How do you pronounce...

[lar]

There's a well known competition centre up here called Osbaldeston. I once knew two people nearly come to blows over whether to pronounce it

Os bald ESTON

or

Os BALDerston!

(I never know how to say the name of the gloves either even though I've worn them for years - I've always said "wreck - el" - which seems to be wrong!)

 

[muddygreymare]

You must live near ish me then, I live about an hour away from there I'd never thought it could be said any other way than Os-bald-eston. A friend always pronounces Roeckl as Roy-kull, everyone else I know says it like that too haha

 

[anniebags]

How about Aigle?

Ag-lee
Ayg-ul

No idea!

 

[Love]

Anniebags - ooh not heard of that before! However I'd probably say

Ay-gul

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

What about my heiniger clippers? I never know how to pronounce that.

 

[dominobrown]

Hi-n-gr

 

[Dizzy socks]

Shameless Bump.

 

[Love]

Haha dizzy socks I forgot I made this!

 

[Dizzy socks]

Haha dizzy socks I forgot I made this!

Well...I thought it would be nice to see it back for a little while, for even more pronunciation.

 

[Tern]

How you say merino?

I say it Mare-in-oh

or am i saying it wrong?

and Avignon

i am 1/2 french so is it avin-yon or Avig-nonnn ??

 

[Tiarella]

What about the breed Westphalian?

 

[Love]

Collegiate?

 

[Tern]

What about the breed Westphalian?

I have heard some say West-Pharl-ian

I say West-Phal-Ian

 

[Dumbo]

This is a helpful thread I don't even know how to pronouce my horse's registered name but have a better idea now!

 

[slumdog]

What about Rollkur? Is it literally Roll (rhymes with pole)-kur (rhymes with fur) or Rol (rhymes will doll)-Kur. Or something else- I've never heard it said!

 

[Lolo]

Collegiate?

Coll-ee-gee-ate

The 'g' is a soft g, not a hard 'g'.

I say Westphalian exactly as it's written... West-fay-lee-an

 

[PoppyAnderson]

What about Rollkur? Is it literally Roll (rhymes with pole)-kur (rhymes with fur) or Rol (rhymes will doll)-Kur. Or something else- I've never heard it said!

The latter.

 

[PoppyAnderson]

How about Neue Schule? Heard some interesting pronunciations of this (I say it fancier than you ergo I know more than you!). I say Nu-shcool. Am I right or am I in fact a numpty?

 

[Lolo]

Noy-a Shool-uh, although I reckon it could also be 'Scool-uh" depending on where in Germany you want to be from
(noy as in soy, shool as in cool)

 

[Cheiro1]

My old instructor always used to say dress-idge rather than dressage- used to drive me mad.

Haha I say that in a jokey way, most people on my yard do

Or Stress-idge

 

[Little_Grape]

Still trying to convince my northern OH that it's horse and in h-oar-s and not horse as in 'oss

 

[Ranyhyn]

Great thread

 

[joosie]

Haha, I'd always thought this was gill-it after reading it in catalogues. The first few times I heard anyone talking about gzee-lays I didn't have a clue what they were on about. It might be one of those words we've pinched from Franch or somewhere. I still say gill-it, I'm used to it (but I stick stubbornly with menage, which I grew up with, in spite of all the reasons why "it should be" manege ).

Yes, it's a French word meaning "waistcoat". Gee-lay is about right. I didn't realise people didn't know how to say it TBH, even before I moved to France I knew it wasn't a "gillet"

The menage/manege thing amuses me because hardly anyone ever gets it right. Another French word the Brits have nicked and then b*ggered up Although actually, a manege is specifically an INDOOR arena, not just any old arena, so even the people who say it correctly use it wrong half the time

How about Aigle?

French company, French pronounciation - "Aig", the end of the word is almost silent. I always misread it and called it Agile, but now I have a friend who works in marketing for them and she has put me straight lol!

My best friend's mum pronounces chaff as "charf". Always has me in hysterics when she says it, it makes her sound so posh, and she's not!

 

[PoppyAnderson]

Noy-a Shool-uh, although I reckon it could also be 'Scool-uh" depending on where in Germany you want to be from
(noy as in soy, shool as in cool)

Seems I'm wrong then! Will be hard to break the habit tho. I prefer my way tho - sounds like new school and I always like to think of that as some kind of mandate!

 

[joosie]

How do you say Pelham?

I say - Pell - ham. But ive heard - pe-lumn.

Really, you say "pell-ham"? This made me giggle, I have NEVER heard anyone say that before... you're not from Texas are you?

 

[Lolo]

Collegiate?

Seems I'm wrong then! Will be hard to break the habit tho. I prefer my way tho - sounds like new school and I always like to think of that as some kind of mandate!

It translates directly to New School

Really, you say "pell-ham"? This made me giggle, I have NEVER heard anyone say that before... you're not from Texas are you?

I say pell-um

 

[*hic*]

Seems I'm wrong then! Will be hard to break the habit tho. I prefer my way tho - sounds like new school and I always like to think of that as some kind of mandate!

Neue Schule does indeed translate as New School - but is pronounced as Lolo has it.

 

[BlizzardBudd]

I'd say me-rin-o
Avin-yon, but stand to be corrected

 

[Chunkie]

Someone told me that Dubarry is pronounced Doobray (emphasis on the "bray").

Is that correct?

 

[mandwhy]

Haha I enjoyed this thread.

I say Stubben just as it is written stubb-en, but I have a friend who says stooben and another who says schtubben (in a slightly high and mighty way I add!) I know there is an umlaut (sp?!) Which would suggest the 'oo' sound but I'm still not convinced unless I say it in a slight northern accent.