Lolo
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I say stooben 
How do you pronounce...
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GoblinPony
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Sh-too-ben is correct.
tallyho!
Following a strict mediterranean diet...
Doesn't matter how you say it.
You still look like a prat in tweed and stripy leather uniform.
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tallyho!
Following a strict mediterranean diet...
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's wrong with waistcoat I wonder...
As for "charf"... well!
snopuma
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My instructor is American so I don't do Dressage I do Dre-sarge with a slow Californian accent!
I also got stumped on Neue Schule, but then looked at their own you tube videos and realised that I'd been saying it wrong all this time its Nu-Ey-Shoe-ler not New Schoole!
I also got stumped on Neue Schule, but then looked at their own you tube videos and realised that I'd been saying it wrong all this time its Nu-Ey-Shoe-ler not New Schoole!
cobden99
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What about breeches ? Breach-is or britch-is
Ancient Hacker
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What about breeches ? Breach-is or britch-is
I'm old and we always said britches (at Pony Club it was always "b*tches in britches for the kids who turned up with all the gear and no idea
) But we may well have been wrong - at least in the pronunciation!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.
Lolo
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It is charf... In the same way I say barth and grarss- I thought that it depended upon where you were from?
cobden99
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It probably is the same but I woudnt ask for a feel-ay steak - would sound too much like macdonalds filet-o-fish
!!dunkley
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It probably is the same but I woudnt ask for a feel-ay steak - would sound too much like macdonalds filet-o-fish
The clue is in the spelling
'GiLet' is ZheeLay
'FiLet' is FeeLay
GiLLet is the same as FiLLet
joosie
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Dunno. I say barth and grarse, but I don't say charf. It's just wrong IMO
But maybe it is regional and that's why I find it funny when my friend's mum says it, because "charf" doesn't fit the way she speaks, it is so out of place lol. I wonder if she had a Pony Club instructor when she was a kid who said "charf" and it has stayed with her!
alainax
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Really, you say "pell-ham"? This made me giggle, I have NEVER heard anyone say that before... you're not from Texas are you?
haha yes! hard to write phonetically, the ham isnt so pronounced, more like Pell-am, with a really soft h before the am. maybe like peh-lamb.. ish. Certainly not "um" lol.
Wasn't until I recently heard people saying Pe - Lumn..... that i though.. wow that's weird!
No im from scotland
misterjinglejay
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I say barth, grarss, and charf, but got told the other day that I also say yah, rather than yes, so am now a smidge self conscious
RobinHood
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I never known anyone call it anything other than 'charf'!
RutlandH2O
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frannieuk
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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?
Riz
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I'm so pleased others say charf!!! I've had it ripped out of me for years for saying it like that!!!
RutlandH2O
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I'm American, from the East Coast, originally, and then lived in Hawaii for 20 years. I have NEVER hear the word dressage pronounced with an r in the second syllable. Yes, the g is always soft. Perhaps it is a regional pronunciation, but I have never come across it.
frannieuk
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Maybe my friend is just a bit of an exception then! He's quite unique in other ways too
cob&onion
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I have one!!
In the robinsons catalogue:
Requisite - is it RE - EQUI - SITE??
Re - QUIZ- IT?
In the robinsons catalogue:
Requisite - is it RE - EQUI - SITE??
Re - QUIZ- IT?
alainax
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I have one!!
In the robinsons catalogue:
Requisite - is it RE - EQUI - SITE??
Re - QUIZ- IT?
I say RehQuiz-it
Lolo
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I have one!!
In the robinsons catalogue:
Requisite - is it RE - EQUI - SITE??
Re - QUIZ- IT?
Second one, it's a real word... Never even crossed my mind it had 'equi' in it and that's why they chose it, lol!
muckypony
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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
Siegfried!? As in a Stubben Siegfried?
I want to say seg-fried (like egg-fried) but somehow I don't think that's correct
cob&onion
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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
Isnt it:
SEE-FREED
Lolo
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I say see-g-freed... It's a person's name, like Siegfred Sasson
Tnavas
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One that has me cringing is the pronunciation of Vehicle by some American areas
Veer Hickle!
The H is silent as in hotel, herb, honour
I laugh here in NZ when New Zealanders are faced with Worcester Street - they pronounce it War-ses-ter instead of Woos-ter.
One my grandad used to get real cranky about was the pronunciation of drawing - as kids do we used to pronounce it draw-ring.
Schedule is another one - I pronounce it shedule while others skedule
route - root
Veer Hickle!
The H is silent as in hotel, herb, honour
I laugh here in NZ when New Zealanders are faced with Worcester Street - they pronounce it War-ses-ter instead of Woos-ter.
One my grandad used to get real cranky about was the pronunciation of drawing - as kids do we used to pronounce it draw-ring.
Schedule is another one - I pronounce it shedule while others skedule
route - root
alainax
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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 , no silent h-
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=hotel
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dunkley
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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.
Correctly, it is "an 'otel", but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. I have recently started watching the Barefoot Contessa on the Food Network, and she says "'erb" every single time, and it drives me mad! I have since been told it is normal for the US. (But they don't speak English, anyway
)I say 'shedule', but I definitely don't say 'skit'
Tnavas
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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
Yes! any word that is written with an before it either has a vowel as the first letter or it is a silent letter.
He stayed at an hotel, She addressed an envelope!
We do have to consider that I am in my 60's - this is what we were taught all those decades ago
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KVH
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The pronunciation of 'Flehmen'?