Annoying Pronunciations.

Osgoodisgood

I have so many hangups in this area. I'm sure I'm the one with the problem.

Some of my faves have already been mentioned but here's a few more.

"Throat". I know the Hiberno thing will lead to the inevitable "troat", but how did we ever conjure up "troath"? If the "th" can be pronounced at the end then surely it can be done at the start?

"Safety". Why is this so often pronounced with three syllables? Safe-eh-tee

"Sixth". Words fail me on this one. "Sikth" is just retarded. I blame Sky Sports.

bobjim

Surely the worst of all is 'medsin'?

FFS, it's 'med-i-sin'.

The J Stands for Jay

Alessandra wrote: »

I pride myself on pronouncing my words correctly. This week one of my UK friends informed me I say 'height' in the Irish way 'heighth'. Adding an unnecessary h! Never realised I did this..

Allthose extra 'th's really annoy me.

The J Stands for Jay

Fate and faith really annoy me. When people mix these up it just shows that they don't have a clue what the words they are saying mean.

sunflower27

Thighland annoys me.

I have a friend that says fabalous instead of fabulous. Don't know why it bothers me, probably because she is the type of person that would correct anyone elses' mispronunciations.

At school, I remember girls saying George Michaels instead of George Michael.

All a bit random, but there you go, they are mine.

pickarooney

jiltloop wrote: »

I hate when people say "again" instead of "by the time". Makes no sense and is extremely irritating. Seems to be a dub thing. Hard to write out an example cos its so bizarre it doesn't look right (cos it isn't). I'll try an example though.

"It started pissing rain and again I had me coat outta me bag I was soaking wet already!".

Are they both translatable ('against' and 'by the time') by in aghaidh or something similar in Irish?

Wattle wrote: »

People who pronounce Haiti as High-Eatty.

I can't stand when people say Hatey. There's a diaeresis, dammit!

blue.jester

Just like Osgoodisgood said

"Safe-eh-tee"

The word is "safety". What's worse is when you hear it on the radio. "An advert brought to you by the Road Safe-eh-tee Authority". Whoever started that pronunciation has a special place in dyslexic hell.

Loomis

Astrix/asterix instead of asterisk

:mad:

Gophur

And Michael McMullan, yes you, Michael, of TodayFm Sports Dept

it's "Fifth", not "Fith"

and

it's "Sixth", not "Sikth"

Both appear to have surfaced in pretend-snobs in England, with some wannabe West-Brits now copying them.

Shane-KornSpace

Chimley...

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Sahajez (sausages)

demanufactured

'A din in it'

Not sure what it means ...only ever heard farmers and tinkers say it.

KungPao

sunflower27 wrote: »

Thighland annoys me.

I have a friend that says fabalous instead of fabulous. Don't know why it bothers me, probably because she is the type of person that would correct anyone elses' mispronunciations.

At school, I remember girls saying George Michaels instead of George Michael.

All a bit random, but there you go, they are mine.

Or that skateboarder fella Tony Hawks

One that gets under my skin is people saying San Paulo and the awful way people say Rio de Janeiro.

Reeoh de jineeero.

coffee_cake

sunflower27 wrote: »

Thighland annoys me.

I have a friend that says fabalous instead of fabulous. Don't know why it bothers me, probably because she is the type of person that would correct anyone elses' mispronunciations.

At school, I remember girls saying George Michaels instead of George Michael.

All a bit random, but there you go, they are mine.

stephen hawkins

Fran1985

not sure if its been said, but i want to punch people in the face (particularly nes journalists on the radio) who say Thee Ate Her instead of theatre

sunflower27

Vee-hic-col is another

An Billy Joe-ell. It's pronounced Billy Jowl.

ejmaztec

My mother used to tell me that I was going to be in "deep throuble".

sunflower27

ejmaztec wrote: »

My mother used to tell me that I was going to be in "deep throuble".

Classic. Did you ever ask where throuble is?

ejmaztec

sunflower27 wrote: »

Classic. Did you ever ask where throuble is?

I was always too busy making a run for it to ask her:eek:.

pickarooney

sunflower27 wrote: »

Vee-hic-col is another

An Billy Joe-ell. It's pronounced Billy Jowl.

Jowl? Really? I'm pretty sure it's Joal

Cee-Jay-Cee

pickarooney wrote: »

Jowl? Really? I'm pretty sure it's Joal

Yeah its Jole/Joal.

My pet hates are

MonAck-o instead of Mon-a-co

Carrib-bee-yen instead of Carra-bee-an

3hn2givr7mx1sc

sungem wrote: »

Donkey.... Spell 'monkey' and pronounce it, now spell 'donkey' and pronounce it

Most retarded reasoning ever, I've spent hours arguing this.:pac:

How do pronounce donk? Dunk is pronounced dunk, donk is pronounced with an 'o', not a 'u' sound.

welchy

Safe-it-y

Agricola

Cockney - Th fronting

"Me and me bruvver are heading back daaan to Norf Landon"

Hibernianeggs

bb1234567 wrote: »

sammidge instead of sandwich
and when british people put an r at the end of words...like hannar instead of just hanna
scon instead of scone
I hate when people call cream eggs crem eggs:p

Definitely like "lore and order":P

Hibernianeggs

I'm starting to hear this more now,"definitely" but the "nitely" part pronounced "nightly".
Wow,I love quotation marks.

dxhound2005

CJC999 wrote: »

Yeah its Jole/Joal.

My pet hates are

MonAck-o instead of Mon-a-co

Carrib-bee-yen instead of Carra-bee-an

1./kærɨˈbiːən/ (ka-rih-BEE-uhn)
2./kəˈrɪbiən/ (kuh-RIB-ee-uhn)

Both are standard; however, there are a couple proper nouns containing the word Caribbean that have a fixed pronunciation:
•Pirates of the Caribbean - uses #1
•Royal Caribbean - uses #2

AnamGlas

Dooooob-lin

Niles

sunflower27 wrote: »

Vee-hic-col is another

I recall watching a documentary in which a US law enforcer pronounced it as a Vee-hick-el (emphasis on the second syllable). His accent was similar to that of Disney's Goofy which made it more amusing.

micropig

Could you be more pacific?[/Quote]

i pronounce it this way or spacific, can't seem to say it properly and in my last job had to talk about specific heat capacity a lot, I'm scarleh thinking about it:-P

i laugh when i hear people say car-pen-ter