how do u say a HOOS

sparked by remembering a discussion @ a fap over how to pronounce mr. que

No "hose" option?

i cannot imagine the former, even if it is phonetically correct

nope

yeah but i also refuse to call you 'lou-ee'. you will always be 'lewis' to in my <3

do you say

mister kay

or

mister cue

xp - wait what?

hewz

it is a silent S but i disagree with his parents

so not only can they not pronounce "r"s, they can't pronounce "s" as well?

I think/say Hoos rhymes with jews, mr. que as mr. kay

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS

another vote for Jews

i pronounce it "cue" but people are free to do as they wish

i always thought it was mr. que like mr. k or perhaps señor what

mr. queue

also hoos rhymes with jews

when I'm feeling particularly randy, I say "mr. what"

um I just realized I've been using randy inappropriately for the past several years. To anyone I may have confused or offended, I have always meant "goofy"!

what a disaster for randy!

elephant in the room: 'mister ker'

i actually hear it as 'mister kway' which is probably wrong on several levels but oi who's keeping score

ok tbqh i sometimes read "queue" as "kwayway" in my head because no one says queue out loud except if you're talking about programming maybe

no one says queue out loud except if you're talking about programming maybe

I did not think that this thread had potential to be a classic US vs. UK pronunciation thread, but ...

oh oops! i'm sorry.

my college common-room was festooned with shouts of 'queue!' every single goddamn day we were there...it was out scrupulously fair way of nominating pool table challengers

*our

elephant in the room: 'mister ker'

what?

que?

parles-tu francais?

quoi?

comme peut-on parle un HOOS

comme Jews

Just reminded myself of one of my personal favourite ILX threads, hoos international

mr. que

http://www.mischiefpr.com/files/gimgs/96_manuel.jpg

this thread will be quite illuminating

http://www.epanorama.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bulb_banthumbnail.jpg

i pronounce it "cue" but people are free to do as they wish

― Mr. Que

IN YOUR FACE NED RAGGETT I WIN

I still don't understand the "ker" thing

like mr. qü

Mr. Qüeensryche?

Husker Qü?

Que-ee Que-ee we gotta go now?

I say it like in the KBP reference.

i pronounce it "cue" but people are free to do as they wish

― Mr. Que

I always assumed this was the case, since "Mr. Que" is based on the fact that his wife posts as "quincie."

Ive always said "kew" as well. And saying Louis' name properly. And HOOS is short for HOOSTEEN so that one should be obvious!

Does anyone mispron my name as "tracy"? I hope not.

I have always thought of it as Mr. Cue and Hoos rhymes with juice. Louis will never be louie to me - sorry.

IN YOUR FACE NED RAGGETT I WIN

Complaints complaints.

See, whereas "lewis" sounds really odd to me. xpost

i don't know where to put this so i'm putting it here

http://i36.tinypic.com/35alixc.jpg

Hoos like Jews
Mr. Que like Mr. Kay (until p3t3 sm1th illuminated me.)
Louis has always been Louis to me tbh.
Sarahel like Sara Hell.

otm x4

I pronounce them all mar-EEZ-sa, saves time & effort

hahahaa.

how about bamcquern?

just bam because it's easier but I guess bam.c.qwern?

Hooze.

hooze
mr. cue, but probably only because i know the q is short for quincie
lewis
sara hell

Staggered by all these "lewis"es. Is it a common US pronunciation of Louis?

I mean Lewis is Lewis. Louis is Lou-ee. Its French ffs.

yes

HOOWIS

it's actually sarah-el, the "h" is silent, but i'd rather people think of it as sara-hell than make Superman jokes

HOOEY

doh xpo

mr. cue despite the fact that i am mexican
lewis and i will never get over my initial shock at the youtube video where he was referred to as "louie"
sara hell seems real obv to me?

and for some reason the c in bamcquern always becomes an ampersand in my head so i read it as "bam 'n kern"

bamcquern = bee ay mcquern, like B.A. Barracus in the A-Team

i say it "bam-kwern"

^

bet u guys didn't know my name is pronounced "eye in" like, "i'm eyein that hottie in the short shorts."

'jews' and 'cue' and 'bam-kwern'

Sounds like a vaudeville-era song.

Staggered by all these "lewis"es. Is it a common US pronunciation of Louis?

