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Pronunciation rant

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,823
    Plumstead_Micky said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    Sorry to break this to you Micky, but the guy who founded Nike says it's pronounced Nikey, as in, to rhyme with Micky.

    Trouble is he only seemed to correct everybody about 25 years later. Old boys like me got used to the old pronunciation! A bit like Kim Bassinger later becoming Kim "Bay-singer".
    Really old boys back in ancient Greece pronounced it rhyming with Mikey. Nike (Νίκη) is the Greek goddess of victory so I think they probably new how to say it.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,823
    JessieAddick said:

    Sillybilly said:

    Bedsaddick said:

    I've never heard anyone say Jessica Rennis

    Sue Barker does it all the time as does Barry Davies.
    It's actually the same case as the ones I mentioned above, right? An imaginary letter 'r' added to the end of a word which subsequently affects the pronunciation of the next word? Am I right?

    It's because we run the words into each other, essentially saying "idearof" instead of two separate words, "idea of", which is how someone who had elocution lessons, or was brunged up proper, would say it.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    The other day I only realised I've been saying nuclear wrong (been saying it as newk-cu-lar) my entire life. Literally my world has turned upside down and I don't know what's real anymore
  • Covered_End_Lad
    Covered_End_Lad Posts: 5,730
    People who use the word "Generally" when they mean "Genuinely" can join the bonfire with Palace and Millwall.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,714
    kentaddick said:

    The other day I only realised I've been saying nuclear wrong (been saying it as newk-cu-lar) my entire life. Literally my world has turned upside down and I don't know what's real anymore

    Wow... That is a true bombshell you've dropped there on us!!
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,511
    Rizzo said:

    My wife drives me nuts with her 'sumfink' and 'nuffink'. She's not even 'common' and speaks quite well generally.

    My girlfriend is the same no matter how many times I've tried pointing it out, so now when she does it I just act confused until she says it correctly. I must really piss her off.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    edited April 2016
    kentaddick said:

    The other day I only realised I've been saying nuclear wrong (been saying it as newk-cu-lar) my entire life. Literally my world has turned upside down and I don't know what's real anymore

    https://youtu.be/OoASZyihalc
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    Tomarto / Tomayto / Tomateo

    What about people who pronounce it Tomeighto ?
  • Daddy_Pig
    Daddy_Pig Posts: 496
    Da eye-tail-eeyens pranance it tomb-eh-tow
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,780
    Haitch instead of aitch.

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  • aitchyaddick
    aitchyaddick Posts: 200
    LawrieAbrahams said:

    Haitch instead of aitch.

    I'm with you Laurie. It really grates with me.
    I've told my grandchildren it's Aitch, but they won't have it. Their teacher pronounces it Haitch so they say it must be right.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    A friend I've lost touch with used to really get on my wick by saying "brought it" when he meant "bought it" and the bugger was always buying and selling stuff!
  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    Yanks who omit the final letter 'i' when saying Aluminium. Drives me nuts.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Just don't get him started on apostrophes.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,823
    AddicksAddict said:

    Plumstead_Micky said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    Sorry to break this to you Micky, but the guy who founded Nike says it's pronounced Nikey, as in, to rhyme with Micky.

    Trouble is he only seemed to correct everybody about 25 years later. Old boys like me got used to the old pronunciation! A bit like Kim Bassinger later becoming Kim "Bay-singer".
    Really old boys back in ancient Greece pronounced it rhyming with Mikey. Nike (Νίκη) is the Greek goddess of victory so I think they probably new how to say it.
    Having looked at this in more detail, at the time Nike was named, the 'η' (now eta, then heta) was used to indicate rough breathing, meaning it probably would be more like Nikhgh than Nik-e, but certainly not just one syllable like Mike.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    It's not ongion, it's onion
    It's no arks, it's ask
    It's not Millwall, it's Millwank
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,432
    Eurgh I hate it when people say tomato and not pomodoro.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,511
    aitchyaddick said:

    LawrieAbrahams said:

    Haitch instead of aitch.

    I'm with you Laurie. It really grates with me.
    I've told my grandchildren it's Aitch, but they won't have it. Their teacher pronounces it Haitch so they say it must be right.
    Get down with the kids Haitchyaddick.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,076
    edited April 2016
    The way the colonials pronounce yogurt. The first syllable should be yog rhyming with dog, not yo rhyming with toe.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,819
    Southern Hemisphere English.....

    South African especially Boer Saffa accents are a real problem for me. Every word they say grates across my consciousness.

    I can just about cope with New Zealand and Australia (preference for the Kiwi).

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  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,223
    How is Palarse pronounced?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,076
    Solidgone said:

    How is Palarse pronounced?

    However Brian Cole wants.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,223
    Stig said:

    Solidgone said:

    How is Palarse pronounced?

    However Brian Cole wants.
  • Plumstead_Micky
    Plumstead_Micky Posts: 932
    AddicksAddict said:

    AddicksAddict said:

    Plumstead_Micky said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    Sorry to break this to you Micky, but the guy who founded Nike says it's pronounced Nikey, as in, to rhyme with Micky.

    Trouble is he only seemed to correct everybody about 25 years later. Old boys like me got used to the old pronunciation! A bit like Kim Bassinger later becoming Kim "Bay-singer".
    Really old boys back in ancient Greece pronounced it rhyming with Mikey. Nike (Νίκη) is the Greek goddess of victory so I think they probably new how to say it.
    Having looked at this in more detail, at the time Nike was named, the 'η' (now eta, then heta) was used to indicate rough breathing, meaning it probably would be more like Nikhgh than Nik-e, but certainly not just one syllable like Mike.
    Likey.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,199
    I heard a rumour schools now teach "haitch" which is annoying if true. The letter I think is spelt 'aitch' in the dictionary. There's no reason whatsoever to call it haitch, is there!?
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,130
    legaladdick said:

    Yanks who omit the final letter 'i' when saying Aluminium. Drives me nuts.

    Me too, but I think they even spell it without the I.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,130
    My pet hate is hearing people pronouncing us as uz
  • 25May98
    25May98 Posts: 712
    My mother-in-law tried to pick up my daughter on the fact that there is a t in Charlton yesterday. YES, BUT IT IS SILENT.

    I think most of us are guilty of 'gunna' if from around these parts. 'I'm just gunna pop down the shops' etc...

    My missus who is not common (and if she had married someone else could almost claim to be middle class) always says 'je' instead of 'do you'. 'Je want a blowjob darling?' Well, not if you are going to speak in that South Bermondsey accent I reply. I have standards.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,076
    When did because start being pronounced becuzz. Hate it.
  • 25May98
    25May98 Posts: 712
    I used to annoy someone I worked with by saying the following:

    'I see me Mum yesterday'. 'I SAW MY Mum' he would shout and although I know it is wrong it just sounds right.

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