Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[Central Belt Caley]

On 04/10/2022 at 14:19, Melanius Mullarkay said:

Folk using the word "idears". Another one today at work.

I think they are doing it deliberately to send me to the verge of tears. 

Similarly there’s a director at my work who can’t pronounce Data correctly. Adds an R on the end and pronounces its “Date-er”, I don’t speak to him often but when I do it infuriates me

[Cosmic Joe]

...or failing to pronounce "sixth" properly. Even Scottish broadcasters have anglified this in recent years

[johnnydun]

4 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said:

...or failing to pronounce "sixth" properly. Even Scottish broadcasters have anglified this in recent years

Brodcasters that can't say properly prop-ly.

[DiegoDiego]

...or failing to pronounce "sixth" properly. Even Scottish broadcasters have anglified this in recent years

See also: fifth.

[HK Hibee]

1 hour ago, Central Belt Caley said:

Similarly there’s a director at my work who can’t pronounce Data correctly. Adds an R on the end and pronounces its “Date-er”, I don’t speak to him often but when I do it infuriates me

I work with a few Aussies and to a man they all pronounce data as daa-ta rather than day-ta.   
 

very much a PTTGOMN 

[DiegoDiego]

I work with a few Aussies and to a man they all pronounce data as daa-ta rather than day-ta.   
 
very much a PTTGOMN 

hos-TEL.

[Granny Danger]

8 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said:

To make things more complicated, in my work one of the security questions is "what are the last four digits of the long card number on the front of your card" to which you'll now often get the answer,

"the number's on the back now"

Life would be simpler if we went back to paying everything in cash, or better still a barter system.

[BFTD]

When people complain about the pronunciation of words that you only know one way to pronounce, and don't tell you how they pronounce it, nor how people are pronouncing it wrong.

[pozbaird]

8 minutes ago, BFTD said:

When people complain about the pronunciation of words that you only know one way to pronounce, and don't tell you how they pronounce it, nor how people are pronouncing it wrong.

In this vein, it gets on my tits the way that the big Swedish furniture store ‘Eye-Kia’ is now apparently ‘Ikk-e-ah’. Just literally seen an advert on TV for the car company ‘Skoda’. Now seemingly ‘Shhh-koda’.

That’s bad enough, but don’t get me started on the kunts who live in the village Culross. Apparently calling it Culross is a hanging offence. It’s ‘Coo-ris’. Why has it got a fcuking ‘L’ in it then, cuntos.

Edited October 6, 2022 by pozbaird

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

Welcome to Kinucher.

[BFTD]

1 hour ago, pozbaird said:

That’s bad enough, but don’t get me started on the kunts who live in the village Culross. Apparently calling it Culross is a hanging offence. It’s ‘Coo-ris’. Why has it got a fcuking ‘L’ in it then, cuntos.

Oh, don't pick at that scab. We'll be here all day.

[Cosmic Joe]

1 hour ago, BFTD said:

When people complain about the pronunciation of words that you only know one way to pronounce, and don't tell you how they pronounce it, nor how people are pronouncing it wrong.

Sixth should be pronounced six-th

Not sick-th

[BFTD]

3 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said:

Sixth should be pronounced six-th

Not sick-th

It's surprisingly hard to know how you say things when you're thinking about it, but I think I pronounce it the first way, although I don't think I've ever noticed anyone saying it differently.

Unless you mean "sick-ff"? The infamous Th-Fronting.

[welshbairn]

Leachkin in Inverness being pronounced "Larkin". If they want Gaelic pronunciation why don't they just use the Gaelic name, An Leacainn?

[invergowrie arab]

1 minute ago, welshbairn said:

Leachkin in Inverness being pronounced "Larkin". If they want Gaelic pronunciation why don't they just use the Gaelic name, An Leacainn?

Larkin isn't Gaelic pronunciation.

Leachkin is a pretty decent phonetic rendering of the Gaelic including the preaspirated c at the end of leac 

[Shotgun]

1. My car’s broken down and I’m currently sitting at a traffic light, waiting for a tow. 

2. I’m bursting for a whizz. 

3. Despite there being 2 lanes and despite me having the bonnet up and the hazards on, it’s amazing how many people are pulling up right behind me, then leaning on their horns when I don’t move on the green light. 

Each of these is less petty than the one before. 
 

 

[pozbaird]

1 hour ago, BFTD said:

Oh, don't pick at that scab. We'll be here all day.

If there’s folk in ‘Cooris’ driving ‘Hi-oon-dae’ Korean cars, I might not be responsible for my ‘act-ionz’.

[welshbairn]

9 minutes ago, Shotgun said:

1. My car’s broken down and I’m currently sitting at a traffic light, waiting for a tow. 

2. I’m bursting for a whizz. 

3. Despite there being 2 lanes and despite me having the bonnet up and the hazards on, it’s amazing how many people are pulling up right behind me, then leaning on their horns when I don’t move on the green light. 

Each of these is less petty than the one before. 
 

 

What's the point of American gun laws if you don't sort out this behaviour pronto? (and then have a whizz on their corpses, obviously)

[Hillonearth]

3 minutes ago, pozbaird said:

If there’s folk in ‘Cooris’ driving ‘Hi-oon-dae’ Korean cars, I might not be responsible for my ‘act-ionz’.

That was one that crossed my mind - after spending years happily pronouncing it as "Hi-oon-die" it's apparently now "Yoon-day".

Conversely, Volvo seem to have shelved their attempt to get people to pronounce their brand (which isn't even a Swedish word anyway...it comes from Latin) as something biscuit-arsed along the lines of "Woolwah."

 

[BFTD]

1 hour ago, Shotgun said:

1. My car’s broken down and I’m currently sitting at a traffic light, waiting for a tow. 

2. I’m bursting for a whizz. 

3. Despite there being 2 lanes and despite me having the bonnet up and the hazards on, it’s amazing how many people are pulling up right behind me, then leaning on their horns when I don’t move on the green light. 

Each of these is less petty than the one before. 

55 minutes ago, pozbaird said:

If there’s folk in ‘Cooris’ driving ‘Hi-oon-dae’* Korean cars, I might not be responsible for my ‘act-ionz’.

* ***-day (aka 12th of July)

Nah, apparently Hyundai worked out how the locals were likely to pronounce the company name when they expanded into a new territory, and that became what they used in that area. It's different all round the world. "HYUN-dae" is supposed to be the closest to the original Korean.

"Hi-oon-dae" must be what they decided to use when the internal combustion engine makes it to Fife.

Edited October 6, 2022 by BFTD
Jesus, what is up with me skipping words.