QUOTE(Raphael @ Aug 21 2006, 02:50 PM)
Aaah, but what does the OED say? That's the truly definitive reference.
Only if you're speaking English. I speak American. 
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Pronunciation Of The Word "niche"
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, Aug 18 2006 01:37 PM
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 09:23 AM
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 09:47 AM
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I speak American.
Thank YOU!!!!!!
My wife watches BBC America a great deal (which I lovingly refer to as Boorish British Crap - No offense anyone... it's just my way of needling my wife and her British friend a bit), and I can't understand a darn thing they say.
Who REALLY has an accent anyway? Is it the English, the Australians, the Texans, New Yorkers, or Hollywood?
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 10:11 AM
Even the english have an accents soemone from another part of the country can't handle. I'm sure all this was debated before in another thread....
But anyway, the OED is for people who speak English. Or maybe the Collins Dictionary as that is the one on my shelf at home.
But anyway, the OED is for people who speak English. Or maybe the Collins Dictionary as that is the one on my shelf at home.
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 10:31 AM
Does the Collins dictionary have a definition for "sususudio"?
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 10:35 AM
QUOTE(Pole Position Web @ Aug 22 2006, 03:47 PM)
Boorish British Crap - No offense
None taken, though plenty of offence
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 10:46 AM
QUOTE(qwerty @ Aug 22 2006, 04:31 PM)
Does the Collins dictionary have a definition for "sususudio"?
I'll check when I get home and let you know in the morning
but I suspect not... I forget I havethe wonders of the www at my chubby little finger tips:
Collins Dictionary Definition of 'sususudio'
Computer says 'no'
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:01 AM
Pole Position, I take it you're not a BBCAmerican, then? 
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 12:44 PM
QUOTE(qwerty @ Aug 22 2006, 11:31 AM)
Does the Collins dictionary have a definition for "sususudio"?
hahahah...that made this craptacular day all worthwhile.
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 07:49 PM
As a French word, I would have thought O'reilly would be pushing to have it pronounced "Freedom-nitch".
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 10:43 PM
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Posted 23 August 2006 - 03:46 AM
QUOTE(torka)
Only if you're speaking English. I speak American.
Ooh, what a biche.
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Posted 23 August 2006 - 06:31 AM
I wish to issue a correction: we have no accent in Hollywood*
* which means all of Los Angeles and Southern California, doncha know.
It's neesh if you want the French pronunciation, and nitch if you don't.
http://m-w.com/dictionary/niche <= click the aural buttons
Now that we're on the subject of pronunciations, how come you Brits (I use that word with faint hope, crossed fingers and a certain amount of valor, having read the uproar following SEMPO's establishment of SEMPO UK which, having included the surrounding islands, resulted in explosions of indignation and offense(ce), with intensely and adamantly detailed instructions about what words to use for whom and when and in what location but only among whom which, to me, was SO CONFUSING that my best bet was to duck, lie low, and forget about it. Been confused about it ever since. I think "Brits" is right? Certainly "UKers" is inelegant, and unused.) ... anyway, with profusest apologies to anyone involved at any time ever:
How come the Brits speak with those wonderful drawn out A's ("Dahling, I just caaahn't") ... and yet, when it comes to similar "foreign" pronunciations, suddenly opt for something else? Witness this:
Scaramanga
"scar" a "mahnga"
James Bond:
scare a mang (like in "cat") a
We know this is true. James Bond said it and he's ... from somewhere.
Perplexed in L.A.
Now I go play with WordPress 2.x
* which means all of Los Angeles and Southern California, doncha know.
It's neesh if you want the French pronunciation, and nitch if you don't.
http://m-w.com/dictionary/niche <= click the aural buttons
Now that we're on the subject of pronunciations, how come you Brits (I use that word with faint hope, crossed fingers and a certain amount of valor, having read the uproar following SEMPO's establishment of SEMPO UK which, having included the surrounding islands, resulted in explosions of indignation and offense(ce), with intensely and adamantly detailed instructions about what words to use for whom and when and in what location but only among whom which, to me, was SO CONFUSING that my best bet was to duck, lie low, and forget about it. Been confused about it ever since. I think "Brits" is right? Certainly "UKers" is inelegant, and unused.) ... anyway, with profusest apologies to anyone involved at any time ever:
How come the Brits speak with those wonderful drawn out A's ("Dahling, I just caaahn't") ... and yet, when it comes to similar "foreign" pronunciations, suddenly opt for something else? Witness this:
Scaramanga
"scar" a "mahnga"
James Bond:
scare a mang (like in "cat") a
We know this is true. James Bond said it and he's ... from somewhere.
Perplexed in L.A.
Now I go play with WordPress 2.x
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Posted 23 August 2006 - 06:41 AM
Which Bond are you talking about - as they do have different regional dialects.
I would say SKAH - RAH - MAN - GAH
I would say SKAH - RAH - MAN - GAH
Edited by Sarah, 23 August 2006 - 06:47 AM.
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Posted 23 August 2006 - 06:42 AM
LOL! The only one who said "Scaramanga" (that I know of).
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Posted 23 August 2006 - 06:52 AM
Check out the girls!
Just asked the Egg & he's saying:
Can't believe I'm letting this guy buy me a hoover today
Roger Moore has a very southern accent, more Commuter Belt London than anything else (M40 Corridor). I'm from North Kent with a wierd lived lots of places Twang to my voice so I would sound the same to you, but to some Brits I would sound totally different to him.
I'll duck as I say I can't differentiate the Southern States....
Just asked the Egg & he's saying:
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Christopher Lee was Scaramanga & Roger Moore was Bond, James Bond fighting the man with the golden gun, on the island, in the china sea and he put Oddjob in the suitcase
Can't believe I'm letting this guy buy me a hoover today
Roger Moore has a very southern accent, more Commuter Belt London than anything else (M40 Corridor). I'm from North Kent with a wierd lived lots of places Twang to my voice so I would sound the same to you, but to some Brits I would sound totally different to him.
I'll duck as I say I can't differentiate the Southern States....
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