Seat68 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Been forced onto the bloody metro due to trains to wolves being messed up. Got to get off in a place called the royal and find a bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 A pronunciation which annoys me is General Pinochet. Everyone pronounces it Pino-shay like he's French. It's a French surname. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 A pronunciation which annoys me is General Pinochet. Everyone pronounces it Pino-shay like he's French. Similarly, Apartheid is (appropriately enough) pronounced apart-hate, not being a German word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismail-villa Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 With all this pronunciation talk. People say my name with different pronunciations. It's spelt ismail (pronounced iss-mail), though some say it as ish some say it as izz. With the latter part of me name (mail), family say it as maa-eel, though friends and teachers etc. say it as mail. I've just given up and let them call me whatever haha. Don't even get me started on the way people spell my name... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 21, 2015 Call me Ishmael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 21, 2015 Call me Ishmael... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 21, 2015 IN YOUR FACE, MOONEY! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Herman Melville. He pisses me off. Million word long rambling convoluted sentences with multiple outdated and/or fancypants words to make it nice and impossible-to-understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I stopped correcting people with my surname decades ago. Force of habit I say it then spell it immediately. They still pronounce it wrong. Its pronounced koontz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw95 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I stopped correcting people with my surname decades ago. Force of habit I say it then spell it immediately. They still pronounce it wrong. Its pronounced koontz I'd have never thought that's how you pronounce 68. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 People are always mispronouncing my name. Doesn't piss me off though. Yowsless? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 A pronunciation which annoys me is General Pinochet. Everyone pronounces it Pino-shay like he's French. It's a French surname. Still pisses me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 21, 2015 Herman Melville. He pisses me off. Million word long rambling convoluted sentences with multiple outdated and/or fancypants words to make it nice and impossible-to-understand. Brilliant book, loved it. Then again I am reading Ulysses at the moment, and that makes Moby Dick look like The Da Vinci Code. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Je suis İsmail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 As a New Englander and a reader, I should like Moby Dick, but I couldn't get through it, it was so bleak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I met some norwegian girls on a night out once. After a while one of them asked me if I knew any famous Norwegians. I obviously responded with John Carew. They had no idea who I was talking about. After some detailed describing of who he was, one of them exclaimed "OH! You mean Yunn Kah-rev?" Doesn't have the same ring to it. I miss him Never mind that. Were they fit and in the words of Richard Keys, did you smash it?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 People are always mispronouncing my name. Doesn't piss me off though. Yowsless? Not Useless, my surname. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 People are always mispronouncing my name. Doesn't piss me off though. Yowsless? Not Useless, my surname. Ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Either the dryest sarcastic response ever or completely over their head. I like to give the benefit of the doubt so I will say the former! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 (edited) The two that really get on my tits Santi CATHORLA HEY-ZUS Navas. Edited January 21, 2015 by Jimzk5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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