Lolo
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I say stooben
Someone told me that Dubarry is pronounced Doobray (emphasis on the "bray").
Is that correct?
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"
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!
What about breeches ? Breach-is or britch-is
What's wrong with waistcoat I wonder...
As for "charf"... well!
Gilet definitely has the silent T as mentioned above; but what about a fillet string on a rug? Or indeed a beef fillet? Again the T is silent in both, I'm sure, but the number of people who talk about a "fill-it" is always a surprise to me.
It probably is the same but I woudnt ask for a feel-ay steak - would sound too much like macdonalds filet-o-fish !!
It is charf... In the same way I say barth and grarss- I thought that it depended upon where you were from?
Really, you say "pell-ham"? This made me giggle, I have NEVER heard anyone say that before... you're not from Texas are you?
It is charf... In the same way I say barth and grarss- I thought that it depended upon where you were from?
My instructor is American so I don't do Dressage I do Dre-sarge with a slow Californian accent!
The Americans pronounce dressage, as do the French, with the accent on the second syllable: dressAGE. There is no r in the second syllable. The Brits accent the first syllable: DRESSage.
Filet is the same, with the accent on the second syllable: filLAY (the t is silent). Again, that is the French pronunciation. The same goes for ballet (balLAY), claret (claRAY), brochure (broSURE), and garage (gaRAGE), for example. These are all French words which the Americans pronounce in the Gallic way.
It's quite curious that the Americans pronounce French words in the French style, but Brits, who are so much closer, geographically, pronounce French words in the British manner.
I'm loving this thread!
What are charf, grarse and barth? Do you mean chaff, grass, and bath? I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce those 3 words with the r sound. Wait, my son knew a high school teacher who pronounced Washington as Warshington, put that's about it.
Rutland - an American colleague of mine, whose wife is pretty big in the DR world over here, always talks about DreSARGE, accent on the second syllable and with a soft g. Maybe it depends which region they're from?
I have one!!
In the robinsons catalogue:
Requisite - is it RE - EQUI - SITE??
Re - QUIZ- IT?
I have one!!
In the robinsons catalogue:
Requisite - is it RE - EQUI - SITE??
Re - QUIZ- IT?
Oooh I have one!
Siegfried!? As in a Stubben Siegfried?
I want to say seg-fried (like egg-fried) but somehow I don't think that's correct
The H is silent as in hotel, herb
EH?
You say Otel, and erb?
Ive only ever heard people say Hotel, or Herb, unless they have a super strong regional accent or being slang.
EH?
You say Otel, and erb?
Ive only ever heard people say Hotel, or Herb, unless they have a super strong regional accent or being slang.
Like this -
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=hotel