How do you (mis)pronounce some words

[Kym]

Language is funny at times. Eg:
Message received from the front line in battle: Send three and four pence, we're going to a dance.
Actual message: Send reinforcements, we're going to advance!


Some common words:

Cache - kay-sh (some say cash)
Router - r-out-er (Yanks say roo-ter)
Data - dah-ta (some say day-ta)

ISO - eye-so
Which is from the Greek Isos; it is a word not an abbreviation.
It is the short form for the International Organisation for Standardisation – wacky hey!
They define it so it must be http://www.iso.org/iso/about/discover-iso_isos-name.htm

Nikon - nik-on (Yanks sometimes say nigh-kon)

What weird word variations have you heard?

:eek: :confused013 :lol:

[PH005]

How about The herb Oregano ? I have heard Americans pronounce it O-Rag-In-O. :lol:

[Kym]

Another It one...

SQL - see-quel (others S.Q.L and squeal)

Cars...

Porsche - poor-sh
Coupe - coup or coup-eh ?

On bad one is AKsed instead of asked

[Ms Monny]

and then they drop the 'h' in herb and say 'erb'!!

Not really on this line but my hubby was reading a shopping list and rang me saying "where is the dislocated coconut?" hahahahha .... explained its desiccated coconut! He still couldn't find it! :D

I use to love how my youngest boy use to say machines.....a-shee-ma-s.....and if we were going to Strathalbyn it was Scratch-albyn! LOL

[Bax]

Porsche - poor-sh

I do Poor-sha for that. It still doesn't feel quite right.

And definitely Coup for me.

[old dog]

I gotta nu neekon camewa.....:D. What about the two Ronnies and the pismronunciation of their worms....:th3:...a great skit...probably get it on utube.

[Kym]

Murds wixed, turds wisted and everyfing frack to bunt

[James T]

Nike. I say it, and so does every non-North American I know. But it's clearly supposed to be pronounced 'nigh-key' (two syllables, not one).

Ever heard an American try to say Renault? They don't even know where to start... /sweeping generalisation. :)

[Michaela]

People saying nu-cular instead of nu-clear is one of my pet hates! :D

[andylo]

My dad used to pronounce the word "Paradise" to "Par-La-Disc"....

I am not much better thu :D

[PH005]

Dont worry Kym, the way the younger generation are developing their new " Txt Speak ", in a few years we wont be able to understand a word they say. :confused013

[mudman]

Dont worry Kym, the way the younger generation are developing their new " Txt Speak ", in a few years we wont be able to understand a word they say. :confused013

i don't understand them now:confused013:confused013

[PH005]

i don't understand them now:confused013:confused013

Good call Mudman. :D

[CherylB]

Youse! Not uniquely Tasmanian (thanks to Jeff Fenech!), but certainly used a lot around here!

Just in case anyone was wondering .... the plural of "you" is ...... "you" in this strange, quirky, English language of ours!

BTW Kym ..... I'm pretty sure Americans don't call a router a "rooter" ..... that would be the English! ;)

[Adrian Fischer]

spacific ocean instead of pacific gets my goat.
"All intentsive purposes" instead of "all intents and purposes".

Mind you I used to see the word malevolent (mal-ev-olant) and pronounce it male-volent. Never out loud though but in my head when reading thank god.

[Kym]

BTW Kym ..... I'm pretty sure Americans don't call a router a "rooter" ..... that would be the English! ;)

If you've been to a CISCO network hardware presentation - I can assure you they do!

Which reminds me of year 12 at high school (1974), we were watching TV in the common room and some sport was on
and the female American exchange student comes in and asks... "what team you rootin fer?" :confused013 :rolleyes:


"I brought these fings at the shops"
"I fink you don't know how to spell"

[ameerat42]

...and then they drop the 'h' in herb and say 'erb'!! ...

It seems to be a Nth American pronounification, but I have heard a stronger version, something like "U-RRR-BS", as if the spkr had eaten quite a few and was b-URRRping. And then there are those critters pronounced "SQUIRRRLS", and there's the ongoing "WaRR ohn TERR-RR".

In a like vein, might I say the mis'use of apostrophe's is alway's a corker.

