Gallery of Pronunciations (and meanings?)

[uni57]

Sometimes we don't know how to pronounce certain words, such as

some names
made up names
names and words in another language
made up words
and anything else not in a dictionary

So...

I thought maybe this thread could help. If you don't know how to pronounce something, ask. If you know an answer, reply.

Unless you made up the name or the word (you own it), there might be several ways of pronouncing it. Also, saying that it rhymes with "class" is of no help, because I can think of two ways to say the word class. So, describing the pronunciation may pose a difficulty.

Since this might be a short thread, perhaps we could discuss meanings as well.

Dave Lowell (uni57)

[uni57]

How do you pronounce the following:

Onza (is the first part like the word own or on?)
chirokid (chiro or Cairo, like the city in Egypt?)
jagur (jay-gur, or more like dagger with a "j"?)

If your "name" is here, it is because I want to learn to say it properly, which is important to me. Thank you!

Dave Lowell (uni57)

[Sofa]

Kris Holms

[andrew_carter]

I think it's on-za not own-za, and thanks for asking about jagur...I've always wondered how to pronounce it.

[Klaas Bil]

Originally posted by uni57
How do you pronounce the following:

jagur (jay-gur, or more like dagger with a "j"?)

On 22 Oct 2002, Dylan W asked:

Hey Jagur (by the way, how is your name pronounced? yay-guhr?)
And jagur replied:

oh and my name sounds like Jay-guhr none of that yewish yea stuff.

When you hang around long enough here, much of the stuff goes round and round.

Klaas Bil

[uni57]

Originally posted by Klaas Bil
When you hang around long enough here, much of the stuff goes round and round.But never before have we had the convenience of (yet another) "Gallery" thread to collect all our vast and important knowledge in one place.

And notice how I didn't ask how to pronounce YOUR name. :)

Originally posted by Sofa
Kris Holms I think it's pronounced "Kris Holm" (the "s" is silent and also unwritten -- essentially, it's non-existent. Here's a pronunciation tip to help prevent saying the "s" -- when your lips come together at the end to form a seal, just leave them that way until one second after the "m" sound stops. You may have to breathe through your nose.)

Dave Lowell (uni57)

[Sofa]

Kris



Holms


damn. this one's tough!

[Klaas Bil]

Originally posted by uni57
notice how I didn't ask how to pronounce YOUR name. :)

I was aware of that. Also notice how I resisted the temptation to post that link.

Klaas Bil

[GILD]

Originally posted by uni57
Sometimes we don't know how to pronounce certain words, such as...

sueze (that fancy hub-thingy?)

[onefiftyfour]

gazz -

'a' like 'cat' or like 'caught'

-eric

[uni57]

Originally posted by GILD
sueze (that fancy hub-thingy?) I think you mean Suzue. As for how to pronounce it, I have no idea.

Dave Lowell (uni57)

P.S. - I don't think there's anything fancy about it either...

[hell-on-wheel]

I've always said gazz with a soft "a", as in caught. Though now that I stop to think about it, using gazz with a hard "a" as in cat may avoid some confusion with the word "gauze".

For instance, an injured municyclist may find himself/herself in a position to say, "I really need some gauze!". However, his/her fellow municyclists maybe think he/she is simply referring to a beefer tire rather than a wound dressing.

[foolish]

OK, my opinions...

Gazz as in cat "Gazzaloddi" - The "a" is followed by two consenants, such as happy

Suzue like "Soo-Zoo" I have heard it pronounced "soo-zoo-ee" as well. They seem to affectionately be called "Suzies" (lik the name) in the UK among some uniers

I suppose it all depends on where you come from, and how you were brought up to talk as a child must have some influence on how certain words are pronounced.

[GILD]

Originally posted by foolish
Suzue like "Soo-Zoo" I have heard it pronounced "soo-zoo-ee" as well.

i was well off the mark
i always thought it was something simmilar to 'sways' as in in the wind

we need to come up with a list of words and get people from different continents to record and post the soundfiles of how they pronounce them


just for fun

[zach_jucha]

i would be surprised if someone actually knew how to pronounce my last name, so here:

jucha = yu-ka

if you know polish or some other eastern european language you probably caught on...

[zach_jucha]

also, i used to know someone named suzue, and his name was pronounced soo-zoo.

sofa was being facetious. people say kris holmes because they can't grasp the concept of holm.

[Sofa]

Originally posted by zach_jucha


sofa was being facetious.

yeah...he does that :(

[Mandell]

Mandell rhymes with handle.

[phil]

"Phil" rhymes with "Rameses Niblick the Third, Kerplunk! Kerplunk! Whoops, where's my thribble?"

Just in case you were wondering.

Phil

[mike.hinson]

Mike rhymes with unicycle

and

I go for Suzue with more of a Su-Zoo type of thing with a shorter first sylable than the soo-zoo suggestion

So how can we post sound bytes?

[GILD]

Originally posted by mike.hinson
So how can we post sound bytes?

like this?

[GILD]

Originally posted by GILD
like this?

apparantly not, and the gallery can't handle mp3 or .wav formats either

i can email it to u?

any other suggestions?

