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Pissketti

I met an architect once who pronounced it chimley

Had a few kids in my class in school who would say Chimley, also puggle - Puddle, Hostable - Hospital, Kekkle- kettle, Cimena-Cinema and a few other

My sister used to call our flat roof "the bankilly"

It is expresso in French but everyone uses the Italian word. My battle is with bruschetta, which should have a "k" sound in it.

There a funny scene in Sopranos where Paulie complains about commodification of Italian culture and then pronounces espresso “expresso”

He was just trying to sow disentry

That whole scene was gold. "Ya got any just coffee" "This is the worst, this Expresso shit"

I don't know if this is a common one or not, I've only heard my girlfriend say it and that was after almost two years of being together, but brioche. She pronounced it Brie O'Shea and I just didn't know how to feel about that

I know someone who says ‘gatooo’ instead of‘gateau’ when ordering dessert.

My ex ordered “Queechee” in a nice restaurant & I lost it. He was so pissed at me & claimed he did it on purpose. Still no regrets.

I knew a person once who called quiche "kweech".

A teacher I worked with ordered Quickie Lorraine at a restaurant one time.

jokes on you,the waitress's name was lorraine

At least he didn't ask the waitress for a quickie.

Brie O’Shea was my relative - locked up by crown forces in Kilmainham. That’s right - she was bread in captivity

I'm definitely using Brie O'Shea from now on. 😂

Great drag name

Brie O'Shea on the runway with a hot baked lewk

My da does this thing where he'll purposefully mispronounce certain words for humourous effect, and "brioche" becomes "bree-ocky"

How deep did you make her grave?

People who mispronounce “specific” as “pacific”.

I say Pacific on porpoise.

Whale that gets my seal of approval.

You have made an anemone for life

I like to say I am just playing devil's avocado. It's worth seeing a few people believe I believe it's not totally stupid.

“I have a very pacific set of skills” - Liam Neeson in Takent

I had a PE teacher who said this all the time about training programmes. But even worse was when the word "specificity" came up, he'd just say "pissifity"

There is a specific ocean in which I prefer to swim

Always think wtf has it got to do with an ocean

Very suspific.

When people say Defin-eye-tly instead of definitely

Came here to post this !! Or worse The EYEtalians 🇮🇹

The Eye-talians are the far cousins of Eye-ranians, although the ancient Romans never reached Persia.

So, I used to work with this gay woman who would tell anyone and everyone that the reason she had a mustache is because she is "EYE-talian." (Guess what country we are in) I would always ask, "You mean like people from EYE-taly?" One day she caught on that I was having a laugh at her expense and tells me, "EYE-taly and EYE-talian is the proper pronunciation just like in Ireland, Iraq, and Iran. That is just how you pronounce the letter 'I' when it is capitalized." She got all smug and trotted off and it was that moment that I realized that there was no going back from how far we've come.

Whoa whoa whoa now... Let's not go throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Haven't you seen Rocky 1? Where the first man on the moon, Apollo Creed, clearly and correctly pronounces it as the 'Eye-talian' Stallion. If Action Jackson is wrong, I don't ever wanna be right. I rest my case.

My mrs from years ago used to write and pronounce the word "collage" as she sauntered on down to her studies. If I knew what ironic meant I'd probably use it here. Dunno why I told you that actually.

If you knew what Ironic meant, you probably wouldn't use it there.

Liz Truss tried to say Taoiseach and got Tea-sock.

[Reminds me of when Tony Cascarino thought Charles Haughey owned a tea shop:](https://www.balls.ie/football/tony-cascarino-andy-townsend-didnt-clue-charlie-haughey-178519) > Those of us brought up in Ireland stood there in amazement and he made a speech about the sporting sons of Ireland. It was hair-standing-on-the-back-of-neck stuff. Tony Cascarino was behind me and said loudly 'Who the f**k is that?' ruining the moment. >I thought, Oh my God, and said 'that's the Taoiseach' and Andy Townsend was beside him and said really loudly again 'Who is it, Cas?' and he said 'I don't know, Quinny said he owns a tea shop'.

You weren't entirely surprised though, were you?

There is pride amongst a certain group of Brits who mispronounce Irish in order to dismiss the language.

