Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[Crying Diamonds]

Bumping this thread because it has helped me to this day pronounce designer names correctly.
I don't trust any of these youtube videos teaching the correct pronunciation, most are the American English pronunciations.

I was wondering about Bottega Veneta.

Probably already brought up here, I just want to confirm.
I pronounce it 'Bow-teg-ah Ven-eh-tuh."

 

[kokobombon]

^I pronounce it "boh-teh-gah Veh-neh-túh"

could an italian say where do you put the emphasis in Veneta? is in Vé or in tá?

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

An extremely fast 'BOTEGA' (no 'h') + VE-NE-TA with an accent on the first 'e' & 'a'

 

[mistress_f]

^I pronounce it "boh-teh-gah Veh-neh-túh"

could an italian say where do you put the emphasis in Veneta? is in Vé or in tá?

it's vèneta. and you'd have to stress the double t - as in boh-TT-eh-gah

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

Case solved

 

[kokobombon]

^ thanks, the emphasis is on the Ve as you guys said

can I ask about a models name here or is there a special thread for that? how do you pronounce Julia B's first name given that it's dutch? like an english Julia or Ee-uh-leeah?

 

[Nomar]

Fausto Puglisis is a hard one IMO.

 

[mistress_f]

^ i think it's hard for anglophones cause you guys don't have the 'gli' where the g is not hard (as in glee) but it's a completely different sound. I think you'd have better luck in pronouncing it ' poo-lee-see' and forgetting about the g

 

[kokobombon]

^so you don't pronounce tha last S?

 

[mistress_f]

there's no final s in the name? It's Fausto Puglisi

 

[kokobombon]

^ah, I´m not familiar with the name and Nomar wrote PuglisiS

 

[squilliam]

There was this one iD video on YouTube that shows how some fashion names are pronounced, puglisi was pronounced as poo-wee-zee, it sounded like they left out the L and G

 

[mistress_f]

^ still not the right pronounciation, though (lol)

 

[squilliam]

^ still not the right pronounciation, though (lol)

I probably heard it wrong, so I'm not sure. I also don't think they used an Italian speaker