Kee-rect.
Boots Sho-kwa. The n is silent, or nearly so! The a is neither our short nor long "a", but more like the sound we make when being luke warm to a subject.
Pronunciation of Pipe-things
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Doesn't matter -- the stuff's nasty how*ever* you pronounce it. Tastes like soap!!
Chili, I've always pronounced that the way Peter Lawford did in the Longest Day: "love-it" I could easily be wrong, but frankly to me it just sounds a HECK of a lot classier that way. I figure that since Lawford was British & was playing Lord Lovat, if he didn't know how to pronounce it nobody did.
Bill
As mso489 stated, many of us encounter words while reading and assume a pronunciation that fits our own sensibilities. When I was a kid growing up in a small town in Oklahoma my mother had a number of classical records which I enjoyed very much. Most folks in that town equated "classical" music with Hank Williams and The Carter Family. I decided that Chopin was probably pronounced "chop'-in" and when later we had access to a classical music station I wondered who this "Show'-pan" fellow was until I finally figured out it was the same guy. As long as we know what we're talking about I don't suppose it makes all that much difference.
Bill,Chili, I've always pronounced that the way Peter Lawford did in the Longest Day: "love-it" I could easily be wrong, but frankly to me it just sounds a HECK of a lot classier that way. I figure that since Lawford was British & was playing Lord Lovat, if he didn't know how to pronounce it nobody did. [
We are on the same page! :D
Cheers,
Chili
Watched that sucker again last night. Just easier to tune to Turner than go dig out the DVD. Burton's scene about the missing pilot being in the bottom of the English channel is perfect stone-faced Brit.
Dictionary.com, Merriam Webster online and Collins online all agree that latakia is pronounced with an emphasis on the "KEE" syllable. I think in Arabic this emphasis is less pronounced, but I haven't seen anywhere that emphasizes the "TACK" syllable.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/latakia
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/latakia
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/latakia
For Butz Choquin, the "Choquin" part is pronounced "show KAY", not "sho kwa".
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/latakia
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/latakia
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/latakia
For Butz Choquin, the "Choquin" part is pronounced "show KAY", not "sho kwa".
Correction: "Choquin" is more like halfway between "show kay" and "show ken" but with a silent "n", with equal emphasis of the two syllables.
Right. Roughly "show-kanh," with a short a, at least if it follows standard French pronunciation rules, which it might not.
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Sho-kwa. The n is silent, or nearly so! The a is neither our short nor long "a", but more like the sound we make when being luke warm to a subject.
Eh, now I am not sure that there's a slight "w" sound in the last syllable, but want to make clear the "a" sound is not a long nor a short a in American English. More like the a in "can".
Eh, now I am not sure that there's a slight "w" sound in the last syllable, but want to make clear the "a" sound is not a long nor a short a in American English. More like the a in "can".
I'm always intrigued with the famous Duke University basketball coach's pronunciation of his name versus the spelling -- you know who i mean, and I can't spell it. But he is Polish by heritage, and it is pronounced as if it began with an Sh..., but is spelled starting with a Krzy ... (do I have it right?), just no English phonetics in play at all. My joke is, my name is Tom, R-A-L-P-H. I guess if I doggedly insisted, many would comply.
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