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While visiting Hollywood one year, Margot Asquith had occasion to meet the famous platinum-blonde film star Jean Harlow.
Not only did Harlow make the mistake of addressing Lady Asquith by her Christian name (Margot), she also pronounced it to rhyme with "pot." Asquith was not amused. "My dear, the 't' is silent," she snidely remarked, "as in Harlow." |
Kate wrote: |
I say Margo, Bride as in bride and groom (so you have met someone in RL who says it like that Sugar, even if I didn't say it in your presence ) and I say Wanda with a w even though I know it should be a v... |
macyrose wrote: |
Does anyone else find that certain names bring up certain images? For instance Cecil makes me think of a bald, middle aged man. Also I wonder if I'm the only person who when they think of a name, the first letter brings to mind a colour. Like L names are green, M's are red and C's are yellow. I can go right through the alphabet like that. |
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Gisela - Zhi-zell-a (on one of the audiobooks I have it's pronounced Gee-zell-a, like geezer, which I thought had an awful sound).
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My sister had a German penfriend through school,(they went on exchange visits,) and this is how her name was pronounced |
macyrose wrote: |
Does anyone else find that certain names bring up certain images? For instance Cecil makes me think of a bald, middle aged man. Also I wonder if I'm the only person who when they think of a name, the first letter brings to mind a colour. Like L names are green, M's are red and C's are yellow. I can go right through the alphabet like that. |
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I think L names are yellow, M names red and C names pink, actually. |
JayB wrote: |
Yseult - I had no idea when I was young, now I say 'Iz-ult'. I assume it's just a variant spelling for Isolde, so the pronunciation should be similar, I would think.
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Tor wrote: |
the silliest pronunciation i know i do (and can't stop myself without serious effort) is to actually say (in my head!) 'Mill' or 'middle' wherever i read Mlle or Mdlle. |
Tor wrote: |
the silliest pronunciation i know i do (and can't stop myself without serious effort) is to actually say (in my head!) 'Mill' or 'middle' wherever i read Mlle or Mdlle. |
Kate wrote: |
I see the months of the year in a very specific circular pattern and I have colours associated with them. Not the days of the week so much though. |
Tor wrote: |
so glad i am not alone there!
as an aside, one of the banes of my life is having a much wider 'reading' vocabulary than spoken one. So many words i have never heard out load, and it is so hard to break those childhood habits of pronunciation! |
Mrs Redboots wrote: |
When I first read the books, which I didn't much as a kid, liking them much better once I was grown up, I hadn't yet learnt German, so mentally pronounced the definite article in "Die Rosen" as if it were the English word... |
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I still do..! What way is it meant to be pronounced? |
Rosie wrote: |
As a Rosalie, I make it "Rose uh lee" but do have to put up with various other pronunciations... Hmm, the middle syllable is not stressed at all when I say it, so am not entirely sure if it's "uh" or "ah".
Yes, I am sitting on my bed repeating my name out loud. Perfectly normal behaviour. Ish. |
Tor wrote: |
the silliest pronunciation i know i do (and can't stop myself without serious effort) is to actually say (in my head!) 'Mill' or 'middle' wherever i read Mlle or Mdlle. |
Smile wrote: |
How do you pronounce Alicia - The only person I have ever really met with this name pronounces it A-leee-sha but I know a lot of people tried to say Alisha or aleeceea etc. |
claire wrote: |
A-lee-sea-ah
That's the way we pronounce my daughter's name (Al-iss-ee-a she gets quite a lot and I don't mind that but her name doesn't end in a -sha so the A-lee-sha does grate on me a little - most people have always gone with one of the first two pronounciations) |
JayB wrote: |
But then wouldn't Jacynth Lambert be Jass, not Jack? |
JayB wrote: |
I'm never sure about 'Jacynth'. I think it is related to Hyacinth, so it should be 'Jasynth'. But then wouldn't Jacynth Lambert be Jass, not Jack? |
miss_maeve wrote: |
I had a friend in junior school called Penelope, more often known as Penny.
Which is as well, because when I was that age, I thought 'Penelope' was pronounced 'Pen-uh-lop.' I dobt she'd have liked that a lot. |
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