Names you don't know how to pronounce

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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.

Yeah I would have said Dell-a-va-NYEEN, emphasis on the last syllable (like Agnes in French is Ah-nyes), but I have never heard this name before so I don't know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meme. Like an internet meme. Where did this word come from, anyway? I try not to say it.

Rhymes with scheme. Meem.

Darn. I always pronounce it like hem.

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what about chi town (as in chicago)?

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Siobhan

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Anonymous wrote:Siobhan

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Siobhan

Shuh - Vaughn

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Esme

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I'm so bad with names. I can't pronounce kyle or cadence.

[Anonymous]

How do you pronounce Lyon? I was told pronouncing it lion is wrong.

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Lyon Hall in Arlington. Pronounced Lion.

Asking for a train ticket to Lyon in France, pronounced Lee-On.

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Beauvoir the school

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The name saiorse (spelling?). As in the actress in Brooklyn.

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Anonymous wrote:The name saiorse (spelling?). As in the actress in Brooklyn.

SEER-shuh.

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Anonymous wrote:Siobhan

Shuh - Vaughn

Which syllable gets the emphasis?

Or as DH jokes, you've put the emPHASis on the wrong syLLABle.

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I'm dumb. For cafe au Laite I said (aw lot) instead of oh le. Got corrected at Pete. Lol