Names you don't know how to pronounce

[Anonymous]

Mobile, the thing you hang above your baby's crib. Is it MO-bil. Or MO-bile (like a British cell phone). Or MO-beel??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mygenet, woman's first name.

Maybe MY-zha-nay? Or Mee-guh-NET? Ethiopian?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mobile, the thing you hang above your baby's crib. Is it MO-bil. Or MO-bile (like a British cell phone). Or MO-beel??

I/my family always say mo-BEEL.

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Anonymous wrote:Delavagnine (sp?) as in Cara Delavagnine
Bon Iver
Nyongo (sp?) as in Lupita

Bon Iver is pronounced like "Bonny vair"

The other two are just phonetic. Nee-yongo and Della-veen

Phonetic - really? Delavagnine is hardly phonetic in the English language! Unless it's pronounced Della-VAG-nine. . .

Yeah, Delevingne isn't phonetically pronounced at all in English. Della-ving-nee? Della-vin-in-in? That extra -gne at the end sort of throw things off.

[Anonymous]

Charcuterie - I feel so uncivilized try to say it.

[Anonymous]

*trying. See it totally messes me up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charcuterie - I feel so uncivilized try to say it.

Shar shoot ter rheeee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charcuterie - I feel so uncivilized try to say it.

Shar-ku-tir-ee

[Anonymous]

Quinoa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quinoa

Keen wa

[Anonymous]

La Croix, like the carbonated water. I say La Croy. Correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:La Croix, like the carbonated water. I say La Croy. Correct?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The other day my DD asked where the word sandwich came from. I told her about the earl of sandwich/it's a place or whatever. Then she asked but why was the place named sandwich.

I thought about it.. Ok "sand" is easy. But "wich?"
There's Greenwich, and Norwich. And so 'wich' must mean something.

And I realized I think they're all pronounced differently.
Gren-ich
Norwich is "nor-wick" right
And sandwich. That's easy.

So do I have norwich right?

I fully expect "cool story bro," but it bothered me that the three towns are all pronounced differently......

Basically the English are weird and like to pronounce names very unphonetically. Ralph is pronounced Rafe, for example. Also they like to drop syllables and entire consonants.

[Anonymous]

For years I pronounced gnocchi incorrectly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Naomi. Is it NAY-oh-me or NIE-oh-me?

I've heard it both ways. May be a regional difference.