Yeah, there's a major US city spelled like the latter and pronounced like the former

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Barnavelt

sometimes I say "Bam M.C. Quern"

juice
mr. kay (he should have been mr. queue based on the origin/pronunciation goals)
lewis
sara hell

for bamcquern since i can't figure out a pronunciation it's kind of become something where i just hear a nonsensical blob of sounds in my head

Yeah, there's a major US city spelled like the latter and pronounced like the former

Oh, I thought that place was said as "saint lou-ee" so there you go :/

my friends who are from there say "Saint Lou-iss"

I also have trouble pronouncing iatee and harbl

yeah is it hawr-buhl

or hair ball?

har bull

sometimes when I see bamcquern in my head I go "bama getting money"

Hoos that girl

i a tee
harbull

I say LOO-EE Armstrong and LOO-EE Pasteur but St. LOO-ISS and LOO-ISS Farrakhan.

i think i thought it was "hair ball" because of the "considering a cat" thread

No offense, dude:

But I actually pronounce it "ban mcqueen"

:/

I'm sure Steve McQueen isn't offended

but for all i know, your name is actually pronounced Winnie Weengarten ...

I vary between "ee ah tay", "eye ah tay", "ee ah tee", "ee ah tay"

god damn, you people will just post about fucking nothing sometimes huh

sometimes I say "Jay zero Raydan Ess"

if I'm feeling frisky I'll add a "full stop" at the end too

i pronounce dyao in a throaty cat roar, like that CSI miami due has just lit a zinger DYAO

god damn, you people will just post about fucking nothing sometimes huh

― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Monday, 28 September 2009 08:46 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh hai, i'm ilx have we met?

hoos international is a triumph in both concept and realisation

i forgot that the last pronunciation thread had like 800 posts so this is mild by our standards

bet u guys didn't know my name is pronounced "eye in" like, "i'm eyein that hottie in the short shorts."

― ian, Monday, September 28, 2009 12:50 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

Is that true?!

is enbb pronounced enb or enb-bee

Re: Louis

I'd guess that that Americans who learned about the name as pronounced by Mr. Jagger first read it as "Louie" (as in Huey, Dewey, and Louie).

Also, King Louie from the Jungle Book.

god damn, you people will just post about fucking nothing sometimes huh

New board descrip pls.

i I hear ENBB as EN-Buh-Buh. Which is pretty supid now I think about it.

*stupid (is as stupid does)

how about bamcquern?

BAH-Mick-Kwern

http://www.nightporter.co.uk/pages/images/alienmk.JPG

i actually hear it as 'mister kway' which is probably wrong on several levels but oi who's keeping score

In my Britisher town there is a tapas bar called Que Pasa, and whenever I am on a bus which goes past it there are inevitably Spanish people on the bus who point at it and say "Kway Pasa!" and laugh hysterically, leaving me wondering if the "kway" is a hilarious mockery of English accents or is actually some feature of the Spanish language I was previously unaware of

but I guess it is the former really otherwise the humour is lost on me too

"Q" and "Hooss" (or if you will "Huice"), anyway

why someone would spell something que but pronounce it q is a strange and troubling question to me.

Hell why spell anyway!

WHOSE

i thought it was big hoss until this thread, tbh.

i read it lewis. also bam-quern. u can call me hairball

is enbb pronounced enb or enb-bee

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, September 28, 2009 7:28 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It never ocurred to me that anyone would do anyting other than sound out the letters tbh.

you also probably assume i don't have to go 'little star big star' four times before even getting that far.

ha

waiting for some smartass to tell me how to pronounce that next.

sometimes i read your name "da ragmac"

that's correct. it's my rapper name.

dare ag* mack?

*as in aggro or agriculture

the 'mac' is silent, it's irish

dara (like "dahhhra" which I'm guessing is your first name and then Mac)

yep

the mac isn't really silent, btw.

haha i believed you for 30 seconds and was thinking of all the macs in my family and wondering why they would have started pronouncing them after they got of the boat or something ^_^

that was pretty irresponsible of me, i apologise to those who are learning irish :(

I pronounce harbl "harbl"

Harbl like marble

i say "cat barf"

^_^

Sometimes I say "horrible" but that's as saucy as I get.

i always assumed a variation of 'horrible' with maybe a southern US accent tbh.