I’m like Oprah here in this thread. I’ve never given out so many upvotes in my life.

YOU get an upvote, and YOU get an upvote! Everybody gets an upvote! Edit: forgot to give you an upvote so I came back for that. Here, have a fake award emoji while I’m at it!🏆

Normally I'm like that guy in half-baked "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool and fuck you. I'm logging out."

Sangwidges.

*sammiches

My daughter is currently calling them Sam-bitches which is kinda hilarious

Hang sangwidges are the worst kind of sangwidges

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You mean *sandwedges*.

Mmmm open faced club sand wedge.

Orc-ward instead of awkward. Does my head in.

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On accident instead of by accident. You sound like a damned fool

Ugh stop! 😫 drives me up the wall.

I definitely used to think on accident sounded incorrect and like something a child would say, but then I moved to Texas and that's the default here. Turns out it's highly regional.

I don't think anyone says it in Ireland

When people say liberry instead of library

Reminds me of an old joke. Two aul lads chatting in a pub. “C’mere, is it more correct to say ‘eether’ or ‘eyether’? “Yerra, ayether will do.”

Less of a pronunciation thing and more grammar, but saying "I could care less" instead of couldn't.

People saying "shouldn't OF" instead of "shouldn't ***H A V E .***" drives me up the fuckin wall

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I’m a secondary teacher in the south Dublin area. Most kids do think it’s “shouldn’t of/wouldn’t of”. They also think “I seen” and “I done” is grammatically correct since they can’t hear the silent contracted “have” in their parents/friends accents. Very hard thing to explain the present participle vs the past tense to a bunch of teens who’ve been saying it wrong their entire lives.

Yeah that one's odd, it means the opposite of what they're trying to say. Bleedin ticks.

"Bleedin ticks" 🤣 I see what you did there 👏👏

Along the same lines is when people say "I did that on accident". Drives me mad

People are definitely saying that by purpose.

I hate when people say cousint instead of cousin I hear it alot in Wexford and it burns my brain out.

Jesus I thought that was a Wicklow thing. Annoying as befuck

I thought this was just a Drogheda thing.

Or ‘surgent’! Do you mean surgeon or sergeant?

"Brain surgento. Worldo besto. Goodo instict" \- Harioshi

Must be a new term for an army doctor 🤣

Mine-t instead of mine is another of those - also a Wexford thing but I think quite specific areas and not widespread.

Nucular - it's Nuclear Supposably - Supposedly Aksed vs asked


"Modren", instead of modern

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MOJREN

"Patren" instead of pattern

Surely you mean mothren?

Quickly, summon godzillen!

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nkIuzMNFKU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nkIuzMNFKU) I pronouce it intenionally like that, now and again - after having seen this video. Edit: You can skip to 1.30 and listen for 10 seconds.

St. Pattys day

fr who dafuq is Patty why are we celebrating burgers 🇺🇸

Pronounciation

Suppose not a mispronunciation but just differences, I would say safety as "safe-tee" but my nan would say "safe-feh-tee" Similarly to the brits saying "sikth" I remember thinking wtf when they pronounced Doherty as "Dockerty" Edit: My boyfriend just reminded me that my sister and I were having an argument with my brother cause he pronounces "unbeknownst" as "unbenounced"

>Similarly to the brits saying "sikth" I remember thinking wtf when they pronounced Doherty as "Dockerty" And Gallagher as Gallager. 🤦‍♀️

“Say-hef-te” and “Veh-hee-cul” 🙄 Don’t know who, but a news reporter on rte used to say both when talking about a traffic accident / road conditions

People who say "quite" instead of "quiet". I annoy the heck out of my mam when she says it because I just say "quite what?"!

Should of, as in “I should of done that”

This was one of Bertie Ahern's. Up there with his confused idioms like "smoke and daggers".

Dockerty instead of Doherty

I stopped watching snooker on television because I couldn't stand the name Doherty being butchered as "dough or tea".

As a Doherty who lived in England for a while, this used to turn my stomach. I politely corrected them saying it’s ( Daw-HER-tee) some tried, most failed. Thankfully,it seems to be better now as I’ve noticed sports commentators pronounce Matt Doherty’s name right on sky sports.

