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Are there any words you're never quite sure on the pronunciation?

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  • #32
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    "It's pronounced Frankensteen!"


  • #33
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    @ Frag420. - That could be a whole topic.

    Where you stay... An O'teol.
    Sumfink.
    Nuffink.
    Innit.
    'Avin a Turkish... Because Turkish Bath rhymes with laugh.


  • #34
    selwyn froggitt
    Registered Users Posts: 475 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


    Budweiser......................pronounced píss


  • #35
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Capuchin, like the monks. I have awful trouble with it.


  • #36
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,230 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I struggle with pronouncing the name 'Enda'

    I'm not sure if it's pronounced 'cúnt' or díckhead'

    :mad:


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  • #37
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    In sat I able


  • #38
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I always end up making a balls of saying Qatar.


  • #39
    Thoie
    Registered Users Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    Aspartame

    Ass-part-a-me?
    Ass-par-tame?
    Asp-art-amy?


  • #40
    sjb25
    Registered Users Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭sjb25


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHR1tk5xvU


  • #41
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Finite.

    Is it fine-ite or fin-it?


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  • #42
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    Quinoa. Damn that word :(

    Was years before I realised I was revealing my culchie heritage the way I was pronouncing! Also had no idea what keenwa was!


  • #43
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    Ah sure, I'm French, and although I've been here 20 years and can fool people for a few minutes, mispronouncing or being unsure is still the story of my life.

    I still want to stress longer words on the wrong syllable, like "advertisement". It's worse when I'm tired, or when I'm thinking more in French at that moment.

    Words with AN, I just want to say Ãn as in "slÃn" (without the N). Like mango.

    Words that I can see come from French : it feels very wrong to say them the Irish way.
    In a lot of instances I have no choice but to say them the Irish way, as otherwise the people won't understand or I don't want to sound like an oddball (like a girl in a petrol station, if I was asking for a "jambon"), other times I'll happily say it the French way. (like "genre", the Irish pronunciation really really annoys me)


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    frag420 wrote: »
    its pronounced THAMES!!

    No its not.
    Southwark is not Suvvik!!

    True.
    Greenwich is not Grenich!!

    Yes it is.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    Finite.

    Is it fine-ite or fin-it?

    Finite = Fy-night
    Infinite = In-fin-it.


  • #46
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,178 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I've often heard a debate about how people pronounce LIDL!


  • #47
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Almond gets me. I pronounce the l but get told off. I feel like a dope saying
    A-mond.


  • #48
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Zaph....

    ....so I try and keep below his radar!


  • #49
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,259 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    Blücher....Not Blooker :mad:

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    frag420 wrote: »
    I live n London, it bugs me that they call that brown ****ty river the Tems...

    They invented the fooking language, its pronounced THAMES!!

    Southwark is not Suvvik!!

    Greenwich is not Grenich!!

    And 'you fooking c*nt' is not 'ya faaaackin cant'

    As a Londoner, they are pronounced as .....

    The Tems
    suv irk
    Grenich


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