This is a silly blog for all the grammar nazis out there.Certain Australians,and academics have a way of pronouncing certain words that are hilarious.Yanks are notorious for butchering the English language also.What are some crazy pronounciation that you have heard?
My favourite is the Sir Les Patterson word "fillum" for film.
Academics at Macquarie University had a habit of saying "kestionnaire" for questionnaire.
I was watching a youtube video of a dumb yank saying "gyros" ,as in gyroscope,when referring to stereotyped food for Greeks.I asked him wtf a gyro was and I realised he meant "yeeros".He had the nerve to argue with me ,a native greek speaker,that I was wrong as the New Oxford English/Greek said otherwise.
Yanks also get the "i" so mixed up. "Eyerak" for Iraq, sem-eye trailer etc.Poms also kill me with their "vi-tamins" instead of the Aussie "v-eye-tamins".They say "para-set-amol" instead of "Parasee-tamol".
The funnist wog pronounciation ,I heard,was a bloke say to a cabbie "Pliz,mike, you tek me to Dullwichoo".It took ages before the cabbie realised he meant "Dulwich Hill".
My school mate's favourite actor was "Klin Dissoo" ie Clint Eastwood.A favourite actor for Greeks was Tsarlton Heston,ie the gun-nut Charlton Heston,"Heston" in greek means "shit on him".
Any others you know of?
God,the off-season is so boring ,it is killing me.
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One mispronunciation would be the "word" "mis-pronouciation"....
Anyone who listens to Talkin Sport on 2SM in the afternoon would be familiar with the news readers on there, they have absolutely no idea... Fair enough they don't follow footy but they should at least practice the names of the players especially the polynesian players, it's like they are seeing these names for the first time live on air..... One that comes to mind was the pronouciation Peter O'Kivonokeva (Petero Civoniceva)
Fuck they're hopeless, but they're probably hot so that's how they keep they're job
Well spotted Badass,thank f**k for "edit".
My friend can't say "ask".The guy always says "Let me axe you a question".It drives me nuts. From the grammar lessons in Primary School back in the 70s we were taught that the preposition "a" was used with consonants,and "an" was used with vowels.So can someone please explain why newsreaders always say "an horrific event,it is an honour etc"? Last time I checked "h" was classed as a consonant.It makes my grammar nazi blood boil.
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I'm not a big fan of 'youse'.
Well we're not big fans of you either... lol
Correction noted.But I recall quite clearly being corrected on saying "an honour".My teacher said "honour starts with "h",a consonant".
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