Mispronunciations

Col200sx

ChicaRgo.

It's fcukin Chicago, how hard can that be :mad:

daveyboy_1ie

Caesar Augustus wrote: »

Expats are the worst, I've met people living in towns in Thailand and they still can't pronounce the name of the town, no matter how long they've been there

Was with a Thai girl for 3 years and every time I pronounced krabi with a k it annoyed her so much, and so I never pronounced it the way it should be, with a g and sounds like grabi but I knew I was wrong. Some day I will grow up .

Promac

Col200sx wrote: »

ChicaRgo.

It's fcukin Chicago, how hard can that be :mad:

I girl I work with does that and she lived there for years!

FoxT

Montague -> rhyming with plague

These specific pronunciations are unacceptable:
asseptable, Pacific

French teacher I had always pronounced 'Suggest' as 'Seggust'

Electronic lecturer (guy from Kerry, natch) I had used to call a Comparator a Com-por-aythur.

Buddies pr as 'butties'

Throat pr as 'troath' grrrrr


- FoxT

youcancallmeal

Weary and Wary. I see it written down incorrectly a lot but when you actually hear someone saying it I die a little inside.

Example:

'I'm a little weary of this exam'

or

'I'm a little wary of this exam'

Your either tired of this exam or approaching it cautiously, which one is it godammit!?

xoxyx

I'm looking for the lingeree department of your store. Who would have thought lingerie and lawngeree is the same word!!

up for anything

pickarooney wrote: »

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/illuminous?r=75

It's still sounds cat!

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words

entropi

Some news presenters trying to say "sixth" and pronouncing it "sick-th".

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Specific pronounced as Pacific

That one really really annoys me :mad::mad::mad:

seamus

The one you hear all the time on Irish radio:

Fifth = Fif-th, not "Fith"

Mate of mine cannot pronounce "series". It always comes out as "serious".

My wife also says "Chester Drawers" all the time. I've given up correcting her.

Also, people, Expresso is usually a quick service. Es-presso is a type of coffee.

Osgoodisgood

Just a few of the many that make me want to go and hide under the bed:

Thailand, Thomas etc

As mentioned earlier the "h" is silent. My theory is that these are being abused in an effort to make up for all the missing th sounds.

Height

Not heigth and therefore does not have a "th" sound.

Throat

How did anyone mangle this word into "troath"? Amazing

Safety

2 syllables only. safe-tee, not safe-eh-tee

Sixth

When did this become "sikth"?

sbsquarepants

GreeBo wrote: »

Dick-shone-airy
its Dick-shone-ree!
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dic·tion·ar·y

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a book containing a selection of the words of a language, usually arranged alphabetically, giving information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, etc., expressed in either the same or another language; lexicon; glossary: a dictionary of English; a Japanese-English dictionary.

Osgoodisgood

Sykk wrote: »

Choose your comma's wisely!

And your apostrophes even more wisely

Rubberlegs

Have a friend who pronounces mural as Muriel ha ha. Same friend told me she'd caught her daughter "pruning" herself in the mirror:D. I assumed she meant preening:P

sbsquarepants

daveyboy_1ie wrote: »

Was with a Thai girl for 3 years and every time I pronounced krabi with a k it annoyed her so much, and so I never pronounced it the way it should be, with a g and sounds like grabi but I knew I was wrong. Some day I will grow up .

She gave you the krabis?:eek:

mojesius

Is anyone able to clarify the iss-ue/ish-ue issue?

Big Nasty

Helmet / Hemlet
Series / Cereal
Our / Are
Would Have / Would Of

Orando Broom

Automaton

Auto-maton as opposed Au-tom-aton.

I r an eejit.

seamus

mojesius wrote: »

Is anyone able to clarify the iss-ue/ish-ue issue?

Either are valid. Ish-you is (as far as I can tell) a derivation from the original pronunciation, whereas iss-you is a more recent British pronunciation.

Col200sx

Col200sx wrote: »

ChicaRgo.

It's fcukin Chicago, how hard can that be :mad:

And lager as "larger". So common now that people write it as larger.

liah

Words with v's being turned into words with w's, e.g. "witamin."

Then again that's from people who have English as a second language.. doesn't make it any more logical, though. In German, the letter "v" makes an "f" sound, how they keep replacing "v" with "w" is well beyond me.

