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By *artytwo OP Couple
over a year ago
Wolverhampton |
Heard this Irish fellah on Radio 4 the other day talking about cycling fsr.
He came out with this really great one:
"The chap he were going down the road and he fell right off his BYCICABLE and hurt his head"
Anyone got any similar? |
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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago
CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly) |
"I get annoyed at:
Chimley = Chimney
Kekkle = Kettle
And people who call the windscreen a window screen  "
Ooooopppppps. ..that's me.. and I call the wipers "" window screen wipers lol xxx   Please forgive me haha xxx |
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By *idsAndyMan
over a year ago
Worcestershire |
Gah I have loads! They're guy ropes on tents not guide ropes, it's sloe gin not sloan... I Could go on. Worse is spelling things like anythink, I mean is that what they're actually saying when they speak? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Called to see my elderly mum and asked where my dad was. " his car has broke down, he's waiting for the IRA to come out"
I didn't even bother to correct her  |
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By *olgateMan
over a year ago
on the road to nowhere in particular |
There is an Irish news reader called Barry Caffrey on my BBC local radio station that cannot pronounce any politicians name correctly. He compliments the travel announcer with a speech impediment perfectly.
C... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Surely one of the most common mispronunciations must be those committed by people who can't say Bun.....
It not a roll or cob or a bap etc......it's a fook'in bun,,, get it.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've said it before in here but I have all sorts of problems with the word 'brewery' - just can't get it out for some reason!
Don't normally have problems with my R's but if just comes out as bwoo-ah-wee when I say it however hard I try  |
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"Not sure if its a mispronunciation but people who say they're going to the ATM machine! So they're going to the automatic telling machine machine"
This is my bugbear. It's called a pleonasm.
It's like when people say PIN number. |
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"Not sure if its a mispronunciation but people who say they're going to the ATM machine! So they're going to the automatic telling machine machine
This is my bugbear. It's called a pleonasm.
It's like when people say PIN number."
Yes! And a bit more off thread: using 5 words when one will do:
" at this moment in time"
"Now?"
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"I had a friend that used to add h to things. I ham going to do..... Do you know the haddress? "
I knew someone who left out h in words with h, and added to ones without ;
" that (h)old man was wearing an 'orrible (h)orange 'at (h)on 'is 'ead.." |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I get annoyed at:
Chimley = Chimney
Kekkle = Kettle
And people who call the windscreen a window screen "
Guilty as charged. i say
kekkil=Kettle
Perscovator= percolator.
calscivator= calculator.
Window Washers.
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"Up until about two years ago I always said "Axe" instead of "Ask."
It's a Brooklyn thing, but I've fixed it now. 
-Courtney"
That has caught on amongst youngsters here too...probably through watching TV! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Up until about two years ago I always said "Axe" instead of "Ask."
It's a Brooklyn thing, but I've fixed it now.
-Courtney
That has caught on amongst youngsters here too...probably through watching TV!"
People who weren't from Brooklyn used to always make fun of me but I didn't care. Then I went to law school in Manhattan and they told me I sounded "uneducated." So I ditched it. 
-Courtney |
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By *artytwo OP Couple
over a year ago
Wolverhampton |
Hossible
Exasperate/exacerbate confusion
Mazagine
Perscription
Duck tape
Inventing mispros is fun. Go into a public toilet that has just been cleanedand it smells of: Pissinfectant
Dismantle something then Remantle it |
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Funnily enough, I saw the word
"remantle" used seriously a few days ago.
But really if you dismantle something, then the opposite is " mantle"? Lol
Or perhaps something is " mantled" originally, then dismantled, then remantled....
I think I'll go and lay down now
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"Up until about two years ago I always said "Axe" instead of "Ask."
It's a Brooklyn thing, but I've fixed it now.
-Courtney"
I hate that. And those that say "Arks" as well.
Most annoying when people are trying to be cool. It just isn't. |
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"Funnily enough, I saw the word
"remantle" used seriously a few days ago.
But really if you dismantle something, then the opposite is " mantle"? Lol
Or perhaps something is " mantled" originally, then dismantled, then remantled....
I think I'll go and lay down now
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This is how the verb "to burgle" came about. It's a backward-formation. Because a "burglar" isn't someone who "burgles". But because English speaking thought it sounds like a "burgler", the verb was created colloquially, and now it's part of the language.
I find it really funny when people get angry about "literally". It's like metaphorically hyperbolic language has literally never existed before.... 
When I first learned the language, I thought the words "am I" and "are my" were the same words. So I used to say things like "where are my going?" .
I also thought "sealing wax" was "ceiling wax" (well you wax floors, why not ceilings?)
I also thought a tearjerker (which I only ever saw in print) was a movie that would tear you and jerk you about - so like an action movie.
I also first thought the word "misled" rhymed with "whistled".
Slightly long tangent, sorry.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Not sure if its a mispronunciation but people who say they're going to the ATM machine! So they're going to the automatic telling machine machine
This is my bugbear. It's called a pleonasm.
It's like when people say PIN number."
And PAT testing - portable appliance testing testing? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have to engage brain before saying the word Specific otherwise it comes out as Pacific.
The only other one I can think of is when people pronounce the H as in H-aitch as opposed to just 'aitch'
1st world problems 'eh |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You gotta forgive the Irish though... They call a film a fillum and I adore the accent
Don't get me started on the irish accent. Mmmmmm Lizzy swoons
It's northern Ireland for me  "
Don't you mean norn iron??
And yes I'm northern irish by the way!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not quite a mispronunciation, but.
We ran out of production labels at work last night, so Dave typed in large font "NO LABELS". I then altered it to " NO LABIA" and one of the Polish lads altered it further to "NO LABIA MINORA". Dave (who claims to know everything) decided that the phrase now displayed was in fact Polish and decided to add the translation to the screen, so it eventually read " NO LABIA MINORA (No labels anymore)".
Oh how we laughed, he still has no clue! |
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