Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:25     Subject: Re:Names you don't know how to pronounce
Anonymous wrote:Naomi. Is it NAY-oh-me or NIE-oh-me?


I've heard it both ways. May be a regional difference.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:25     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
For years I pronounced gnocchi incorrectly.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:24     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
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
Post 10/09/2016 14:16     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
Anonymous wrote:La Croix, like the carbonated water. I say La Croy. Correct?


Yes
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:14     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
La Croix, like the carbonated water. I say La Croy. Correct?
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:12     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
Anonymous wrote:Quinoa


Keen wa
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:08     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
Quinoa
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:05     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
Anonymous wrote:Charcuterie - I feel so uncivilized try to say it.


Shar-ku-tir-ee
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:05     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
Anonymous wrote:Charcuterie - I feel so uncivilized try to say it.


Shar shoot ter rheeee
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:02     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
*trying. See it totally messes me up
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 14:01     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
Charcuterie - I feel so uncivilized try to say it.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 13:55     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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
Post 10/09/2016 13:19     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
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.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 12:47     Subject: Re:Names you don't know how to pronounce
Anonymous wrote:Mygenet, woman's first name.


Maybe MY-zha-nay? Or Mee-guh-NET? Ethiopian?
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2016 12:43     Subject: Names you don't know how to pronounce
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??