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Most annoying "spoken phrases" you hear

I've never heard it pronounced "ka-she". I've always heard it as the letter "k" followed by "sh". However, I believe that Americans pronounce it "cash".
 
Lacero said:
You mean cache is not pronounced 'ka-she'? :confused:
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Cache - a store e.g. a cache of arms, also used to mean a form of memory in computers. Pronounced 'Cash'.
Cachet- having a special elevated status. E.g. having a top-of-the-line powerbook has a certain cachet. Pronounced 'Kashay'.
 
w_parietti22 said:
"Your good at computers" - (answer: I just use Macs, It can make anyone "good at computers" )

"Wes, get over hear, my stupid PC is messed up" (answer: Ummmm... yeah, I dunno no how to fix that.)
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<begins shaking violently> :mad: :mad: :mad:

YOU'RE, HERE, and KNOW. And the less said about "I dunno no" the better.

;)
 
caveman_uk said:
know it's not a spoken thing but I get really annoyed by people that use mobile phone abbreviations in emails. e.g. 'CU L8R M8' (AKA ****wit speak). It's a damn email! You have a full size keyboard!
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Grrr... we get emails at work all the time from other members of staff that sign them "THX" rather than "Thanks".

I also hate the over use of the words "basically" and "actually"... possibly a UK thing.

I also see a lot of people mixing up "have" and "of" as in "I should of done it" rather than "I should HAVE done it".
 
Ok here's another that annoys me:-

- Muslim pronounced in the US as Muh-zlim everywhere else (that I am aware of) it's pronounced moo(as in wood)-slim.

- Brisbane.. not Brisbayne it's Brisben

- Iraq.. not I (as in myself)-rack it's I (as in "it")-rark

But now we're getting down to phonetics :p
 
Well, while we're on regional pronunciation ... these ones grate ...

Orstraya (Australia)
Seedeny (Sydney)
GEElong (GeeLONG)

And for any Victorians who may be listening ...

haiche (again)
Sandring-ham (eerrgh!)
Essedon (instead of Essendon - I have never been able to figure out why the "n" is not pronounced)
 
"I don't disagree but..."

followed immediately by the very thing they do disagree with.
 
dubbz said:
Any words or phrases that doesn't annoy you? Because after reading this thread I'm afraid to speak at all :p
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No Way! I hate them all! :)

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dubbz said:
Not in my sig anymore, but along with that I'll add people who say "PeeCee" instead of PC. Yeah, I get it. You don't like them, that's fine. Neither do I. Same applies to "M$", "Winblows", "Dull" and every other word where someone trying to make fun of of some company or product.

I don't mind if it's one-time joke, but I get annoyed when it's used in common conversation on forums, even if its targeted at a company or product I don't like myself (like the examples above).
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I will have to avoid using the term "Microshaft" on these forums then. :( We actually setup our forum's word filter to change "Microsoft" to that whenever someone typed Microsoft with a capital "M".

Yeah we are a BSD / Linux / OS X group, so that explains it ;) .

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Bern said:
Ok here's another that annoys me:-

- Muslim pronounced in the US as Muh-zlim everywhere else (that I am aware of) it's pronounced moo(as in wood)-slim.

- Brisbane.. not Brisbayne it's Brisben

- Iraq.. not I (as in myself)-rack it's I (as in "it")-rark

But now we're getting down to phonetics :p
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Amen to that Benn.

Got some more to add.

Melbourne = Melbun not Melborn.
Canberra = Canbra not Can-Berra
Wachope = Warhope not Watch-a-pe


But yes, eerahk not I-Rack and eerahn not I-Ran.

And while we're on the subject, for all you yanks out there....

Ozzy, not aahsssie. Please tell the rest of your country.
 
caveman_uk said:
Cache - a store e.g. a cache of arms, also used to mean a form of memory in computers. Pronounced 'Cash'.
Cachet- having a special elevated status. E.g. having a top-of-the-line powerbook has a certain cachet. Pronounced 'Kashay'.
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Wouldn't the "e" on the end of the word cache extend the "a" sound out to be more along the lines of kaysh?
 
caveman_uk said:
Really?

