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This is the coolest! Someone here on SCS shared it when we were having the debate on how pronounce Toile Blossoms correctly.
Go to Merriam Webster dictionary website: www.m-w.com and type in your word. Once it brings up the definition, look for the little red speaker. Click on it and it will pronounce it for you.
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You know what word I'm still not sure how to pronounce correctly?Caribbean...... The m-w site says it both ways
So, I usually say it both ways - just in case!
Fun, isn't it?
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You know what word I'm still not sure how to pronounce correctly?Caribbean...... The m-w site says it both ways
So, I usually say it both ways - just in case!
Fun, isn't it?
LOL, glad to know either way is ok.
In normal conversation I usually say ker-rib-ee-un.
I usually say care-uh-bee-ann when I want people to know I'm from Texas!
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ay-dah...(like you had but no d sound on the first syllable - cross-stitchers should be quite familiar with aida cloth)
back to Carribean...I always pronounce it kar-i-BEE-an - my parents visited Barbados when I was seven and brought back a tape with a song on it called Beautiful Barbados and the first line is "Beautiful, beautiful Barbados, Isle of the CAR-ih-BEE-an sea..." I figure if the "natives" pronounce it that way, I'm gonna go with that...and being from Newfoundland, Canada, I have great respect for how a native wants to pronounce the name of where they live (see my sig!!!)
I agree Kelly. It drove me nuts to hear New'-found-land in the states. The more I corrected them - the more they said it. However they got on my case on how I pronounced penalize and been (like 'How've you been".)
I just started to mispronounce places on purpose and say, "Oh, that's how I say it."
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When I say Caribbean, I put the emphasis on the "rib" UNLESS I'm talking about or saying the name of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, and then it's Care-ah-BEE-an.
I grew up in Texas, but I've been in North Carolina for over 2 years now so I've picked up some of the "local dialect"...my husband gets so tickled when he calls me at work because he says I sound like a completely different person. I keep telling him that when in Rome, ya gotta speak Latin! He doesn't work with a bunch of local people so he doesn't pick it up like I do. My brother made fun of me for saying someone "might could" do something instead of saying "maybe" someone could do something.
I had always heard it pronounced both ways, but last year my mom went on a cruise (lucky!). She said they were told the name comes from the carob bean trees that grow everywhere. Carob bean. Caribbean. (Say "bean" like you is from the South. :-) ) Car ub BEE un.
This is the coolest! Someone here on SCS shared it when we were having the debate on how pronounce Toile Blossoms correctly.
Go to Merriam Webster dictionary website: www.m-w.com and type in your word. Once it brings up the definition, look for the little red speaker. Click on it and it will pronounce it for you.
Try grosgrain..... I was pronouncing that incorrectly for the longest time! >>
Have fun!
Well, this is a great link! I added it to my favorites.
I took 5 years of French, so I knew how to pronounce voila, but my DH always says it wrong, and it drives me crazy. He also says "com ci, com ca" incorrectly. (I probably spelled that wrong: it's been 30 years since I was in high school.)
Anyway, thanks for the link.
If you want to hear something really funny, check out this pronouncment of VOILA'
Oh, that is bad. I'm guessing the problem is that they are probably trying to apply rules of English to a French word on this site.
I had 5 different French teachers, and not one of them said it this way.
This is the coolest! Someone here on SCS shared it when we were having the debate on how pronounce Toile Blossoms correctly.
Go to Merriam Webster dictionary website: www.m-w.com and type in your word. Once it brings up the definition, look for the little red speaker. Click on it and it will pronounce it for you.
Try grosgrain..... I was pronouncing that incorrectly for the longest time! >>
Have fun!
wow what a great site! added it to my favorites! My son in law is from California and is always teasing us about our UT talking. It seems we don't say the following correctly:
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wow what a great site! added it to my favorites! My son in law is from California and is always teasing us about our UT talking. It seems we don't say the following correctly:
mountain
mail
feel
sale
to name just a few
Now I'm curious on how *you* do pronounce these words :-) Or is it your SIL who is saying it differently.
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Sale is "sell"; feel is "fell"; mail is "mell"; pin and pen are reversed (very confusing!). There are lots of people on the BST forum with sets "for sell."
That may be the dictionary pronounciation, but I know a lot of people who will talk you silly trying to convince you that it's PEEkan.
I think it normally depends on where your from. It seems like up north it peekan, and in the south peekan. I've always lived in the south, but I can not bring myself to say peekan...LOL.
That may be the dictionary pronounciation, but I know a lot of people who will talk you silly trying to convince you that it's PEEkan.
In Europe it is definitely pronounced pee-kan. But then M-W is an American dictionary. Like they say America and Britain, two countries separated by a common language! :mrgreen:
Do any of the Canadians remember learning how to pronounce french words using tapes of the Leduc family? I still remember the little Leduc girl saying, "Le voila Papa!" in her high little voice. (Sorry don't know how to do the accent). This silly little saying has been in my head for over 30 years! Crazy huh?
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