Accents and horses names

[Louby]

Pointless post really but found it quite funny.
Tonight Im calling my horse to come in from the field, nothing, didnt even look up, then a lady with an Irish background called her name with an Irish accent and she looked up and galloped to the gate! Ive owned her 18 mths now, since coming over from Ireland as a 3 yr old. Seems Im going to have to start practice saying her name with an Irish accent

 

[Pinkvboots]

Ha ha how funny my friends bought horses from Germany and one of them was originally from Germany and she used to speak to them in German.

 

[HappyHollyDays]

I still speak to my horse in German and I've owned him for 5 years. He knows that to move back is Zuruck and to pick up his feet is Fuss Geben. It's quite normal to both of us and he understands perfectly.

 

[alainax]

I spoke a bit of fries to my Friesian early on, he seemed to appreciate it!

Can any welsh speakers help me with the correct pronunciation of Cerys?
I’ve watched a few you tube clips and it’s seems to vary. So far we are at “Kerr-iss”

 

[rara007]

I use a bit of a poor german accent when driving or calling my new one!

 

[Reacher]

Haha. If you wave a bucket of feed your horse won’t mind how you pronounce his name

 

[Cobby93]

I spoke a bit of fries to my Friesian early on, he seemed to appreciate it!

Can any welsh speakers help me with the correct pronunciation of Cerys?
I’ve watched a few you tube clips and it’s seems to vary. So far we are at “Kerr-iss”

Yes that's pretty good! Cerys is Che (as in the beginning of theword Chemical) - riss 😊

 

[Snowfilly]

There's a couple of Spanish imports at the local riding school and the kids practice their school Spanish on them! Not sure that they notice, but it makes me smile to see a kid walking down the boxes going 'morning, Annie, hello Lady, hola Roja!'

Years ago, my mum brought a welsh collie that only understood welsh and came with her own phrase book.

 

[Casey76]

Both of mine are bilingual 😉 and respond to both French and English commands.

 

[Cortez]

I speak Spanish to mine, although the rescue lad is terrified of my Spanish vet when he starts really chatting to him!

 

[rara007]

Haha. If you wave a bucket of feed your horse won’t mind how you pronounce his name

You say that- it's taken quite a while to get him to eat all of his 'muesli' too! My old dutch driving pony I kept my poor dutch take on his commands as I took him over mid season and that was the quickest way to get him singing from the same sheet as me!

 

[only_me]

The shetland responds well to swearing

 

[Annagain]

I spoke a bit of fries to my Friesian early on, he seemed to appreciate it!

Can any welsh speakers help me with the correct pronunciation of Cerys?
I’ve watched a few you tube clips and it’s seems to vary. So far we are at “Kerr-iss”

That's about right. First syllable rhymes with 'air', second with 'kiss'. It means beloved one.

Generally in Welsh, (there are a few letter combinations that make things a bit different but they don't apply here) letters are pronounced as you would encourage a child to read aloud, so 'a' as in 'apple', e as in 'egg' 'c' as in 'cat' and, unlike English they never change so it's quite straightforward....once you've got your head arounf 'w' and 'y' being vowels in Welsh, "dd" being pronounced as 'th' as in 'that' and 'th' pronounced as a soft 'th as in 'thin', a single 'f' being pronounced as a 'v' and a double 'ff' giving the soft 'f' sound (a bit like 'of' and 'off' in English). In some ways it's clearer as the reader never has to decide how to pronounce letters that change - how do English leaners know the 'th' in 'thin' and 'this' are pronounced differently?

 

[DD]

care-iss

 

[Tihamandturkey]

Pointless post really but found it quite funny.
Tonight Im calling my horse to come in from the field, nothing, didnt even look up, then a lady with an Irish background called her name with an Irish accent and she looked up and galloped to the gate! Ive owned her 18 mths now, since coming over from Ireland as a 3 yr old. Seems Im going to have to start practice saying her name with an Irish accent

What is her name Louby?

 

[Keith_Beef]

Both of mine are bilingual 😉 and respond to both French and English commands.

Do you mean "equally disobediend in both languages"?

I think that when I'm leading a horse from the stable to the arena, or back again, and stay "stand", the horse does just as I say. But I don't think that a French horse understand the English word, it just understands that when I stop, it should stop as well...

 

[Equine_Dream]

I always enjoy listening to non-welsh speakers pronounce part of my mare's registered name. Cynheidrefawr which is the stud she came from. It never gets boring 😂

 

[Fiona]

I always enjoy listening to non-welsh speakers pronounce part of my mare's registered name. Cynheidrefawr which is the stud she came from. It never gets boring 😂

I am very grateful to have a welsh sec A with an easy to pronounce name, though some of her ancestors in her passport are a bit of a tongue twister

Fiona

 

[Annagain]

I always enjoy listening to non-welsh speakers pronounce part of my mare's registered name. Cynheidrefawr which is the stud she came from. It never gets boring 😂

I'm thinking of starting a pronouciation service for commentators! I think people see a combination of letters, don't recognise the combinations and panic because Cynheidrefawr isn't THAT difficult if you break it down really.

Cyn -rhymes with 'gun'
heid - rhymes with 'aid'
re- 'rare'
fawr - 'vow' with an r at the end. Rrrrrrrrreallly rrrrrrrol the rrrrrrrr.

Cun-haid-rare-vow-rrrrrrrrrrrr

I get that things like a 'll' and a 'ch' are alien sounds and will therefore be difficult but everything else, is fairly easy if you make just a little bit of effort to get it right.

 

[Equine_Dream]

Rrrrrrrrr indeed 😁

 

[Casey76]

Do you mean "equally disobediend in both languages"?

I think that when I'm leading a horse from the stable to the arena, or back again, and stay "stand", the horse does just as I say. But I don't think that a French horse understand the English word, it just understands that when I stop, it should stop as well...

Umm no... because I’ve always mixed my languages when I’m twittering on, they respond equally as well to recule/back up; attend/wait; avance/get on; quelle connerie???/wtf???; suffit!/enough!, doucement/gently etc.

They get sworn at in two languages too!

 

[Equi]

My friends horse was abused by someone with a northern irish accent, and to this day he can't tolerate it. He won't go near me! Shes got a thick irish accent thankfully lol

 

[Louby]

What is her name Louby?

Are you ready for this..... Stacey or now Staaaaaacey lol. Nothing wrong of course with Stacey for a person but sounded a bit odd at first for a horse. Im used to it now and she actually suits it

 

[Tihamandturkey]

Are you ready for this..... Stacey or now Staaaaaacey lol. Nothing wrong of course with Stacey for a person but sounded a bit odd at first for a horse. Im used to it now and she actually suits it

That's very unusual 🙂 lovely that it suits her - I was expecting something really Irish 😆

 

[Keith_Beef]

Umm no... because I’ve always mixed my languages when I’m twittering on, they respond equally as well to recule/back up; attend/wait; avance/get on; quelle connerie???/wtf???; suffit!/enough!, doucement/gently etc.

They get sworn at in two languages too!

OK. It was a joke, usually applied to children who are described as "perfectly bilingual: equally disobedient in both languages".