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Posted by monster
1/30/2021 10:06 pm 		#1

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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Posted by fargon
1/31/2021 7:41 am 		#2

Nic-Ola
USA

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Posted by monster
1/31/2021 8:44 am 		#3

fargon wrote:

Nic-Ola
USA

is that oh-la or olla at the end?

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Posted by Clodfobble
1/31/2021 9:37 am 		#4

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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Posted by footfootfoot
1/31/2021 11:47 am 		#5

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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Posted by monster
1/31/2021 12:25 pm 		#6

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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Posted by Diaphone Jim
1/31/2021 12:36 pm 		#7

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

 
Posted by xoxoxoBruce
2/07/2021 4:54 pm 		#8

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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Posted by monster
2/07/2021 10:41 pm 		#9

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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Posted by Flint
2/08/2021 2:56 pm 		#10

i pronounce it like this--

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Posted by Luce
2/08/2021 4:39 pm 		#11

"Susan"

From the state of Tucson.

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Posted by monster
2/08/2021 9:12 pm 		#12

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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Posted by monster
2/12/2021 11:11 pm 		#13

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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Posted by griff
2/13/2021 8:48 am 		#14

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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Posted by BigV
2/13/2021 8:21 pm 		#15

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

Easy peasy

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Posted by Flint
2/13/2021 8:47 pm 		#16

bee-bro

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Posted by Limey
2/14/2021 7:17 am 		#17

BigV wrote:

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

Easy peasy

"manually imagine"

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Posted by fargon
2/14/2021 8:34 am 		#18

BigV wrote:

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

Easy peasy

Me too.

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Posted by Gravdigr
2/15/2021 4:01 pm 		#19

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

 
Posted by Diaphone Jim
2/15/2021 7:41 pm 		#20

Even the saggy ones are over your head.

 
Posted by Limey
2/16/2021 5:24 am 		#21

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

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Posted by griff
2/16/2021 6:34 am 		#22

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

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Posted by monster
2/16/2021 9:12 am 		#23

Flint wrote:

i pronounce it like this--

....

 

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Posted by monster
2/16/2021 9:13 am 		#24

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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Posted by Diaphone Jim
2/16/2021 12:50 pm 		#25

"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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