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peteguy

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Jan 19, 2012
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So I just found out that I have been saying Radice wrong for 4 years. I was saying Rad iss and was told today it is Rah deech eee. Color me stupid. :) Anyone else have any stories like this to make me feel like less of a mowron.

 

iamn8

Lifer
Sep 8, 2014
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Moody, AL
Duct Tape ;) sorry had to. Them eye-talians sures does speak funny. I pronounce ligne bretagne as Lignay Britagnay :)

 

cobguy

Lifer
Oct 18, 2013
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philobeddoe

Lifer
Oct 31, 2011
7,405
11,579
East Indiana
I used to think that Laaa-tuh-kee-uh was pronounced Luh-taack-eee-uh until I heard my local tobacconist pronounce Latakia out loud, I felt like a big dummy!

 

cobguy

Lifer
Oct 18, 2013
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Dr. Grabow is pronounced "Grey-Bow", not "Grab-oh" as I called it back in the early 90's. :oops:

 

dmcmtk

Lifer
Aug 23, 2013
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Radice is pronounced ra-DEE-chay, the E has the long A sound in Italian. The I has a long E sound. Il ragazzo, i ragazzi; la ragazza, le ragazze. Eccolo cui. :wink:

 

fmgee

Part of the Furniture Now
Sep 26, 2014
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I'm Australian so I pronounce almost everything differently for most people I deal with. Tulip is "chew lip", water is war tah. Duel and jewel sound identical. But Mary, Marry and Merry are all different in an Australian accent while every Canadian I have met say them exactly the same.

 

maxx

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 10, 2015
709
6
I mispronounced 'Radice' as "Ray-diss", too, until I learned better, I also said "Dess-kar-tees" for 'DesCartes'; and "Cant" for 'Kant', until I learned German. Now I cringe when I hear someone say "Girdle" for 'Goedel' (don't have the umlauted o to type the name correctly). But who says "Ahheen-shtahheen" for 'Einstein' even though that's correct? I don't. But 'Wittgenstein', I give the German pronounciation. French, I don't have a clue unless I've heard it. How does one correctly pronounce 'Chacom'? I say "Cha-kom". Should it be "Sha-ko"?

 

stickframer

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 11, 2015
875
8
I used to think that Laaa-tuh-kee-uh was pronounced Luh-taack-eee-uh until I heard my local tobacconist pronounce Latakia out loud, I felt like a big dummy!
This. Exactly this.

 
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