Rules of English Punctuation
Rules of English Grammar
Rules of English Spelling

The fact that English has adopted words from other languages doesn't mean we threw the rules of the language out to do it.
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There is a fantastic book about the English language written to accompany a BBC series about 10years ago, the title of which or author both escape me at the moment.
I've posted about this book before and it, IMHO, should be required reading in all schools.
It documents how the English language has evolved and shows how it will continue to evolve.
There is a part where it prints a text to be read phonetically which is unintelligible as English, let alone make any sense, but is actually Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as it would originally have been read.
There have been a few things through history that have tried to standardised English the most successful being the first widely available dictionaries, TV/movies and probably most recently Microsoft.
There is an interesting section in the BBC book that shows how when the USA became independent from the UK they refused to use English dictionaries in their schools so there was a gap in the market filled by, IIRC, Webster’s Dictionary which was written by a man who didn’t see the logic of spelling centre as it is pronounced center, likewise he ironically changed standardised but left phonetic untouched. RP did a lot to standardize how many heard English spoken during the early/mid 20th century and I’d say Microsoft and it’s spellcheck dictionary in Word are the reason that so many people in England are happy to spell with ‘zeds’ (or ‘zees’) rather than S’s.
 
I wished I had plugged my ears whenever I hear the following words pronounced in the following way;

Audi - when it is pronounced "awe-dee"
Porsche - when it is pronounced "Porch" or "Poor-shee"
BMW - when it is pronounced "B-M-Dubbya"
Volvo - when it is pronounced "Voll-va"
Volkswagen - Any time it's not correctly (I guess I only like the way Germans pronounce it with the V sounding like an F and the W sounding like a V).


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blaskillet4 said:
The 'N' word... Especially when used by black people... Ugh... WTF is up with that double standard? They find it acceptable to say it among themselves, but get all angry when said by someone who isn't black. If you don't like it when other people say it to you, then don't say it at all.
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I have to agree with this. While I personally don't like the word and would rather no one say it, it boggles my mind to no end...

Black people say the word is so oppressing, and so negative, and all this - yet it is used as much as the word 'dude' in certain groups.

If you don't like the word and don't want to hear it - don't say it yourself, even if it is your closest buddy. Saying it's OK for one group to say it, but unacceptable for another is just ridiculous.
 
840quadra said:
I wished I had plugged my ears whenever I hear the following words pronounced in the following way;

Audi - when it is pronounced "awe-dee"
Porsche - when it is pronounced "Porch" or "Poor-shee"
BMW - when it is pronounced "B-M-Dubbya"
Volvo - when it is pronounced "Voll-va"
Volkswagen - Any time it's not correctly (I guess I only like the way Germans pronounce it with the V sounding like an F and the W sounding like a V).


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Hell yeah, and more:

It's Mazda, not Maaahsdaahh.
It's Nissan, not Neeesaaahn
It's Hee-yun-day, not Hunday (they actually made an ad here that let everyone know how to pronounce it after we called them Hi-yun-Die's for too long and they got pissed off)

And Lamborghinis, where do I begin?

Gayardo not Gall-lardo
Murtharlgo not Murch-ee-ell-argo

Espresso not Expresso
Cappuccino not cup-of-cheeno
 
840quadra said:
I wished I had plugged my ears whenever I hear the following words pronounced in the following way;

Audi - when it is pronounced "awe-dee"
Porsche - when it is pronounced "Porch" or "Poor-shee"
BMW - when it is pronounced "B-M-Dubbya"
Volvo - when it is pronounced "Voll-va"
Volkswagen - Any time it's not correctly (I guess I only like the way Germans pronounce it with the V sounding like an F and the W sounding like a V).


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The French say O-de for Audi. I was under the impression that it is Ow-de (think the word ow, not the letters o and w), not awe but ow.

Porsche is pronounced Porsch-a, not Porsch or Por-schee....completely agree here and it is quite annoying.

It's a fricken double-u, say it like it's meant to be said. W.

I wasn't initially planning on responding to so many of those, but the more I thought about it I realized that they really do bug me, so I thought I would. Thanks for bringing them to my attention 840quadra :rolleyes: :p

Edit: About the only credit the American auto makers deserve is choosing names that few people can mess up, like Ford and Dodge. At least they have innovation somewhere in their company ;)
 
One of the guys at work just loves to use the phrase "you know as well as I do" but he mixes up the last two words and says "you know as well as do I." I want to beat him every time I hear it. The same guy also pronounces the word something as somethink. Idiot.

My old boss used to say physical year when he meant to say fiscal year, but that was just funny.
 
In High School, my teacher was once stupid enough to utter the phrase, "For your FYI..."

I honestly wanted to punch her... :eek:
 
Chundles said:
Cappuccino not cup-of-cheeno
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Nearly spat mine out when I read that. It is s-o-o-o ocker! Almost makes me homesick (but then I watch Cath & Kim on BBC4 (??) and I'm cured).


And "physical year". Good. My guess is you didn't have the heart to tell him.
 
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