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I'm looking to get one at my local music store and I don't want to sound like an idiot mispronouncing it

stratochicnic wrote:I'm looking to get one at my local music store and I don't want to sound like an idiot mispronouncing it

FATH-ogue. "A" pretty much as in "rat", "TH" as in "that" but more like a D, "ogue" as in "rogue". That's as close as you can get with English equivalents.

I'll bet your music store clerk doesn't know how to pronounce it, either. Dollars to doughnuts you'll hear, "Oh, you mean "FEE-dog"!

LOL Thanks for the help.

Worst case scenario, I locate it, point and say, "I want THAT one"

We pronounce it Fee-dawg in the south.

Fad-oh-geen!

J.

[in Ed MacMahon voice]
"I did not know that."

...and what about the pronounciation of

s t r a t o c h i c n i c

????

Nanohedron wrote:...I'll bet your music store clerk doesn't know how to pronounce it, either. Dollars to doughnuts you'll hear, "Oh, you mean "FEE-dog"!

Nano's right. You can't win - if you choose the Irish pronunciation they'll do the "Oh, you mean "FEE-dog" thing, while if you say "fee-dog" you can bet the store assistant will be fluent in Gaelic. :roll:

Solution 1) Point and say: "I want that one". (For those of you in the UK, this should be delivered in the voice of Andy Pipkin from Little Britain.)

Solution 2) Get it mail order.

buddhu wrote: Solution 1) Point and say: "I want that one".

Now are you sure? We don't want to cause a kerfuffle...

buddhu wrote:

Nanohedron wrote:...I'll bet your music store clerk doesn't know how to pronounce it, either. Dollars to doughnuts you'll hear, "Oh, you mean "FEE-dog"!

Nano's right. You can't win - if you choose the Irish pronunciation they'll do the "Oh, you mean "FEE-dog" thing, while if you say "fee-dog" you can bet the store assistant will be fluent in Gaelic. :roll:

Solution 1) Point and say: "I want that one". (For those of you in the UK, this should be delivered in the voice of Andy Pipkin from Little Britain.)

Solution 2) Get it mail order.

Yeah you're probably right. I'll just go and pick it out myself :roll:

But I'll ask my professor next week. She's Irish

Koss wrote:...and what about the pronounciation of

s t r a t o c h i c n i c

????

It's not Irish that's for sure

'Strato' --> Abbreviation of the Fender Stratocaster
'chic' --> NO, not the abbreviation of Chicken, just chic, as in girl
'nic' --> Abbreviation of Nicki

Some days, I can't pronounce "Generation."

The one that always gets me is "Oak"

Generation:

JEAN-RA (like GENRE)-TIE-ON