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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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Nic-Ola
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fargon wrote:
Nic-Ola
USA
is that oh-la or olla at the end?
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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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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.
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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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Our family doctor when I was a kid in Southern California was Tesla NICK-oh-lah.
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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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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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i pronounce it like this--
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"Susan"
From the state of Tucson.
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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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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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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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It reads "bee-bro" to my ears, then I have to manually imagine feminine.
Easy peasy
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bee-bro
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It reads "bee-bro" to my ears, then I have to manually imagine feminine.
Easy peasy
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It reads "bee-bro" to my ears, then I have to manually imagine feminine.
Easy peasy
Me too.
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"Bbro" is Latin for "saggy-crotched giraffe".
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Even the saggy ones are over your head.
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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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That was a head scratcher. I landed on dia-fin-ee.
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i pronounce it like this--
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That was a head scratcher. I landed on dia-fin-ee.
Daphne? DJ's new name from hereon in
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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.