Mispronunciation/ Poor grammar that annoys you?

suicide_circus

Birthday in which the 'd' is silent

Long Gone

suicide_circus wrote: »

Birthday in which the 'd' is silent

Silent 'd' s are unforgivable right enough. :mad:

I must admit that shortly after I moved abroad from Ireland I "sold out" and started to pronounce all my previously silent "t"s. I probably shouldn't have done, but to be honest I just got a bit fed up with people trying to extract the urine. No more turty trees for me.....:o I'm now strictly a thirty three man.

OldNotWIse

suicide_circus wrote: »

Birthday in which the 'd' is silent

Birthay? Isn't that harder to say?

Has "bockle" instead of "bottle" been done?

ErnieBert

The constant mispronunciation of place names:

Chicargo for Chicago
Shligo for Sligo
Cark for Cork
Tarone for Tyrone
New Yark for New York
Oireland for Ireland
Idily for Italy

garancafan

Long Gone wrote: »

Do you remember floppy disks ? Originally floppy disks (usually made by Verbatim) were actually floppy, about 6" in diameter. In Ireland / UK when the smaller 4" plastic encased disks came along and replaced the 6" disks we continued to call them floppy disks. In South Africa they (much more sensibly and accurately actually) called the new 4" disks "stiffie disks" or just "stiffies". When I went to work there I was a bit taken aback the first time our (really fit Africaans blonde .;)) secretary came over to my desk and asked me if I had a stiffie ! .:D

My own interaction with computers predates floppy disks - I operated initially with cassette tapes! My first introduction to flopppy disks was on a machine-linked computer (ie not a PC) that utilised a 16" floppy disk! So my response to your Afrikaans blonde could have been .."no, but I have a 16" floppy"!

LorMal

Henry Sidney wrote: »

Any time I would be talking to someone about leaving the house in the rain. I would never say "bring" anything with you, it's simply wrong. Only the Irish would do that. Just pick a language and stick to it.

That is definitely very poor grammar. And you can take that with you home to England.

gizmo555

Contrary to the thread title, I don't actually find this one annoying. Because it seems to be (unless you know different) confined to Waterford, I regard it more as an endearing local idiosyncrasy.

I'm talking about the way Waterford people often mangle the verb to have, e.g., "I has a blaa.", "He have two blaas."

(Blaas are another thing I like about Waterford!)

LorMal

gizmo555 wrote: »

Contrary to the thread title, I don't actually find this one annoying. Because it seems to be (unless you know different) confined to Waterford, I regard more as an endearing local idiosyncrasy.

I'm talking about the way Waterford people often mangle the verb to have, e.g., "I has a blaa.", "He have two blaas."

(Blaas are another thing I like about Waterford!)

I worked in Waterford for a few months. Very nice people in general but they did go on and on about Blaas and how special and unique they are to Waterford.
White floury bread baps. Not exciting.

gizmo555

LorMal wrote: »

I worked in Waterford for a few months. Very nice people in general but they did go on and on about Blaas and how special and unique they are to Waterford.
White floury bread baps. Not exciting.

Heresy!

Not2Good

Didn't the Waterford Blaa get some (European?) recognition in the last year or two? Oh yes ….. PGI status (Protected Geographical Indications) as a European Protected Food Product. And oh yes ….. " YUUUUMMMMYYYYYY"

LorMal wrote: »

I worked in Waterford for a few months. Very nice people in general but they did go on and on about Blaas and how special and unique they are to Waterford.
White floury bread baps. Not exciting.

HeidiHeidi

There's a whole half-hour documentary on them tonight on TG4

TheSheriff

Yous,,,,,,,,,

I absolutely detest the term "yous", its you or him/her/us - stop saying "yous"

FunLover18

TheSheriff wrote: »

Yous,,,,,,,,,

I absolutely detest the term "yous", its you or him/her/us - stop saying "yous"

I'm a 'ye' man myself. I hate 'yous', rarely hear it outside Dublin though

garancafan

I enjoy "yous", particularly the possessive "yizzer"!

LorMal

FunLover18 wrote: »

I'm a 'ye' man myself. I hate 'yous', rarely hear it outside Dublin though

'Ye' is an abomination. I just cannot grasp why so many Irish people cannot understand that the plural of you is you. Is it that difficult?
Grrrrr.
And as for sangwidge, sammwidge etc...WTF???

HeidiHeidi

He "pled" guilty. (This may actually be correct for all I know, but it drives me nuts!)

I "text" him. (As in five minutes ago, in the past.)

LorMal

gizmo555 wrote: »

Heresy!

Honestly, I tried to get excited but just couldn't....(I'm Blaa impotent)

kleefarr

It's 'Drowned' not Drowneded!

It's BEAT not BET!!

garancafan

It's "hanged" not "hung" (unless it was already dead).

FunLover18

LorMal wrote: »

'Ye' is an abomination. I just cannot grasp why so many Irish people cannot understand that the plural of you is you. Is it that difficult?
Grrrrr.
And as for sangwidge, sammwidge etc...WTF???

