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
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