Author Topic: Pronunciation that makes you cringe (Read 148757 times)

pcolbeck · « **Reply #825 on:** 08 November, 2021, 01:38:17 pm »

Cant remember who it was now but they were English. A documentary on ancient Egypt and they kept saying "oboe-lisk". I'd take either "ob-o-lisk" or "ob-a-lisk" but how they managed to get a woodwind musical instrument into their pronunciation beats me and grated horribly.

T42 · « **Reply #826 on:** 08 November, 2021, 02:58:17 pm »

Then there's US resprat'ry vs UK respiratory vs Dr. John Campbell resp-eye-ratory.

cygnet · « **Reply #827 on:** 08 November, 2021, 08:56:00 pm »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 08 November, 2021, 01:38:17 pm

Cant remember who it was now but they were English. A documentary on ancient Egypt and they kept saying "oboe-lisk". I'd take either "ob-o-lisk" or "ob-a-lisk" but how they managed to get a woodwind musical instrument into their pronunciation beats me and grated horribly.

Maybe never read any Asterix books?

Moleman76 · « **Reply #828 on:** 15 November, 2021, 08:34:05 am »

Quote from: T42 on 08 November, 2021, 08:22:05 am

FWIW I learnt to drive in Germany, where gas is the colloquial term for petrol & diesel

Further FWIW, over a dozen years ago I rented an automobile in Aberdeen. The rental agent pointed out the location for fuel filling and informed me "this car uses diesel petrol".

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #829 on:** 27 November, 2021, 09:25:00 pm »

TV's Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes has just referred to the “Omnicron” variant of Coronalurgi. Nasty cough she’s got too.

Pingu · « **Reply #830 on:** 28 November, 2021, 12:14:52 am »

Doesn't she know it's the Orinoco variant

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #831 on:** 28 November, 2021, 01:35:16 am »

I guess she's going with the flow.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #832 on:** 28 November, 2021, 11:55:16 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 28 November, 2021, 01:35:16 am

I guess she's going with the flow.

Lateral thinking there Mr L.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #833 on:** 10 December, 2021, 07:13:10 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 27 November, 2021, 09:25:00 pm

TV's Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes has just referred to the “Omnicron” variant of Coronalurgi. Nasty cough she’s got too.

Gagh! Now C4 News are at it! Just stop it!

Efrogwr · « **Reply #834 on:** 10 December, 2021, 07:27:29 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 02 September, 2021, 06:21:17 pm

I know I should cut TV's Lyse Doucet some slack given that she hails from rural Neptune [“New Brunswick” – Ed.] but her not-infrequent referring to the Afghan capital as “Cobble” is starting to grate.

At the start of the Soviet fuckup in Afghanistan BBC news readers started to refer to it as Corbel.

Old documents in the India Office records list it as Kabol or Kabool... the latter is close to how I pronounce it.

ian · « **Reply #835 on:** 10 December, 2021, 08:46:36 pm »

As I bumbled through an early morning meeting about ontology-independent knowledge architecture and centroid nodal complacency paradigms (or something like that, this is incidentally my life) it occurred to me that a schism had developed without my noticing.

IT-eration versus EYE-teration.

Bring it on.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #836 on:** 10 December, 2021, 11:44:34 pm »

Thingy, umm, not James Naughtie, on the Toady programme, probably Justin Webb pronounced the popular contraction for a biographical film as Bi-opic.

No Christmas card for you Justin.

Jaded · « **Reply #837 on:** 10 December, 2021, 11:59:10 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 01 April, 2021, 05:51:30 pm

Someone on C4 News reporting from Furryboottoon saying the city is famous for 'oil and granight'.

Grab a granight used to be a thing in night clubs?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #838 on:** 11 December, 2021, 01:04:46 am »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 10 December, 2021, 11:44:34 pm

Thingy, umm, not James Naughtie, on the Toady programme, probably Justin Webb pronounced the popular contraction for a biographical film as Bi-opic.

No Christmas card for you Justin.

I've encountered that one before, and it’s definitely in the same bracket of cringe-induction as the newspaper reviewer who referred to Iain Banks' novel Espedair Street as “a rock biopic”

Pingu · « **Reply #839 on:** 11 December, 2021, 12:11:57 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 10 December, 2021, 11:44:34 pm

Thingy, umm, not James Naughtie, on the Toady programme, probably Justin Webb pronounced the popular contraction for a biographical film as Bi-opic.

No Christmas card for you Justin.

We had a discussion about that at work once. Everyone thought I was wrong pronouncing it as bio-pic

Then someone looked it up on teh interwebs

hellymedic · « **Reply #840 on:** 11 December, 2021, 06:44:06 pm »

You mean it doesn't rhyme with 'myopic'?

Tim Hall · « **Reply #841 on:** 11 December, 2021, 08:11:36 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 10 December, 2021, 11:44:34 pm

Thingy, umm, not James Naughtie, on the Toady programme, probably Justin Webb pronounced the popular contraction for a biographical film as Bi-opic.

No Christmas card for you Justin.

See also Myrie C, off of Mastermind that I caught up on, using that iPlayer that they have these days.

ian · « **Reply #842 on:** 11 December, 2021, 08:16:04 pm »

I rhyme it with myopic. Bite me, nincompoops.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #843 on:** 13 December, 2021, 05:23:58 pm »

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=116389.msg2522361#msg2522361

Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2020, 06:49:49 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 28 July, 2020, 11:08:20 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 28 July, 2020, 08:39:25 am
See also people who pronounce biopic, bi-opic.

Kill them. AND their families. With fire. Oh yes.

The only thing worse is the cover blurb on my copy of "Espedair Street", which calls said book a "biopic".

To rhyme with “myopic”?

As in

There once was a third-rate biopic
Whose viewers were somewhat myopic.
These short-sighted dolts,
Unaware of its faults,
Actually thought the film was rather good.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #844 on:** 08 January, 2022, 04:52:25 pm »

I've just been offered that classic Italian dish Vegetable Do' Piazza

L CC · « **Reply #845 on:** 10 January, 2022, 08:10:49 pm »

S'dentry. I always say said-en-tarry.

Am I wrong or is this man an idiot?

Paul · « **Reply #846 on:** 10 January, 2022, 11:55:47 pm »

Quote from: fboab on 10 January, 2022, 08:10:49 pm

S'dentry. I always say said-en-tarry.

Am I wrong or is this man an idiot?

I’d like to know the answer because an ex laughed like a drain at me when I pronounced it sedENtary and I took her word for it. Sort of relieved to find I’m not alone (though we may both be wrong).

pcolbeck · « **Reply #847 on:** 11 January, 2022, 09:12:09 am »

Quote from: Paul on 10 January, 2022, 11:55:47 pm

Quote from: fboab on 10 January, 2022, 08:10:49 pm
S'dentry. I always say said-en-tarry.

Am I wrong or is this man an idiot?
I’d like to know the answer because an ex laughed like a drain at me when I pronounced it sedENtary and I took her word for it. Sort of relieved to find I’m not alone (though we may both be wrong).

No idea. I've always pronounced it "sed N tree"

rafletcher · « **Reply #848 on:** 11 January, 2022, 09:14:31 am »

Similarly, sed-ent-tree.

Nuncio · « **Reply #849 on:** 11 January, 2022, 10:03:00 am »

It's only sed-an-try if you're sitting in the NW of France. Anywhere else it's just idle sit.