[mike.hinson]

My sound bite for Suzue:

http://mike.hinson.unicyclist.com/sounds/suzue.mp3

/\/\

[Murde Mental]

How does on say/spell superkalifragilisticexpeallydoshous?
or say the alphabet in one word? or, say the alphabet backwards in one word?

[muniracer]

Suzue hubs are manufactured in Japan. The japanese pronunciation, unless the English spelling is modified, would be sue-zoo-eh. Nevertheless, I am interested in hearing what the general consensus of an English pronunciation would be. It seems that there are two main contendors: sue-zoo and sue-zoo-ee. I personally prefer sue-zoo, because that is how the spelling suggests that it should be pronounced, while sue-zoo-ee is just mistaking the final vowel sound.

Sorry for reviving such an old thread...

[uni57]

Originally posted by muniracer
Sorry for reviving such an old thread... Nonsense! You are using the Search feature. This is what happens. Nice old threads come back to life.

All is well in the universe. Well, at least all is well in this THREAD. *











* - because it's OLD.

[yoopers]

Originally posted by GILD
we need to come up with a list of words and get people from different continents to record and post the soundfiles of how they pronounce them

just for fun
Originally posted by GILD
apparantly not, and the gallery can't handle mp3 or .wav formats either

any other suggestions?

I tried something like this around last Christmas, here: http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37072&highlight=greeting

I thought it would be fun to listen to each other's accents and speech patterns but got no response. In order to make the gallery work, http://gallery.unicyclist.com/greetings, Gilby set it up to accept both .mp3 and .wav files. Perhaps we could use that gallery to record pronunciations as well.

Just a thought.

Bruce

[Gilby]

the entire gallery can accept mp3 and wav.

As far as pronunciation, I've heard it called "sue-zoo-eh" and most commonly just "sue-zoo."

[yoopers]

Originally posted by Gilby
the entire gallery can accept mp3 and wav.

As far as pronunciation, I've heard it called "sue-zoo-eh"

So when you say it out loud, do a bunch of little hublets come running to the pen for their dinner?

[KcTheAcy]

I say it "Sue-Zee".

I have one to add:

"Jim Cielencki"

[uni57]

Originally posted by KcTheAcy
"Jim Cielencki" uni57 says "JIM sill-EN-skee"

uni57 says it that way because his main man says it that way.

[john_childs]

I say sue-zoo-ee even though I know it's not the correct way to pronounce it.

[yoopers]

When I was kindergarten in Yooperland, I lived in a little town called Newberry, MI, which was just south of the Tahquamenon Falls. It has always been fun to hear trolls (Michiganders who live below the bridge) try to pronounce Tahquamenon. If you get a chance, it's a very beautiful falls and state park.
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/tahqua/tahqua.html

Another U.P. fun one is Kitch-iti-kipi, a 40 ft. deep, 200 ft. wide clear flowing spring. Indian names have always been neat. Upper Michigan is rife with them. Visitors traverse the spring in a glass bottom raft. http://www.exploringthenorth.com/bigspring/spring.html


Here's the pronunciation guide:

Ta-qua' (emphasis)(a sound as in car) -men -non

Kitch' - it - ee Kip'- ee

[john_childs]

Washington state has some Indian names too. One fun one that no one will get right the first time they try to pronounce it is Sequim (a town of about 4300 people). It's pronounced skwim. No hint of an "e" in the actual pronunciation.

I found a big list of Northwest names here (http://www.stevensauke.com/say/northwest.html). Note that the list for Washington is much longer than the other Northwest states. Another fun one from Washington is Puyallup (pyoo-AL-up).

[yoopers]

Originally posted by john_childs
Another fun one from Washington is Puyallup (pyoo-AL-up). We stayed with family friends in Puyallup when we were there for UNICON 2002. We love the Seattle area. Hope we can go back to visit again someday.

[One on one]

How about this lake in Massachusetts
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaugg

--is a Nipmuc Indian phrase usually translated (very loosely) as "You fish on your side of the lake; I fish on my side; no one fishes in the middle."

[GILD]

our british brethren have been conspiciously silent on this thread
they have some absolute clangers as far as spelling-vs-pronunciation goes and i can't weight for them to way in
;)

general newsreader's rules when up against something 'unpronouncable' (that u didn't prep:mad: )
-ignore 1/3 of the syllables and make sure u get thru the word in one go
(at least one of the syllables u choose to ignore should be the last one - this lends it a 'foreign' air and normally makes people either believe that u obviously know how to pronounce it, or it makes them wonder why they've had it wrong all their lives...)
-try n get thru the (longish) word in three sections
every section may contain more than one syllable, but try n give the word an 'intro-body-outro' kinda sound

smoke and mirrors, the audio guide
:p

as for 'suzue', i've always gone for 'Swaize'
:eek:

[timbob1907]

How about this lake in Massachusetts
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaugg

--is a Nipmuc Indian phrase usually translated (very loosely) as "You fish on your side of the lake; I fish on my side; no one fishes in the middle."
You made that up im sure. why would it be one long word like that?

[Hazmat]

I don't think anyone could find the meaning of this word. :D :D :D

CHICBOC

[GILD]

I don't think anyone could find the meaning of this word.

CHICBOC

Maybe not, but googling it gave me a "Results 1 - 1 of 1 for chicboc definition. (0.14 seconds)". (http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&q=chicboc+definition&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)