Thank you all! Thank you very much!

Thank you very much Jwpublius and Viktoria.

Can anyone help with 'Saussare?'

Grant.

Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985 - March 27, 2003
RIP
...Always.

Saussare? what's that?
Anyhow, a French speaker would pronounce the word like this: [sosaRә].

Are you perhaps thinking of Ferdinand de Saussure?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure

Seashell ebb music wayriver she flows. --James Joyce

How do you pronounce?
* Michelle
* Mitchell
* Boulevard
* scintillating

Please do not use phonetics.
Instead use words.
eg:-
to explain pron. of cat you can say "c" as in the k in kite.
"a" as in black ........

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Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together go down, one feather.
No thing that ever flew, not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.
************Edna St Vincent Millay************

Michelle: Mich- as in "fish", -elle as in "well". Stress on last syllable.

Mitchell: Mitch- as in "pitch" or "witch", -ell almost as in "bull" (the -e- seems to get swallowed, so that you're almost pronouncing only the -ll sound). Stress on first syllable.

Boulevard: in English, boul- as in "bull", -ev- as in the first syllable of "heavy", -ard as in "shard". (Makepeace will have to tell us how the French pronounce it.) Stress on first syllable.

Scintillating: Scint- as in "hint", -ill- as in "still", -at- as in "ate", -ing as in "sing". Stress both on scint- and on -at-.

Sensus, non aetas, inuenit sapientem.
--Publilius Syrus

How about rooibos? I cannot seem to be able to find out how it is pronounced.


Open door's an invitation. Gotta jump all the doors open.
~ Betty, "Dead like me"

I say 'roy-bos' but that's a guess. I'd like to know this too.

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."
- Jorge Luis Borges

ROOIBOS

Fuzzies, you're on the money there with 'ROOI' - pronounced as you say 'ROY'. And the R is rolled.

But 'BOS' is not pronounced like 'BOSS', the 'O' is pronounced like the 'O' in 'OR'.

Hope that helps you out.

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Originally posted by ~hope~:
Vega,

2. Here the 'ch' as a suffix forms a harsher sound. I pronounce it 'bark.'

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I feel the "-ch" syllable here is similar to that in "chromosome" but far softer, as if there an "r" in front of it.

Have I lost you yet?

"This is the sort of English up with which I'll not put".

It's a soft K sound. A K that you breathe through. Does that help?

Seashell ebb music wayriver she flows. --James Joyce

Hello everybody!

Jwpublius is right.
Michelle, also spelt Michèle in French (same pronunciation), is pronounced like this: "Mi"= "me" in English and "-chelle" like "shell" in English. In the south, French pronouce the last "e" (like "me","te","se"...in French).

For "boulevard" there are two pronunciations in French: the Parisian one (the only one according to French linguists ) and the way it is pronounced in the south.
Parisians say: "boulvar" like bull in English and "var" like the French department ("A" and "R" are pronounced in the French way, "A" is almost like your "A" in "Aristotle").
However, Southeners pronouce "boulevard" almost like "boo" in English + "le" in French + "var" in French.

I'm doing my best but that's not easy for me to find instances of French sounds in the English language. I'm sorry if it isn't clear . Hope it helps... And please don't hesitate to correct my English. Bye!

How do you pronounce the word tour?

I know it sounds stupid to ask such an easy word like tour but there has been a feud between my friends and me over whether it is tor, tur, tu-er, etc. Please help me!

Here in SA we pronounce TOUR as we say POOR. Not sure how they'd pronounce it where you come from. I suppose it's the whole Tom-AY-to / Tom-AH-to thing!

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! ~Dr. Seuss

Can someone please help me with the pronunciations of:

1. panacea
2. double entendre
3. route (heard two variations of it.. kind of like vase/vase)
4. lichen


--------Sanya--------
Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985-March 27, 2003
Rest In Peace
..lost time is gone forever

Pancaea: pan- like "ban", -cae- like "sea", -a like "must"; emphasis on -cae-.

Double Entendre: Double like "trouble", emphasis on first syllable; entendre --I don't know how the French would say it, makepeace will have to weigh in, but we amer'cans say-- en- like "on", and -tendre like "fond", final -e silent, emphasis on -tendre.

Route: there's a controversy over this. One camp says it like "boot", the other like "bout". The last camp is wrong. (I am the Duke of Yankeedom, after all ).

Lichen: pronounced like "liken", emphasis on first syllable.

Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
--Varro, Fragmenta

Thank you!


--------Sanya--------
Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985-March 27, 2003
Rest In Peace
..lost time is gone forever