Most annoying mispronunciation

Toby Take a Bow · 01-04-2013 10:51pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

People who pronounce Cahill which is Ka-hill as Kay-hill. It's the first for crying out load. Usually the Brits call it Kay-hill. When you correct them, they ask "are you sure?" Yes I am bloody sure, it is one of the oldest Irish surnames and it hasn't changed in hundreds of fécking years. Also had American's tell me that they were the Ma-hone-eee's as opposed to the Mahony's, I had to ask them to spell it to even get what they were saying. Also Gallagher is pronounced Gall-a-her not Gall-ag-ger. And Kirsten is not Keeer-sten, it is Kir-sten. And Ireland is Ar-land not Ire-land. I don't do well with American tourists!

Not sure about 'Kay-hill', but Gallagher with a hard second g and Ma-hone-ee are how they're pronounced (sometimes) in England and America. So, in this example, you're wrong and the American tourist - knowing how to pronounce his or her own name - is right.

Wurly · 01-04-2013 10:57pm

MadsL wrote: »

Something about Madrid maybe?

No.. it's just an Offaly thing apparently. He pronounces 'weak' as 'wake'!! aaaaaagh

wolfpawnat · 01-04-2013 10:58pm

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Not sure about 'Kay-hill', but Gallagher with a hard second g and Ma-hone-ee are how they're pronounced (sometimes) in England and America. So, in this example, you're wrong and the American tourist - knowing how to pronounce his or her own name - is right.

They are Irish surnames so the way they are pronounced here is the correct way. Same as the way Irish people pronounce Lukasz (Polish and the u is more of a woo I have been told) as Lucas, it's wrong because the original pronunciation in the home country is the correct one. When the Irish landed in America over the last few centuries and were processed on arrival, many Irish surnames were written incorrectly and misspelled, meaning their pronunciation was on many occasion due to the new spelling, but if it is spelled the same then there is really no excuse.

demanufactured · 01-04-2013 10:59pm

Gallagher pronounced as galiga

Dublin Red Devil · 01-04-2013 10:59pm

A whole nother

wolfpawnat · 01-04-2013 11:01pm

"I need to get some hate into me." Took me a minute to realise the man was saying heat.

MistyCheese · 01-04-2013 11:01pm

English people, in particular, seem to be able to find an invisible "k" in "Rioja".

Another odd one, the English are generally perfectly able to pronounce the hot, sandy city of Las Vegas. The vast majority of Americans, however, pronounce it "Los Vegas".

People will argue that the "t" in "Moët" is silent as it's French but the name Moët is actually Dutch so French language rules don't apply.

ViveLaVie · 01-04-2013 11:05pm

The King of Moo wrote: »

Yes, and introducing it to the English language, as there was no English word with "shadenfraude's" specific meaning.

Not exactly true... there was the word epicaricacy.

Wurly wrote: »

My boyfriend's dad pronounces 'real' as 'rail'!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I quite like that!

mcwinning wrote: »

Tea pronounced as cha.

I don't think that's a mispronunciation but rather a deliberate distortion of the word for effect and exaggeration.

wolfpawnat wrote: »

"I need to get some hate into me." Took me a minute to realise the man was saying heat.

I do this deliberately sometimes when I'm being slightly dramatic.

Wurly wrote: »

No.. it's just an Offaly thing apparently. He pronounces 'weak' as 'wake'!! aaaaaagh

As above!

wolfpawnat · 01-04-2013 11:08pm

ViveLaVie wrote: »

I do this deliberately sometimes when I'm being slightly dramatic.

So does my OH, but still when it is someones actual way of saying it, it bothers me for some reason!

jojobeans · 01-04-2013 11:09pm

Anadin painkillers pronounced as ada-deen and library pronounced as lie-berry

extra gravy · 01-04-2013 11:10pm

Americans who pronounce the w in Swithwicks :mad:

earlyevening · 01-04-2013 11:12pm

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Believe me, they most certainly do.

Give up. You mispronounce it.

Listen to the "p" sound.

Big Nasty · 01-04-2013 11:13pm

Opposite to hate is could.

homemadecider · 01-04-2013 11:18pm

chatterpillar wrote: »

Flour pronounced as flower. And vice versa.

I've always pronounced them exactly the same. What is the difference?

Peregrine · 01-04-2013 11:24pm

A-rab

Just no.

ViveLaVie · 01-04-2013 11:33pm

twinQuins wrote: »

Not sure if you're being facetious here but 'ye' is actually an old spelling of 'the'. Comes from differences, over time, in type-facing the character 'thorn' (which produced the 'th' sound) in Old English. Eventually it morphed into something that looked like a 'Y'.

English is, oddly, one of the few languages that doesn't have a specific word for the pluralised form of 'you'.

twinQuins wrote: »

Yes, English did at one point have that pronoun but it simply doesn't exist in the modern language and hasn't for a long time. My point was one that people see and hear 'ye' being used and assume it's the pluralised form of 'you'.

Assuming that most people conflate Early Modern English with Old English, those that use it probably don't realise just how anachronistic it is.

