Don’t be such a drip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
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Don’t be such a drip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
Scottish people who pronounce J as "jay".
Quislings.
Why do you object to them pronouncing it correctly?Quote:
Originally Posted by CloudSquall
Forget it mate, he's a jk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
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Originally Posted by CloudSquall
Do you pronounce it "jai"? Not quite a pet peeve but a bit annoying. Same as people who say H as "haitch".
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Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Thought that was how west of Scotland folk pronounced those letters? :confused:
I’m with you personally, not a fan of those ways of saying them
Quite right too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Must admit I say Jai rather than Jay.. sure why to be honest, I assume thats how it was taught in school. Might try and unteach myself on that habit now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
With you on Haitch rather than Aitch tho...that is a touch annoying.
Haitch is just wrong, it's itch when i want to annoy the wife. I can remember the teacher correcting for trying to say haitch but never for jai.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
I pronounce H as Hotel and J as juliet
I say "a hotel".Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
as do I.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
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Don't you mean Hostel, peg seller 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
I wish I lived in an hostel, or anywhere without wheels. :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Those wheels don’t look after themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
You want a nice surface underneath them, some sort of tarmac IMO.
I will be round in the morning, give you a quote.
People that say their ice-cream is cold. :rolleyes:
People sitting on the pavement at bus stops.
They have a point, that’s why I prefer Gelato.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
Not seen people sitting, but being unable to walk past a busy bus stop easily because people are standing outside it rather than in is annoying. :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by pollution
In French, J is pronounced jee and G is pronounced jay. It keeps me on my toes when spelling stuff (email adresses, etc.) over the phone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
And i is pronounced ee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
Tossers!
Similarly in German they say seven and forty for 47. Even though I'm fluent in German I still have to stop and thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
In German ie is pronounced ee and ei is pronounced eye. Can make the difference between wanting to shoot or have a dump.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
When you are in a country where the culture surrounding football is different and they ask "why didn't you choose a better team to support?"
****ing choose mate? CHOOSE?
Its jay and its aitch. :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
When I went to school in Edinburgh we learnt the alphabet by saying it out loud every day until we got it right. It was most definitely jai.Quote:
Originally Posted by calumhibee1
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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
The Edinburgh conundrum: which school did you go to?
The french also sat down one day and assigned everything a gender. Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
French is a Latin language. Latin has 3 genders, the French just inherited it. The Germans on the other hand......Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
At least they only went with 2 genders. As mentioned above, do you know how many different words in German there for either "the" or "a" :boo hoo:. I've given up trying to learn them so at least there's a bit of room in my brain for vocabulary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Then there's Polish, which I don't speak a word of but I'm lead to believe there's about 8 different verb cases per verb.
Absolutely radge.