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odobenus

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I was re-listening to the two excellent interviews with Ken Barnes on the Pipes Magazine podcast and noted that Ken pronounces 'Sasieni' as 'Sah-seeny.' Somehow the correct pronunciation sailed past my impenetrable ignorance until now. I wonder how many of you kindly folks out there joined me in saying 'Sah-see-enny.' I'm going to try it like Ken from now on.
Sidenote: Ken also keeps saying 'Chair-atan' and Brian persists in pronouncing it like the hotel chain. Sometimes, I guess, it takes us a while to hear things right.
Thirdnote: I went down a true internet rabbit-hole about how to pronounce 'Latakia' a few months ago and came to the somewhat gratifying conclusion that there's no right way: Unless you speak the particular dialect of that region of Syria, it's a safe bet you're saying it wrong. Though apparently 'Lat-uh-KEE-uh' is a hell of a lot closer than the BBC's official 'Luh-TAK-ee-uh.'

 

homeatsea

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The two I've just accepted I likely won't get right are latakia and cavendish.

 

mso489

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I wouldn't feel particularly out-of-the-loop. Most of us are exposed to this language in writing, so unless we discuss it with someone more knowledgeable, we do the best we can, and there are many differences even between correct pronunciations between English speaking countries. In the U.S., now many people are using Spanish pronunciations when speaking English, both because they are proud of knowing Spanish and because they feel it is truer to what they are saying, though I think it is somewhat optional at this point. Language is ever-changing. Shakespeare was a blanking genius and his plays are all his or hers or whoever's, but part of the stimulus, as students of the plays have long contended, was that he was writing and performing as an actor in a time when English was evolving quickly so puns and images just lept from common speech.

 

railman

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There’s been a few pipemaker’s names that surprised me how they are supposed to be pronounced as opposed to how I imagined them to be pronounced.

 

daniel7

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Kópavogur, Iceland
I know an "Oom Paul" when I see one. I have no idea what a "Hungarian" is. Is this now the "politically correct" name? Goodness gracious me!
That pipe shape was invented/started to produce in Debrecen, Hungary in the XVIII. century from meer, clay and hardwood.

 

mso489

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We (US) say aluminum and the Brits say aluminium. We say schedule as skedual, but the Brits say shedual. The English "got there" first, but the US people remade the language in their own image. So it goes. Many languages get so changed by demographic groups that it is not understandable to other demographic groups despite having the same linguistic basis. The Chinese essentially speak different languages -- Cantonese, Mandarian, but others too. Many English actors do impeccable American speech when needed. Northerners in the U.S. have long imitated Southern speech, but a sailor from Rome, Georgia, on my ship in the Navy, did a wonderful imitation of Yankee speech, with a really good ear, hitting those consonants hard and doing the vowels in a totally Northern way. Good ear. Great to hear. I grew up with the old man of Chicago politics, Richard J. Daley, who was unquestionably Irish on both sides. For years I puzzled over why his speech had zero Irish lilt or brogue at all. I finally decided that he had grown up in a blue collar neighborhood, where he continued to live all his adult life, and I hypothesize that he lived around a lot of Polish people, so that's the way he spoke. The Irish "sing" their English. The Polish more chew it, as Mayor Daley did.

 

odobenus

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I was surprised, even though I should've known better, by the proper pronunciation of Jess Chonowitsch.

Also I would've thought Eltang would be pronounced 'el-tong' like S. Bang is 'Bong' but Brian Levine and others say it like the orange astro-powder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWghCdIqedA

 

didimauw

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That's interesting. I'm sure I screw up a lot of pronunciations of pipe related things.
When I think of some I'll post it

 

scloyd

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I have one Chacom pipe. I say Sha-comb. Right or wrong?
How do you pronounce Butz-Choquin? Butts or Boots? Sho-kin, sho-keen, sho-coin? Or something completely different?

 

mortonbriar

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I had friends go through Syria a few years ago now, (before the chaos) and they stayed a night or two in Latakia. I asked him about the pronunciation and he insisted it was

'la TAR kia', as opposed to the youtube 'lata KIA'. I just wish I had of asked him to take note before he went on the trip rather than after so I could be sure...
Do we have any Syrian pipe smokers on the forum? I really would like some finality to this one...
Isaac

 

chilipalmer

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What about the Lovat? Is it pronounced "love-it," "la-vat," or some other way?
I have a Rattray 56 Lovat that I am rather fond of and keep around in honor of Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat.
Cheers,
Chili

 
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