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LOO MOW???

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

AH-vrul Luh-VEEN

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I believe the "loo OH" sound in "Luomo" is dipthonged -- so it's more like "Lwoah" (one syllable, like "Bjork," WHICH IS NOT FUCKING PRONOUNCED "BEEEEE-YORK").

LWOAH-mo.

Italian for "the man."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

yay jbr (pronounced jibber)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

So, anyways, Jesus Lizard or the Jesus Lizard?

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

l'rally-zay d'new-day? lay rally-zes de-nudes? lez rall-eye-zes de-new-dess? lara lee da-noids?

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

What a great thread. Here's one that I have no idea about and have to pronounce fairly regularly:

Sainkho Namtchylak

She's a tuva singer. Help!

― cprek (cprek), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

John Tejada? Erlend Oye?

Autechre is pronounced Oh-Teck-ruh, emphasis on the 'chr' bit.. you

may simply by referring to them as " the 'chre ", pronounced

"The Kruh".

― Nik (Nik), Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Tejada has got to be Tay Hah Dah (accent on the Hah). Unless you meant the John part.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 15 March 2003 08:09 (twenty-three years ago)

How about Xiu Xiu?

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Saturday, 15 March 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Shee-you Shee-you?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

How does one pronounce that Super Furry Animals album: Mwng

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay so unless anyone can convince me otherwise I'll keep saying it "HOW-yob"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

keiji haino = key-jee high-no?
borbetomagus = bor-bet-om-oh-gus?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs = lay-m-as-hell?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Noh, Kay-ee-gee (K E G)

i assume Borbetomagus is said like it's a dinosaur. bor-b'-TOM-uh-gus.

no one has any idea about Rallizes?!

― summerslastsound, Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Rallizes is hard because it's probably wrong no matter how you say it. but DENUDES is probably spoken just that way.

kAy-gee? Really? i always said KEE-ji. and HI-no not HAY-no. But you're probably right.

what about Nagisa Ni Te? na-gee-sa-ny-tay?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

poe-pull-voo
ah-mon-dool

it's like a Sumarian chant

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:40 (twenty-three years ago)

NAH-geese-ah NEE-tay?

yr probably right about Rallizes. i'll stick with 'rally-zay' and be wrong but perfectly content.

― summerslastsound, Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

right on. that's how i say it too, though french pronunciation doesn't make a lick of sense. what does it mean anyway? do you know?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:46 (twenty-three years ago)

haven't the foggiest. the name seems to have sprung from an etymological cul de sac. one of us needs to corner Mizutani and force full disclosure at knifepoint.

― summerslastsound, Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Keiji Haino = kuh-HEE-jub-buh-HOO-nie-o
Pink Floyd = puh-HINK uh-fluh-HIB-ble-bib-bul
Borbetomagus = bluh-HOR-ja-MA-ter-buh

― Simon H., Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i always pronounced "Mwng" like "schwing"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 16 March 2003 04:43 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

xinlisupreme? how do you say it?

― xnelio, Sunday, 30 March 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i was wondering that. is it like "ex inlee supreme" or "zinlee supreme"?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 30 March 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

my roomate tells me the chinese pronunciation would be "shinlee supreme", but these folks are japanese.

― xnelio, Sunday, 30 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend of mine used to insist on pronouncing Siouxsie as "Sushi" and Bauhaus as "Boohooz,"....both of which irritated me greatly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's funny that N. thinks that pronouncing kraftwerk properly is funny.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 30 March 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Proper pronounciation of "Motley Crue" (imagine the umlat)?

― Dave Fischer, Monday, 31 March 2003 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

gnocchi.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 31 March 2003 02:47 (twenty-three years ago)

NYO*-key

*one syllable, none of this "neeeeee - yooooo" business

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Keiji Haino = Keh-ih-jih High-noh, I think.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably not that exotic if you come from Mississippi, but...

Uncle TUPP-elo or Uncle Tup-EEE-lo?

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

TWO - pill - oh

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd say TCHOO-pill-oh.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Well there's a Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Thankyou. That's bugged me for ages (particularly as an Elvis fan).

