Names you don't know how to pronounce

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Konmari
Is it
KON-muh-ree
KON-maah-ree
Or
kon-muh-REE

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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.

I say MO buhl

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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.

I always say meem because it feels comfortable. DH and friends seem to insist it is maim.

I just can't do maim. It sounds dumb, and so meem it is.

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

Yes

No, it's La KWAH. Exactly the way eddy says it in worship about the designer on Ab Fab

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Anonymous wrote:The last name Nguyen.

When

You need an N in front, so it's something like Nuh-when, with the 'nuh' said really quickly.

https://remembernguyen.com

OMG THANKYOU

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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.

I always say meem because it feels comfortable. DH and friends seem to insist it is maim.

I just can't do maim. It sounds dumb, and so meem it is.

DH and friends are wrong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

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Anonymous wrote:what about chi town (as in chicago)?

I say 'shy-town'. Native Chicagoan. I'm trying to think if I've ever heard differently.

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Konmari is closest to the second one above.

Cone like ice cream cone

Mah like the way they call their mother in Goodfells

Rhee like in Jhoon Rhee (r closer to a soft d in "dee" like Sandra dee)

Pretty even emphasis on all 3 syllables in Japanese.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of Chevy chase, what about chaise lounge. I've heard people say it all French-like. Ha ha. But I say "chase lounge." Is that ok?

Interior designer here and no, it's not okay pronounce it chez long.

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I can't pronounce lien.
In actual French, where it comes from, it is not pronounced the way it is for legal stuff here. Trips me up every time.

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Last week Aoife totally threw me off.

A oh fee? A oy fee? Nope, E fa

I understand that it's an Irish name but I felt bad for the child, she must correcting people constantly.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of Chevy chase, what about chaise lounge. I've heard people say it all French-like. Ha ha. But I say "chase lounge." Is that ok?

OMG. This is one of my pet peeves. The issue is that 99% of the time it is also incorrectly spelled. It is chaise longue. Not lounge. Nothing to do with lounging. Longue is the feminine form of long because chaise is a feminine noun. It means simply long chair. Not lounge chair. I think to save face most people just say chaise (like shayz).

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Anonymous wrote:For years I pronounced gnocchi incorrectly.

nyaw-kee

Please don't do the other thing.

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Reince Priebus...how?

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Anonymous wrote:I can't pronounce lien.
In actual French, where it comes from, it is not pronounced the way it is for legal stuff here. Trips me up every time.

The same as lean.