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words people mispronounce

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  • #32
    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    lufties wrote: »
    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:

    How do you know they are mispronouncing the words above?? You learn your language from your elders in the normal course of events, so presumably they are quite correct in a local context and you are 'wrong'......


  • #33
    Deadzone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


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

    Better 'free' mate than 'tree'


  • #34
    GoodBridge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭GoodBridge


    Someone visiting here from the Netherlands told me that Irish people can't pronounce Ikea properly.

    We also have a habit of saying "Tescos" and "Euros" when it should be singular.

    A friend of mine says "crips" instead of crisps. I knew another person who said "hemlet" instead of helmet but I don' know him anymore on account of that very issue.


  • #35
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    hospical - hospital

    windys - windows

    Arch-ee- tek - Architect


  • #36
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Myrddin wrote: »
    Sambwich

    Sangich

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #37
    bmc58
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭bmc58


    lufties wrote: »
    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:
    Deffinetly not an Irish thing.Ever hear them on Eastenders saying "three"..Free!


  • #38
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    A package a crips instead of packet of crisps, annoys me more than it should


  • #39
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I've only ever heard it as all be it...?

    I think its meant to be "al bite"

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #40
    Nicole Gray Boomerang
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Nicole Gray Boomerang


    GoodBridge wrote: »
    We also have a habit of saying "Tescos" and "Euros" when it should be singular..

    Euros is a legitimate plural, it's in the documentation that if you add an s normally in your language you can pluralise with Euros

    Shop belonging to Tesco, tesco's
    I think that's where that one came from
    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    I think its meant to be "al bite"

    Definitely not!


    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/albeit
    maybe someone can check the sound on that and let us know


  • #41
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Aye talians

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #42
    nelly17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭nelly17


    I love the way kids say Hostible

    And my 6 year old has taken to calling things a thing-y-maggiddy


  • #43
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    It's pronounced "all be it", unsuprisingly as it's a contaction of "all be it".


  • #44
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I've only ever heard it as all be it...?

    You're annoying Mr Icognito then :p


  • #45
    D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭D


    I used to pronounce Arkansas as Ar-Kansas.
    I thought that there was a separate state called Ar-kan-saw.
    :o

    Edit: Sorry I had to google, just to make sure and I'm not the only one with this problem:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas
    In 1881, the pronunciation of Arkansas with the final "s" being silent was made official by an act of the state legislature after a dispute arose between Arkansas's then-two U.S. senators as one favored the pronunciation as /ˈɑrkənsɔː/ AR-kən-saw while the other favored /ɑrˈkænzəs/ ar-KAN-zəs.[c]


  • #46
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    D wrote: »
    I used to pronounce Arkansas as Ar-Kansas.
    I thought that there was a separate state called Ar-kan-saw.
    :o

    What's weird is that they don't pronounce Kansas as Kan-saw. those yanks need to get their act together.


  • #47
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Gubberment.
    Millon and Billon


  • #48
    Aphex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    Myrddin wrote: »
    Sambwich

    Wouldn't mind a crip sambidge now actually.


  • #49
    Absoluvely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭Absoluvely


    pickarooney wrote: »
    It's pronounced "all be it", unsuprisingly as it's a contaction of "all be it".

    A contaxion you say


  • #50
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Any chick I chat up mispronounces "yes" as "no".....


  • #51
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    MJ23 wrote: »
    Gubberment.
    Millon and Billon

    Michael Noonan does this "billuns in two fourteen"

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #52
    WILL NEVER LOG OFF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭WILL NEVER LOG OFF


    in my area, people often add -sh sounds where there's an -s sound
    (Stanley=Shtanley)
    (skype=shkype)

    -e often becomes -i
    (vet=vit)

    and then some are just weird
    (first=fusht)

    so you get something like the following:

    Shtanley, before you go on Shkype go outside fusht and help the Vit

    it's not mispronunciation, that's just a local way of speaking.


  • #53
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,819 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Just this morning, all from one person:

    "Inverted Cummas" (commas)
    "Pharma-cuticles" (Pharmaceuticals)
    "Diff-a-rent" (Different)


  • #54
    Reoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    You may wish to look here and save us all the bother:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056916011


  • #55
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Human beans.


  • #56
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    Human beans.

    Mmmmm, humans


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Supposably - Supposedly

    Pudatoes - Potatoes

    Pacifically - Specifically

    Pattrin - Pattern

    Modrin - Modern


  • #58
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    Candie wrote: »
    Supposably - Supposedly

    Pudatoes - Potatoes

    Pacifically - Specifically

    Pattrin - Pattern

    Modrin - Modern

    the problem is that you know too many Limerick people.


  • #59
    csallmighty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭csallmighty


    Qatar pronounced as guitar.
    "___ got offered a job in guitar" "Jaysus I didn't know he was such a good musician"


  • #60
    csallmighty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭csallmighty


    "Possi bly" go wrong


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  • #61
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,812 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Another mispronunciation thread. Full of small minded whingeing about how other people speak. And as usual ignoring the fact that many words have more than one standard pronunciation. At a quick look through the thread I saw two of the usual suspects Finance and Issue.

    Nobody speaks with perfect diction at all times, and I am amazed that some people claim to be able to pick up on minute variations. Next time you hear someone saying Crow Park instead of Croke Park please tell them to smarten up their pronunciation.


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