gwnn Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Yes G from goose, the rest more or less normally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billw55 Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 There are cities named Wooster in Ohio and Arizona. Here in Massachusetts we have Worcester. The pronunciations are approximately the same, presumably a relic of Massachusetts's history as a British colony.Heh. My wife makes a barbecue sauce that has worcestershire sauce as an ingredient. It aggravates her when I pronounce this as "woostusher". (My Dad was from New Hampshire and explained the town name to me. Not sure if it applies to condiments but I just go with it.) Yes G from goose, the rest more or less normally.Aha but what about G in gwnn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Yes G from goose, the rest more or less normally. The e in Gera is pronounced as in egg isn't it ? The commentators here tended to pronounce it as in gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Heh. My wife makes a barbecue sauce that has worcestershire sauce as an ingredient. It aggravates her when I pronounce this as "woostusher". (My Dad was from New Hampshire and explained the town name to me. Not sure if it applies to condiments but I just go with it.) I was taught the same pronunciation growing up in Minnesota. I can't really explain this. As for February, I was taught in school that the first r is silent. A child needs to be very wary of what he is taught. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 The e in Gera is pronounced as in egg isn't it ? The commentators here tended to pronounce it as in gear.Yes, like egg. And "a" is fully articulated, similarly to the "o" in along. Maybe normal was a slightly subjective term. :P About gwnn, I actually never really need to pronounce it. When I do it in my head I say "güvününü" with short ü sounds (a common way of "spelling" stuff in Romanian and I think a lot of languages which don't have interesting names of letters) which is dorky and isn't close to (and clearly worse than) anything anyone else does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Think genera and omit the er. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Think genera and omit the er. Not quite, one of the rules I do know is that in Hungarian a is pronounced as a short o, it needs an accent to be pronounced as an a. Also I always pronounced Genera as Jenera, the G is hard in Gera. It's closer to error with a hard G on the front but that doesn't quite get the a correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinidad Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 When I was at Michigan State University, situated on the banks of the Red Cedar in East Lansing, the Rolling Stones gave a concert in Spartan Stadium as part of their Voodoo Lounge tour. After the first song Mick Jagger shouted into the audience: "It is great to be here in Lansing." Unfortunately, he didn't know how to pronounce Lansing. (He pronounced the 'a' in the British way, as in "cigar', instead of the American way as in ... err ... 'Jagger'.) He also pronounced Michigan as 'Mitchigan' (instead of 'Mishigan'). At the time I thought I was lucky that I didn't see them in 'Tchicago' or 'Tcheboygan'. Obviously, we can complain about these mistakes forever. That would be rather sad, though, given that it was a fantastic concert. Rik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted February 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 You should hear the English trying to pronounce Maryland or Newfoundland! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 I'd attribute "Lahnsing" to his British accent. I expect he uses the same "ah" sound when saying "dancing". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 I'd attribute "Lahnsing" to his British accent. I expect he uses the same "ah" sound when saying "dancing". And also that Lancing in England is pronounced like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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