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Proper Pronunciation or lah-dee-dah

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    #122
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,103 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Stovepipe wrote: »
    RTE newsreaders say "pleece" for "police" and "med-sin" for "medicine" (Sharon Ni Bheolain in particular). Is she right or wrong?
    The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that "paleece" and "pleece" are both standard pronunciations.

    As for "medicine", it's one of a number of words where the choice between a two-syllable pronunciation and a three-syllable pronunciation is, or at least used to be, a class marker. Posh people say "medsin"; plebs say "medissin". "Regiment" is another word of this kind.
    Stovepipe wrote: »
    Given all the stories about cervical cancer, I hear the word "cervical" often pronounced as "ser-vy-cal", especially medical people. Is that the correct pronunciation?
    "Servickle" and "serv-eye-kal" are both standard, according to the OED.


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    #123
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    If I had twenty six sheep and one of them died, how many would I have left?

    If they say twenty five, tell them they are wrong. You said twenty sick sheep, and the answer is nineteen.

    Can you tell the difference between twenty six sheep, and twenty sick sheep, in normal speech?

    Yes....if the person pronounces 'twenty six' correctly!!


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    #124
    RobMc59
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    one of my landladies called it Lie dell.

    a rose by any other name...

    On TV adverts in England it`s called Lee dall...perhaps that`s the continental pronunciation.


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    #125
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    I'd be pretty certain the vast majority of people here are all calling Storm Jorge in the correct way- and not as George or something. Properly pronounced Peugeot just seems a step too far for most of us though.


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    #126
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Georgie


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    #127
    sbsquarepants
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    Shkoda


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    #128
    RobMc59
    Registered Users Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭RobMc59


    Beako?
    Becko?


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    #129
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday





    Educate yo self.


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    #130
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,425 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I'm not taking pronunciation lessons from someone who pronounces "commonly" as "cammonly"!


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    #131
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Richard Hammond saying horsepar instead of horsepower.


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    #132
    Church on Tuesday
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    Alun wrote: »
    I'm not taking pronunciation lessons from someone who pronounces "commonly" as "cammonly"!

    Who Sven?

    He is German.


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    #133
    deise08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭deise08


    Someone was telling me yesterday about having a pain in her stumerk.
    I thought she was just falling over her words until she said it a second time.
    Her stumerk.??
    My brain was screaming ' it's stomach!!'


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    #134
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,425 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Who Sven?

    He is German.
    So? In the section on German names, he's being particularly finnicky about the pronunciation of some names, insisiting on rolling the 'r' in many words, something that doesn't come naturally to many. So I feel justified in being equally finnicky about his inability to correctly enunciate the letter 'o'. Pot, kettle, black.


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    #135
    Church on Tuesday
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    Alun wrote: »
    So? In the section on German names, he's being particularly finnicky about the pronunciation of some names, insisiting on rolling the 'r' in many words, something that doesn't come naturally to many. So I feel justified in being equally finnicky about his inability to correctly enunciate the letter 'o'. Pot, kettle, black.

    That's got nothing to do with pronunciation of brand names and all to do with his linguistic heritage; he's half Brazilian half German, naturally his accent will reflect this.

    Unless we're taking the piss out of people's accents now.


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    #136
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,095 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    What’s this crack with the word ‘quarter’.

    It seems out in RTEland it’s ‘quawter’.

    “A quawter “ of a million.

    What’s wrong with ‘quarter’.


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    #137
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    What’s this crack with the word ‘quarter’.

    It seems out in RTEland it’s ‘quawter’.

    “A quawter “ of a million.

    What’s wrong with ‘quarter’.
    Same with the newsreaders' "froowhst". It's frost, ffs.


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    #138
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,237 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Gateaux

    It pronounced gattox, you little bolleaux.


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    #139
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    endacl wrote: »
    It pronounced gattox
    A little grammatical fawks pass.


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    #140
    Rufeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Rufeo


    PewJoe ? Surely. Any French on here to sort us out?


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    #141
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    https://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question78822.html
    Lots of different sites with this question, but it seems to be mainly puh-zho, occasionally pew-joe. It seems there is no 'correct' way of pronouncing it, and can vary in different contexts (native/non-native etc).


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    #142
    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    Where is this place called Tie-rown so beloved of the GAA heads and others on RTE. The Irish version is Tír Eoghan and it has been pronounced in identical form in English since Noah was a lad. It's just a way to appear superior to all us plebs but it only makes them look like the dickheads they are.


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    #143
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,095 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    Where is this place called Tie-rown so beloved of the GAA heads and others on RTE. The Irish version is Tír Eoghan and it has been pronounced in identical form in English since Noah was a lad. It's just a way to appear superior to all us plebs but it only makes them look like the dickheads they are.

    Well Marsey, you better ask the folk down in Kerry where it is, they are the ones who call it Tie-Rone.

    Would it ever occur to them that Tír Eoghan, the country of John is the translation!!

    Tír na hEireann the country of Ireland.

    Would the stults call it’Tyre na hEireann’

    Tools probably would.


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    #144
    Lewis_Benson
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    cdgalwegian wrote: »
    I think the tide has turned with the pronunciation of Renault; it was mostly pronounced Renawlt, but now appears to be mainly Renoh. But what about Peugeot? Are we still embarrassed to pronounce it as it should- Puh-zho, instead of Pew-jo?

    It's always been pronounced "renoh"
    And then other had always been pronounced "pehjo"
    They are French car names.


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    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Well Marsey, you better ask the folk down in Kerry where it is, they are the ones who call it Tie-Rone.

    Would it ever occur to them that Tír Eoghan, the country of John is the translation!!

    Tír na hEireann the country of Ireland.

    Would the stults call it’Tyre na hEireann’

    Tools probably would.


    Kerrymen eh? That would explain a lot. I can just hear the dulcet tones of the Healy Raes.


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    #146
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    It's always been pronounced "renoh"
    And then other had always been pronounced "pehjo"
    Not everywhere in Ireland; part of the reason for the post.

    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    They are French car names.
    Really? Sacre bleu.


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    #147
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,095 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    Kerrymen eh? That would explain a lot. I can just hear the dulcet tones of the Healy Raes.

    Mr Patrick Spillane would be the main offender.

    Mr Tomás OSè a close second.


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    #148
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    cdgalwegian wrote: »
    Not everywhere in Ireland; part of the reason for the post.



    Really? Sacre bleu.

    inˈdēd


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    #149
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    whats the craic with RTE presenters (both Bryan Dobson and Sharon ni Bheolain in the last half hour) calling 5/8 of a mile a kilo'metre, it was and always will be a kil'ometre


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    #150
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    Bought a car recently. On my my radar been a Hyundau Tucson. As in 'tooh-sohn'; not as the car-dealer called it- a tuckson.


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    #151
    Hotblack Desiato
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    cdgalwegian wrote: »
    not as the car-dealer called it- a tuckson.

    Jaysus.

    Life ain't always empty.



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