrace · 17-07-2014 08:20AM

emeldc wrote: »

Jeez, the brother's going to fierce upset when I tell him his name is really Tomas, he's 52 like!

Can't stop laughing at this. Tomas sounds wrong to me, every time I hear the Brown Thomas ad, I think that should be Thomas, not Tomas

...

Frank Lee Midere · 17-07-2014 08:29AM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Day Boo... George Hamilton during the World Cup, butchering debut

That's an American pronounciation.

Frank Lee Midere · 17-07-2014 08:31AM

Trebor176 wrote: »

FebUary. It's, of course, February.

Not everything on English is pronounced as spelt. Without the middle r is ok. So is with.

Sam Kade · 17-07-2014 08:36AM

The King of Moo wrote: »

*BRIGHT FLASHING LIGHT* SARCASM WARNING *BRIGHT FLASHING LIGHT*

I hate the way Irish people mispronounce "car," "bar," "star" etc. by using the short vowel sound and pronouncing the "r."

How are these supposed to be different?

How would you pronounce them? "caw" "baw" "staw"

Dracula! · 17-07-2014 08:36AM

Is debut not a French word so day boo would technically be correct. Similar to subleem for sublime. There are lots of "English" words derived from french. Milluns (Millions) of them.

Frank Lee Midere · 17-07-2014 08:39AM

Dracula! wrote: »

Is debut not a French word so day boo would technically be correct. Similar to subleem for sublime. There are lots of "English" words derived from french. Milluns (Millions) of them.

French is Dey -bu

French isn't English. I don't really know what that poster was expecting.

Mick55 · 17-07-2014 08:44AM

Don't know if it has been posted before but: Liberry instead of Library!

Sam Kade · 17-07-2014 08:49AM

LynnGrace wrote: »

Can't stop laughing at this. Tomas sounds wrong to me, every time I hear the Brown Thomas ad, I think that should be Thomas, not Tomas ...

Lynn I don't know whether you are a man or woman young or old. Let me explain Tomas, many years ago people in Ireland spoke Irish .Thomas is Tomás in Irish

When we were forced to use English we didn't use th's.

pickarooney · 17-07-2014 08:56AM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Day Boo... George Hamilton during the World Cup, butchering debut

How are you supposed to prounouce that word in English?

deise08 · 17-07-2014 08:58AM

Definitely being pronounced
defin-eye-tly

Mick55 · 17-07-2014 09:01AM

Certificate being pronounced certa-fickate

pickarooney · 17-07-2014 09:04AM

deise08 wrote: »

Definitely being pronounced
defin-eye-tly

At a guess, this came about as a huge proportion of people misspell it as 'definately' or, perplexingly, 'defiantly' and those correcting them stressed the I sound to indicate the correct spelling. It must have warped into an unfunny joke at some stage.

Sam Kade · 17-07-2014 09:08AM

Cork, Coirk
Work, Werk
Butter, Budder
Welcome, Walcome as used by a souped up granny on RTE :mad:

First Up · 17-07-2014 09:26AM

One that amuses me is the Irish attempts to pronounce the Turkish town of Kuşadası. It is Kuh SHAD a su. Not the woeful KOO sad A see you hear. You would have thought that having visited the place some would cop on but maybe the Turks who live and work there have given up and now just roll their eyes and put up with it - while taking in the money.

Mick55 · 17-07-2014 09:29AM

First Up wrote: »

but maybe the Turks who live and work there have given up and now just roll their eyes and put up with it - while taking in the money.

That's nobody's business but the Turks!

Sam Kade · 17-07-2014 09:31AM

First Up wrote: »

One that amuses me is the Irish attempts to pronounce the Turkish town of Kuşadası. It is Kuh SHAD a su. Not the woeful KOO sad A see you hear. You would have thought that having visited the place some would cop on but maybe the Turks who live and work there have given up and now just roll their eyes and put up with it - while taking in the money.

In fairness not many people would even know that place never mind know how to pronounce it.

First Up · 17-07-2014 09:32AM

Mick55 wrote: »

That's nobody's business but the Turks!

Hard to blame them I suppose. Not their job to educate the great unwashed. Its just annoying when RTE mispronounces it too.

First Up · 17-07-2014 09:32AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

In fairness not many people would even know that place never mind know how to pronounce it.

Hugely popular resort with a certain category.

emeldc · 17-07-2014 09:45AM

Probably should be in the joke section but I thought it might fit in here quite well........

By the time you read through this YOU WILL UNDERSTAND "TENJOOBERRYMUDS"...

The following is a telephone exchange between maybe you as a hotel guest and call room-service somewhere in the good old U S A.

Room Service : "Morrin. Roon sirbees."

Guest : "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."

Room Service: " Rye. Roon sirbees...morrin! Joowish to oddor sunteen???"

Guest: "Uh..... Yes, I'd like to order bacon and eggs."

Room Service: "Ow July den?"

Guest: ".....What??"

Room Service: "Ow July den?!?... pryed, boyud, poochd?"

Guest: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry.. scrambled, please."

Room Service: "Ow July dee baykem? Crease?"

Guest: "Crisp will be fine."

Room Service: "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"

Guest: "What?"

Room Service: "An toes. July Sahn toes?"

Guest: "I... don't think so."

RoomService: "No? Judo wan sahn toes???"

Guest: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means."

RoomService: "Toes! Toes!...Why Joo don Juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"

Guest: "Oh, English muffin!!! I've got it! You were saying 'toast'... Fine...Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

RoomService: "We bodder?"

Guest: "No, just put the bodder on the side."

RoomService: "Wad?!?"

Guest: "I mean butter... just put the butter on the side."

RoomService: "Copy?"

Guest: "Excuse me?"

RoomService: "Copy...tea..meel?"

Guest: "Yes. Coffee, please... and that's everything."

RoomService: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish moppin, we bodder on sigh and copy ... rye??"

Guest: "Whatever you say."

RoomService: "Tenjooberrymuds."

Guest: "You're welcome"

Most annoying mispronunciation

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