― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I used to call them Spudfucker but I'm sure that's not how it was meant to be pronounced
― electric sound of jim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kris, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Daniel, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
FenneszJan JelinekLuomo Hakan Libdo
― Honda, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jess, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I had this problem with the word before the band was even around, but I never bothered to check. Actually, don't correct me, I like saying both, just like I like saying Georgy Borges just cos I'll never be able to pronounce it properly...
I can't say Baccaruda.
― emil.y, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― cybele, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Curt, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bnw, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
And has anybody heard their new album yet?
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― A Nairn, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(and nearly tying up two parts of this thread!)
I always pronounce Labradford 'La Bradford' like the band "La Dusseldorf" except moved to just north of Leeds.
― Alexander Blair, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dare, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― XStatic Peace, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dave225, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
ps ending Autechre with Rah and not Er is just plain silly.
― ennui, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Daniel, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Doesn't everyone say Kraft-Verk? Although I tend to pronounce every W as V and every J as Y (ie Yan St Verner). Well, a lot of them, anyway, I wouldn't say Veen or Yoy Division. That would just be silly.
One thing I would like to know- Otomo Yoshihide. Is it YOSH-I- HEEDE? YO-SHI-HIDER? This is probably really easy, but I just want to check...
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Graham C, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ethan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Emily, you know that's not what I meant re: Paris. But do you pronounce it the proper French way?
I don't know about the origins, but saying Krahft just makes me think of the Queen eating plastic cheese.
I guess what it also partly is, is that is your surname were Jones, then (aside from making rubbish music) you'd probably be a bit pissed off if some guy from Swedinia insisted you were Yones. So if there's some German or Swede or summat, I try to pronounce their name properly. Out of courtesy. And it became a habit.
Nobody complains about people saying Neu as Noy, do they? Why? Because it's the right way of saying it.
I think it's cute when Irish people come here and pronounce the 'th' in Streatham and Thames. But I guess that's a different issue. OK then, I like French people calling me Nicola.
I've never heard that story, Ethan. Moog rhymes with "rogue", right?
― Mark, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I actually don't mind that much people saying 'New', but it isn't the right way. I'm not sure if it is always said like that in German -I can't think of any other words with that arrangement of letters, frankly.
Now how do you say Cica?
Ja.
― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
“That’s how we pronounce it,” says Xiu Xiu frontman and songwriter Jamie Stewart approvingly after I fluke out and correctly identify the band as “shoe shoe.” “But we’ve been told by, like, nine million people that we pronounce it wrong, and those nine million people have told us nine million different ways to say it.”
― jaymc, Friday, 13 August 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Stewart points out that he’s never found the inevitable mangling of his band’s name all that troubling, although he admits that one variation is a bit contentious. “I think the only pronunciation that we actually object to is ‘zoo zoo,’” he says, “just because it sounds like a bad hair-metal band.”
― jaymc, Friday, 13 August 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the X sound in mandarin is more of a "sy-" then "sh-" sound imo.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
shiu-shiu wd be closest I'd think?
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 13 August 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like there's still a hint of a "sh" after the initial "sy."
― jaymc, Friday, 13 August 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
But that's immaterial, since it's Jamie Stewart's band, and he sez "shu shu."
― jaymc, Friday, 13 August 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
except he named them after the Joan Chen film in which they pronounce the lead girl's name correctly lol.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
sh sound in mandarin = "sh-"x sound in mandarin = "sy-"
imo
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
here are several ways of interpreting 秀秀 in roman letters approximating the mandarin pronunciation using all the most common romanization methods:
xiu xiuhsiu hsiushiou shioushyou shyousheou sheoushiow shiow
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I was in china for a week before I learned how pronounce thank you correctly (xie xie). the xi sound is tough because it doesn't occur in english and the regional dialects will compound yr confusion. I kept mispronouncing it "water" so at restaurants I ended up getting another glass of water every time a dish was brought to the table.
― (e_3) (Edward III), Friday, 13 August 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
also, ewa demarczyk
avuh de mar check?
my polish ancestors weep
― (e_3) (Edward III), Friday, 13 August 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Neither exotic nor a band but is it Phill NIH-block or Phill NYE-block? ("is" sound or "eye" sound?)
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/jL4Jt4Tc_i4?t=9
― visiting, Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
Remember kids, Dokken rhymes with Rockin'!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
xp That settles that! Thanks. That's what I've always said but today for whatever reason it occurred to me that it might be 'nye-block'
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link