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JimRon
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 Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:41 am Post subject: Pronunciations... So what do you do and how do you say it |
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Just wondering everyone's thoughts on pronunciations.
Obviously we're all in different parts of the country, where certain words are pronounced differently. For example, route; do you say ROOT or ROUT? Roof; ROOF or RUFF? Details (as in "call for details"); DEE-tails or dih-TAILS? Do you voice words like that as you would pronounce it, or as it would be pronounced in the region? I'm of the voice it twice persuasion. I feel voicing the sentence where the word is both ways is no big deal. What's another 3-4 seconds? Gives them a choice.
And speaking of different takes, do you give one take? Or multiple? I feel it's good to give 2 versions; maybe 3. Maybe the second or third read is more along the lines of how they "heard" the spot when writing it. Again they have a choice.
Thoughts?
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:51 am Post subject: |
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| Forgive me if this is old news. There is a web site for the American Heritage Dictionary that allows you to hear words pronounced. Look up the word, click the speaker and listen. With respect to my UK friends, I typed "aluminum" and my computer locked up. [ba da dboom..I'm here 'til midnight] |
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When I taught diacritics and phonetics at a famous, but now defunct broadcast school in Hollywood some years ago, we used the very dictionary that Bill cited.
That particular dictionary usually gave more than one and sometimes several pronunciations for the same word and they were always listed in order of preference.
"Route" is pronounced "root" unless it is being used as a verb (i.e., "Let's route this phone patch through the interface..."), when it then is pronounced, "rowt".
"Roof" can be pronounced either way and still be acceptable.
"Details" may also be pronounced either way and be acceptable.
Side note: the article "A" is ALWAYS pronounced with an oomlaut (ah) UNLESS you're referring to the letter of the alphabet. |
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Bill, thanks for the great tip to the American Heritage Dictionary. I wasn't aware they had an audio pronounciation guide. Very cool tool for those wild medical and/or technical phonetics!
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For what it's worth:
its proNUNciation
not
proNOUNciation.
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as long as we can all agree on noo-clur, i'm happy.
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| todd ellis wrote: | | as long as we can all agree on noo-clur, i'm happy. |
Is that the same as Nucular?? 
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it is in Texas.
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Often I'll end up doing a couple takes of something if it's for a market where it could go one way or the other. I did a bunch of spots for Ryland Homes for the Texas market last year and "details" was one of them. We did takes both ways and let the client choose which they wanted.
My fave though is when the client doesn't know how to pronounce something...especially with computer terms. Always fun to have to correct the client 
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That takes a particular finesse.
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DUH. Silly me. 
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| "Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian". |
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| Doc wrote: | | "Route" is pronounced "root" unless it is being used as a verb (i.e., "Let's route this phone patch through the interface..."), when it then is pronounced, "rowt". "Roof" can be pronounced either way and still be acceptable. |
This side of the pond, "Route" is always "root", we drive along our chosen "root" to work, "root" a signal through the interface and connect to the 'net via a "rooter". Consistent as always. Unless of course we are using a hand-tool to carve a channel along a piece of wood, in which case we'd be "rowting", with a "rowter". Clear? Good!
The other time we speak of a "rowt" is when a group of warriors (or a tattered old government...) is ignominiously defeated.
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