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Laynah Luvvitch is correct. Man, you lot need German lessons.

I took German for a year. :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 06:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Avril Lavigne?

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

No, seriously

― Ferg (Ferg), Saturday, 22 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haujobb?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 22 February 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, and Bauhaus

― Ferg (Ferg), Saturday, 22 February 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

bow (what you do in front of the queen, if you're not a violinist)- house. accent on the bow.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 23 February 2003 05:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

OK, this isn't a pronunciation question, but I need to know: is "Jesus Lizard" or "the Jesus Lizard"? I've been typing the former, but it reads weird to me.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

LOO MOW???

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

AH-vrul Luh-VEEN

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

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-one years ago) link

yay jbr (pronounced jibber)

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

So, anyways, Jesus Lizard or the Jesus Lizard?

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

How about Xiu Xiu?

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

Shee-you Shee-you?

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

How does one pronounce that Super Furry Animals album: Mwng

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

poe-pull-voo
ah-mon-dool

it's like a Sumarian chant

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

i always pronounced "Mwng" like "schwing"

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

two weeks pass...

xinlisupreme? how do you say it?

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

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-one years ago) link

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

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

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-one years ago) link

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

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

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

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

gnocchi.

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

NYO*-key

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

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

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

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

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-one years ago) link

TWO - pill - oh

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

I'd say TCHOO-pill-oh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

i knew that, i just liked saying Spudfucker :)

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

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-one years ago) link

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

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

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-one years ago) link

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