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 06:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Too-pill-oh=Tupelo
Chop-eh-too-lis= Tchoupitoulas

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait then again the south mispronounces alot!
Listen to me say Calliope Housing project.....Kal-eee-ope!

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Spdfgh (early 90s Sydney all-girl group)

Jim, it's said just like it's spelt. Spuhd-uh-fgh-ah-Hh. Which doesn't make much sense, as those sounds are quite difficult to render in English, but yeah.

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i knew that, i just liked saying Spudfucker :)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Oookay. According to Moog himself, "Moog" may be correctly pronounced either way: mogue OR moooog. The story is that originally, it was pronounced as "Moooog." His wife was a teacher, and she was tired of her very young students making cow sounds whenever they would say her name. Therefore, she asked that it be pronounced "Mogue."

My source: http://www.imperialdrag.com/chatter/articles/kbm796.html

Today, Bob diplomatically says, "Either is correct."

My question to ILM: Ui? Is it YOU-ee, OOO-ee, or maybe even OOO-eye?

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 31 May 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Cylob is pronounced 'sigh lob' because it's shitr for 'cybernetic lobster'

― mei (mei), Sunday, 1 June 2003 06:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Tejada has got to be Tay Hah Dah (accent on the Hah). Unless you meant the John part.

*bzzzzzzzt!*

Wrong answer! You don't get the cookie. "Tejada" is pronounced Theh-heh-dah (if you're into correct pronunciation) or Teh-hay-dah (if you want to Anglicize it). No way in the world would I ever be able to accept the pronunciation of that last name with the first syllable sounding like "Tay".

Sorry. I just happen to be a bit picky about the only other language (i.e., the language aside from English) I know.

On the subject of Lene Lovich (or her first name, more precisely): It would indeed be pronounced Lay-nah. I've seen on some fansite how that's the correct pronunciation of that first name.

Can't think of anything exotic I would need pronunciation help with. Sorries.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 1 June 2003 07:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Tatsuya Yoshida's(Ruins) band Koenjihyakkei, is it Ko-An-Jee-HAi-Key? or Ko-In-Juy-Heya-Key?
also the "Duul" part of Amon Duul, is it "Daal"?

― Jrvision (visionjr), Sunday, 1 June 2003 07:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Japanese words tend to be pronounced exactly as they're written, without syllabic emphasis, so it would be ko-en-ji-hya-kay. (The hya is written 'h(i)-ya', but you don't pronounce the 'i', and the 'a' is a short vowel, cut off by the 'k'.)

(And 'Les Rita Mitsouko' should be 'lay ree-ta mitso~ko', because the 'u' denotes a lengthening of the 'o' sound. But.)

I always (mentally) pronounced Labradford 'labradorford', but I think that was just because I read the word wrong.

― cis (cis), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

OK, I need help with... Le Tigre

Cheers

― lee, Monday, 16 June 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

luh TEE-greh

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Uz jsme doma?
The livedisc I have has a Canadian introducing them as "oos mé douma"

Alamaailman Vasarat? I can sort of imagine it, by just doing a really bad finnish immitation and saying it really quickly.

also the "Duul" part of Amon Duul, is it "Daal"?

Well, ü is usually pronounced like a Norwegian "y"(sorry)
So say it like Amon Dyyl (the y-sound being like the one that starts the word "yes")
Of course, I might be way off, I've never said the bandname out loud in my life.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Amon Duul is pronounced Ammon Dool (like pull).

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Alamaailman Vasarat? I can sort of imagine it, by just doing a really bad finnish immitation and saying it really quickly.

Uh-luh-muh-ee-l-muh-n wuh-suh-rut. The Finnish "a" is pronounced like the "u" in "hut" or "fun", and "i" like the "i" in "killer". The nouns are pretty much the same as in other Scandinavian languages.

Well, ü is usually pronounced like a Norwegian "y"(sorry)
So say it like Amon Dyyl (the y-sound being like the one that starts the word "yes")

Erm, I think you're wrong; "ü" is indeed pronounced like "y", but it isn't the y-sound of "sorry" or "yes". Ü/y sounds somewhat like the "u" in "duke" or "dune", but I'm not sure whether there is an exact English equivalent for that sound.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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