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I know its not an Irish channel even though hundreds of Thousands of Irish people watch it and seem too think it is, and it does have a so called Irish news programe, but did anybody watch Sky Sports news last night with their clip of the Draag-hard-dear United V Cork City FAI final (sorry Peader).
I had too laugh at the way the presenter made a complete mess of saying the teams name, even though they can tell us the scores of teams from Eastern Europe in the Uefa cup without any problem.
Didn't see it but they had highlights on Sky Sports 1Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
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Originally Posted by Peadar
How's it going liteweight
hope you got to drown your sorrows last nite
yeah seen that last night - had to laugh at the guy
but at least the game did get a mention, which is something
Drogheda's one of those places that English people seem genetically programmed to pronounce incorrectly. Don't think I've heard anyone over here who can say it properly.
It's the same with the name Doherty. You'll hear about 30 different ways of saying it, except the one and only ue North-West pronounciation of 'Dorty'.
If only we had a 'Ceanannus Mor' team in the league.... :D
How do we know that they are saying the Eastern European Club right?Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
Anyway,we all know that the English cant pronounce any Irish place names.
anyone remember how it was pronounced (okay, this is old) in the U.S. mini-series "The Thornbirds"? "Drah-heeeedah" ...yikes..
sure even drogheda natives dont pronounce it right "draw-da":D
just imagine there were all irish names:O
drogheda is English I thought for the phonetic irish name. They should be able to say it.
I dont think the cup was covered last season so good stuff
the phonetic would be "drihid-aw"
As are 90%+ of place names in Ireland, but that doesn't have any influence on how easy they are to pronounce ! Phonetic translations merely replicate/present words in a slightly more meaningful format. Try singing a song in a foreign language that you don't understand/know. You may think you've got the words right phonetically..... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by thejollyrodger
It doesn't help that the 'gh' sound in English place names is itself pronounced in about 3 different ways (either 'ff' and 'ah' as in Loughborough/'Luffbra', or 'ah' as in Middlesborough, or 'g-h' as in Replingham). Still - feeble that they can't get it right - there have to be Irish members of staff in Sky who just cringe when they hear how some place-names are pronounced....
Says who?Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
The funniest i ever heard was a scottish girl over here attempting to say 'Coleraine'...it's not even a difficult one, she said 'coll-er-rain'
I was nearly on the floor in hysterics!!! :eek: :D
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Originally Posted by Poor Student
Shall I come up with dates, times and the people who were presenting the programes FFS.:rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by The Stars
Same as the post above.;)
'Dorty':confused: Its 'Dordy' round these parts:DQuote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
more like "drohid aw ha" i'd say.Quote:
Originally Posted by anto eile
What's with the attitude? You hear awful pronounciations of Eastern European names too (not to mention Western) regurlarly, it just happens to depend on whether you know them.Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
i thing the point being made is; how do we know there pronounceing them right if were not familliar with the correct pronunciationQuote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
ah but you see, Mr Poor Student is familiar with Eastern Europe, a particular lady is from Slovenia, is she not? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by monkey magic