Yeah and Paul by his own admission is Galvin not Galavin and Anthony Maher is just that, Mar, not Mah har.

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 28/08/2015 11:58:23    1777418

Joxer
County: Dublin
Posts: 2407

Enjoyed your post but leave Rachel alone. Could watch her cook all day. With the sound down.

A

Aido69 (Dublin) - Posts: 381 - 28/08/2015 12:22:50    1777429

Breffni39
County: Cavan
Posts: 9808

1777367
Yeah that does my head in as well. I don't care how they pronounce it themselves either! Keane is Keane. Kane is Kane. Walsh is Walsh. Welsh is Welsh.

Beat me to it Breffni. The surname Walsh seems to be pronounced differently down the country.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9154 - 28/08/2015 12:33:23    1777434

I was surprised to learn that I work in Wickla !

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4897 - 28/08/2015 12:39:47    1777437

The way brolly pronouncs Tomas O Se ,, to -mass

FoolsGold (Cavan) - Posts: 2763 - 28/08/2015 12:51:39    1777451

Joxer
County: Dublin
Posts: 2407

Enjoyed your post but leave Rachel alone. Could watch her cook all day. With the sound down.

A

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Indeed, like a child, she should be seen and not heard. You could watch her for hours and you still wouldn't know who to bake beans on toast!

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 28/08/2015 12:59:07    1777455

The Brits are great at prouncing Irish name places or surnames for example Drogheda or Mc Grath/Moran.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 28/08/2015 13:10:30    1777461

Moss Kane
Roy Kane
Barry John Kane
...and my own neighbour Mike Kane
All spelt Keane for some reason.

thykingdomcome1 (Kerry) - Posts: 78 - 28/08/2015 13:27:43    1777472

Yeah, I hate the way accents are disappearing into a rancid mid atlantic, 'I lived in London for a summer' type thing. Used to be only in posh areas in Dublin (or Dablin as they call it) but now its all over the country. I hate to see accents go completely. Not long I suppose?

JimmyK (Dublin) - Posts: 240 - 28/08/2015 13:51:08    1777486

I find more annoying the way people talk American teenagers, and not just the, like, speaking in questions? , but the cr@p they say , like 'awesomeness' and 'incredibleness', etc. Theres very little originality left at all, especially amongst the better-educated

flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 28/08/2015 14:13:09    1777505

Seeing as we are all ranting can something be done about GAA players using the phrase "I suppose" in every sentence. Soccer players have "at the end of the day" and "obviously". Rugby players tend to be a lot more articulate and polished and hence make for better interviewees. I would make an exception for Mayo and Dublin players who tend to speak quite well.

sportsfan14 (USA) - Posts: 281 - 28/08/2015 14:35:00    1777528

Ollie,

They struggled with Cillian O'Connors name on sky last year

Sure they cant pronounce Omagh either and don't even think to ask them to pronounce Aughnacloy, bloody Sassenachs I just wish they would Foxtrot Oscar!

bumpernut (Antrim) - Posts: 1852 - 28/08/2015 15:24:56    1777566

sportsfan14

How about them using 'you know?'

Player/Manager - I don't know, which is why you were asked that!

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 28/08/2015 15:31:36    1777570

When a GAA player cracks a joke in an interview, they immediately get all embarrassed and go '..no, seriously.....'.it's painful to watch their suffering

flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 28/08/2015 15:34:34    1777571

Agreed on the American teenager thing flack. You would wonder what is the thought-process behind it at all. I find it very strange. What is even weirder is, it is a common thing, as in loads of people do the same thing. I mean it is the equivalent of people in Ireland just talking with a French accent.

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 28/08/2015 15:54:48    1777580

From my own county I have heard Conor Laverty being called 'Lavery', 'Laverty' and 'Lafferty' and everything inbetween.

Nanderson (Down) - Posts: 83 - 28/08/2015 16:30:32    1777587

slayer
County: Limerick
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1777570 sportsfan14

How about them using 'you know?'

Player/Manager - I don't know, which is why you were asked that!


Yes Slayer that can be ahrd to take along with more of the following;

"as regards" - Lar Corbett
Yerra - any Kerry man in the world ever...
"we knew it was going to be one hell of a battle"......you won by 15 points, come on!
"I didn't happen to see the incident" a man was decapitated with a box or a hurl 5 yards in front of the subs bench
"we will just be concentrating on our own game"....you will ye. You have about 5 analysts dissecting the sleep patterns of the opposition corner forward...
"well Marty the team is in transition"....as has the county for the past 120 years if that's the case
"Well Marty I slipped" John Maughan after been polaxed after encroaching on to the field against Leitrim in 1997...
anyone any more to add?

sportsfan14 (USA) - Posts: 281 - 28/08/2015 16:55:12    1777597

Sportfan14
Were just focusing on our own game
We have to push on now

flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 28/08/2015 17:37:03    1777603

In Offaly Tullamore is sometimes called Tellamoore, Horesleap on the Westmeath border is sometimes referred to as Hurselwp.
Billy Keane Listowwl, in a newspaper article called us the land of the silent T

thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1746 - 28/08/2015 17:39:27    1777604

It is master, and I bet it's the same in England/Australia/Canada, etc. Does the whole world want to sound like kung fue panda?

flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 28/08/2015 17:39:57    1777605