And, have you pre-ordered anything yet? How about pre-registered?
:umm::crike:

[ving]

People saying nu-cular instead of nu-clear is one of my pet hates! :Dnucular, its pronounced nucular

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[ving]

arks instead of ask... i hear it all the time :p

[James T]

There are a few strange souls who pronounce duvet - duvv-ett - and say that any other way of pronouncing it is pretentious.

Back on the car theme; Peugeot - Pyu-gott.

"It's a working progress..." instead of a work in progress. :rolleyes:

[ricstew]

mishcheevious, mischievous..........H.......aitch ( and a quote I found somewhere for something else )...."Well the letter is prounced differently in different places and in Australia we would spell it Hayche (or something like that), with the H sound, not Aich."

[Kerro]

Aluminum instead of Aluminium gets my goat

[la lumiere]

Ok...these are not really pronunciation issues... more grammar related..

...irregardless
...refer back
...ATM machine
...for free
...compliment when complement is meant

[CherylB]

There are a few strange souls who pronounce duvet - duvv-ett - and say that any other way of pronouncing it is pretentious.



Hehe! Tar-shjay (Target)!!!

(and that's very hard to represent without a phonetic alphabet!)

[ricktas]

Anarctic, rather than antartic

ViG-net not Vin-yet for Vignette

[ricktas]

Or even better:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

[Mat]

Shal we mention the kiwi's?

[jjnic]

It's a long list but at the top of mine is stomIck instead of stomAch

jj

[PH005]

Shal we mention the kiwi's?

Only if you can spell "shall" correctly. :lol:

[Kym]

Kiwi? For our bro's from UnZid

Milburn - capital of Victoria
Peck - to fill a suitcase
Pissed aside - chemical which kills insects
Pigs - for hanging out washing with
Pump - to act as agent for prostitute
Pug - large animal with a curly tail
Nin tin dough - computer game
Munner stroney - soup
Min - male of the species
Mess Kara - eye makeup
McKennock - person who fixes cars
Mere - Mayor
Leather - foam produced from soap
Lift - departed
Kiri Pecker - famous Australian businessman
Kittle crusps - potato chips
Ken's - Cairns
Jumbo - pet name for someone called Jim
Jungle Bills - Christmas carol
Inner me - enemy
Guess - vapour
Fush - marine creatures
Fitter cheney - type of pasta
Ever cardeau - avocado
Fear hear - blonde
Ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen
Ear roebucks - exercise at the gym
Duffy cult - not easy
Amejen - visualise
Day old chuck - very young poultry
Bug hut - popular recording
Bun button - been bitten by insect
Beard - a place to sleep
Sucks Peck - Half a dozen beers
Ear New Zulland - an extinct airline
Beers - large savage animals found in U.S. forests
Veerjun - mythical New Zealand maiden
One Doze - well known computer program
Brudge - structure spanning a stream
Sex - one less than sivven
Tin - one more than nine
Iggs Ecktly - Precisely
Earplane - large flying machine
Beggage Chucken - place to leave your suitcase at the earport
Sivven Sucks Sivven - large Boeing aircraft
Sivven Four Sivven - larger Boeing aircraft
Cuds - children
Pits - domestic animals
Cuttin - baby cat
Munce - usually served on toast

[PH005]

One that really gripes me is when people say O for the numeral zero. :angry0:

[PH005]

Just you wait till the Bloodesloe Kym. Then we'll see who has the last laugh. :p

[Kym]

Just you wait till the Bloodesloe Kym. Then we'll see who has the last laugh. :p

What do you speak of? A new AFL team? :cool:

[PH005]

What do you speak of? A new AFL team? :cool:

Yes. Allblacks Flog Losers . :D

[James T]

Shal we mention the kiwi's?


Only if you can spell "shall" correctly. :lol:

Mention the Kiwi's what?

/I'm with ameerat42 on the apostrophes. ;)

[ving]

Anarctic, rather than antartic

ViG-net not Vin-yet for VignetteVing yet? :p

[bobt]

I'm a little old fashioned and originally a Pom, so I am keen on people using the English rather than US versions - such as Castle (not cassel) and Nude should rhyme with Lewd (which is quite appropriate I guess).

