Forster Street

siltirocker

After correcting an estate agent i was informed to i was wrong on the pronunciation of Forster Street. I was not, she was but i didn't want to be all annoying over it (which i can be). I've seen locals incorrectly correct tourists on this and everything.

Does it drive anyone else mental that Forster Street (fOAr-sTER) is pronounced Foster (FOSt-ER)? Why is this? Anyone has a notion as to why this is?

Fuinseog

siltirocker wrote: »

After correcting an estate agent i was informed to i was wrong on the pronunciation of Forster Street. I was not, she was but i didn't want to be all annoying over it (which i can be). I've seen locals incorrectly correct tourists on this and everything.

Does it drive anyone else mental that Forster Street (fOAr-sTER) is pronounced Foster (FOSt-ER)? Why is this? Anyone has a notion as to why this is?

I say Foster street, which is easier for us to pronounce, just like Dubs say Gardner stree instead of Gardiner Street. you might say its the local accent of which there are a few in galway.
have you ever been to Herterich the butcher know locally as hetridges as any of us cannot pronounce German names.
you probably say Anthony Ryans which the indigeous population have been heard to say Anhny Ryan.

RolandIRL

Forster's.....good call

soundbyte

OP, take a deep breadth and go fur a walk frum Foster Street, thru Ayre Sqaure, along Eglington Street, over Salmon Leap Bridge and out to Quincentennial Bridge :-)

I don't even bother correcting people any more. I've just chosen to blame txtspeak.

Fuinseog

soundbyte wrote: »

OP, take a deep breadth and go fur a walk frum Foster Street, thru Ayre Sqaure, along Eglington Street, over Salmon Leap Bridge and out to Quincentennial Bridge :-)

I don't even bother correcting people any more. I've just chosen to blame txtspeak.

this is not text speak. in fact its more the older generation that will say foster street and hetridges.its the Galway accent if you will.

generally only people who have a problem with our lack of th tree trees instead of three trees have a problem with it.

maybe I will go into the dublin forum and criticise teh dubs who say Dooblin instead of Dublin.

GalwayGuy92

siltirocker wrote: »

After correcting an estate agent i was informed to i was wrong on the pronunciation of Forster Street. I was not, she was but i didn't want to be all annoying over it (which i can be). I've seen locals incorrectly correct tourists on this and everything.

Does it drive anyone else mental that Forster Street (fOAr-sTER) is pronounced Foster (FOSt-ER)? Why is this? Anyone has a notion as to why this is?

Somehow I doubt you could class it as incorrectly correcting people, so what the word is spelt differently than it is pronounced. This happens all the time, the word 'island' for example. I dont go around correcting people for not pronouncing the s in it!

BrokenArrows

ah i never noticed it was spelt that way. i aways thought it was foster.

soundbyte

Fuinseog wrote: »

this is not text speak. in fact its more the older generation that will say foster street and hetridges.

What i meant was, people can't spell for sh!t, and the problem has worsened dramatically over the past seven or eight years. I put that down to texting.

Agreed about Forster/Foster, but how is Quincentennial an accentual thing?

I think these 'mistaken' names are pseudo-colloquialisms rather than accentual, maybe a combination of both.

However, when I hear business names pluralised here, it always brings a smile to my face; Dunnes-es, Tesco-s, Roches-es, H Williams-es, BT-s, CP-s etc.

Megatron_X

soundbyte wrote: »

What i meant was, people can't spell for sh!t, and the problem has worsened dramatically over the past seven or eight years. I put that down to texting.

Agreed about Forster/Foster, but how is Quincentennial an accentual thing?

I think these 'mistaken' names are pseudo-colloquialisms rather than accentual, maybe a combination of both.

However, when I hear business names pluralised here, it always brings a smile to my face; Dunnes-es, Tesco-s, Roches-es, H Williams-es, BT-s, CP-s etc.

I can't even imagine saying I'm going to Eason, it sounds so wrong.

Playboy

I think it has more to do with people not knowing the correct spelling rather than an incorrect pronunciation.

telepylus

soundbyte wrote: »

However, when I hear business names pluralised here, it always brings a smile to my face; Dunnes-es, Tesco-s, Roches-es, H Williams-es, BT-s, CP-s etc.

guilty as charged ha.

I pronounced it Forster street alright, just because I seen it on the map etc, before I heard people say it. Does it reeeeally matter what way something is pronounced if people get what you are saying? I think people are often too pedantic over things like this, it's hardly the apocalypse

Fuinseog

soundbyte wrote: »

What i meant was, people can't spell for sh!t, and the problem has worsened dramatically over the past seven or eight years. I put that down to texting.

Agreed about Forster/Foster, but how is Quincentennial an accentual thing?

I think these 'mistaken' names are pseudo-colloquialisms rather than accentual, maybe a combination of both.

However, when I hear business names pluralised here, it always brings a smile to my face; Dunnes-es, Tesco-s, Roches-es, H Williams-es, BT-s, CP-s etc.

I went to Cps is fine by me. suggests genitive. if you want people to speak perfect English maze you should be in oxford or cambridge. its not something people here lose much sleep over.

Wompa1

Anyone notice Galweigans pronounce House as How-zz and Us as Uzz?

telepylus

Wompa1 wrote: »

Anyone notice Galweigans pronounce House as How-zz and Us as Uzz?