Well the Oxford Dictionary lists 'ye' as the second person plural and qualifies it as having various uses in modern dialects. I have used it all my life and so have most people I know. It is widely used in Ireland. So I would argue that it does exist in some forms of modern English. I don't agree that it is anachronistic to use it at all.

Daveysil15 wrote: »

I've never heard it been called solpadeine.

I have never heard it called anything else!

I am pie wrote: »

Thailand never has and never will be pronounced thighland....same with the name thompson . Some sections of Irish media are seemingly unable to grasp the
concept of a silent h.

Is Thompson pronounced as 'Tompson'? I never knew that... the spelling suggests otherwise.

dybbuk · 01-04-2013 11:35pm

Earlier today, when I was looking for a clarification of differences in pronunciation of the German "R", I stumbled across
this tutorial

In spite of what one hears it is in English and the vocabulary is impressive. I replayed it a few times and managed to make out most of the words but around 0:24-0:27 it does get very difficult.

Chemical Burn · 01-04-2013 11:35pm

pronunciation

spurious · 01-04-2013 11:37pm

Melingitis.

Wurly · 01-04-2013 11:43pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

So does my OH, but still when it is someones actual way of saying it, it bothers me for some reason!

Yeah, it's my boyfriend's dad's actual way of saying it. Jaysis, it drives me mad. Rail for real, wake for weak etc. When he says fine gael, he says fine instead of fin-na! JAYYYYSSIS.

Not a mispronunciation but he also calls computers 'televisions' and refers to soda bread as brown cake.:mad:

yoda2001 · 01-04-2013 11:44pm

Sa hur day for Saturday drives me mad.

Chapel lizard for Chapelizod.

I know it's not pronunciation but "absolutely" where a simple "yes" would do.
This happens a lot in radio interviews - eg "So the show is on in the Olympia?"
Reply... "Absolutely". Do they mean the whole show is in the Olympia and they won't be moving venue at the interval?

wolfpawnat · 01-04-2013 11:46pm

Wurly wrote: »

Yeah, it's my boyfriend's dad's actual way of saying it. Jaysis, it drives me mad. Rail for real, wake for weak etc. When he says fine gael, he says fine instead of fin-na! JAYYYYSSIS.

Not a mispronunciation but he also calls computers 'televisions' and refers to soda bread as brown cake.:mad:

I know a few people who jokingly call it wake, but when my uncle says it he genuinely cannot see how it is incorrect, it hurts my head!!!

earlyevening · 01-04-2013 11:47pm

Wurly wrote: »

and refers to soda bread as brown cake.:mad:

That comes from the Irish language. Soda bread is "caca donn" - brown cake.

Wurly · 02-04-2013 12:08am

earlyevening wrote: »

That comes from the Irish language. Soda bread is "caca donn" - brown cake.

It's still annoying.

And only because there are so many of these things. He calls tin foil 'teeshie paper'

, yallah for yellow, tamahah for tomato....

Okay... I cant talk about this anymore...:mad::mad::mad::pac:

Vomit · 02-04-2013 12:11am

The King of Moo wrote: »

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

What you are referring to is the difference between rhotic and non-rhotic accents. These differences date back centuries and are well established. Dutch is another example of a language spoken rhotically by most and non-rhotically by others (German is the opposite).

None of this has anything to do really with mispronunciation. However, saying 'trothe' for 'throat' is clearly wrong and stupid, and a mind bogglingly ignorant violation of the most basic rules of the English language that exists only on this island, which accounts for a tiny percentage of the English-speaking world.

con1982 · 02-04-2013 12:12am

Didn't see Are-land get a mention yet. Should revoke passports for that one.

Wurly · 02-04-2013 12:12am

earlyevening wrote: »

That comes from the Irish language. Soda bread is "caca donn" - brown cake.

It's still annoying.

And only because there are so many of these things. He calls tin foil 'teeshie paper'

, yallah for yellow, tamahah for tomato....

Okay... I cant talk about this anymore...:mad::mad::mad::pac:

Edit:... my boyfriend has just told me that he calls Winning Streak, Winning STRAKE!! And Prime Time is Today Tonight! I know that Today Tonight was the name of an old current affairs programme but call it the real or RAIL

name.

My mam INSISTS on calling the local Spar, Paddy's. Because it was called Paddy's about 30 years ago.

Ok... I need to go cool down.:)

Gongoozler · 02-04-2013 12:12am

Wurly,he sounds like he's trying to sound like a child.

Saturday pronounced as sa-hur-day is quite common around Ireland. I used to think it was just where i'm from. I like it.
SAHURDAY
SAHURDAY
SAHURDAY
:pac:

MJ23 · 02-04-2013 12:13am

Millon, billon, day-boo, toozday, stoopid, Sahurrda, nooz, defin-ite-ly, Buhhur, Chicargo, buke, shtone, shpuds.

I can't think of any more at the moment.

Gongoozler · 02-04-2013 12:17am

Oh and i pronounce it Thailand not Tailand, and i'll continue to do so

wolfpawnat · 02-04-2013 12:18am

Wurly wrote: »

My mam INSISTS on calling the local Spar, Paddy's. Because it was called Paddy's about 30 years ago.