Back to native English-speakers, changing the "ing" sound to an "een" sound. "What's happeneen?" "What's go-een on?" I don't know why, but that one bugs me more than almost any other mispronunciation.

Benny Lava

Catch is pronounced as its spelling would suggest: catch. Not "ketch"!!! That one does my head in.

I know it was mentioned already but this "Chicargo" thing drives me crazy. Before the city would rarely be mentioned in conversation but that changed with the creation of Chicago Town pizza!

Book is pronounced in a way that it rhymes with look, shook, crook etc. and not "bewk".

"Sandwich" is not "sangwidge" (mentioned before already as well).

CaSCaDe711

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Our / Are

This one is unbelievably common. Always hearing it, in work, down the pub, on TV, everywhere. Have even seen Are typed in the place of Our. Terrible, absolutely terrible :mad: :rolleyes:

GreeBo

sbsquarepants wrote: »

dic·tion·ar·y

 B][B]dik[/B]-sh[I][FONT=Georgia]uh[/FONT][/I]-ner-ee[/B
a book containing a selection of the words of a language, usually arranged alphabetically, giving information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, etc., expressed in either the same or another language; lexicon; glossary: a dictionary of English; a Japanese-English dictionary.

Is the US version.
Non American Link
I speak UK/Irish English in this country.

Your site also gives the delightful

neigh·bor
   /ˈneɪbər/ Show Spelled[ney-ber] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a person who lives near another.
2.
a person or thing that is near another.
3.
one's fellow human being: to be generous toward one's less fortunate neighbors.
4.
a person who shows kindliness or helpfulness toward his or her fellow humans: to be a neighbor to someone in distress.
5.
(used as a term of address, esp. as a friendly greeting to a stranger): Tell me, neighbor, which way to town?

Promac

Totally forgot about one of my most hated ... column. It's not pronounced col-yume.

Fooking baffles me where they got this from.

GreeBo

On the subject of US versions:
The-ate-er
Vee-hickle

Dr. Zeus

Has anyone noticed how RTE news reader's, well Anne Doyle in particular, when referring to the Department of Finance, pronounces Finance as "fi- nance" (normal way most people pronouce it) but when they refer to the Minister of Finance they pronounce it differently, "fin-ance" (sounds like they are saying Minister of "fynn ants" really fast). I know it's just a different emphasis but curious as to anyone else notice this?

Angron

It's been mentioned, but the "book" and similar words thing annoys the hell out of me. One of my friends always calls Facebook Facebewk, gets annoying after a while.

KungPao

MazG wrote: »

Oh yeah! Fillums... I love them

For years I pronounced voluptuous as 'volumptuous'. I have no idea where I got that letter m from, but it made sense in my head at the time.

I used to say 'often' too, until someone pointed out that you don't use Lenor to 'soften' your clothes in the washing machine. I still get people giving me funny looks when I say 'ofen' though... as if I'm some sort of uneducated hick!

Both pronunciations are perfectly fine. 'Ofen' is more common but 'often' is fine.

beanyb

Dr. Zeus wrote: »

Has anyone noticed how RTE news reader's, well Anne Doyle in particular, when referring to the Department of Finance, pronounces Finance as "fi- nance" (normal way most people pronouce it) but when they refer to the Minister of Finance they pronounce it differently, "fin-ance" (sounds like they are saying Minister of "fynn ants" really fast). I know it's just a different emphasis but curious as to anyone else notice this?

Anne Doyle also pronounces 'sexual' really strangely. Sex-OOO-al.

pickarooney

Dr. Zeus wrote: »

Has anyone noticed how RTE news reader's, well Anne Doyle in particular, when referring to the Department of Finance, pronounces Finance as "fi- nance" (normal way most people pronouce it) but when they refer to the Minister of Finance they pronounce it differently, "fin-ance" (sounds like they are saying Minister of "fynn ants" really fast). I know it's just a different emphasis but curious as to anyone else notice this?

Are you sure it's not "Finn-ants minister" (adjective) and "Department of Fine-ants" (noun)?

The -shoe-/-syoo- pronunciation is a matter of accent, with the more cut-crystal British accents tending towards the latter.

