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    Quote Originally Posted by the 12 th man View Post
    Karachi instead of Karcher (power washers)
    On the subject of mispronouncing foreign names, my mate has a tendancy to rattle them out too quick for his brain, resulting in such gems as Ruud le Tisstelrooy, a bizarre combo of Saint Matt and the horse-faced striker, and the brilliant Zinidane Zidine!
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    Anyone ever encounter "braving the elephants" as opposed to "braving the elements"? I have
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    meant to add this one:

    "pass the buck" i always thought this was "pass the book", and here was my logic behind it, which makes a lot of sense too , I thought it meant passing the book around, as in you wouldn't take responsibility for reading, you were asked to read out from the book but you wouldn't take the responsibility of reading outloud in front of everyone.....

    something to do with america im assuming though, is it? around washingtons time i spose? i could google but ill give someone else the chance to prove they know the origins.
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    Tee hee! Not seen this one before.

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    How about "The Hairy Henry" for Thierry Henry?

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    Reminds me as well - anytime the Beeb have a live game on, turn on the subtitles. It uses some sort of speech recognition thing to decide what the person is saying. In the 2002 World Cup alone, I made a note of these verbal typos (heard one or two, then started keeping track for the first fanzine of the new season) -

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    	Actual	Subtitles
    Ahn Jung-Hwan	Aunt Joan Kwan
    Anderlecht	And elect	
    Angelo di Livio	Angelo de video
    Boo	Blue / Broom
    Brescia	Bresher
    Buffon	Babbel
    Bundesliga	Bond a sleek
    Darling	Vale of a
    England are playing 4-4-2	England are playing for 4-2
    For the	Further
    Goalkeeper	Golko player
    Hong Myung Bo	Lead young bloke
    How do you feel?	Heady feel?
    I don’t think he had much choice	I don’t Nicky had much tries
    Iuliano misses	Iuliano Mrs.
    Joaquin	Joe are keen
    Juninho	Jimmy neo
    Korea	Careers / Courier
    Korea at the moment	Korea at the mermaid
    Kuwait	Quaid
    Lee Joon-Sun	Allegiances / The lead tuna soon
    Lee Woon-Jae	That South Korean goalkeeper
    Maldini	Muddy / Malady / Mal Beeney
    Maldini	In mind of Beeney
    Mendieta	Men DSO
    Next to me, a man	Next to become a fan
    One host is gone	One hostess gone
    One penalty missed	Won penalty mayor’s
    Park Ji-Sung	Byker Grove
    Puyol	We’ll
    Referees are getting a grip on it	Referee’s eye gets a fabric on it
    Shirt being pulled	Share being called
    Side foot	Sighed foot
    Soel Ki Hyeon	Sold Keith Dion
    Sven Goran Eriksson	Sven at you and Eriksson
    There you go	There Ugo
    Vieri	The area
    Vieri is a brute of a man	Eyrie is a Brit of a man
    Was it his thigh?   It’s his thigh.	Was it high?   It’s his five.
    Whole back four	Hole but four
    You see	UC
    Zanetti	Sanity
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    Play it by ???

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    When the Prodigy brought out Poison, a guy in my school wrote, in very large letters, Poisson on his schoolbag.
    Something a bit fishy about that story

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    I have another one, I just saw this evening. "lost in the midst of time" instead of "lost in the mists of time".
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    Just heard a Senior Manager referred to as the "Head Nocho".
    Quoting years at random since 1975

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    One that I saw today - "tubberware" instead of "tupperware". You know, because of the "tubs"
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    This whole thread is a bit of a damp squid!

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    Did you just post that up off your own back?
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    Yes, because i think that others have left themselves down with the quality of their contributions.

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    They have been a bit lacksadaisy, no doubt about it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by pineapple stu View Post
    Korea at the moment Korea at the mermaid
    That has to have been mark lawrenson
    Last edited by Block G Raptor; 11/12/2007 at 3:58 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by finlma View Post
    People who say "pacific" instead of "specific" or people who say "patren" instead of "pattern" bug me no end. Learn the language properly.

    I have a friend who calls a bannister a balister and insists that he is right.
    You should emphasis your point next time using a balister, which is a type of cross-bow (from the Latin ballein - 'to throw'). However, he's probably talking about a baluster, which is indeed correct(ish - there's a slight difference not worth discussing).

    I find it hard not to snigger when people use 'pacific' for 'specific'. I had a lecturer a few years ago who said it constantly.

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    The use of the word "infraction" can get annoying!!

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    A favorite amongst Dublin urchins: 'a package of cripps instead' of ' a packet of crisps'

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    The next series of something referred to as the next "serious".
    Quoting years at random since 1975

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