Shhtop that, they're the besshht in the wessht

soundbyte

Fuinseog wrote: »

I went to Cps is fine by me. suggests genitive.

You'd be happy enough with GPOs then also, presumably?

Fuinseog wrote: »

its not something people here lose much sleep over.

I don't lose any sleep over it either, as I said in my previous post, it always brings a smile to my face. And I'm from Galway.

What I said annoyed me is people calling things by the incorrect name i.e. Quincentennial Bridge, Eglington Street. That is not mispronunciation, it's just incorrect.

I say Forster.. Kind of like "Four star" with a speech impediment.

Fuinseog

telepylus wrote: »

Shhtop that, they're the besshht in the wessht

you do not hear many people speak like that in galway, because there are so few real Galwegians about the place. there are different accents within the city, the newest one being G4.

Fuinseog

What I said annoyed me is people calling things by the incorrect name i.e. Quincentennial Bridge, Eglington Street. That is not mispronunciation, it's just incorrect.[/QUOTE]

how do the barbarous natives pronounce the two above places? have they being renamed?

soundbyte

Fuinseog wrote: »

What I said annoyed me is people calling things by the incorrect name i.e. Quincentennial Bridge, Eglington Street. That is not mispronunciation, it's just incorrect.

how do the barbarous natives pronounce the two above places? have they being renamed?[/QUOTE]

There is no such place as Quincentennial Bridge or Eglington Street, or Salmon Leap Bridge for the matter.

It's Quincentenary Bridge, Eglinton Street and Salmon Weir Bridge.

So no, they haven't being renamed. :pac:

siltirocker

GalwayGuy92 wrote: »

Somehow I doubt you could class it as incorrectly correcting people, so what the word is spelt differently than it is pronounced. This happens all the time, the word 'island' for example. I dont go around correcting people for not pronouncing the s in it!

I catch your drift and you made a good example. But it is not the case in this scenario-it is forster street. Ask anyone who's of age and spent it in Galway. "Foster Street" is coloquilism gone MAD!!!

Fuinseog

siltirocker wrote: »

I catch your drift and you made a good example. But it is not the case in this scenario-it is forster street. Ask anyone who's of age and spent it in Galway. "Foster Street" is coloquilism gone MAD!!!

it does not make any difference to our daily lives. foreigners and Galwegians who have a taken a degree in english at NUI and know how to pronounce English properly will use the correct pronounciations but we will still say whatever rolls easier off the tongue.

yeehaw

Worst thread ever.

Sponge Bob

Damn right yeehaw, it has basically gone from pointless navel gazing to carrying out laparoscopic surgery on the upper rectum in one foul (sic(sic(sic))) swoop

clived2

You must lead a very good life, if these are the kinda of things bothering
you

siltirocker

Jesus Christ i asked a simple question as it is something that has puzzled me since i was a boy. If you have nothing better to do than point out how much more meaningful your questions in life are, quit spending so much time on boards.ie reading meaningless posts/threads.

Seriously wtf? I was looking for an answer to my query not ignorant comments in pointlessness.

clived2

siltirocker wrote: »

If you have nothing better to do than point out how much more meaningful your questions in life are, quit spending so much time on boards.ie reading meaningless posts/threads.

You should listen to yourself

siltirocker wrote: »

If you have nothing better to do than point out how much more meaningful your questions in life are, quit spending so much time on boards.ie reading meaningless posts/threads.

siltirocker

clived2 wrote: »

You should listen to yourself

Why are you being a prick, to what ends does this matter to you? Post on a thread that you can add something valuable to.

Amazotheamazing

siltirocker wrote: »

Why are you being a prick, to what ends does this matter to you? Post on a thread to you can add something valuable to.

Don't listen to them Silt, haters gonna hate.

GalwayGuy92

siltirocker wrote: »

I catch your drift and you made a good example. But it is not the case in this scenario-it is forster street. Ask anyone who's of age and spent it in Galway. "Foster Street" is coloquilism gone MAD!!!

First of all what the hell does "of age" even mean? It sounds like horse manure to me. Everyone I've ever met has called it Foster street and I've lived in the city all my life. (All 18 years:p).
Get over it, let people know you have to pronounce all words phonetically. It's a real sign of intelligence being able to read phonetics.;)

siltirocker

GalwayGuy92 wrote: »

Get over it, let people know you have to pronounce all words phonetically. It's a real sign of intelligence being able to read phonetics.;)

wtf? Have i sh1t in your cereal or something? Slagging me 'cause i disagree with your opinion on. I just wondering why alot of young people in the past twenty years have started to pronounce it wrongly.


It's not a matter of phonetics, it is Forster not Foster - no silent 'r'. Ask people who live there.
Btw - When i said 'of age' i was more so referring to folks with a good few decades in Galway, not someone who can now legally drink. Im sorry if my use of English is horse sh1t to you.

clived2

siltirocker wrote: »

Jesus Christ i asked a simple question as it is something that has puzzled me since i was a boy. If you have nothing better to do than point out how much more meaningful your questions in life are, quit spending so much time on boards.ie reading meaningless posts/threads.

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Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Don't listen to them Silt, haters gonna hate.

I aint hatin on anybody, that guy basically insulted everbody who spends time on boards