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Artists whose names you're pretty sure you are mispronouncing

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  • Hotsauce84Hotsauce84 8,450 Posts
    The Latino in me (*PASUE*) pronounced Cal Jay-der as Cal Tee-ha-thed for the longest time.

    Just to make sure, it IS jay-der , right?
  • AlmondAlmond 1,427 Posts
    Tjader = Chay-der or Jay-der
    Jay-der is the more common pronunciation, I think
  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
    unity said:
    bobtheorange said:


    and I've been told that I mispronounce moog. Is it pronounced moo-g or moe-g?

    'moog' rhymes with 'vogue'

  • ladydayladyday 623 Posts
    Johnny Zamot.

    Zah-moh? Zay-moh? Za-moT?
  • StoneHandsStoneHands 341 Posts
    I bought a reverb unit from a Turkish guy last month, and when finding out about his background, we started talking about Turkish psych and whatnot. His pronounciations of the names of the bands and artists made very self-consious about by non-Turkishness.
  • BeatnicholasBeatnicholas 1,005 Posts
    yep it's Bar-ish Man-cho if you were wondering.

    how does one say Amon Duul is it "a man dull" or "amen dool"
  • KineticKinetic 3,739 Posts
    StoneHands said:
    very self-consious about by non-Turkishness.

    Love it

    b/w

    paging Frank on pronounciations of Nigerian boogie artists!
  • fejmelbafejmelba 1,139 Posts
    amitabh bachchan ???
  • disco_chedisco_che 1,115 Posts
    The good thing about rappers is that they keep talking about themselves in the third person so you always know how they're calling themselves.

    Mtume was preventing all this by writing "MTUME is pronounced EM-TOO-MAY" on every record.

    I have my doubts about many brazilian artists. For example how to say Jorge. Is it Shaw-Shee or Geor-Gee?
  • fejmelbafejmelba 1,139 Posts
    i believe its sjor sje
  • tabiratabira 856 Posts
    luck said:
    Manduro3000 said:

    = "The Artist."

    ha! and all the time I thought it was pronounced waaan-kaaar
  • funkfromthesunfunkfromthesun 212 Posts
    disco_che said:
    For example how to say Jorge. Is it Shaw-Shee or Geor-Gee?

    It's a voiced sh-sound, like the j in French.
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    funkfromthesun said:
    disco_che said:
    For example how to say Jorge. Is it Shaw-Shee or Geor-Gee?

    It's a voiced sh-sound, like the j in French.

    There isn't a set pronunciation for this name, it's anything from jor-gee to zhor-zhee to hor-hay.

    And Ofege is Oh-feh-gay.
  • selperfugeselperfuge 1,165 Posts
    is ralfi pagan

    or rafe-i like ralph fiennes?

    i'm also guessing the last name is pah-zhan? like a zsa zsa gabor phoneme?
  • mickalphabetmickalphabet deep inna majestic segue 374 Posts
    autechre

    aww-tech-ra ?
  • spoonieteespoonietee 110 Posts
    mickalphabet said:
    autechre

    aww-tech-ra ?

    I think it's more like ah-tek_er but really I'm not sure.
  • parallaxparallax no-style-having mf'er 1,266 Posts
    Happy holidays everyone!

    Here's one..."Weldon Irvine"

    There's a super-heavy collectro I know who actually met and has a photo with the late Mr. Irvine.

    The collectro pronounces it "Ir-VEEN"...I've always thought (and still do) that it's "Ir-VINE", but have never challenged my deep-crated acquaintence.

    Kindly,
    parallax
  • vintageinfantsvintageinfants 4,538 Posts
    spoonietee said:
    mickalphabet said:
    autechre

    aww-tech-ra ?

    I think it's more like ah-tek_er but really I'm not sure.

    "oh-tekk" the "R" at the end wouldn't be fully pronounced, but it creates the french hairball noise thing they love so much.
  • LapurLapur 60 Posts
    Grupo Monumental or Grupo MonumenTAL
    Roberto Roena
    Quinaimes Band
  • spivyspivy 866 Posts
    marcos valle= VALLEY or VIE-YAY or neither? i saw some video where andy williams says "marcus valley"...is that right?
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    spivy said:
    marcos valle= VALLEY or VIE-YAY or neither? i saw some video where andy williams says "marcus valley"...is that right?

    Mar-cose Val-lay
  • parallaxparallax no-style-having mf'er 1,266 Posts
    Happy holidays everyone!

    Here's one..."Weldon Irvine"

    There's a super-heavy collectro I know who actually met and has a photo with the late Mr. Irvine.

    The collectro pronounces it "Ir-VEEN"...I've always thought (and still do) that it's "Ir-VINE", but have never challenged my deep-crated acquaintence.

    Kindly,
    parallax
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    I once knew someone who went on and on about Lonnie Lie-ston Smith. I think he was trying to claim he was scottish as well.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    I know somebody who keeps referring to the band Can as "Cahn." Even though more than once, I've seen an actual can used as a marketing motif for that band. Gets on my last nerves every time, like he's trying to sound cultured and "continental" or some such foolishness.
  • spoonieteespoonietee 110 Posts
    vintageinfants said:
    spoonietee said:
    mickalphabet said:
    autechre

    aww-tech-ra ?

    I think it's more like ah-tek_er but really I'm not sure.

    "oh-tekk" the "R" at the end wouldn't be fully pronounced, but it creates the french hairball noise thing they love so much.

    didn't think about that, great call.
  • unityunity 179 Posts
    p_gunn said:
    unity said:
    bobtheorange said:


    and I've been told that I mispronounce moog. Is it pronounced moo-g or moe-g?

    'moog' rhymes with 'vogue'


    ANDY! That was awesome, and I'm not even a bruins fan.
  • unityunity 179 Posts
    double post, whoops
  • hogginthefogghogginthefogg 6,098 Posts
    elise said:


    I get how to say it now...gwa-puh-LAY

    Nope: GWAP-uh-lay. Accent on the first syllable.

    And James, I love when George Clinton says, "David Boo-ee...he's cool." I always go with BO-ee, my self.
  • dammsdamms 704 Posts
    luck said:
    sticky_dojah said:
    That Michelle Girl. N'degochellomello or something. I'm not even sure how to write it....

    Meshell Ndegeocello = mee-shell nn-day-gay-oh-chello.
    thought it was may-shell nn-day-jay-oh-chaylow

    for those who don't know a tricky one is Azymuth
    it's "Azeemoochay" or Azeemoochee (not sure but it's one of the 2)
  • DJFerrariDJFerrari 2,411 Posts
    Horseleech said:
    And Ofege is Oh-feh-gay.

    Thanks... I was waaaay off!
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