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.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
Didn't see it but they had highlights on Sky Sports 1Originally Posted by sylvo
Have Boot Disk, will travel
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....
How do we know that they are saying the Eastern European Club right?
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"
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.....
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?
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!!!
Shall I come up with dates, times and the people who were presenting the programes FFS.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
Same as the post above.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
'Dorty'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....Its 'Dordy' round these parts
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
more like "drohid aw ha" i'd say.
Life isn't all beer and football...some of us haven't touched a football in months
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.Shall I come up with dates, times and the people who were presenting the programes FFS.
i thing the point being made is; how do we know there pronounceing them right if were not familliar with the correct pronunciationShall I come up with dates, times and the people who were presenting the programes FFS.
arent we all just magic little monkeys...
ah but you see, Mr Poor Student is familiar with Eastern Europe, a particular lady is from Slovenia, is she not?
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