Most annoying mispronunciation

Deise Vu

Often heard from people who are paid handsomely to speak on radio an TV: Fillums for Films.

On a personal note I didn't correct my brother-in-law when he pronounced 'anathema' as "anna - thema" thinking to myself that only a pretentious arszehole would use the word twice in his lifetime.

Apparently he is a pretentious arzehole. Now, me being Irish and it being too late for correction without embarrassing him, I will have to murder him.

Badly Drunk Boy

earlytobed wrote: »

I live in a rural area of the south east and there is an alternative way of pronouncing a lot of things. Some that come to mind are:

weak tea = wake tay
cold peas = cowld pays
beat with hurley = bate with hurl
heap of onion sandwiches = hape of ingin sangwidges
threw the ball = thrun the ball
no difference = no differs
cheap = chape

apologies if some of these have already been mentioned

That's some lifestyle you lead! :pac:

You'd probably be a fan of the hairdressers in north Kildare called Clane Cuts. (I don't know if it's still there.)

kyeev

My old English teacher used to pronounce minutes as min-nuits.
I could never get my head around that, as she was non-accented apart from that (i.e. Irish accent but you wouldn't know what part of the country).

taylor3

Heard a woman in the radio today talking about not getting 'ped' she meant 'paid' each time she said it I was like no please stop saying it.

HeidiHeidi

taylor3 wrote: »

Heard a woman in the radio today talking about not getting 'ped' she meant 'paid' each time she said it I was like no please stop saying it.

Reminds me of the George Michael/Wham song - "Last Christmas, I GEV you my heart" - used to put a friends mother into orbit every time she heard it, that's all I can think of any time I hear it to this day

Means Of Escape

leck wrote: »

No, gray and grey are pronounced the same way irrespective of spelling. Likewise color and colour.

VonLuck is making the point that there are two different pronunciations for aluminium/aluminum, which are reflecting in the spelling.

I was giving examples of the different ways words in US compared to Europe are spelled not in their pronunciation .
Are the examples given incorrect like listed aluminium in the US

indioblack

kyeev wrote: »

My old English teacher used to pronounce minutes as min-nuits.
I could never get my head around that, as she was non-accented apart from that (i.e. Irish accent but you wouldn't know what part of the country).

I think some of it is to do with different pronunciations of the same language.
So my late aunt in Cork spoke of going on holiday to Port-u-gal, whereas for me it would have been Por-tu-gal.
Or the radio ad decades ago for saf-e-ty matches as opposed to safe-ty matches.
The main thing was that in both cases the meaning was understood.
Charles Dickens - "Winders, w-i-n-d-e-r-s - go 'an clean 'em".

maudgonner

kyeev wrote: »

My old English teacher used to pronounce minutes as min-nuits.
I could never get my head around that, as she was non-accented apart from that (i.e. Irish accent but you wouldn't know what part of the country).

You just reminded me of my history teacher who pronounced Stalin as Stallion

There's an RSA ad that drives me crazy when the guy tells you to check your tyres' thread depth. Aarrgh!

HeidiHeidi

maudgonner wrote: »

There's an RSA ad that drives me crazy when the guy tells you to check your tyres' thread depth. Aarrgh!

I've heard this so often at this stage that I've started to question what actually IS the correct word?

I've always known it to be tread, but am now doubting myself.

Am I right?

maudgonner

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I've heard this so often at this stage that I've started to question what actually IS the correct word?

I've always known it to be tread, but am now doubting myself.

Am I right?

Yep.


Unless we're both wrong, of course

Cee-Jay-Cee

Kildare people saying 'again' instead of against. Don't they know it's s completely different word? Are they just too lazy to finish the damn word? Either ways it's infuriating.