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    1/30/2021 10:06 pm  #1

    monster
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    How do we pronounce......

    Nicola?

    please and thanks (also please say which country you're from)

    I heard a pronunciation that took me by surprise today.....

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    1/31/2021 7:41 am  #2

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    Nic-Ola
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    1/31/2021 8:44 am  #3

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    fargon wrote:

    Nic-Ola
    USA

    is that oh-la or olla at the end?

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    1/31/2021 9:37 am  #4

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    Re: How do we pronounce......

    My first guess would be NICK-uh-luh, or NEEK-oh-luh if she struck me as someone who would like an ethnically-correct, non-Texan pronunciation of her name. But either way, I'd be uncertain and already preparing for an apologetic correction.

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    1/31/2021 11:47 am  #5

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    somewhere between NIK-uh-luh and NEEK-uh-luh or NEE-cole-uh if the first doesn't get a response. After that I'd check for breathing and a pulse.

    cf:

     

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    1/31/2021 12:25 pm  #6

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    Is it really not a common name in the US?

    At Parkrun -which is here but a British concept and seems to attract a lot of Brits- there are two British women named Nicola.  Nik-oll-ah. Like Nicholas without the s on the end.  One of the Nicolas just got a dog and posted pics on Phasebuck and two American women were talking about he dog and pronounced the name Nih-cola (like coca-cola) It was so odd.  And then... I couldn't think of any American Nicolas I knew to compare......

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    1/31/2021 12:36 pm  #7

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    Our family doctor when I was a kid in Southern California was Tesla  NICK-oh-lah.

     

    2/07/2021 4:54 pm  #8

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    You have to remember how big the US is, you'll find many regional variations for pronouncing any name or word.

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    2/07/2021 10:41 pm  #9

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    The same is true in the UK.  I am also aware that not everyone here is from the same country, never mind the same state of the US, and I am interested in all input regarding dwellars' pronunciations from all locations and backgrounds for that reason -TO SEE HOW IT DIFFERS .  The American women who said Nih -cola, are one Southern Michigander and one Southern Ohian, fwiw.

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    2/08/2021 2:56 pm  #10

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    i pronounce it like this--

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    2/08/2021 4:39 pm  #11

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    "Susan"

    From the state of Tucson.

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    2/08/2021 9:12 pm  #12

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    Flint wrote:

    i pronounce it like this--

    tbh, so do I, if I'm talking to them at the end of the run....
     

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    2/12/2021 11:11 pm  #13

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    bbro? 

    in your head, when reading her posts (or in your own head, bbro)

    I always say bee-bro, I think I remember something about that from when bbro first graced us, but then maybe I just made that up. Likely, tbh.  Could it be bee-bee-roe? or Bbbbbbbro or borb or or bubbero or......

    sorry to drag you into the spotlight without .your permission if you actually read this, bbro darlink...

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    2/13/2021 8:48 am  #14

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    I've been saying it bee-bro for a long time but when I first saw the name it was buh-bro.

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    2/13/2021 8:21 pm  #15

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    It reads "bee-bro" to my ears, then I have to manually imagine feminine.

    Easy peasy

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    2/13/2021 8:47 pm  #16

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    bee-bro

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    2/14/2021 7:17 am  #17

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    BigV wrote:

    It reads "bee-bro" to my ears, then I have to manually imagine feminine.

    Easy peasy

    "manually imagine"

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    2/14/2021 8:34 am  #18

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    BigV wrote:

    It reads "bee-bro" to my ears, then I have to manually imagine feminine.

    Easy peasy

    Me too.

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    2/15/2021 4:01 pm  #19

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    "Bbro" is Latin for "saggy-crotched giraffe".

     

    2/15/2021 7:41 pm  #20

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    Even the saggy ones are over your head.

     

    2/16/2021 5:24 am  #21

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    How do we pronounce ~"diaphone"?
    Dia-phone (rhymes with tone?)
    Dia-phon-e (rhymes with telephony)?
    Some other way?

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    2/16/2021 6:34 am  #22

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    That was a head scratcher. I landed on dia-fin-ee.

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    2/16/2021 9:12 am  #23

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    Flint wrote:

    i pronounce it like this--

    ....

     

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    2/16/2021 9:13 am  #24

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    griff wrote:

    That was a head scratcher. I landed on dia-fin-ee.

    Daphne?    DJ's new name from hereon in

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    2/16/2021 12:50 pm  #25

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    "Ask Jeeves" once gave me Daphne for a diaphone search.
    Otherwise I've never heard any alternatives to DIE-uh-fone.
    But then I have no idea what is up with this thread in the first place or what an alpenhorn is doing in it.

     

     

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