I agree ewith Rick that people who can't pronounce Vignette should have their cameras confiscated!

[ving]

btw... vin-yet (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vignette) :p

[Bennymiata]

Americans call the car Camaro as Com-air-o.
What we call a Celica, they call it a silly-car

And Pontiac.
Pimps Or Niggers Think It's A Cadillac! (sorry if I offended anyone there with using the N word, but it doesn't have the same connotation here as it does in the US).

I had to go to the States on business last year, just after the Hey Hey it's Saturday debarcle with the 4 guys dressed in Black Face, and I was questioned on it a few times about how can we allow this to go on air etc.
After explaining that they were only re-doing a sketch they did 20 years ago, they still thought it was very rude and undermining of equal opportunities etc., until I told them that 3 of the guys were actually very dark skinned.
Americans just don't get our self-effacing humour I'm afraid.

[I @ M]

I know this thread is about mispronunciation of words in the English language but seeing as how it has examples of grammar I will ask who out there uses "revert back" or "try and" --- they are my pet hates. :D

[Analog6]

Last night I heard an NBN newsperson say the Pope was about to be beautified, rather than beatified! Bit of a difference there in outcome.

And I knew a young chap who always called those tall trees popular trees! And I have heard so many people say cutelry rather than cutlery.

[AmyK]

arks instead of ask... i hear it all the time :p

I sometimes say that, I have a slight speech problem from having to wear a plate for 3 years, then having braces for 2 years, and then another 2 years of having a plate.

I hate how Americans pronounce 'anti', and 'multi'.

[triptych]

I've noticed people actually say "LOL" instead of laughing...

[ScottM]

Mine, another grammatical one, is with the singular / plural meaning of something.

For example "so-and-so team have..." - isn't team a singular, consisting of individuals (plural), ie "so-and-so team has..."

Or "Tasmania Police are doing-such-and-such" - we do only have one police force here, don't we? Or is every member of the force a "Tasmania Police" in-itself?

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but all the I's in my head agrees.

[ameerat42]

Mine, another grammatical one, is with the singular / plural meaning of something.

For example "so-and-so team have..." - isn't team a singular, consisting of individuals (plural), ie "so-and-so team has..."

Or "Tasmania Police are doing-such-and-such" - we do only have one police force here, don't we? Or is every member of the force a "Tasmania Police" in-itself?

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but all the I's in my head agrees.

Hey, ScottM. It depends on how the collective noun is perceived as doing the action, ie: is a whole force doing an action en masse, say, or is a whole bunch of individual doing a lot of individual actions. It's not one you can strictly apply the rule of singulars (now there's something) and plurals.

If you really want to get upset about something, take a stick to those who say the likes of "...there's a lot of birds in the sky..."
Am, or sometimes A(he)m.

Edit. Upon re-reading your missive I suggest you really try saying seriously "Tasmania Police is holding a fete this weekend..."
You're right! It does grate. Now if it were "...The Tasmania Police Force is...", well, I might go, myself.

[Bennymiata]

One outstanding miss-pronunciation that we have all heard, and it relates to our hobby, is the word FILM, where some pronounce it FILEM.
I hate that pronunciation!

[Kym]

Fil-em ... only in Queensland and maybe a bit in NSW. :lol2:

[James T]

Fil-em ... only in Queensland and maybe a bit in NSW. :lol2:

People in Ireland go to watch fillums.

[wmphoto]

Only in WA can we pronounce Derby correctly (not Darby). And Albany is Al-ba-nee not All-bon-ee. :th3:

[Bennymiata]

Well, you can call Wagga Wagga, Wagga, but you can't call Woy Woy, Woy!

Why is that?

[ameerat42]

Well, you can call Wagga Wagga, Wagga, but you can't call Woy Woy, Woy!

Why is that?

Then there's Curl Curl. I Dubbo why, by I can't see why Nottingham!

[mrDooba]

I call them sandwidges I love toasted sandwidges :D

[Namus]

For years after moving up to QLD in 1993, I pronounced 'Indooroopilly' as 'Indoor-raw-loop-pilly'; only in about 2001 was my mispronouciation pointed out to me :( :o