09-01-2016 11:31 AM
How do you pronounce the word Subaru?
Do you say "Soo-bah-roo" or is it "Soo-bar-oo" with emphasis on the "bar"?
For an on-going thread, what other words can you think of which have questionable or alternative pronunciations?
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Live long and prosper.
09-01-2016 11:32 AM
Hiya.
its Sue Boo Roo
09-01-2016 12:30 PM
Around here it's
09-01-2016 12:32 PM
My neighbour has one....and i call it a noisy nuisance lol
09-01-2016 12:41 PM
Soo-bah-roo
Vegetables - I pronounce it vegtables as opposed to veg-e-tables which is a bit pretentious
09-01-2016 12:50 PM
Wait till the summer comes and the motorbike comes out
09-01-2016 12:52 PM
When I pronounce Clock I have a tendency to drop the L
09-01-2016 1:06 PM
I've always pronounced it Soo-baroo, don't know if it's correct.
A lot of people pronounce Hyundai as Hye-un-dye but I think it's supposed to be Heeun-day.
09-01-2016 1:34 PM
@fallen-archie wrote:When I pronounce Clock I have a tendency to drop the L
Ditto..
..but only when I see anything involving David Cameron
09-01-2016 2:13 PM
Toyota is not pronounced as we say it (Toy-oh-ta) in Japan. The Japanese have no 'oy' sound and never end a syllable with a Y, the correct pronunciation is Toh-Yoh-Tah.
09-01-2016 8:31 PM
@jd.linklater wrote:I've always pronounced it Soo-baroo, don't know if it's correct.
A lot of people pronounce Hyundai as Hye-un-dye but I think it's supposed to be Heeun-day.
@jd.linklater wrote:I've always pronounced it Soo-baroo, don't know if it's correct.
A lot of people pronounce Hyundai as Hye-un-dye but I think it's supposed to be Heeun-day.
Yes, on both those JD I pronounce them the same as you. Xx
09-01-2016 8:33 PM
I love that....next mood swing in 6 minutes. My wife dont last 3 lol (Hormones!!)
09-01-2016 8:45 PM
Another pronunciation I have an argument (friendly of course), especially with people of Birmingham as I originally come from Bedfordshire is how the letter H is pronounced.
Is it haitch or aitch, I always pronounce it aitch but people from where I live in the West Midlands including Brummies pronounce it haitch, so I saw house is spelt ..........aitch oh you es were.......... And my fellow midlanders say it is spelt .......haitch oo how es eee......
Really is strange to me, I do believe my version is the correct version ...... The queens English. Xxxx. Or Kings lol which ever you feel is correct xxx
09-01-2016 8:47 PM
09-01-2016 8:50 PM - edited 09-01-2016 8:53 PM
Oy am ya ! I too am in the West Midlands. (No local dialect at all as not originally from here)
I think how you pronounce things really depends on where you actually live and half the time local dialect.
To give you a clue i went to school in Henley in Arden.
Where i live they pronounce horse Oss 🙂
09-01-2016 9:00 PM
@1956glyn wrote:Oy am ya ! I too am in the West Midlands. (No local dialect at all as not originally from here)
I think how you pronounce things really depends on where you actually live and half the time local dialect.
To give you a clue i went to school in Henley in Arden.
Where i live they pronounce horse Oss 🙂
Lol, half a horse. Xxxxx.
Thinking about it now, I don't leave letters off ends of words either I don't usually speak slang. That is why I have trouble now with the new text speak XXX
"Where's yow bin? In the back garden, where's yow's . xxxxx. Really it was where have you been? .......😄
09-01-2016 9:02 PM
i just sent you a message
09-01-2016 10:12 PM
09-01-2016 11:01 PM - edited 09-01-2016 11:02 PM
The reason for the thread is that I've been watching some Australian and New Zealand cop programmes and they've been pronouncing Subaru as "Soo-bar-oo" with emphasis on the "bar".
I've always pronounced it as "Soo-bah-roo". I know lotsa people call them a Scooby-do or a Scooby.
I thought it might be interesting to continue with other debateable pronunciations.
Here's a word:- How should Digoxin be pronounced?
It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.
09-01-2016 11:24 PM
I think that's Dye-joxin.