My MIL does this too. I told her I would meet her in Limerick one day, she told me to go to Todd's. No fúcking idea where the hell it was. I am from Cork so it meant nothing to me. She still calls it Todd's, I had no idea it was the Brown Thomas I was less than a hundred foot from! And she calls pubs by the name of the family that runs them, not by the pub name.

dee_mc · 02-04-2013 12:22am

my uncle regularly attends check ups with the 'surgint' who operated on him some years ago...
also, he always stands for the national 'anthrim'
town of Ennistymon fairly commonly referred to as 'Ennistymont'

but the holy grail of mispronunciations for me is when people say 'eksetra' for et cetera, begging for a slap

hattoncracker · 02-04-2013 12:26am

Would of.. Should of..

Gaaaah! Hatton smash!!!

MJ23 · 02-04-2013 12:27am

dee_mc wrote: »

my uncle regularly attends check ups with the 'surgint' who operated on him some years ago...
also, he always stands for the national 'anthrim'
town of Ennistymon fairly commonly referred to as 'Ennistymont'

but the holy grail of mispronunciations for me is when people say 'eksetra' for et cetera, begging for a slap

Beds etc. Ad on the telly. The fella says 'eksetra' several times. Im tempted to email them.

dee_mc · 02-04-2013 12:30am

oh that ad is the bane of my life! (slight exaggeration perhaps!), have become well acquainted with mute button since that ad started

just reread your comment, i actually emailed them earlier this evening politely requesting that they might consider a voiceover artist who can properly pronounce the name of their business if and when they record a new advert; not holding my breath but i feel a bit better now!

April O Neill · 02-04-2013 12:30am

Patch123 wrote: »

OED appears to have 'Schadenfreude' in English language usage dating back to 1852.

My thoughts exactly. The Simpsons likely had a large role in popularising it, but I was sure it was in use in the English language before then. I wouldn't have linked it to the Simpsons either.

ViveLaVie · 02-04-2013 12:33am

con1982 wrote: »

Didn't see Are-land get a mention yet. Should revoke passports for that one.

I'm guilty of this! :O I can pronounce it correctly but only if I'm paying attention!

Someone mentioned earlier that it's the Irish way of pronouncing it and hence the correct way! :P

scoobydoobie · 02-04-2013 12:35am

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Believe me, they most certainly do.

Here is a solpadeine add that might clear that up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jn8neG7vks

dybbuk · 02-04-2013 12:36am

hattoncracker wrote: »

Would of.. Should of..

I always wondered what the negative form of it would be.
"Wouldn't of"? "Should not of?"

hattoncracker · 02-04-2013 12:40am

dybbuk wrote: »

I always wondered what the negative form of it would be.
"Wouldn't of"? "Should not of?"

Would not have, should not have! But I have heard people saying it that way!

KungPao · 02-04-2013 12:51am

mcwinning wrote: »

Vehicle pronounced as vayhicle.

Tea pronounced as cha.

Comes from this I guess.

Modren or moderin for modern is a good one.

Mentioned previously...Flour and Flower being mixed up. Same pronunciation no?

Miss Lockhart · 02-04-2013 12:54am

spurious wrote: »

Melingitis.

Yes, inflammation of your melons. It's a big worry round here.

MJ23 wrote: »

Beds etc. Ad on the telly. The fella says 'eksetra' several times. Im tempted to email them.

I actually have to turn it off. It's like nails on a blackboard.

"Soo-terfuge" is another one that annoys me.

greenflash · 02-04-2013 12:55am

It's only had one mention so far but deserves a thread of its own. Height is not heighth. And that includes you Tom Dunne.

The whole "th" thing in general is a head melt. My missus has recently started to pronouns pretty much every "t" as a soft "th" whether or not the word contains the letter h. Teat becomes teeth, the car now had a booth and her friend's baby has been renamed Thadhg. If I correct her once more I'll be hearing from her solicithor.

K.Flyer · 02-04-2013 12:56am

Hostipal,
Modren,
Irish people using cockney slang,
Its keep schtum, not stump.
Irish (and English) people trying to sound west indies / jamaican "...yeah mon, keeping it real", get a grip!!
Pumpture for puncture.

ViveLaVie · 02-04-2013 12:58am

KungPao wrote: »

Comes from this I guess.

Interesting! I thought it was slang.

Galwayguy35 · 02-04-2013 12:59am

I remember my father used to always call the hospital "osbital" for some reason.

ViveLaVie · 02-04-2013 1:09am

It's not a mispronunciation but I hate when people say 'irregardless'. It's just 'regardless'!

I also don't like the use of 'orientated'. It's a back-formation of 'orientation'. As far as I'm concerned, 'oriented' is correct.

dee_mc · 02-04-2013 1:16am

also 'purr-ogative'

NegativeCreep · 02-04-2013 1:17am

Just heard someone say "anyul" instead of annual. Fairly irritating.

Galwayguy35 · 02-04-2013 1:21am

A lot of the farmers around here say they are going to have to get the "vit" when needing a vet.

Most annoying mispronunciation

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