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Pronunciation Poll
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: SunShadow on April 23, 2008, 09:11:28 pm ---Maybe I'm wrong about the whole Yvonne thing. ???
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No, I think you're right.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2008, 03:55:45 pm ---Yeah, I don't know when I caught on that it's Pen-EL-oh-pee.
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There is a town in Belgium called Ypres that I believe the English pronounce "Wipers." ;D
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I went to Ypres with Fabienne last March and you are right, Jeff...my father kept telling me I had gone to "Wipers." I just let him believe that although no one I spoke to called it Wipers. LOL
PS, it is more than a town...it is a significant piece of WWI history
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 23, 2008, 09:31:52 pm ---I went to Ypres with Fabienne last March and you are right, Jeff...my father kept telling me I had gone to "Wipers." I just let him believe that although no one I spoke to called it Wipers. LOL
PS, it is more than a town...it is a significant piece of WWI history
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Yes, I know. But you're the first person I know who's actually been there. Have you been to "Callous," France, too, or just to "Callous," Maine? ;D
mariez:
--- Quote from: SunShadow on April 23, 2008, 09:11:28 pm ---Maybe I'm wrong about the whole Yvonne thing. ???
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Nah, you're not wrong, Susie! My mother-in-law pronounces her name Ye-von because that's the way her mother always pronounced it (and she likes the way it sounds better, too). But, technically speaking it should be Ee-von. After all, Yves St. Laurent is not Ye-ves St. Laurent.
It's funny about names. I went to elementary school with a Marcia. And every year on the first day of school the teacher would pronounce it MAR-sha and she would have to correct them, because she pronounced it Mar-SEE-a. :)
Marie
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2008, 09:35:39 pm ---Yes, I know. But you're the first person I know who's actually been there. Have you been to "Callous," France, too, or just to "Callous," Maine? ;D
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Just Callous, Maine. I did get sort of near to Callous, France when we were in Caen.
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