Most annoying mispronunciation

Vizzy

The King of Moo wrote: »

Lord Mainwaring Menzies Featherstonhaugh Beauchamp Cholmondley-Cockburn, Earl of Buccleuch.

Or "Boss" as all the lads on the site call you.

Toby Take a Bow

wolfpawnat wrote: »

They are Irish surnames so the way they are pronounced here is the correct way. Same as the way Irish people pronounce Lukasz (Polish and the u is more of a woo I have been told) as Lucas, it's wrong because the original pronunciation in the home country is the correct one. When the Irish landed in America over the last few centuries and were processed on arrival, many Irish surnames were written incorrectly and misspelled, meaning their pronunciation was on many occasion due to the new spelling, but if it is spelled the same then there is really no excuse.

You do realise that those 'Irish' names have been anglicised and so, really, you're mispronouncing them regardless? Also, surnames change their pronunciations, it happens over time, especially if you have two surnames that find themselves removed from the other. Which, in your opinion, is the correct pronunciation? My surname has at least three different pronunciations. And that's even before we go into the different (proper) Irish versions.

I would be very surprised if the pronunciation of 'Lukasz' in Polish was completely uniform. I take it there are dialects in Polish?

wolfpawnat wrote: »

And as for Kirsten, it is my sister's name. It is German, we were told by a German how to pronounce it.

This is the same Germany that has so many dialects that people from the north sometimes have difficulty understanding those from the south? As for Lukasz, I am sure different Germans will pronounce your sister's name differently.

Rastadoyle

loike!

smurfs5

Why can't some Irish people say Olly Murs's name properly? It annoys me so much.
They say it like "Olly Moooooooooooors". They sound like a distressed cow. It's "u" FFS!!!

123 LC

anyone notice the way ellen degeneres says hilarious? like 'hil-arr-ious'. It annoys me (love her though!)

NegativeCreep

I started pronouncing definitely like defi-night-ly in an ironic way a while back and now I can't stop

Aspiring

I'm not sure if I'm wrong here and missed something but did anyone else notice the way when talking about Nelson Mandela the RTE presenters say apartheid as a-par-thayed whereas I thought it's supposed to be a-par-thide.

miralize

A guy I knew from childhood used to pronounce bounce as bongse...

MrCreosote

T-shock instead of Taoiseach.

sfbonner

Digital DIJIKAL

summerskin

The King of Moo wrote: »

I hate plebs who can't pronounce my name, the idiots!!

Lord Mainwaring Menzies Featherstonhaugh Beauchamp Cholmondley-Cockburn, Earl of Buccleuch.

Lord Mannering Mingus Fanshaw Beecham Chumley-Coeburn. Earl of Buckloo, please to meet you.

I'm Sir St. John Dalziel Leveson-Gower Belvoir Leominster, Marquis of Slaithwaite and Heckmondwike.

Sam Kade

smurfs5 wrote: »

Why can't some Irish people say Olly Murs's name properly? It annoys me so much.
They say it like "Olly Moooooooooooors". They sound like a distressed cow. It's "u" FFS!!!

Olly who?

Here Precious2

don't get me started , The word Specific. Don't know how many people I know can't say the word........When using the word they say "PACIFIC"....wrecks my head:mad:

ButtersSuki

Here Precious2 wrote: »

don't get me started , The word Specific. Don't know how many people I know can't say the word........When using the word they say "PACIFIC"....wrecks my head:mad:

There was a guy I worked with who used to always say "pacifically"; I used to reply with "atlantically". I still think he's confused.

wilson10

123 LC wrote: »

anyone notice the way ellen degeneres says hilarious? like 'hil-arr-ious'. It annoys me (love her though!)

Yeah he's great

pickarooney

wolfpawnat wrote: »

How do you pronounce it then? The American's pronounce it i-er-land, it is a two syllable word not three.

