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Amusing Voice-Over Cock-Ups

 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
19:04 / 16.01.07
According to Sky One in BSG the battle is raging on 'New Caprika', which is surely a type of herb?

Still, that's understandable when you don't necessarily watch these shows and are just given a script and pointed to a mike, what I can't understand is the woman on BBC1 insisted on presenting 'Doctor Who' and had gone through several decades of her life, and training, and didn't seem to be aware that the w in 'Who' is silent.

Any more?
 
 
kowalski
22:42 / 16.01.07
Perhaps she was just a big fan of Steely Dan. Or heroin.

Are you with me, Doctor Who?
 
 
Triplets
23:22 / 16.01.07
How is Caprica actually pronounced? Because I've been pronouncing it like the herb too.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
00:07 / 17.01.07
That is how it's pronounced.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
00:07 / 17.01.07
Oh wait, I'm pronouncing the herb wrong. Sorry.
 
 
astrojax69
04:18 / 17.01.07
threadrot: it's like a spice, actually. paprika is a type of pepper, a vegetable, which is dried and ground. sorry, as a foodie, i had to clear that one up... /threadrot ;)
 
 
■
08:03 / 17.01.07
Not exactly a voice-over but my favourite cock-up is from radio, when a newsreader declared something along the lines of: "It's 10 o'clock . I am an oil tanker, and Dickie Arbiter is ablaze in the Gulf."
 
 
miss wonderstarr
08:35 / 17.01.07
A lot of people seem to pronounce the word "herb" wrong, too. I said Caprica as CAP-rika at a conference last year, so I hope it's not wrong. To my shame I've only seen about 2 minutes of BSG.
 
 
Evil Scientist
09:03 / 17.01.07
You're missing out on one of the finest sci-fi shows currently running.

The presenter called the planet New (phonetically) Ka-pree-kah, rather than Ka-prick-ah.

I can feel my geek-gland throbbing.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:36 / 17.01.07
Again, not a voice-over, but Sky News' appalling subtitling. Yesterday, while sitting in the pub, I was reading on there how somebody had sent in an email claiming Shilpa on CBB was not a victim of racism but merely a victim of "Tyrone huge ego".

I thought he must be a wrestler or something.
 
 
■
10:11 / 17.01.07
We've done "herb" as "'erb", by the way, it's not mispronounced, it's just a cultural thing, it's all about the French, y'see.
 
 
MacDara
12:43 / 17.01.07
PAP-rika, pap-REE-ka, or-EG-ano, oreg-AH-no, let's call the whole thing off.