Pronounciation of horsey things

In my shropshire accent... :D
Dressage- dress-arr- je (je like the french way)
Surcingle- sir-single
Menagé- Men-aaaage with a Thingy ma bobby on the G!

Poultice is one that bugs me! My mum calls it poo-tise!!
Hoof said as Huff!


I must admit... I have no idea how to say Neue Schele (or spelling?!?!)
 
LouS said:
If I'm not sure how to pronounce a word I just slur through it and hope someone corrects me.

If I want to say Neue Schule, I just say 'New S.....' and someone usually chimes in and saves me ha.

I have real trouble with sacroiliac, I still don't know how to say it.
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Sack-row-ill-ee-ak - with equal emphasis on each syllable. In other words it's pronounced as it's spelled.
 
Ok,so it's not quite a mis-pronunciation but last week,whilst driving past a neighbour's fields and being unable to see over the wall,my 6yr old daughter exclaimed,'Mummy! Where have the little shetnuts gone?!' Shetlands will now forever be known as 'shetnuts' in our house... ;)
 
Ahhh, the joy if being a foreigner! I can say things exactly as I like and get away with it! And if I pause, somebody will just come to my rescue ;-)
What does bug me though is Hannoverian and Hannovarian...
 
I heard someone call a dually headcollar the other day a 'doody' which made me chuckle, I wasn't sure what she was on about at first until she mentioned Monty Roberts...
 
How about schedule and De Gogue?
I say sked yule (based on the way school, scheme, schizophrenia etc are pronounced) and de gogg (based on synagogue, pedagogue etc) but I know lots of people use shed yule and de go je. Still not really sure if I'm correct! Can remember some snotty saleswoman in a posh saddlery when I asked for a "de gogg" pretending not to understand me and then say oh you mean a de go je....
 
A gogue is just "gogue" no "de" and is pronounced "gog" (with hard "g"s)

I had a really fun time when I was doing my Galop 2 exam (with a group of 6-8 year olds!) learning the French names for tack and horse parts.

I have no idea how bad my French sounds to other French people... I know a lot of people have a hard enough time with my Sunderland accent!
 
Zerotolerance said:
How about schedule and De Gogue?
I say sked yule (based on the way school, scheme, schizophrenia etc are pronounced) and de gogg (based on synagogue, pedagogue etc) but I know lots of people use shed yule and de go je. Still not really sure if I'm correct! Can remember some snotty saleswoman in a posh saddlery when I asked for a "de gogg" pretending not to understand me and then say oh you mean a de go je....
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It's shed-yule for me and de-goje :D I think 'skedule' is the americanised version
 
Casey76 said:
A gogue is just "gogue" no "de" and is pronounced "gog" (with hard "g"s)

I had a really fun time when I was doing my Galop 2 exam (with a group of 6-8 year olds!) learning the French names for tack and horse parts.

I have no idea how bad my French sounds to other French people... I know a lot of people have a hard enough time with my Sunderland accent!
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I think it's acceptable to use either de gogue or gogue - I believe it was invented by Rene de Gogue, hence the origin of the name.
 
Zerotolerance said:
So do you say shool for school?
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I don't think everyine is consistent in how they pronounce words which are spelled in similar ways.

e.g. I say grass and bath with a typical NE "hard" a sound... but I also say plahtster and mahster.

Saying plaster and master sounds and feels as foreign as saying grahss and bahth.

FYI I say skedule ;)

What really gets me is lieutenant/leftenant... where does the "f" sound appear from??? :confused:
 
Casey76 said:
I don't think everyine is consistent in how they pronounce words which are spelled in similar ways.

e.g. I say grass and bath with a typical NE "hard" a sound... but I also say plahtster and mahster.

Saying plaster and master sounds and feels as foreign as saying grahss and bahth.

FYI I say skedule ;)

What really gets me is lieutenant/leftenant... where does the "f" sound appear from??? :confused:
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'Leftenant' is the correct British pronunciation, 'Lootenant' is the US; You've all been Americanised!
 
The f in Lieutenant is something to do with an old French variant of luef for lieu and it's stuck since then.
I pity anyone trying to learn English!
My ex brother in law, Italian, was around years ago when the old Cockburns (pronounced Co - burns) drinks ads were on tv. He went into an Estate agent and asked for property details in Co-fosters as he'd worked out that was how to pronounce Cockfosters! Lol..
 
skippyduke said:
A customer at work calls Dodson and horrell doddle and hoddle makes me so cross!!!
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lol that would make me laugh:D

Casey76 said:
I don't think everyine is consistent in how they pronounce words which are spelled in similar ways.
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possibly because the english language is so confusing and breaks all it's own rules! think of cough and bough, pronounced coff and bow not cow and boff lol:D And theres plenty of others but i'm supposed to be going to work:o
 
I get totally bugged by the 'menage' thing. As lots of you obviously already know, the word 'menage' (with an acute accent on the first letter e which this editor won't let me type) is the French word for 'household' and the word 'manege' (with a grave accent on the first letter e) is the French for 'riding school'. After 30 years in the horsey world I am fully aware of how many people consistently get it wrong, but that does not make 'menage' for a school correct.

I also get totally bugged by the 'lami' abbreviation. For goodness sake, it is serious and life-threatening condition so give it it's full name not a silly nickname.
 
My dad, who is horsey, calls dressage "prancing around".

In context: "what do you wanna go an' do all that prancing around for? In my day, you had walk and gallop. Trotting hurt yer balls."
 
Nocturnal said:
I'm never sure if laminae is lamin-eye or lamin-ay!

But I know neue schule, as I studied german - its 'n.oi.er sh.oo.ler' :D
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Toast said:
Its Lamin-ay
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Not if you were a Latin scholar. The plural of 'a' ending nouns is 'ae' as in eye. I'm not going back to my Latin teacher to say otherwise. She was also a magistrate and pretty scary!

My teeth grind when I hear ménage and jompurs, but I have trouble saying so many things, I can't criticise, really!!

Now I have the Latin verb table of 'to be' going through my head. All together now:

eo
is
it
imus
itis
eunt

Scarred. For. Life.
 
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