Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

[Registered User]

Kyle Sandilands "....but it's a double-ended sword..."

How would he hold it? Ouch! Maybe it's like one of the Klingon weapons with a handle in the middle

 

[010203]

Girl on Love Island: "if I liked him I would've gaven it to him last night"

It was either during a Love Island segment on Gogglebox or a question on Have You Been Paying Attention one year where they showed a bloke asking a dumb blonde about whether she had been to some place in Western Australia. Her response: ''Me and geometry, we're not friends''.

 

[SydneyBlood]

Girl on Love Island: "if I liked him I would've gaven it to him last night"

And at a guess this was one of the more articulate phrases uttered in this ep.

 

[peternorth]

Foxsports newsreader pronouncing Dutch football club Ajax "Ay Jacks"

It's Eye-axe

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Foxsports newsreader pronouncing Dutch football club Ajax "Ay Jacks"

It's Eye-axe

So all these years I’ve been pronouncing this wrong?

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Foxsports newsreader pronouncing Dutch football club Ajax "Ay Jacks"

It's Eye-axe

 

[sabso]

Foxsports newsreader pronouncing Dutch football club Ajax "Ay Jacks"

It's Eye-axe

And PSV is pe es fe

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Foxsports newsreader pronouncing Dutch football club Ajax "Ay Jacks"

It's Eye-axe

It’s like the name of the late actor, Joaquin Phoenix. For years I read and said it as Jo-a-quin (Mind you, I think that sounds better than Wa-keen )

 

[sabso]

It’s like the name of the late actor, Joaquin Phoenix. For years I read and said it as Jo-a-quin (Mind you, I think that sounds better than Wa-keen )

Far as I know he is still alive at the time of writing.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Far as I know he is still alive at the time of writing.

Oh sorry, was it his brother?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Oh sorry, was it his brother?

River’s been dead 32 years.

 

[Pistol Night]

River’s been dead 32 years.

If he’s not TISM ****ed up big time

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I think I just made a Verbal Faux Pas (but avoided Jargon, Cliches and Boganisms, hopefully )

 

[010203]

Mike Atherton "Jos English"

 

[sosos]

It’s like the name of the late actor, Joaquin Phoenix. For years I read and said it as Jo-a-quin (Mind you, I think that sounds better than Wa-keen )

Kin-oh-ah, said with your broadest Aussie accent, sounds much better than Kin-wah.

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

WA racing commentator, talking about how good the Ascot track is for tomorrow:

"They've raced here 3 consecutive weeks in a row"

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Foxsports newsreader pronouncing Dutch football club Ajax "Ay Jacks"

It's Eye-axe

Maybe the newsreader was old. We had a football club in Melbourne (or was it soccer ) called Ajax years ago and it was always pronounced Ay-jax.

 

[peternorth]

Maybe the newsreader was old. We had a football club in Melbourne (or was it soccer ) called Ajax years ago and it was always pronounced Ay-jax.

yes theres a footy team called ay jax.