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Mispronounced words that make me crazy

#161
Jools4001 said:
You're not wrong! You don't have to go 100 miles though, when I was a kid my parents moved to a new town just 10 miles away from where we lived before and I couldn't believe how different the accent was, I could barely understand people who spoke with the broadest accents.

It's levelling out now with the ease of travelling, after all the streets in the UK are no longer cobbled and you can be 100 miles away in less than 2 hours, so people mix more than they used to even 10 years ago, and TV has flattened out a lot of local dialects as well, but you can still hear different accents from 25 miles apart.

I used to go to the US a lot on business and once had trouble getting a glass of wine in Palo Alto. I asked for a glass of Merlot (pronounced Mer-loh) and the barman simply didn't know what I wanted even after 3 or 4 attempts, until a guy next to me at the bar said "I believe he wants a glass of Mu-loooow"
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When I came up to Newcastle I asked for a Vodka and Coke at a bar. The barman was like "what...what do you want. Vodka and what?" He was taking the piss out me for pronouncing coke with the softer O sound. "We have Courke (this is the closest i can get to writing down how geordies say coke) not [posh accent]Coke[/posh accent]. :(
 
#165
lump said:
Huh? What is the San Antonio pronunciation of Tejano if not tā-ˈhä-(ˌ)nō, as is found in every reference I could find, and the only way I've ever heard it? Based on the Texas pronunciations of Bexar as "Bear," Montague as "Mon-TAYG" and El Dorado as El Do-RAY-do though, I'm gonna go with "Frank." Am I close? :smug:

(And no, I'm not from your "country") ;)
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***??!!?? When did you move to San Antonio???? :bassist::bassist::bassist::bassist:

As to Tejano, some people incorrectly say: Tay (like in Hey) Hano..

It's Teh Hano.. it's TE not TA. Say Tayhano to Spanish speaking people and you'll get a :D:D:D:D for sure.

As to Bexar, it's pronounced Bear, here's the Wiki: "In Spanish, "Béxar" is pronounced [ˈbehaɾ]; however, in English it is pronounced /ˈbɛr/ "bear".

El Dorado... well that one was just pissing me off. Well known newscasters and long time residents incorrectly pronouncing El Dorado Ranch. Buttheads. LOL

What are you doing in San Antonio??? You know this is the armpit of Tejas, right? LOL :D
 
#170
Mark Latimour said:
If by "closely resembling" you mean "nothing alike". Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans have very distinct ways of pronouncing things. I would say that Australians and New Zealanders have a dialect that "closely resembles" each other, but South African? Very disctinct from either of those two with much more influence from the Dutch / German than either of Aus or NZ.



Both Australia and India were former British Colonys and India is roughly equidistant from Britain and the original populated part of Australia (ie East Coast).
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I just meant to MY ears (American) the South African accent sounds "more similar" to Australian (or NZ) and "less similar" to a London accent. The one visit I made was years ago and things might have changed, or I could have gotten in a crowd of "ozzy's" while there, but those were my perceptions, misremembered or not

I realized they were both colonies, but India was a colony much more recently, and again to MY ears they sound much more like a British accent, than a 'stralian accent.
 
#172
Rusty Chainsaw said:
I love the range of accents in Ireland, although the Cork and Kerry accents are rather severe and, for some reason, put me on edge every time I hear them! Also, for some reason, the Northern Ireland accent kinda grates on my ears...
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Cork and Kerry accents - ugh - I dare any guy here who claims they have a perfect musical ear to try pick up what a guy from here is talking about in one go! lol They're actually quite sing-y accents

And northern Irish accents - I strangely have the same disposition about them!

Newcastle accents though sound cool! Pity I cant do them. Me "doing accents" goes from doing my normal neutral Dublin accent to a Scottish accent. Yes, that's me doing ALL accents! :D
 
#174
lowenduser said:
Cork and Kerry accents - ugh - I dare any guy here who claims they have a perfect musical ear to try pick up what a guy from here is talking about in one go! lol They're actually quite sing-y accents

And northern Irish accents - I strangely have the same disposition about them!

Newcastle accents though sound cool! Pity I cant do them. Me "doing accents" goes from doing my normal neutral Dublin accent to a Scottish accent. Yes, that's me doing ALL accents! :D
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One of my old flatmates was Northern Irish, the Belfast accent can be pretty harsh. There does seem to be a difference between the "protestant" and "catholic" accents within Belfast itself. I also had a flatmate from the N. Ireland Countryside...his accent was pretty thick, couldn't hardly understand him.

But anyway back to the guy from Belfast. He was convinced the Dublin accent was pretty camp and regulary did his southern Irish impression, basically just a really camp lispy irish accent.
 
#175
andysick said:
Back home on the east coast gyros are donairs, "Doh nairs"
Hadn't even heard the word gyro till i went to T.O, but the guys there were calling them "j eye rohs"....long I.
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Two completely different things. Gyros is from Greece, Doner is from Turkey...

What really sets me off is people mentioning a URL without saying the first dot. doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou________blabladotcom. Say the friggin dot willya!!!!

Cheers Rody
 
#176
Georynn said:
I just meant to MY ears (American) the South African accent sounds "more similar" to Australian (or NZ) and "less similar" to a London accent. The one visit I made was years ago and things might have changed, or I could have gotten in a crowd of "ozzy's" while there, but those were my perceptions, misremembered or not

I realized they were both colonies, but India was a colony much more recently, and again to MY ears they sound much more like a British accent, than a 'stralian accent.
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A couple of my friends are South African. To me, they speak a British dialect. Until they start whispering in Afrikaans! ***???
 

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