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bcirka

Lurker
Aug 28, 2012
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Latakia:

Is it [La-TACK-ia]?
Perique:

Is it [Pear-EEK)?
Cavendish:

Is it [Cav-en-DEESH]?

 

spartan

Lifer
Aug 14, 2011
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1. I have no clue. Heard it a couple of ways.
2. Yes.
3. No. DISH, not DEESH.

 

topd

Lifer
Mar 23, 2012
1,745
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Emerson, Arkansas
Hard to say any of them when your drawing them in........
I have no one who would know what I'm talking about, don't say it out loud. Just smoke 'em

 

sparroa

Lifer
Dec 8, 2010
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I say LAT-a-Kia and I THINK that is the correct way, but my first inclination was to say it like the OP...
I say per-EEK, so we're pretty close.
I just say Cav-en-dish, I never thought of saying it any other way since I am familiar with it as an English surname and I don't see why the pronunciation would be different.

 

sparroa

Lifer
Dec 8, 2010
1,466
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We didn't write it the same way but I was basically trying to produce the sound that Baron and Rickpal have written out... It's the name of a Syrian port city and I think I googled its pronunciation one day and stopped saying "la-tak-ia" which was how I always used to say it in my head - I'd never heard it spoken before since I just read about it online.

 

bcirka

Lurker
Aug 28, 2012
49
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Ha! Thanks for the responses peppered with humor :) Now I don't have to stutter every time I try to explain what I'm smoking to people...

 

cortezattic

Lifer
Nov 19, 2009
15,147
7,642
Chicago, IL
Scan from Webster's Dictionary (because nobody would believe a simple quote!)

Periquedef.jpg


 

yuri66

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 17, 2010
287
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You know when I go into my local B&M and want some baccy I just point and say I want this or that, and let him screw up the pronunciation..... :laughat:

 

bcirka

Lurker
Aug 28, 2012
49
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Lol, love the idea Yuri. Let them tell me.
Well I think I've got a pretty good consensus on the pronunciations here (Especially the dictionary scan. Very official :)).
Now I just need to break my incorrect pronunciations.

 
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