Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[BabyJ]

LOL. Ever since moving to Montreal I've gotten over my problem with french words. Just remember that the last letter, if not a vowel is usually not pronounced.

Laurent is Lo-Ron
I used to live in Ville St. Laurent and I loved going for drinks on St. Laurent

 

[passione]

Originally posted by BabyJ@Aug 10 2004, 12:56 PM
LOL. Ever since moving to Montreal I've gotten over my problem with french words. Just remember that the last letter, if not a vowel is usually not pronounced.

Laurent is Lo-Ron
I used to live in Ville St. Laurent and I loved going for drinks on St. Laurent

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very nice information, thankyou!

 

[enrichi]

No problems with fo or Lauron, but I can't pronounce bowl. It always comes out bow-ell.

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Worry not. Geordies call a film a fil-um. They can't pronounce English and they are English...

 

[faust]

Repost. This topic already exists.

 

[strawberry daiquiri]

Originally posted by PrinceOfCats@Aug 10 2004, 06:51 PM
Geordies call a film a fil-um.

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What's wrong with that?

 

[PrinceOfCats]

It's incorrect?

OED:

fIlm

 

[Alejandro]

People, please use the search engine before posting a topic, As Faust said, this topic already exists

Danke

 

[strawberry daiquiri]

Originally posted by PrinceOfCats@Aug 10 2004, 07:42 PM
It's incorrect?

OED:

fIlm

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But people have accents and sometimes they like to use them.

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Originally posted by strawberry daiquiri@Aug 10 2004, 01:48 PM
But people have accents and sometimes they like to use them.

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An accent I can deal with. Americans pronounce 'Mall' like 'Maul', fine. Fil-um on the other hand is just plain wrong.

 

[passione]

alejandro is so hot. ill use it next time.

 

[Meg]

does fashion file say how to pronounce different designer names chick?

Someone else asked about martin margiela. I suggested mar-gee-elle-ah but am not sure if that is correct.

i still have problems with balenciaga. whether it's ba-len-cee-AH-gah or ba-len-CEE-ah-gah

 

[purplelucrezia]

Originally posted by Meg@Dec 6 2004, 04:12 AM
i still have problems with balenciaga. whether it's ba-len-cee-AH-gah or ba-len-CEE-ah-gah

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I actually do know the answer to that one! I was watching a biography on Yul Brynner and they mentioned that his wife was very different from him... How she was interested in the major designers of the time. Among them bel-ansi-a-aga.

 

[Meg]

mmm am watching fashionfile video's where tim blanks says the names. brilliant.

 

[nqth]

I always think it's ba-len-thee-ah-ga. "Thee" likes gra-thias :-)

The man was Spanish, I think:-)

 

[liberty33r1b]

interesting topic!
what about Azzedine Alaia? I've always wondered about that one.....
is it AZZE-DEIN or rather AZZE-DIN??

 

[softgrey]

azz-eh-DEEN...

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by nqth@Dec 6 2004, 04:57 AM
I always think it's ba-len-thee-ah-ga. "Thee" likes gra-thias :-)

The man was Spanish, I think:-)

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true...but that soft c is specific to only cedrtain dialects of spain...my dad's a spanish profesor..so i know this...correct pronunciation is the first one meg posted...with the
cee-ah...blended together the way purple posted....

sort of like this...bah len syAH gah...

purple...i guess just because you see it on tv...doesn't mean it's accurate..unfortunately...i guess they were experts on yul brynner(sp?), but not so much on fashion... (was the announcer british?...they often mispronounce it)
btw...OT...didn't he have several wives?...

 

[liberty33r1b]

Originally posted by softgrey@Dec 6 2004, 11:36 AM
azz-eh-DEEN...

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I'm still confused:
AZZ-EH-DEEN like [di:n] - english pronunciation or
[de:n] - french (?) pronunciation???

 

[AlexN]

Just used the Bright Speech thing. It says...

Maar-TEEN Maar-HEE-lah
Ahn Duh-moo'-lah-MEE'-ster
Bah-len'-thee-AH'-ga (somewhere in between a "th" and an "s")