Most annoying mispronunciation

CaraMay wrote: »

I did

Poor trolling or laziness, I can't tell.

macsauce wrote: »

Troath instead of Throat

Pronouncing the letter "H" as haych, "Z" as zee, "R" as or.
And to the person who said there is no one way to pronounce words correctly, yes there is. The position of broad and slender vowels will dictate how a word is pronounced. In the case of "throat" the position of all the words will dictate how its pronounced!

What are the correct ways to pronounce the following: "either," "neither," "tomato," "schedule" and "controversy?"

Oh, and "car."

Seans_Username wrote: »

We had a teacher in Transition year who constantly said 'pacific' instead of specific. The word specific came up so much in the class it got so annoying. Always reminds me of this

Worse still, the word 'specificity' came up a good bit too. His way of pronoucing it: 'pis-if-ity'

It wrecked my head

Oddly enough it was my leaving cert geography teacher who said pacific. You would think that teachers of all people would understand correct pronunciation.

CaraMay wrote: »

Maybe you say dissipline instead of discipline and that's why you can't tell the difference.

I also probably say "trole" instead of "troll" too.

Lenth. As in giving up sweets for Lenth. There's no h dammit!

And also the D4 accent. I know it's an accent and not a deliberate way of pronouncing things wrong, but it's just awful. Any vowel sounds just come out all wrong in that accent, ruining most words.

April O Neill wrote: »

You sound like my uppity, elocution obsessed sixth class teacher. That's not a mispronunciation, it's how people with Irish accents say those words.



Delighted nobody thanked this. 'Ye' isn't a mispronunciation, it's a colloquialism.

I know, that was my point.
In fairness, I was aware before posting that the sarcasm wouldn't come through, but I went with the post anyway for punchiness. It bugs me when anyone complains about "correct pronunciation," but particularly when Irish people do it without acknowledging the perfectly acceptable fact that most of us pronounce lots of words differently to the vast majority of English speakers.
The inconsistency of internal logic really bugs me.

And I also hate people complaining about "ye." It's a perfectly cromulent word that's quite useful, making it clear you're talking to multiple people.

April O Neill wrote: »

Ah ok, using the joke Simpsons word, grand so.

I actually think it is grand. Of course, one could also use words like "acceptable" or "legitimate," and the joke in The Simpsons was that "cromulent" was not a standard word, being only used in Springfield.

But it's actually quite a useful word, being more specific than "acceptable" or "legitimate" as it refers to language in particular.

That's what's so great about English: it's always expanding and becoming more flexible, using words from a variety of sources to fill niches where we don't have a particular word in English (we can also thank the Simpsons for "schadenfraude," and the Germans too, I suppose), embiggening the language every day.

Mister Jingles wrote: »

English people who can't say 'Doherty' properly but instead say 'Dockerty'

Irish people who say derrby instead of Dahbey. (Derby)