I found this funny,
this morning while flicking through the news channels I came a cross a Fox News report about rich Americans going to live in tax havens and there was a map showing the various places where they where going and the presenter was reeling of names of the map, and when he said Guernsey or rather Gur-nes- say I thought that was quite funny:D
Sorry to use Americans as a scapegoat again... but.. when Americans pronounce Moscow like Moss-COW instead of Moss-coe. Also Glass-gow instead of Glaz-goe for Glasgow.
the parish was st. Mary le burn as in Ty burn, a popular tree for hanging catholic "strange fruit". In time it was renamed St Mary le Bone, so I guess that is how it should be pronounced... Mind you what about the haringey vs haringay? Location Vs municipal council.
There is no such place as 'Haringay'!
There is Haringey, which is the London Borough.
And there is Harringay, which is a local area, within the borough of Haringey!
Persons originating from southern England (such as myself) pronounce Bath, Path and Laugh as Barth, Parth and Larth. Maths is pronounced as it is spelt, I have never heard it being pronounced as Marths, then again I do not like shortened versions of words and therefore say the full word Mathematics.
Glass, Pass and Past are pronounced here in southern England as Glarse, Parse and Parst.
It sometimes suits northerners to point out the incorrectness of the long 'a'. This happened at the last place I worked. Someone would ask "Have you a glarss I can borrow?". Answer: "No, but we've got a glass, though":D
But there's a newsreader on the late night News 24, who takes this too far and pronounces 'half' as 'haff', which is quite annoying. "We'll be reviewing the papers in haff an hour". Someone should tell him. :mad:
I totally agree, us northeners tend to say words such as bath, glass etc correctly, however I do pronounce plaster and plasterer wrong with a long a or ar
One of our local radio presenters who says Twenny as in Twenny Twenny cricket, Thirdy and Fordy, instead of Twenty,Thirty and Forty. It sounds horrible.
The 'Smashy and Nicey' school of DJ-ing is still alive and well in the northern provinces then!
Radio 2 DJ Steve Wright used to mis-pronounce words all the time on Radio 1 and 2 and I suppose he thought it was funny/charming: 'skelington' and 'chimley' being the prime offenders that stick in my mind.
As an aside, I haven't listened to him for years but I'll bet if I tuned in tomorrow he'd still be mispronouncing words, reading vacuous 'Factoids' and 'sucking up' in celebrity interviews.
When people say the Letter H like haich it should be said without the huh sound - 'Aitch'
I must admit, I do this
I had a singing tutor when young and she used to make me say/sing it like that along with rolling my Rs and emphasizing my Bs, Ds and Ts. God help if you were lazy with your Ts
For my own hates though, both spoken and typed aks instead of ask and teh instead of the. A friend used to be terrible for it to the point where I stopped responding to her if she said either.
'Interpretate' instead of 'Interpret'.
'Many a times' instead of 'Many a time'.
'Pacific' instead of 'Specific'.
'Probly' instead of 'Probably'.
'Upmost' instead of 'Utmost'.
'Fortay' instead of 'Fort' when saying Forte.
There is no bloody RRRR in Newcastle you jibbering idiots (in the majority of cases)
and before anyone says it yes film does have a U in it
Is it Newcastle or Newcastle ?
The Newcastle pronunciation seems to have emerged from nowhere in the past 10 years or so. I never heard anyone pronounce it that way before.
Perhaps I'm getting a bit old, but when I was a bit younger people used to say contributing whereas everyone seems to say contributing these days. Also Islamist rather than Islamist
The one that really irritates me is harassment. The American pronunciation seems to have taken over completely.
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this morning while flicking through the news channels I came a cross a Fox News report about rich Americans going to live in tax havens and there was a map showing the various places where they where going and the presenter was reeling of names of the map, and when he said Guernsey or rather Gur-nes- say I thought that was quite funny:D
People who pronounce "west" as "wesht"
Like pish?
There is no such place as 'Haringay'!
There is Haringey, which is the London Borough.
And there is Harringay, which is a local area, within the borough of Haringey!
However, both are pronounced the same.
Newcastle pronounced newcarrsle
grass pronounces grarrss
There is no bloody RRRR in Newcastle you jibbering idiots (in the majority of cases)
and before anyone says it yes film does have a U in it
Vice versa pronounced "vicer versa".
I did one of those the other day. More of a spelling mental block.
It sometimes suits northerners to point out the incorrectness of the long 'a'. This happened at the last place I worked. Someone would ask "Have you a glarss I can borrow?". Answer: "No, but we've got a glass, though":D
But there's a newsreader on the late night News 24, who takes this too far and pronounces 'half' as 'haff', which is quite annoying. "We'll be reviewing the papers in haff an hour". Someone should tell him. :mad:
Oh yeh and filum
drives me mad!!!
The 'Smashy and Nicey' school of DJ-ing is still alive and well in the northern provinces then!
Radio 2 DJ Steve Wright used to mis-pronounce words all the time on Radio 1 and 2 and I suppose he thought it was funny/charming: 'skelington' and 'chimley' being the prime offenders that stick in my mind.
As an aside, I haven't listened to him for years but I'll bet if I tuned in tomorrow he'd still be mispronouncing words, reading vacuous 'Factoids' and 'sucking up' in celebrity interviews.
If it wasn't so serious, when someone says "oh he's got prostrate cancer", I'm so tempted to ask if he got it from lying down a lot
Chimley - recently looking for a new house and the owner explained all about the "Chimley breast".
Math - I'm guessing the 's' fell off the boat on the way over to America.
Expresso - There's a coffee shop near me called "Classico Expresso". I want to give them the benefit of the doubt but I just can't.
But the one that has me spitting at the TV whenever I hear it is "Congradulations". Arrrrgggghhhhh!!!
I must admit, I do this
I had a singing tutor when young and she used to make me say/sing it like that along with rolling my Rs and emphasizing my Bs, Ds and Ts. God help if you were lazy with your Ts
For my own hates though, both spoken and typed aks instead of ask and teh instead of the. A friend used to be terrible for it to the point where I stopped responding to her if she said either.
Kids - instead of children :mad:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=341630
'Many a times' instead of 'Many a time'.
'Pacific' instead of 'Specific'.
'Probly' instead of 'Probably'.
'Upmost' instead of 'Utmost'.
'Fortay' instead of 'Fort' when saying Forte.
Is it Newcastle or Newcastle ?
The Newcastle pronunciation seems to have emerged from nowhere in the past 10 years or so. I never heard anyone pronounce it that way before.
Perhaps I'm getting a bit old, but when I was a bit younger people used to say contributing whereas everyone seems to say contributing these days. Also Islamist rather than Islamist
The one that really irritates me is harassment. The American pronunciation seems to have taken over completely.