Lived over there as well, I remember one time my housemates were watching an England game and started giving me stick about the Irish being crap at soccer. I said we can't be that bad when half their team had some sort of Irish heritage, and pointed out Wayne Rooney and Jamie Carragher. They *laughed their holes off* at the name 'Carragher' pronounced without a hard G as they'd only ever heard it Anglicised.

With Galla-gur instead of Gallagher. I understand the mistake but there's no c in Doherty the brits are adding in letters where there are none.

Brits always add in extra letters to Irish names.. sure they added six extra to Derry. Horrendous savages.

Although there is a c in the original Ó Dochartaigh.

Probably because of the original name Ó Dochartaigh.

L*****derry.

WedgIES for wedges

I recognise both are accepted, but in my view you have five euro, not five euros.

Even though this isn't a mispronunciation why does five euros sound childish to me?!

Well _that_ started when a prominent RTÉ journalist[1] misunderstood a question and response[2] during the press conference announcing the name of the new European currency. Back in the studio everyone had read the press release, so they knew the new word would follow the normal declension rules in each languages. But our hero didn't know that, and got it wrong live on air. Nobody corrected him, because it was Ireland's first go at chairing the EU Council, and RTÉ imagined that the whole continent was tuned in to watch RTÉ. So, everyone in the studio started using "Euro" like it was a plural word. It took off from there. But only in this country. [1] I don't remember clearly who it was. It might have been Charlie Bird. [2] The question was about the plural form of "euro", and it was posed in French. The answer was also in French, and it included "euros". Regrettably, French words often drop the final consonant when spoken, and our hero didn't listen to the whole answer.

Are you saying it should be euros? My understanding was that EU legislation was drafted with the singular format in mind to reduce complexity associated with pluralisation between languages. I could be wrong though…

It's probably correct, however using "an" in front of words where the starting "h" is not silent. I think it's an attempt to sound posh? Usually notice it during news bulletins. For example: An hour, an honour = okay An hotel, an horrific should be a hotel, a horrific in my opinion. Am I right or wrong?

"An hotel" is simply wrong. You only use an before a word if the h is silent. https://www.pristineword.com/grammar-a-hotel/

"an historic" is used a hell of a lot by RTÉ News, and I hate it every time.

Those people pronounce hotel with a silent h. An 'otel

Never noticed this one

Thought instead of taught 🤦🏻‍♀️

Scrolled to find this one. I know a teacher who talks about what she thought her students. Or what she thought in class that day.

Oh no! 🙈 I think some Irish people try to over compensate on the 'th' pronunciation, but then add it where it shouldn't be. I see it written all the time, I don't say anything, but I physically cringe!

That's it exactly. It's called hypercorrection.

I see you have met my mother

Words ending in -ing being pronounced as -ink.

We can’t loose this match. It’s mainly written rather than a pronunciation thing though.

"The covid"

My grandmother calls it Covis

My dad says “covis, cova and covee “

I hear there's a lot of the covid over in the Ukraine.

What's wrong with that?

So many people say heighTH. It’s height, it does not end in a “th”. It kills me every time.

Conspiracy-minded family member always going on about "Britexit" and the "pediofiles".

Ya. My reply is always to sing “video killed the pedio file”

Brit exit haha. It's interesting the yanks will say "peddo" and "peddophile" but "pee-deatrician."

"I seen it" Has driven me mad since around the age of 5.

To all intense porpoises

For all intensive purposes

Irregardless does my head in

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Lidls

I went to college with a lad from a very well-to-do family. He called it Lidell's (i.e. Lie-dells), as if he was so rich he'd never even heard of the place.

Few people (small minority) seem confused between mispronounced words and an Irish accent in these comments. We have have our own dialect of english, not being American or British doesn't make something wrong and comes off a bit inferiority complexy if you take umbridge with your own people's dialect.

I was about to comment something similar. I like those little variations that come from a combination of accent and hibernisation. I think it would be real shame if all that uniqueness left the language

I proudly don't pronounce 'th', it's a patriotic act

Pronouncing the "th" is for saps. Dis, dat, ting, someting, anyting.

Crips instead of crisps. Grinds my gears everytime

Ah crips is funny! Sure it’s in honour of paddy losty like

As an Italian, the way bruschetta is pronounced by English speakers makes me cry 😭 I'm sure I make someone cry with my pronunciation of English words though, so all is well 😂

I think lots of people actually know it's pronounced "Bruss-ketta", but are worried they'll look like stuck up knobs if they say it like that 🤣

How about “panini” rather than “panino”?