And as for Kirsten, it is my sister's name. It is German, we were told by a German how to pronounce it. What people find annoying is a personal thing, what irks me may not irk you and vice versa.

Yes, two syllables, 'ire' as in anger, to rhyme with 'hire' and 'lyre' but not 'higher' and 'liar'.

Kirsten has a long 'i' in German (like Keersten thus) so your pronouncing it 'Kursten' (which you're entitled to do) is the equivalent of an English Cahill pronouncing her name Kay-hill.

mike65

There is a fella on rte radio right now who has ****ed up every th sound for the 10 minutes he has been on air.

pickarooney

Aspiring wrote: »

I'm not sure if I'm wrong here and missed something but did anyone else notice the way when talking about Nelson Mandela the RTE presenters say apartheid as a-par-thayed whereas I thought it's supposed to be a-par-thide.

No, there's no 'th' sound. The t and h are pronouced separately.

homemadecider wrote: »

I'm still trying to get my head around how anyone could pronounce 'flour' with only one syllable. Honestly I can't figure it out! Same goes for 'hour' - it has two syllables.

'hour' and 'flour' have one syllable in my accent; 'power' and 'flower' have two. Some people are unable to pronounce them, or even hear them as one syllable, like with 'film'.

homemadecider

pickarooney wrote: »

'hour' and 'flour' have one syllable in my accent; 'power' and 'flower' have two. Some people are unable to pronounce them, or even hear them as one syllable, like with 'film'.

Film has one syllable, I agree.

But how do you pronounce 'flour'? I say it exactly like 'flower' so can't get my head around the other way. Is it like 'flur' or something the way you say it?

Lollipops23

Pacific/specific and sangwhich are the ones that bother me the most.

I was in a cafe a while ago and there was a middle aged woman who KEPT saying sangwhich in all seriousness. There was no way she didn't know it was wrong, she just didn't fancy speaking properly that day.

Speak like a grown up, woman. :mad:

circadian

I dislike the way I say how now brown cow.

Solair

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Hostible is more moronic

Both are usually a speech impediment or a sign that someone may be a bit hard of hearing.

There are loads of people who don't know they're slightly deaf.

666irishguy

The way a certain RTE newsreader pronounces 'sexual' she always say sexsual.

Fionne

Fifth is not fith
fifty is not fitty
Dust is not desht

Grr!

Some others are gramattically wrong but I quite like.

Hundred pronounced as hundert
Wednesday pronouned as Winge-dy (as in rhymes with whinge)

I must say I prefer people on TV who use their own accent rather than attempting to adopt a neutral accent that just makes them all sound alike and not in a good way.

SicklySweet

Digital - I've heard people say it like Digi-kal

Another one goes back to when i was in school and annoys me to this day is "chung gums"


It's chewing gum you dummy!

homeless student

CaraMay wrote: »

Just heard a woman say fabolous aghhhh it's not 'fabolous' it's fabulous!! People who say disSipline instead of discipline are very annoying.

she was clearly talking about this guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuFfPdlfmzo

runawaybishop

asshume instead of assume

DeanAustin

Califawnya annoys me - my mother does it all the time. Can't say much else really gets on my nerves.

One that makes me laugh is instead of "Do you remember", you get "Jamember".

Loomis

Astrix instead of asterisk.

TheDriver

"bollix", ITS ya f**king BOLLOCKS

LindowMan

The King of Moo wrote: »

I hate plebs who can't pronounce my name, the idiots!!

Lord Mainwaring Menzies Featherstonhaugh Beauchamp Cholmondley-Cockburn, Earl of Buccleuch.

I can pronounce it.

It's pronounced like this: Lord Mannaring Mingies Fanshaw Beecham Chumly-Coburn, Earl of Buckloo.

You can't get a more British name than that.

Funkfield

The King of Moo wrote: »

I hate plebs who can't pronounce my name, the idiots!!

