Film or Fillum?

daisy123

I'm off to see a _________ in the cinema...

What way do you pronounce it? Me, I say fillum! Is it an Irish thing?

mookishboy

I say movie

Karoma

Yes. Google "accent".
Fillum - and poorpul.

OoSKYLINEoO

I say fil-im lol

javaboy

Magic lantern show ftw

That or talkies

Keano

Fillum got my vote - then again my use of the English language is terrible at times




*1000 and counting

The guy

I say fillum most times.

admiralofthefleet

flick

mike65

Motion Picture Experience

Mike.

daisy123

mike65 wrote: »

Motion Picture Experience

Mike.

Ooooo, I like that one!!!

Jesus Wept

The Pictures, because it's fun to talk like your granny.

Sherifu

Film.

The-Rigger wrote: »

The Pictures, because it's fun to talk like your granny.

True but it'd feel wrong.

Creamy Goodness

Sherifu wrote: »

Film.


True but it'd feel wrong.

exactly, one syllable.

truecrippler

Phlegm for me.

monkeyfudge

I say film.. one syllable...

I think it is an Irish thing.... by Brothers boyfriend always corrects me on it when ever I go to the cinema with them... he's from California... it's a pain in arse... (him having a go at me over my pronunciation.. not anything else...)

simu

filyum and colyum (=column)

lol

kowloon

I do luv me fillums and boohks, the modren wuns are de best with ther speshelle effeks.

Jigsaw

Tis fillum for me. I got a wild bit of stick for it though when I lived in England.

the flicks!

Adam

Cinematic Adventures.

Mossy Monk

The Movie House.

Latchy

I used to say ' off to see a movie ' this was before i ever set foot in america

filum is very irish indeed , i still say it now

dare yer r now

Ruu_Old

The pictures, or fillem.

Sangre

daisy123 wrote: »

I'm off to see a _________ in the cinema...

What way do you pronounce it? Me, I say fillum! Is it an Irish thing?

No, its a bogger thing.

Rb

Film.

faceman

The talkies for me.

Fillum is soooooo common!

Jimoslimos

Noun: Fillum

Verb: Film

Duff

pitchers for me..

Malice

Personally I say film but it's a very Irish thing to say filum. There a thread somewhere here recently about the funny way Irish people say things in English. This is a good read about it.

Notorious

Its the picture house.

I'd have to say I'd go with film; just the one syllable.

daisy123

malice_ wrote: »

Personally I say film but it's a very Irish thing to say filum. There a thread somewhere here recently about the funny way Irish people say things in English. This is a good read about it.

Sure Jaysus, there does be loadsa stuff on that article!!

Peared

I think 'fillum' is a bogger/north Dublin accent.

Hmm, so that leaves South Dublin with 'film'.

Disproportionate surely.

I say film.

Clare Bear

I used to always say fillum until a few years ago when I dated an English guy whose sister used to always take the piss out of me for saying it so I started saying film to shut her up and it's stuck. I'll never get my fillum back! Couldn't stand the biatch either so don't know why I bothered.

javaboy

Clare Bear wrote: »

I used to always say fillum until a few years ago when I dated an English guy whose sister used to always take the piss out of me for saying it so I started saying film to shut her up and it's stuck. I'll never get my fillum back! Couldn't stand the biatch either so don't know why I bothered.

Somebody get this girl 10cc of begorrah. Stat.

I once got a Londoner in work to say three instead of free.

Malice

javaboy wrote: »

I once got a Londoner in work to say three instead of free.

:eek: No way! Their "th" -> "f" conversion is hard-wired into their brains I think.

Did they start spluttering like Fr. Jack when Fr. Ted was trying to get him to say "That would be an eumenical matter"?

Tar.Aldarion

For a motion picture experience I usually say fillim, if it is a film of one substance surrounding another I say film.

MooseJam

fillim mostly, it's easier to say than film

ironictoaster

I say film now for some odd reason. When I was younger I used to say fillum, I don't know why It ever changed..

daisy123

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

For a motion picture experience I usually say fillim, if it is a film of one substance surrounding another I say film.

I do too actually now that I think of it, weird...

johnnyrotten

movie

GhostInTheRuins

bit of both, depends on my mood

Davidius

Batman.

misslt

Fillum for a movie, film for the verb or a film of something.

Pythia

This really annoys me. Where's the 'u'? It's film. Say it correctly!

Dlite

I say the flicks or "Let's go see..... how quickly I can be robbed of 50 quid on **** food and drink that will have me feeling sick for the next few days - Lot's of butter on that please:)

Tar.Aldarion

Pythia wrote: »

This really annoys me. Where's the 'u'? It's film. Say it correctly!

There are a lot of words that are not pronounced as they are spelled. A missing u is just a minor one in comparison to others.