LordSutch

My wife and I recently exchanged & corrected each others mispronunciations

I have always said 'Expedential' > meaning (a number increases expedentially) or so I thought > hangs head in shame

The correct pronunciation & spelling is of course Exponential (Exponentially). She always thought that Thailand was pronounced with a TH Obviously the letter H is 100% silent, and she knows this now, so its always funny when we hear others mispronuncing either of the above.

By the way what's with so many people confusing 'Thought' with 'Taught'

sbsquarepants

beanyb wrote: »

Anne Doyle also pronounces 'sexual' really strangely. Sex-OOO-al.

That's cos she's durty

sbsquarepants

LordSutch wrote: »

The correct pronunciation & spelling is of course Exponentional (Exponentially).

No it's not;)

Dr. Zeus

pickarooney wrote: »

Are you sure it's not "Finn-ants minister" (adjective) and "Department of Fine-ants" (noun)?

Could be. But I am pretty sure she has said Minsiter of Finance and Department of Finance and pronounced them differently.

Will listen out in the future, am sure won't have to wait too long for a mention of either:D

johnnyfardel

yizzerselves - as in , you have to try and win the
match yizzerselves....

Or - you lot would want to take a good long look at
yizzerselves

Asphyxia

My sister wasn't able to pronounce furniture until she was about 16 she used to say fer-na-ture

KungPao

pickarooney wrote: »

Are you sure it's not "Finn-ants minister" (adjective) and "Department of Fine-ants" (noun)?
.

Isn't Finance Minister two nouns? as it could also be written as Minister of/for Finance?

I always thought FI-NANCE (EYE) was the verb and FINN-ANCE was the noun, although the former pronunciation is commonly used for both.

I don't want to start on the two pronunciations of 'detail'. Too messy!

LordSutch

Pat Kenny saying 'Coortesy' & 'Portoogal'.

bubbaloo

Ah yes, there are a few oul favourites in here - sophadeine (??), chicargo (??) and asseptable (??) but one of my pet hates is "I should of" instead of "I should have". They always say it on Eastenders and it drives me mad.

A friend of mine always says "but she's used of it now" instead of "used to it now" - (deep breaths, count to 10!!) :P

KungPao

Furhouse in Dublin.

It's FEAR - HOUSE. What a badass name!, why change it to something so wimpy?

Cat Melodeon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs

Da Bounca

Third is not turd.

hubba

Ever notice how the brits pronounce 'sixth'? It drives me INSANE. They say 'SIK-TH'. Check it out.

Unfortunately I noticed it a couple of years ago on Sky News so have been listening out for it in other places and its EVERYWHERE in Britain, documentaries, soaps. No idea why it drives me mental. Maybe I need to get out more.

Another commonly mispronounced word is etcetera. Should be ET-SET-era but commonly pronounced EK-SET-era.

Also some people say 'on tender hooks' when it should be TENTERhooks.

Malari

It's the central median, not medium. One is the divider in the middle of a dual carriageway, the other is a psychic sitting in a dangerous position. Similarly Belgium instead of Belgian! I saw someone say this on QI recently!

I know a few people who say joint instead of giant. And voylence instead of violence. Maybe that's just an accent thing.

And nougat. My friend told me she bought "nougar" in the duty-free....

hubba

Of course we all pronounce Ireland incorrectly. Everyone skips the first syllable and says ARE-LUND, or worse OY-ER-LUND. We have become lazy about the first syllable AYE: AYE-UR-LUND.

Promac

hubba wrote: »

Of course we all pronounce Ireland incorrectly. Everyone skips the first syllable and says ARE-LUND, or worse OY-ER-LUND. We have become lazy about the first syllable AYE: AYE-UR-LUND.

Speak for yourself chief!

pickarooney

hubba wrote: »

Of course we all pronounce Ireland incorrectly. Everyone skips the first syllable and says ARE-LUND, or worse OY-ER-LUND. We have become lazy about the first syllable AYE: AYE-UR-LUND.

What are you rambling about? There are only two syllables in the work: "ire" and "land".

seamus

KungPao wrote: »

Furhouse in Dublin.

It's FEAR - HOUSE. What a badass name!, why change it to something so wimpy?

If you're going to go making up new pronunciations just because they're badass, why not call it "DEATH-ZONE" instead?

gizmo555

Amazed no-one has mentioned my extremely frequently heard pet peeve yet: "exasperate" for "exacerbate".