Well, 'ye' is actually a legitimate Old English term, and yes I know we don't speak Old English anymore but sure we're always taking bits and pieces from others languages.

'Yous' is the abomination.

FunLover18

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

He "pled" guilty. (This may actually be correct for all I know, but it drives me nuts!)

I "text" him. (As in five minutes ago, in the past.)

It's 'pleaded'. On that note I know someone who used to think the past tense of clean was 'clen' as in 'I clen my room yesterday'

Pherekydes

garancafan wrote: »

It's "hanged" not "hung" (unless it was already dead).

He was hanged like a horse.

Doesn't sound right.

Here's another one: Stephenses. St Stephenses day, St Stephenses Green.

KungPao

Pherekydes wrote: »

He was hanged like a horse.

Doesn't sound right.

Here's another one: Stephenses. St Stephenses day, St Stephenses Green.

I wonder if anybody says Jervises street? :pac:

_Kaiser_

Wreckless instead of RECKLESS

Pherekydes

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Wreckless instead of RECKLESS

Is that a mispronunciation?

Here's another one I've noticed lately on Newstalk: ath-eh-lete. It's athlete.

AnLonDubh

LorMal wrote: »

'Ye' is an abomination. I just cannot grasp why so many Irish people cannot understand that the plural of you is you. Is it that difficult?
Grrrrr.
And as for sangwidge, sammwidge etc...WTF???

Ye is the original correct plural, Shakespeare uses 'ye' for instance. You as the plural is a alteration that emerged in Southern English dialects, other dialects kept 'ye'.

NIMAN

medjium instead of medium
and
witch instead of with (Matt Cooper!!)

Judgement Day

I notice recently that Newstalk's Ian Guider has got over his problems addressing Jonathan Healy by calling him Jonno instead of Jonnatin. Another university graduate no doubt.

pickarooney

LorMal wrote: »

'Ye' is an abomination. I just cannot grasp why so many Irish people cannot understand that the plural of you is you. Is it that difficult?
Grrrrr.
And as for sangwidge, sammwidge etc...WTF???

Yes, it is difficult when you need to differentiate between singular an plural, which gives rise to regional solutions such as ye/yous/you guys/y'all/you lot/youse boyz/yinz...

'Ye' was the singular in British English back in the day. For some unfathomable reason they discarded it and kept the plural for both.

pickarooney

FunLover18 wrote: »

It's 'pleaded'. On that note I know someone who used to think the past tense of clean was 'clen' as in 'I clen my room yesterday'

'Pled' is a perfectly correct form of the preterite of 'plead'.

AnLonDubh

pickarooney wrote: »

'Ye' was the singular in British English back in the day. For some unfathomable reason they discarded it and kept the plural for both.

Ye was the nominative plural, where as you was the accusative plural:

Ye find the horse.
The horse findeth you.

Thou was the nominative singular and Thee the accusative singular.

Thou findest the horse.
The horse findeth thee.

Slot Machine

Literally everything annoys me. My head literally exploded from the annoyance. I am literally dead right now and literally typing this as a ghost.

garancafan

AnLonDubh wrote: »

Ye was the nominative plural, where as you was the accusative plural:

Ye find the horse.
The horse findeth you.

Thou was the nominative singular and Thee the accusative singular.

Thou findest the horse.
The horse findeth thee.

Agreed and the genitive plural in my dialect is "yizzer";)

eisenberg1

Slot Machine wrote: »

Literally everything annoys me. My head literally exploded from the annoyance. I am literally dead right now and literally typing this as a ghost.

You need to go to the Trivial things that annoy you" thread:D

gizmo555

This is one that I'd forgotten how much I'm irked by, until I saw it again in the paper today.

"Flaunting" a law would be waving the law about and going "Hey, look at this law!"

If the intended meaning is open disregard for a rule or law, the word is flout.

If you've got good grammar, flaunt it . . .

ezra_pound

AnLonDubh wrote: »

Ye was the nominative plural, where as you was the accusative plural:

Ye find the horse.
The horse findeth you.

Thou was the nominative singular and Thee the accusative singular.

Thou findest the horse.
The horse findeth thee.

That's slightly simplified. Remember that there was a polite and impolite version also.

MJ23

Judgement Day wrote: »

I notice recently that Newstalk's Ian Guider has got over his problems addressing Jonathan Healy by calling him Jonno instead of Jonnatin. Another university graduate no doubt.

I have to switch station when that fella is on.
"Wit tanks to Grant Tornton"

FunLover18

MJ23 wrote: »

I have to switch station when that fella is on.
"Wit tanks to Grant Tornton"

I had to stop listening to the movies on George Hook because Philip Molloy has the exact same problem

LynnGrace

gizmo555 wrote: »

This is one that I'd forgotten how much I'm irked by, until I saw it again in the paper today.

"Flaunting" a law would be waving the law about and going "Hey, look at this law!"

If the intended meaning is open disregard for a rule or law, the word is flout.

If you've got good grammar, flaunt it . . .

Oh yes. I just laugh when I see it now. It's so often flaunted , I mean flouted , I mean...