Pronounciation

[nicholascrawford]

Couple questions on how to pronounce things that you can read and type on the internet but sound like an idiot if you say it wrong in person.


Bonobos - Is it BOW-no-bos? Or bo-NO-bos?

Indochino - Is it in-do-CHEE-no? Or in-do-SHE-no?


I looked up Hautelook. Turns out that's pronounced OAT-look.


Any other words?

[jason_carreira]

Bonobos = bo-no-bos no accented syllables (I think)

Indochino = in-do-CHEE-no


Kiton = Key-tahn

Ermengildo Zegna = Er-man-jeel-do Zay-ñya

[nicholascrawford]

Gotcha. I will practice the last one in front of a mirror.

[TTigers70]

I was saying bon-o-bos too until a commercial on Pandora corrected me

[Deke]

@JC

Just being nit-picky because it's late and I'm bored: I'm not sure it's possible to say a multiple syllabic word without accenting something.


BOW-no-bos

bo-NO-bos

bo-no-BOWS


Personally I'd think it would be the second option. I'm pretty sure that's how you say monkey that's spelled the same.

[nicholascrawford]

In English, we default to accenting the second to the last syllable. Spanish, it's the last syllable.

[greg_s]

Well not to split hairs here @nicholas, but in Spanish it is the 2nd to last syllable if the word ends with a vowel, letter 'n', or letter 's'. It's the syllable if the word ends in any other letter and if there is no accent mark.


:P

[nicholascrawford]

Haha - You clearly know more than I do!

[nicholascrawford]

Hautelook is running TV commercials, and they pronounce it "HOTE-look". Which I don't think is correct, based on Dictionary.com. Ah...who knows.

[Cannon]

It should be OAT-look, not HOTE-look

[dapperedcpa]

Guys - help with another one:


Sorel (as in Sorel winter boots).


Sore-ELLE? Or SORE-ull? Or some other random pronounciation (Sore-OH?)

[jessy_diamond]

Sore-Elle I guess ? Kinda hard to explain.


Listen to this video :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_O5sAXmjQ&feature=related


At 0:05, he says "Sorel-Tracy". That's how I pronounce it.

[nicholascrawford]

I've grown up hearing Sore-ELLE too.

[KC]

(channeling my high school poetry class) I actually believe there are s few words with multiple syllables that don't have any particular stress on either one, for example the word "blackjack"


And back on topic I pronounce it:

bow-NO-bos

IN-doe-chee-no

[nicholascrawford]

Bespoke:

-Preferred: bih-spoke

-Secondary: bee-spoke


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bespoke