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« Reply #180 on: January 17, 2006 01:01:58 PM »

i've always heard skAne, i'll always say skAne.
might it vary between parts of the country / world?
and one thing that bothers the hades out of me is when people misprononce corset. they either say corSETTE, like corvette, or corSAY, like ballet. it's CORset.
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« Reply #181 on: January 18, 2006 10:49:59 AM »

Okay, so I didn't read all 51 pages of this topic, but I did search this board only for my word, and nothing came up. 

I have no idea how to pronounce cloche.  Is it cloch, cloch-e, closh, or closh-e?  Anyone know?
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« Reply #182 on: January 18, 2006 11:01:19 AM »

strangely, I can't think of a single word that rhymes with cloche! Or gruyere, LOL
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« Reply #183 on: January 18, 2006 11:02:56 AM »

np! glad to help.

as for the rhyming:

how about gauche?

but for guyere, the only thing i came up with is foyer, but i don't think that's close.
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« Reply #184 on: January 18, 2006 11:14:50 AM »

There once was a girl in a cloche
Who loved to eat warm brioche
served with gruyere
she shouted "You there!"
"Your wonderbread sandwich is gauche!"

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« Reply #185 on: January 18, 2006 11:33:55 AM »

i used to have trouble with matelasse because I'd never seen it with the accent on the e... now I know.  I also USED to say gross-grain (till y'all done schooled me)
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« Reply #186 on: January 18, 2006 11:45:38 AM »

my entire life i've been correcting my mother who used to say OH-VEN instead of oven (uh ven) and I - RON instead of iron (eyern).

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i married a man who says the same thing.
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« Reply #187 on: January 18, 2006 12:56:46 PM »

my entire life i've been correcting my mother who used to say OH-VEN instead of oven (uh ven) and I - RON instead of iron (eyern).

and then,

i married a man who says the same thing.


That's how everyone pronounces them here in Scotland. My family's English so I grew up with an English accent and English pronunciation, so I don't pronounce them that way, but I think the Scottish way is cute. Grin
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« Reply #188 on: January 18, 2006 02:33:57 PM »

Please try to keep it on craft pronunciations, or I'll have to delete.
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« Reply #189 on: January 20, 2006 12:57:37 AM »

Okay, so jewelry.

Emphasis on the jewel. It's neither pronounced nor spelled like cutlery, but I've heard and seen countless advertisements that call it "jew-lery".

Oh, and the cloche conversation that was, oh, nine million pages back: is it with a long o as in clothes, or the 'aw' sound as in moth? It rhymes with brioche (a tasty bread AND a fun stitch), right?
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