Author Topic: Pronunciation that makes you cringe (Read 148273 times)

Torslanda · « **Reply #475 on:** 05 March, 2018, 10:31:43 am »

Just as Auchonvillers nr. Beaumont-Hamel was colloquially known as 'Ocean Villas'. Typical Tommy humour.

T42 · « **Reply #476 on:** 05 March, 2018, 10:32:16 am »

Quote from: clarion on 05 March, 2018, 10:22:26 am

Quote from: hellymedic on 05 March, 2018, 12:01:24 am
or Wipers...
In hte context of WWI, it can be 'Wipers'.

+1; sanctified by usage and sacrifice. Ditto for US "Bastone". But only from people who were there.

T42 · « **Reply #477 on:** 05 March, 2018, 10:34:39 am »

"Torte" pronounced "taut".

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #478 on:** 05 March, 2018, 01:41:50 pm »

"Le Cateau", obv, is pronounced "Leaky Too". Or possibly "Two".

citoyen · « **Reply #479 on:** 25 April, 2018, 10:31:32 am »

There's a trailer that's getting repeated a lot on 6music at the moment in which Miranda Sawyer pronounces biopic as 'bi-opic' rather than 'bio-pic', with the emphasis on 'op'. Makes me shout at the radio every time.

Stuart Maconie picked up on it yesterday as well.

T42 · « **Reply #480 on:** 25 April, 2018, 11:31:44 am »

Shallot pronounced SHALLet. US, natch.

Andrij · « **Reply #481 on:** 25 April, 2018, 11:36:12 am »

Quote from: T42 on 25 April, 2018, 11:31:44 am

Shallot pronounced SHALLet. US, natch.

Growing up in the US (and left in my late 20s), I never hears anyone say 'SHALLet'. It may be regional, or perhaps just one person's ignorance.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #482 on:** 25 April, 2018, 11:59:57 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 25 April, 2018, 10:31:32 am

There's a trailer that's getting repeated a lot on 6music at the moment in which Miranda Sawyer pronounces biopic as 'bi-opic' rather than 'bio-pic', with the emphasis on 'op'. Makes me shout at the radio every time.

Stuart Maconie picked up on it yesterday as well.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "bio-pic". But then it's not a word I encounter much.

T42 · « **Reply #483 on:** 25 April, 2018, 01:47:41 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 25 April, 2018, 11:36:12 am

Quote from: T42 on 25 April, 2018, 11:31:44 am
Shallot pronounced SHALLet. US, natch.

Growing up in the US (and left in my late 20s), I never hears anyone say 'SHALLet'. It may be regional, or perhaps just one person's ignorance.

Two, then, one of them being Julia Child, t'other being Danny de Vito. JC spoke fluent French (échalote), too.

Andrij · « **Reply #484 on:** 25 April, 2018, 01:56:52 pm »

I leave the country for a few decades and the whole place falls to pieces.

Kim · « **Reply #485 on:** 25 April, 2018, 03:00:34 pm »

Veering off-topic, but hardly worth starting a new thread...

Pronunciation that makes me cringe slightly less: "Kim Vaul"

ian · « **Reply #486 on:** 25 April, 2018, 03:47:38 pm »

I say bi-OP-ic. And shall-OT.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #487 on:** 25 April, 2018, 10:07:13 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 25 April, 2018, 10:31:32 am

There's a trailer that's getting repeated a lot on 6music at the moment in which Miranda Sawyer pronounces biopic as 'bi-opic' rather than 'bio-pic', with the emphasis on 'op'. Makes me shout at the radio every time.

Stuart Maconie picked up on it yesterday as well.

Phew. Not just me then.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #488 on:** 26 April, 2018, 10:37:20 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 25 April, 2018, 11:59:57 am

Quote from: citoyen on 25 April, 2018, 10:31:32 am
There's a trailer that's getting repeated a lot on 6music at the moment in which Miranda Sawyer pronounces biopic as 'bi-opic' rather than 'bio-pic', with the emphasis on 'op'. Makes me shout at the radio every time.

Stuart Maconie picked up on it yesterday as well.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "bio-pic". But then it's not a word I encounter much.

I'd always say bio-pic, bi-opic means having two opics whatever opics are.

citoyen · « **Reply #489 on:** 26 April, 2018, 10:56:12 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 25 April, 2018, 11:59:57 am

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "bio-pic". But then it's not a word I encounter much.

Nor do I generally, but 6music is my background noise during the day and they've been playing the trailer at least once an hour for the past week, so it begins to be conspicuous.

Fortunately, that episode has been on now so they've started playing the trailer for the next episode instead, which doesn't feature any especially annoying pronunciations, just the usual self-congratulatory smugness of 6music presenters (I'm well and truly bored of these idiots telling me how 'eclectic' they are).

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #490 on:** 26 April, 2018, 11:03:15 am »

Apparently this genuinely is a US v UK difference:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/biopic
As movies are a US-dominated industry, it makes sense that the US pronunciation would become dominant. Though bio-pic makes more sense.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #491 on:** 26 April, 2018, 01:24:15 pm »

The cover blurb on my copy of Iain Banks' "Espedair Street" describes it as a "rock biopic", and thus was clearly written by an idiot.

ian · « **Reply #492 on:** 26 April, 2018, 01:43:02 pm »

I'm sticking with bi-OP-ic. It gives the word a spritely bunnyish appeal. I think we should put the emphasis on more middle syllables. They're forced to linger there, journeymen stressfully bookended by other more emphatically delivered syllables. I say give them life! Give them omph! This is my manifesto for the neglected syllables.

Torslanda · « **Reply #493 on:** 26 April, 2018, 02:08:21 pm »

AIUI the word is a contraction of 'biographical picture'. Therefore it should be pronounced 'bio - pic' and hyphenated when written.

Can of worms anyone . . . ?

T42 · « **Reply #494 on:** 26 April, 2018, 02:35:59 pm »

No relation of 84 Charlie.

citoyen · « **Reply #495 on:** 30 April, 2018, 02:03:49 pm »

I listened to the latest Kermode and Mayo film podcast yesterday, in which they covered the thorny bio-pic question (presumably inspired by the same 6music trailer, though all the news and trailers are cut out of the podcast version of the show).

They agreed with me on the pronunciation, as did their guest Eddie Marsan.

Basil · « **Reply #496 on:** 15 May, 2018, 09:16:54 pm »

Son. It is pronounced 'samosa'. Not bloody 'samoza''.
Someone brought brought up in Birmingham has no excuse.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #497 on:** 15 May, 2018, 10:18:22 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 15 May, 2018, 09:16:54 pm

Son. It is pronounced 'samosa'. Not bloody 'samoza''.
Someone brought brought up in Birmingham has no excuse.

Wasn't he El Pres of Nicaragua? (Samoza, not your son, obvs.)

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #498 on:** 20 May, 2018, 02:24:22 pm »

Quote from: ian on 26 April, 2018, 01:43:02 pm

I think we should put the emphasis on more middle syllables. They're forced to linger there, journeymen stressfully bookended by other more emphatically delivered syllables. I say give them life! Give them omph! This is my manifesto for the neglected syllables.

Don't ever travel to Hungary or Finland...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #499 on:** 20 May, 2018, 02:55:00 pm »

Or Slovakia. Though you might enjoy Poland.