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Pronunciation Poll
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: optom3 on June 15, 2008, 09:25:31 am ---My maiden name is Scottish and no one could ever pronounce it except when we were on holiday in Scotland,
It is spelled COLQUHOUN . Have a guess at how that mouthful is pronounced. A clue, there are several silent letters. So it is pronounced CAHOON !!!!!
Another Scottish one which i nearly always misspronounced is MENZIES which is pronounced MINGIS I kid you not and EWAN is YOU AN.
It was just my bad luck that COLQUHOUN/ CA HOON rhymed so beautifully with Baboon. Kids can be pretty cruel.I'll let your imagination run with that.
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I went to college with a guy who's last name was Drzeweichi.
I'll give you all a few minutes to chew it over. A hint: the first half sounds like the name of a car! :D
David In Indy:
It's pronounced Cheh-vee-EH-ski.
The first part sounds like Chevy, but with a hard ch sound like in the word church.
He was a real nice guy, and very cute. Smart too. Maybe even a genius.
Fran:
--- Quote from: SunShadow on April 24, 2008, 10:56:41 am ---My stepmother taught a child named "TaBronx" named for, you guessed it, The Bronx.
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When one of my friends was a teacher, she had a male student named Usmail (pronounced OOZE-mail). She used to joke that his mother must have gotten his name off of a mailbox.
BlissC:
--- Quote from: Kelda on April 22, 2008, 04:22:50 pm ---Toe-mah-toe
this poll makes me wanna sing!
you say...... I say.......
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LOL!
Well considering most of yous are Americanadians, looking at the results from the poll, looks like you've done a fair job of pronouncing things the "right" way. Now if we could just persuade you to start using the letter "u" properly, we'd really be making some progress! ;) ;D
UK Bliss ;)
BlissC:
--- Quote from: optom3 on June 15, 2008, 09:25:31 am ---Another Scottish one which i nearly always misspronounced is MENZIES which is pronounced MINGIS I kid you not and EWAN is YOU AN.
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Ah, strange lot the Scots are... *ducks and runs just in case there's any Scots around*
The leader of one of the opposition parties for a while here in the UK was called Menzies Campbell, and it was always quite funny watching the news with how the different reporters would pronounce his name.
There's also a chain of newsagents/stationers called Menzies, and though everyone knows that MENZIES should be pronounced MINGIS, round here at least, everyone still always called it Menzies - that particular shop in town's now been taken over by the WH Smith chain, which is a hell of a lot easier to pronounce! :laugh:
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