nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

words people mispronounce

lufties

In the small rural town im from, the older generation say 'londragons- lonergans' then handerden-hanrahan', my mate of 37 is an intelligent accountant but still says 'yersterday instead of yesterday. Is it just an Irish thing? I'm sure there's many more I can't think of at the mo.:cool:

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

Archeron

The areas of Drimnagh and Crumlin in Dublin often get a weird B put into them to become Drimblagh and Crumblin. Like chimbley does too I guess.

lufties

Archeron wrote: »

The areas of Drimnagh and Crumlin in Dublin often get a weird B put into them to become Drimblagh and Crumblin. Like chimbley does too I guess.

Ya thats probably cones with the accent..'meself and me mayhe'

Donkey Oaty

I'm sure there are loads, but I can't think of anything pacific.

Dozen Wicked Words

Midges, as in small flies. Not midgets, (old fashioned term for) small people

Mr. CooL ICE

For some odd reason, I cannot pronounce the 't' in Saturday. I sometimes feel like an Eastenders reject

BobMc

three - spoken as tree !!

Myrddin

Sambwich

dodderangler

Fearri- Ferrari. Only in dublin.
Hate when English people say free instead of three.

kneemos

Nerves pronounced as ner-ves.

The Backwards Man

Mispronunciation.

SpaceTime

Chicago! Why do Irish people call it Chick-Car-Go?

lufties

SpaceTime wrote: »

Chicago! Why do Irish people call it Chick-Car-Go?

Howayeee!! Sounds like hawaii

SpaceTime

Also Sah-er-day instead of Saturday. There are a load of Irish radio and TV presenters do that.

Sang-wich

There are lots of others too!

Mr. Incognito

All be it. Instead of albeit.

It's a conjunction, not a description.

Also- the word believable. Hate it. Credible is much better

SpaceTime

What really annoys me though is where a radio or TV presenter adopts some utterly bizzare pronunciation of a common but new word and keeps using it.

I remember one show entirely about Weeeeky Leaks instead of WikiLeaks.

Also RTE settling on totally abnormal ways of saying things like fin-nance ... Or correcting the way everyone in Portlaoise and Dun Laoghaire pronounces the place they live in because the STATE BROADCASTER knows best and needs to tell the locals they're complete idiots and have actually been saying it totally wrong for decades.

swimming in a sea

"issue"

Sam Kade

SpaceTime wrote: »

Chicago! Why do Irish people call it Chick-Car-Go?

A lot of Americans or the few that know of it call Dublin Duuublin it must be a regional thing.

[Deleted User]

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

All be it. Instead of albeit.

It's a conjunction, not a description.

Also- the word believable. Hate it. Credible is much better

I've only ever heard it as all be it...?

Michael Weston

Not really pronounce but the amount of people that spell definitely as defiantly is ridiculous, especially when giving reviews of things and places, I will defiantly go back or I will defiantly use this service again!

Sam Kade

BobMc wrote: »

three - spoken as tree !!

It comes from Irish remember that language that was once out native language

a lot of people can't grasp that nowadays.

mattser

ALL weather and roadwatch reporters...

roundabout = royned a bite,
cork = co-erk
outbound = oyt boyned
cloud = clyde,
mountains = mine tins
morning = mourning
etc

Ompala

Definitely pronounced def-in-nightly

r3nu4l

Sam Kade wrote: »

It comes from Irish remember that language that was once out native language a lot of people can't grasp that nowadays.

I'm a big fan of the Irish language but I can still pronounce 'three' correctly. That's a lazy excuse.

On topic. Some people seem to say 'afraird' instead of 'afraid'.

The Backwards Man

Heighth and lengt.

What gives?

Sam Kade

r3nu4l wrote: »

I'm a big fan of the Irish language but I can still pronounce 'three' correctly. That's a lazy excuse.

I wouldn't be a great fan of pronouncing th's and it has nothing to do with laziness. If English people call three free I think we can be excused calling it tree

preston johnny

Forty Fahsund Fevvers Rand a Frushes Froat

pickarooney

Was the other thread full or what?

r3nu4l

Sam Kade wrote: »

I wouldn't be a great fan of pronouncing th's and it has nothing to do with laziness. If English people call three free I think we can be excused calling it tree

I said the excuse was lazy, not the inability to speak properly, some people have impediments, some are just thick or ignorant. It takes all sorts and I celebrate that diversity.

tonycascarino

Percent...Many people say procent

Bang_Bang

Trun, instead of throw, now I have to say I have only heard skangers using this one. "I'll bleeeedin trun ih ah ye."