Lord Mainwaring Menzies Featherstonhaugh Beauchamp Cholmondley-Cockburn, Earl of Buccleuch.

Weren't you married to Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, 3rd Viscountess of Moldavia?

Wurly wrote: »

My mam INSISTS on calling the local Spar, Paddy's. Because it was called Paddy's about 30 years ago.

I still call it Paddy's......

pickarooney

homemadecider wrote: »

Film has one syllable, I agree.

But how do you pronounce 'flour'? I say it exactly like 'flower' so can't get my head around the other way. Is it like 'flur' or something the way you say it?

[flaʊ̯ɹ]

Daveysil15

Give us a cup of tay and a corn baif sandwich. Ye can't bait that mait.

kilkenny12

Hemlet instead of helmet

Seriously though, some of ye (lol) are so pretentious. There's nothing wrong with leaving out a few t's or adding an extra syllable in words like film. Different accents are natural and interesting ffs.

LindowMan

Funkfield wrote: »

Weren't you married to Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, 3rd Viscountess of Moldavia?

Yeah, I was. Her name is pronounced Lady Smith.

Daveysil15

kilkenny12 wrote: »

Hemlet instead of helmet

Seriously though, some of ye (lol) are so pretentious. There's nothing wrong with leaving out a few t's or adding an extra syllable in words like film. Different accents are natural and interesting ffs.

Amen to that. Even within our own country there's so many different accents and ways of pronouncing words. You can't please everybody.

TadhgL16

Do you know? being replaced with Joe?

Hidalgo

If people from every corner of Ireland spoke and pronounced their words in exactly the same way, would the country not be far more bland?
Likewise if everyone in the English speaking world pronounced every word the exact same, we'd live in a fairly boring world

danslevent

Was typing the word 'vulnerable' earlier and realised I thought it was spelled 'vunerable'..I guess I don't pronounce the L.

I am one of those annoying people.

kingcobra

This one doesn't seemed to have been mentioned yet: I absolutely despise when RTE presenters or politicians pronounce "fi-nance" as "finn-ance" despite every ordinary person saying the former. Just another way for them to put distance between themselves and us peasants :rolleyes:







Well as far as I can see, most ordinary people say "fi-nance," or maybe I'm deluded :pac:

Sponge Bob

Gash ...it is Gáis actually.

Uiscí instead of Iascaigh.

And thats just what the muppets in RTE manage on a regular basis.

Hidalgo

kingcobra wrote: »

This one doesn't seemed to have been mentioned yet: I absolutely despise when RTE presenters or politicians pronounce "fi-nance" as "finn-ance" despite every ordinary person saying the former. Just another way for them to put distance between themselves and us peasants :rolleyes:







Well as far as I can see, most ordinary people say "fi-nance," or maybe I'm deluded :pac:

It's definitely a Brian Dobson thing anyway.

Condatis

Data pronounced as DATEa.

Status pronounced as STATEus.

summerskin

Condatis wrote: »

Data pronounced as DATEa.

Status pronounced as STATEus.

neither of which are mispronunciations, and are completely acceptable.

NegativeCreep

How do people decide whether they're mispronunciations or acceptable pronunciations?

summerskin

NegativeCreep wrote: »

How do people decide whether they're mispronunciations or acceptable pronunciations?

Dictionaries.

NegativeCreep

summerskin wrote: »

Dictionaries.

Yeah but how do the people that write the dictionary decide?

RainMaker

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Yeah but how do the people that write the dictionary decide?

They use a thesaurus :P

jmcc

NegativeCreep wrote: »

How do people decide whether they're mispronunciations or acceptable pronunciations?

It is an irregular verb: I pronounce, you mispronounce, he mangles it completely. Pronounciation changes with external influences. The RTE/Dortspeak is influenced by East Enders, Home and Away, failed attempts at BBC received pronounciation (RP), Northern Irish and other imported UK programmes whereas TV3 is influenced by imported US programmes.

Regards...jmcc