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Most annoying mispronunciation

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  • #1022
    Dracula!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭Dracula!


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    French is Dey -bu

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

    French is Dey - bew as the ut termination in French is pronounced more like ew. It's ew pronounced with an o shaped mouth.

    Ps I said it was a French word being used in English not that French is English.


  • #1023
    livEwirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭livEwirE


    Work with a culchie guy who can't pronounces 'Specific' as PACIFIC - annoys the fook out of me :)

    What's with culchies pronouncing Saturday as Sa-hurr-day?


  • #1024
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    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.

    Shouldn't we retake it so, show our oppressors what's what ;)


  • #1025
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    LynnGrace wrote: »
    Shouldn't we retake it so, show our oppressors what's what ;)

    No we shouldn't :)


  • #1026
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    livEwirE wrote: »
    Work with a culchie guy who can't pronounces 'Specific' as PACIFIC - annoys the fook out of me :)

    What's with culchies pronouncing Saturday as Sa-hurr-day?

    He can't pronounces specific as pacific, maybe you should have another go at writing that sentence ;)


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  • #1027
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,426 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    livEwirE wrote: »
    Work with a culchie guy who can't pronounces 'Specific' as PACIFIC - annoys the fook out of me :)

    What's with culchies pronouncing Saturday as Sa-hurr-day?

    Spotted in a pub window in Westport last week

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  • #1028
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,235 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    livEwirE wrote: »
    ...What's with culchies pronouncing Saturday as Sa-hurr-day?

    That's a Mullingar accent, popular with Caravan-Utilising Nomadic Types. :D


  • #1029
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    No we shouldn't :)

    Just kidding, :D


  • #1030
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    jimgoose wrote: »
    That's a Mullingar accent, popular with Caravan-Utilising Nomadic Types. :D

    Don't true Dubs drop their t's "wha it's bleedin sauurday already" must be more of a dub thing :)


  • #1031
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    How would you pronounce them? "caw" "baw" "staw"

    No, I pronounce them the same way most Irish people do.
    I'm just pointing out the absurdity of some people complaining about "correct" pronunciation, when their concept of correct pronunciation is one that's very culturally influenced, and not universal.


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  • #1032
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    I completely agree with BigCheese, Ian Guider on Newstalk.

    Treeatee instead of treaty
    Safeatee instead of safety


  • #1033
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    No, I pronounce them the same way most Irish people do.
    I'm just pointing out the absurdity of some people complaining about "correct" pronunciation, when their concept of correct pronunciation is one that's very culturally influenced, and not universal.
    Exactly even English people have trouble speaking their own language.


  • #1034
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,235 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Don't true Dubs drop their t's "wha it's bleedin sauurday already" must be more of a dub thing :)

    I wouldn't know. I only heard about it e'er yursturday.


  • #1035
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    I think we should make a distinction between illiteracy, accents and mis-pronunciation.


  • #1036
    electric applause
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭electric applause


    What annoys me the most though, although it's more grammar than pronounciation, is this.

    "I was stood there..." No, you were standing there. Feck off.

    I know it's an English thing to not be able to speak their own language correctly but lately irish people have adapted that way of speaking too and it's WRECKING MY HEAD


  • #1037
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,633 ✭✭✭smilerf


    I hate when aul ones call wedges "wedgies"


  • #1038
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    electric applause wrote: »
    What annoys me the most though, although it's more grammar than pronounciation, is this.

    "I was stood there..." No, you were standing there. Feck off.

    I know it's an English thing to not be able to speak their own language correctly but lately irish people have adapted that way of speaking too and it's WRECKING MY HEAD

    Is that even grammatically incorrect?


  • #1039
    scheister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭scheister


    one thing i cant stay is working in a bookies and hearing the english mispronunciation of Irish racecourses. once or twice is ok some have been doing it and been corrected for years.

    Naas= Na-ass
    Dundalk =Dun-dalk
    drogheda= dro-heed-a


  • #1040
    Frigating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭Frigating


    I will 'bait' anyone who mispronounces the word beat.

    Also, my sister knows someone who, during a game of scrabble, insisted 'bading' is what you do in the bath.


  • #1041
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    The irony of mispronouncing imbecile...


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  • #1042
    huey1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭huey1975


    scheister wrote: »
    one thing i cant stay is working in a bookies and hearing the english mispronunciation of Irish racecourses. once or twice is ok some have been doing it and been corrected for years.

    Naas= Na-ass
    Dundalk =Dun-dalk
    drogheda= dro-heed-a

    There is no racecourse in Drogheda.


  • #1043
    scheister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭scheister


    scheister wrote: »
    one thing i cant stay is working in a bookies and hearing the english mispronunciation of Irish racecourses. once or twice is ok some have been doing it and been corrected for years.

    Naas= Na-ass
    Dundalk =Dun-dalk
    drogheda= dro-heed-a
    huey1975 wrote: »
    There is no racecourse in Drogheda.

    Sorry meant to separate that one that from the football not the racing


  • #1044
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Some folk in my college, whilst discussing the recent debacle regarding Garth Brooks, would refer to him as "Gareth Brooks".
    Considering how they will simply NOT SHUT UP, I'm slowly developing a slight twitch of rage in my left eye...


  • #1045
    shalalala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭shalalala


    "Amn't" Such a fcuking annoying word! But mispronunciation would be "yoooooogurt" Instead of "Yogurt"


  • #1046
    Dermighty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Dermighty


    Prostate instead of prostrate


  • #1047
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    shalalala wrote: »
    "Amn't" Such a fcuking annoying word!

    Infinitely better than "ain't"


  • #1048
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    garancafan wrote: »
    Infinitely better than "ain't"
    That ain't so :P


  • #1049
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    shalalala wrote: »
    "Amn't" Such a fcuking annoying word! But mispronunciation would be "yoooooogurt" Instead of "Yogurt"

    When people say yog-urt it hurts my brain. :P


  • #1050
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Hotfail.com wrote: »
    When people say yog-urt it hurts my brain. :P

    Yog urt is correct. Yo gurt is also correct. There are thousands of words with two or sometimes more than two standard pronunciations. I accept this as a fact and it saves me from going into paroxysms of rage or having a hurting brain whenever someone uses the form which I don't use.

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

    I asked the maid in dulcet tone
    To order me a buttered scone;
    The silly girl has been and gone
    And ordered me a buttered scone.


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  • #1051
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    In golf I hate when people say 'stapleford' when it's meant to be stableford.


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