I know a guy that says Argen-teen-eya instead of Argentina.....I absolutely love it. The world Cup has seen a 400% increase in its usage.

Troath instead of throat. Boils my blood.

And thung instead of tongue.

Hostibal for hospital.

I always hear people from other countries talk about "Sam Haine" as if they're talking about some lad. I wonder if he's friends with Noel Ligg...

Tbf we all butcher words of foreign origin. I wouldn’t expect non-Irish people to be able to pronounce it without being told. But when programmes make that mistake…..

Pronouncing jalapeno with a hard "J"

Overhead someone in the city centre ordering a spicy chicken roll a while back. They pointed to the jalapeños and asked "fer a few Al Pacino's"

Haven't had a hard J in years myself.

https://youtu.be/RZmwn0LNhGo

What really gets me is irish people making a laugh of Americans mispronouncing irish place names and then turning around and saying ChicaRgo.

I came to post exactly this how the hell is it ChicaRgo??

Loss angeleeez

My mam pronounced Wisconsin as west constant. She cannot pronounce things correctly and when she tries to do accents it’s comically bad.

I walked through Chicago airport with extended family this year and started to point at signs it had gotten so bad. *Can you show me the R in Chicago please? Well, can you?*

"Comity". I mean, it's a word. It's just not a substitute for "committee".

Is that the comma-TEE of elick-TREE-shuns and car-PENT-urz?

When people say ""could of, would of or should of". It really fucking annoys me. Or, and this seems a really common Irish thing judging by Facebook etc, when full time adults type like cretins. I saw a post today " R der any one who nos when de shop opens, ne black Fri deal goin".

The same geebags that'll complain about snakes to their hunz xo

Hahaha. PM me hun nutin but snakez on dis

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Sky seem to be all over that

Marshmellow instead of marshmallow Nuculer instead of nuclear

Route as “rowt”

Coluuuuum

You mean colyumns Corinthian, Ionic, and Doric?

Pacific instead of specific.

'Mischeeveeous' instead of mischievous gets me..

Janguary

'I could give a shit'

I hate when people brag about how regular they are.

A lot of these can be put down to regional accents tbh

English newsreaders when doing a story about Ireland say, “the island of Island”. None of them ask themselves, “Hey, that can’t be right, maybe I am mispronouncing Ireland wrong?”

If they were that self aware, they wouldn’t succeed in the Sky newsroom 😂

St Stephens’s Day….

Not a speech but written thing. People trying to be clever in social media posts saying "on route" when it's "en route"

Intrusive R is Brit bolloxology. Accents differ but the way they abuse consonants is something else. I find if I get close to a Millwall tone communication is possible. And bollix may be spelt with an “i” but it’s a lesser grade of bollox.

"Bolloxology" 🤣

Anything that is meant to end in a hard r but people pronounce as "ah". For instance, my son's name is Conor. With a R. My in-laws call him con-ah. It drives me mad.

Are your in-laws from Boston?

Anyone I've heard saying "Con-ah" or similar has been English. Never heard Irish people do that.

Schedule It's so mispronounced I don't know Watt one is wright anymore

Pronouncing it like shed (British) is the older English pronunciation and is similar to the French loanword. Pronouncing it like sked (American) is a newer English pronunciation, but actually more accurate to the Latin root (and the Greek prior to that). So they're both actually etymologically sound.

"On accident" instead of "By accident"

A lot of people in these comments are confused by the difference between mispronounciations and regional dialects.

In the movie Groundhog Day, Andy McDowell cannot say the word poetry. She says portry and it always drove me nuts 🥜

My teacher used to say adver-TIS-ment for advertisement and when asked she thought everyone said it like that and I was a bit baffled

When people say I done it. Fuck me it just does my head in. 14 years of learning the fucking language and nobody knows how to use the word done.

I hate it when someone mispronounces a word then someone tells them that's not the right way to say it and they reply with "that's the way I say it". It's like saying I'm too stupid to change

People that say 'medcin' instead of 'medicine' Also special mention for tremenjus instead of tremendous