I rhyme it with Marble. OMG why do I keep reading and posting on this thread! This is like the most uninteresting shit ever and yet I can't stop. gah.

third new ILE board description in this thread alone iirc

OMG why do I keep reading and posting on this thread! This is like the most uninteresting shit ever

taking u off my xmas list, ENBB

and u too, jordan s!!

just one entree, sounds like an order at a restaurant

LOL Justing obv I don't find it that uninteresting because I keep coming back!!! <3

errr Justine

only if u are irish and you pronounce "three" like "tree" lol xpost

only if you are irish and are reeeally reaching to make it work, would be more accurate i think.

just one in three irish people have a problem with their 'th's'

true but i read all irishes' posts in the voice of my grandpa and he couldn't say th

read it again.

one in tree

Sip the Hoos cuz I got enough to go around,
And the thought takes place Uptown
I grew up on the sidewalk where I learned street talk,
And then taught to hawk New York-
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken,
Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.
Time to build my Hoos back up-
Props back up, suckers get smacked up

How do you say Geir? 'Gear', 'Guyer' or 'Gayer'?

as long as you say it with a bit of rythym

Since it's supposed to be short for "Hoosteen", I say it the proper way, i.e. "haws".

explain?

In countries were Hoosteen is a common name the "Hoos" part is pronounced "haws", or something close to it. Certainly not "h-ews" or "h-uice".

oh i didn't know it was a real name! i think we figured on some other thread it translated to faucet-diamond or something in dutch

well that would be if it was big faucet aka the diamond-driver because there's only one s in the middle otherwise

here it is hoos international

it is pronounced Ga-ear Herngru fwiw

Similarly, I wouldn't pronounce "Dom Passantino" the way English-speakers do, rather than the Italian way (or, rather, my approximation of Italian), because it's an Italian name, even though Dom himself might pronounce it the English way. That's just the way I've learned to say things.

(xx-post)

Actually, not that I think of it, I'm not completely sure if Hoosteen really is a Dutch name. I know Joosteen is, and I simply thought Hoosteen was a variation of it.

well iirc it comes from justin pronounced in spanish so j is like h and i is like "ee"

Would a Spanish speaker really pronounce the "u" in Justin as a double "o"?

no but i mean if you were reading it as if you were pronouncing it in spanish. oo is not exactly the same as spanish u but a good approximation for english speakers.

http://www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/jawa-cake.jpg

Isn't the Spanish "u" much shorter than "oo" though? Wouldn't "Hewsteen" be better?

yes but ew in english is like eu or oh. it's the closest thing is all.

So it's either too long or too soft?

The vowel.

no i meant oh like as in sew but ew doesn't really sound like oh there. there's just no other way to write it! this is dumb but english is fascinating lol. hewsteen wouldn't work.

That's what I meant: there's no proper way to phonetically write the Spanish "u" in English - "oo" is too long and "ew" is too soft.

I think Spanish is much easier for Finns, because the Spanish vowels are pronounced pretty much the same as Finnish vowels.

Two-AH-mas

^

"ice crehm"

two oh mas

Almost, but it's more like to oh muhs.

Similarly, I wouldn't pronounce "Dom Passantino" the way English-speakers do, rather than the Italian way (or, rather, my approximation of Italian), because it's an Italian name, even though Dom himself might pronounce it the English way. That's just the way I've learned to say things.

I try and pronounce people's names the way they pronounce them.

But do you know how Dom pronounces his last name, or how Hoos pronounces Hoos? I don't, so it seems natural to prefer the pronounciation that sounds more "right" to me. Of course if I knew these people in real life and knew how they pronounce their names, I would use those versions.

it's short for HOOSTEEN dammit

I pronounce it like BIG BRUCE aka the 'steendriver

http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq30dzJ4BU1qzk0glo1_400.jpg

I'm just saying that I'd assume (lacking knowledge of how they pronounce it) someone pronounces their name in the way someone in the area they were raised would pronounce it, as opposed to the area of origin of their name. Probably a lot of that is due to being American, where most people's names originated in other countries, save for Native Americans and people like my great-grandparents, who got their last name changed at Ellis Island because the immigration workers found it long and unwieldy.

I think in Finland most people pronounce foreign names the way they're pronounced in their respective languages, if they happen to know that language. Maybe Americans tend to "Americanize" foreign names because (from what I've gathered) many Americans don't know any other languages besides English?

I think Americans tend to be more respectful of non-American pronunciations than some other countries that are more homogenous.

to oh muhs.

