Yeah, I know native Detroiters pronounce it Lash-er, but I suppose they can't read the order of the letters.
Yeah, I know native Detroiters pronounce it Lash-er, but I suppose they can't read the order of the letters.
The one that I have no clue about is Cadieux.
Moross?
For old east siders it's pronounced "Seven Mile"
Vernier.
Vern-ee-er?
Vern-yer?
Kind of like Canadian
Can-ay-deean?
Cana-dyen?
As someone who took a few years of German in high school and college, I cringed when I heard anyone say "Go-thee" when I lived in the area.Goethe - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe pronunciation - ɡətə [[28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.
Yup, I would say Vairn-yay as the closest sounding in French.
And Caddy-er would sound closest to French if you expel the "r" sound at the end.
A lot of these phonemes are hard to reproduce for a native English speaker.
Chene street is pronounced "Shen" in French and, it would have a circumflex accent on the first e like this: Chęne.
What about Dubois? "Doo-boys" or "Doob-wah"?Yup, I would say Vairn-yay as the closest sounding in French.
And Caddy-er would sound closest to French if you expel the "r" sound at the end.
A lot of these phonemes are hard to reproduce for a native English speaker.
Chene street is pronounced "Shen" in French and, it would have a circumflex accent on the first e like this: Chęne.
Weatherman nails [Welsh] town's super long name
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Wikipedia's Llanfairpwllgwyngyll ArticleThe long form of the name was invented for promotional purposes in the 1860s; with 58 characters it is the longest place name in Europe and the second longest official one-word place name in the world.
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Dee-troit
Duh-troit
Da_Troit
Day-Twaa
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It would sound like a cross between dew and dee, you try to average the two sounds and eliminate the oo sound as much as possible. These sounds exist in German and French but don't in English, Spanish and Italian as far as I know.
It might help to relax your jaw if you smoke a doobie and down a Mountain Dew with it.
WDET interviewed one of the Lahser family members last July. He said it was pronounced "Lahhh-sur". @ some point, a streetsign maker misspelled one of the streetsigns. [[he probably took canuck's advice) Here's a link to the story below.
https://soundcloud.com/wdet/curiosid...ay-lasher-road
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My former life as a Sears delivery driver, when I traveled every street longer than 3 blocks in the metro, gave me my linguistic education in Detroit pronunciations. None were more comical than those for Goethe and Freud. [Go-thee and Frood]
In German the oe [which is the anglicized ö] is most closely replicated as er and th is a hard T. So Gir'-tuh is as close as an English speaker can hope for and hence the comedy of Go-thee.
But when it comes to the ö to Schoenherr Detroiters say Shay'-nurr.
If one knows a little French Liver-noise for Livernois is worth a chuckle too
We do better on Beaubien Bow-bee-yen and almost get close on Charlevoix Shar-luh-voy and actually get the 'oi' ='wah' right in Antoinette An-twah-net..
My favorite pot-head game show:
For a million dollars; what was the last thing we were talking about?
The family pronounces it LAH ser
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