Webbo Posted 9 August 2012 Posted 9 August 2012 I know hyperbole is pronounced Hi-per-bo-lee but when I read it I pronounce it in my head as hyper-bowl. I can't help it and it annoys me.
Zingari Posted 9 August 2012 Posted 9 August 2012 Birmingham people say 'tooth' with a 'uh' sound (like 'puff' or 'stuff'). Has the tuth fairy come? Sometimes I want to kill them all, which would ruin Sunday dinner Brummies can be very hard to understand . I once asked an angler if he had caught anything and he said " a whale", i said " a whale ?" , he laughed and said " yes , a bicycle whale" (that's an old 'un)
chuck'em Posted 9 August 2012 Posted 9 August 2012 I know hyperbole is pronounced Hi-per-bo-lee but when I read it I pronounce it in my head as hyper-bowl. I can't help it and it annoys me. I do the same thing. Hyperbowl sounds like something that would be incredible fun, I just haven't worked out what.
AdamN Posted 9 August 2012 Posted 9 August 2012 I do the same thing. Hyperbowl sounds like something that would be incredible fun, I just haven't worked out what. Sounds like a new Saturday night game show on ITV. Similar to Gladiators perhaps. WELCOME... TO THE HYPERBOWL
ADK Posted 9 August 2012 Posted 9 August 2012 It always confuses me when my american cousins pronounce aluminium as aloominum.
flowwolf Posted 9 August 2012 Posted 9 August 2012 Nice pronounced nice rather than nice like it should be. Same with the biscuits, some call them nice, others nice when everyone knows it should be nice. I mean its not as if nice and nice even sound similar so how can you get them confused? Funny you should say that my sisters daughter has the same name.
FoxesAreBlue Posted 9 August 2012 Posted 9 August 2012 When people, more often than not its kids, say "axe" instead if "ask".
Vacamion Posted 9 August 2012 Posted 9 August 2012 Has anybody else noticed Mr Lineker is slowly abandoning the Leicester accent to pronounce "pass" as "parse" and "after" as "arfter" etc? It sounds weird (and sounds like he is trying too hard) because he has retained the remainder of his Leicester vowels.
jonthefox Posted 9 August 2012 Posted 9 August 2012 When people pronounce village names like kib 'uff'.
FoxesAreBlue Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 Even though i have lived in glorious Leicester all of my life, after working in the US for a few months a few years ago I heard our accent as an accent for the first time and it really is apaling. We just talk like we are the UK's version of white trailer trash - blending words together and not finishing words off "propleh". It really is a bit embarrassing. When I worked in telesales I had a lot of clients based in London and I was constantly having to repeat myself and when I was cold-calling. I had to put on my 'posh voice' (read: 'normal voice to everybody else') to try and get past the secretaries. Listening to recordings of myself is even worse. If I'm meeting a new client, norw that I run my own business, I am really carefull how I talk in the first few meetings so that I don't sound like a complete and utter twat. And I want to drop this horrendous accent and just talk normally, like they do on the news.
Raw Dykes Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 Even though i have lived in glorious Leicester all of my life, after working in the US for a few months a few years ago I heard our accent as an accent for the first time and it really is apaling. We just talk like we are the UK's version of white trailer trash - blending words together and not finishing words off "propleh". It really is a bit embarrassing. When I worked in telesales I had a lot of clients based in London and I was constantly having to repeat myself and when I was cold-calling. I had to put on my 'posh voice' (read: 'normal voice to everybody else') to try and get past the secretaries. Listening to recordings of myself is even worse. If I'm meeting a new client, norw that I run my own business, I am really carefull how I talk in the first few meetings so that I don't sound like a complete and utter twat. And I want to drop this horrendous accent and just talk normally, like they do on the news. Haha! It's not the worst accent, but it's not the nicest. My dad puts on his best posh voice when he's on the phone. It's weird.
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 A colleague of mine pronounces "aren't they" as "unt thar" - makes me cringe.
OzFox Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 When people, more often than not its kids, say "axe" instead if "ask". Quite common here in Australia that one. I keep hearing "axed" instead of "asked" Also common here is the letter H pronounced "haitch" instead of "aitch".
Raw Dykes Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 Quite common here in Australia that one. I keep hearing "axed" instead of "asked" Also common here is the letter H pronounced "haitch" instead of "aitch". Very common here, as well. Can't believe I forgot that one. Drives me mental. I even remember a teacher at primary school saying it. I knew it was wrong even then.
MikeyT Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 That makes me want to go out and stab a kitten. No!
Zingari Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 I hate it when the missus pronounces "ooh yes please" as "no fook off"
Trav Le Bleu Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 When there is a traffic problem on the A50 and they say on national radio, "The A50 Grobby Road"
lcfcadam Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 tong not tung 'Tong', how it's supposed to be pronounced Really?! It would irritate me no end if I heard people pronouncing it like that. Must be a Leicester thing, absolutely no-one up here says it like that!
lcfcadam Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 Peltier is pronounced Pel-tee-uh and Vincent is pronounced the British way. Only if you're choosing to Anglicise the names would you pronounce them like that. If you have some respect for where both those names come from (both French, if you were wondering), then you'd generally try and approximate saying them in the original way. Therefore Peltier = Pel-tee-ay and Vincent = Van-son
Guest MattP Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 Even though i have lived in glorious Leicester all of my life, after working in the US for a few months a few years ago I heard our accent as an accent for the first time and it really is apaling. We just talk like we are the UK's version of white trailer trash - blending words together and not finishing words off "propleh". It really is a bit embarrassing. When I worked in telesales I had a lot of clients based in London and I was constantly having to repeat myself and when I was cold-calling. I had to put on my 'posh voice' (read: 'normal voice to everybody else') to try and get past the secretaries. Listening to recordings of myself is even worse. If I'm meeting a new client, norw that I run my own business, I am really carefull how I talk in the first few meetings so that I don't sound like a complete and utter twat. And I want to drop this horrendous accent and just talk normally, like they do on the news. I'm exactly the same in that sense, talk completely different when you are with the locals down the pub to meeting business assiociates, it is an awful accent here. People from Braunstone by far the worst.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 Parth instead of path Barth instead of bath Grarse instead of Grass Glarse instead of Glass Basically, anything Tim Wonnacott says.
Raw Dykes Posted 10 August 2012 Posted 10 August 2012 Really?! It would irritate me no end if I heard people pronouncing it like that. Must be a Leicester thing, absolutely no-one up here says it like that! I think you must be hanging around with the southerners and posh folk up there. I know that Mancunians say tong, rather than tung (with a southern u, like an a or e).
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