Author Topic: Pronunciation that makes you cringe (Read 149073 times)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #350 on:** 21 June, 2016, 10:35:21 am »

Like this:

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #351 on:** 21 June, 2016, 10:40:44 am »

T42 · « **Reply #352 on:** 21 June, 2016, 10:42:24 am »

In France it still rhymes with bike, because the the Arabic verb "to fuck" has been adopted into French as "niquer". So if your name is Nicolas watch out how you introduce yourself, esp to Arabs. Saying "je m'appelle Neek" to someone's sister could be fatal.

T42 · « **Reply #353 on:** 15 August, 2016, 04:20:15 pm »

The US pronunciation of "buoy" as "booie".

rogerzilla · « **Reply #354 on:** 15 August, 2016, 08:37:28 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 15 August, 2016, 04:20:15 pm

The US pronunciation of "buoy" as "booie".

Apparently restricted to certain parts of the US (they say "boy" elsewhere) but notorious for its use in "Crimson Tide".

T42 · « **Reply #355 on:** 16 August, 2016, 07:33:36 am »

It's bouée in French, so it's probably in Louisiana or next door to Canada that it's booie.

ian · « **Reply #356 on:** 16 August, 2016, 08:50:27 am »

You'll be pleased to know that Lifebuoy soap is pronounced in the thread-approved manner throughout the US.

(I've only heard boo-ey out in the west and let's face it, buoy just ain't a word for the respectin' cowboy, it's certainly 'boy' up in New England and down the eastern seaboard.)

Tim Hall · « **Reply #357 on:** 16 August, 2016, 09:41:28 am »

Quote from: ian on 16 August, 2016, 08:50:27 am

You'll be pleased to know that Lifebuoy soap is pronounced in the thread-approved manner throughout the US.

(I've only heard boo-ey out in the west and let's face it, buoy just ain't a word for the respectin' cowboy, it's certainly 'boy' up in New England and down the eastern seaboard.)

Perhaps south of Mason-Dixon they're worried that saying "boy" will be taken the wrong way. (It's boo-ey in Houston)

clarion · « **Reply #358 on:** 16 August, 2016, 02:07:45 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 21 June, 2016, 10:42:24 am

In France it still rhymes with bike, because the the Arabic verb "to fuck" has been adopted into French as "niquer". So if your name is Nicolas watch out how you introduce yourself, esp to Arabs. Saying "je m'appelle Neek" to someone's sister could be fatal.

I was once romantically involved with a woman called Mutiatu Agbeke Omobonike Imoru, or Nike for short. She was 'Knee-Kay'

clarion · « **Reply #359 on:** 16 August, 2016, 02:10:35 pm »

Aaaaanyway, I would like to advise the BBC that no, Jessica Ennis-Hill did not win a medal in the 'heptathalon'

Have we got a week of grindingly awful presenters talking about 'athaletes' ahead?

Meanwhile, I would humbly suggest that, if you are commissioning a service to conduct hepatobiliary procedures, that you learn to pronounce it, especially after you have had it explained to you.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #360 on:** 16 August, 2016, 03:28:46 pm »

If you conduct seven hepatobiliary procedures in a row, is that a heptohepatobiliathon?

clarion · « **Reply #361 on:** 19 August, 2016, 09:34:57 am »

Oh! L

Otherwise, good effort.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #362 on:** 19 August, 2016, 12:47:19 pm »

I chose -athon rather than -athlon to suggest endurance rather than turning surgery into a mere sporting event. Though synchronised surgery might fit nicely into the Olympics.

Legs · « **Reply #363 on:** 27 September, 2016, 11:47:02 am »

Gallant pronounced gal-LANT really annoys me. Vanessa Feltz said "ungal-LANT" this morning and it offended my ears.

clarion · « **Reply #364 on:** 27 September, 2016, 02:15:33 pm »

Quote from: NOTLegs on 27 September, 2016, 11:47:02 am

Vanessa Feltz ...offended my ears.

Surely?

Legs · « **Reply #365 on:** 27 September, 2016, 04:27:06 pm »

Pretty much. I'm usually too drowsy at 6:25am to care much about her prattling (and TBF it's a lot better than Sarah F***ing Kennedy...)

clarion · « **Reply #366 on:** 27 September, 2016, 05:39:20 pm »

Having your brains scooped out with a rusty fork is better than listening to Sarah Kennedy.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #367 on:** 28 September, 2016, 09:04:28 pm »

Didn't Sarah Kennedy start the pampas grass/swinger meme?

orienteer · « **Reply #368 on:** 28 September, 2016, 09:32:51 pm »

On the London/SE BBC local news this evening, there was an item on new buses in Reading which have several new features. One interviewee said he liked the whiffy.

The interviewer :"Wi-fi".

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #369 on:** 28 September, 2016, 10:25:20 pm »

But maybe he was actually praising the olfactory improvements.

Bledlow · « **Reply #370 on:** 29 September, 2016, 11:59:26 am »

Was it one of the Whitley routes?

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/whitley-whiff-back-town-11285868

orienteer · « **Reply #371 on:** 29 September, 2016, 01:08:20 pm »

Don't think they were the bio-methane powered ones either.

T42 · « **Reply #372 on:** 12 November, 2016, 01:15:34 pm »

Did that historian on Netflix's fetchingly-titled Rome: Reign of Blood really pronounce Epictitus as Epic Titties? Maybe his mind was elsewhere.

Legs · « **Reply #373 on:** 03 April, 2017, 02:39:07 pm »

Another one prompted by R2: Firm Bottom referred to the Kiki Dee song Amoureuse as if it should rhyme with 'moose'. I'd bet she says massoose instead of masseuse. And probably refers to male masseurs as massooses.

clarion · « **Reply #374 on:** 03 April, 2017, 05:01:42 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 12 November, 2016, 01:15:34 pm

Did that historian on Netflix's fetchingly-titled Rome: Reign of Blood really pronounce Epictitus as Epic Titties? Maybe his mind was elsewhere.

Epictetus, surely?