Difference between revisions of "Unintuitive pronunciations"

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A lot of names around here aren't pronounced the way they look, but their referents are often too modest to correct you. So, this page is dedicated to collecting and disseminating the proper pronunciations of names that are often bungled. If someone has some IPA skills, they can make these official-looking with upside-down e's and that sort of thing. Anyway:
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A lot of names around here aren't pronounced the way they look, but their referents are often too modest to correct you. So, this page is dedicated to collecting and disseminating the proper pronunciations of names that are often bungled.
  
* Paul Reyns = rhymes with "Maul Mayans"  
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{| cellpadding="4"
* Jason Kohn = "Jason CONE"
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| ||rhymes with: || IPA
* Adam Bloch = "a-DOM Block"
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* Emily Ente = "Emily En-tee"
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| Paul Reyns || "Mayans" || [maɪənz] (or monosyllabic [maɪnz]?)
* Noemi= "Noeh-ME"
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* Wege Auditorium = Weg-eee (rhymes with Keg- eee)
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| Jason Kohn || "cone" || [koʊn]
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| Adam Bloch || "a bomb lock" || [əˈdɑm blɑk]
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| Emily Ente || "twenty" || [ˈɛnti]
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| Noemi || "show me" || [ˈnoʊmi] (or trisyllabic [ˈnoʊəˌmi]?)
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| Wege Auditorium || "Peggy" || [ˈwɛgi]
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Revision as of 19:34, May 16, 2006

A lot of names around here aren't pronounced the way they look, but their referents are often too modest to correct you. So, this page is dedicated to collecting and disseminating the proper pronunciations of names that are often bungled.

rhymes with: IPA
Paul Reyns "Mayans" [maɪənz] (or monosyllabic [maɪnz]?)
Jason Kohn "cone" [koʊn]
Adam Bloch "a bomb lock" [əˈdɑm blɑk]
Emily Ente "twenty" [ˈɛnti]
Noemi "show me" [ˈnoʊmi] (or trisyllabic [ˈnoʊəˌmi]?)
Wege Auditorium "Peggy" [ˈwɛgi]