^^ this is how I've always pronounced it

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Apart from putting on a Mario accent, how the heck else would one pronounce Passantino apart from the only way it can *be* pronounced?

puh-SAN-tih-noh

Seriously? Nawwww. "Pah-san-teen-o".

passanti no

in my head i still read it as "pass a tea no"

Isn't the Spanish "u" much shorter than "oo" though? Wouldn't "Hewsteen" be better?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Mexican pronunciation of Spanish is different from the Spanish speakers in Europe. That is all I know about the Spanish language.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow.

yeah this is shocking to me tbh

some people have no idea how to speak english, apparently

Reveal the secret! I need to know if it's correct to giggle whenever I think about "Who's the Boss"

some people have no idea how to speak english, apparently

― rather shipped (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:06 PM (35 seconds ago)

29 of them by my count

say "hoosten" out loud - it's basically impossible to say it as "hews-steen"

"hoosteen" obv

yeah, but we're not saying "hoosteen" we're saying "Hoos"

oh yeah i would pronounce the hoos in hoosteen differently than just hoos. so i voted jews.

say "hoosten" out loud - it's basically impossible to say it as "hooce-steen"

i'm not sure which way that goes

yeah that was confusing but sara hell otm

yeah but since "hoos" is derived completely from "hoosteen" it would make sense that one would pronounce "hoos" in the same manner that they would pronounce "hoosteen"

you don't go from saying "juicebox" to "jewsbox"

yeah but it's not hoos, it's HOOS

alright whatever - i can take solace in the fact that i'm not going around pronouncing HOOS wrong!! that would be mightily embarrassing imo

only defending the honor of "hoos" could drag me into one of these asinine pronunciation threads

but i never said pronounce the hoos- in hoosteen like "juice."

i'm just saying it's like a different word to me

there needs to be a new invite only board for pronunciation threads and i would like to not be invited

I thought y'all knew it was short for Hoosteen (as in Justin) so I'ma assume some of you are retarded imo.

^^

xp - you could always accrue a few more suggest bans and not have to worry about ilx pronunciation threads at all

i'm sure the jewsteens can make that happen

it would be a pretty stupid thing to sb someone over

didn't stop me!

lmao @ all of u

fwiw sarge has received voice mails from me declaring myself "u man HOOS" so he knows tmnt2 the secret of the hoos

yeah but since "hoos" is derived completely from "hoosteen" it would make sense that one would pronounce "hoos" in the same manner that they would pronounce "hoosteen"

But what I'm saying is that you don't ever pronounce "hoos" as a discrete syllable in "hoosteen." Or at least I don't: I say it "hoo-steen." Which makes neither "hooze" nor "hooce" ideal; to be honest, I think I imagine the "s" as being vocalized only slightly.

^^ yep.

yes i also think of it as hoo-steen, not hoos-teen

Who's teen?

ice crime

need to know how tf you people pronounce 'juice' that has anything to do with 'justin' (this just in)

oh wait aussie never mind lol

it's pronouncing "justin" as if it were a spanish word

that's still hoos like jews! ?

just to get this straight: you pronounce it like you would pronounce 'Houston' the only difference being the 'een' instead of 'on' ('un')?

i mean i know i'm arguing with homedude whose name it is but this is nyoos to me

nah - "hoo-steen" not "hyoo-steen"

hyoo-steen we have a problem

oh ok, so...the first option...right?

i think i needed a better analogue than 'jews' - maybe 'whose'

Triple Fat Hoos

yeah i think i'm the one bugging out i guess i can conceive of the proposed pronunciations being the exact opposite of what i think they are, which doesn't help but uh i'll stop bugging out now

http://markmeynell.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/al-pacino-devil.jpg

HOO steen

Didn't gain awareness of this poll until after the cutoff but 46 people are so RONG as to lead me to believe they are Franco-supporting fascists, tbh.

You are either with the hoooozzz or you are with the terrorists.

I agree with poster upthread who said their vote for "jews " would be better represented as a"whose".

You are either with the hoooozzz or you are with the terrorists

there was no option for 'hooz'.

terrorist.

it's a fair cop.

(Cf. HOOS).

fwiw sarge has received voice mails from me declaring myself "u man HOOS" so he knows tmnt2 the secret of the hoos

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:37 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh man

reiterating that like election night 2016 the polling is wrong

J. HOOS, A.K.A., S.D.

I'm with HOOS

important new lead

https://i.redd.it/lj6bjdsdyx941.jpg

I keep seeing that image, where is it from