How do you pronounce Mopane?

sbhikes · Post by **sbhikes** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:10 am

Is it Mo' pain? Mo' pahnee? Something else?

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:13 am

second

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:27 am

My wood suppliers pronounce it
"mow" "paw" "knee" with the accent on the "paw" but I think like Mpingo (African Blackwood) the correct pronunciation is
"mmm" "paw" knee"

Casey Burns

sbhikes · Post by **sbhikes** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:54 am

Thank you!

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Mon May 07, 2007 9:13 am

Its very unusual to get someone who starts a topic
and then has the courtesy to come back and say thank you
for the responses.

There is a lot to be learnt from this, I am sure.

But, then, I am talking about the Pub Forum and that is an
entirely different ball game, isn't it?

Isn't it?

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Mon May 07, 2007 12:17 pm

In Kentucky, we say "Mo-pah-nay (y'all)."

But Casey would know better than hicks like me.

Thanks for your post, Tal.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon May 07, 2007 12:21 pm

Cathy Wilde wrote:In Kentucky, we say "Mo-pah-nay (y'all)."

Me too, until a native speaker corrects me. Well, I drop the "y'all".

sturob · Post by **sturob** » Mon May 07, 2007 3:21 pm

Yeah, it's actually "mow-PAW-nee," as has been suggested.

It's actually not "mmmm-PAW-nee," it's from a different language than is the word mpingo, which is Swahili. I think it might be Ndebele. I also think it's more correct to spell it "mopani."

Stuart

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Mon May 07, 2007 4:40 pm

i have been saying mo-pain the whole time. i feel like a jerk.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:08 pm

I vote fore a C&F pronunciation guide!
Bodhran
feadog
etc.

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:22 pm

I.D.10-t wrote:I vote fore a C&F pronunciation guide!
Bodhran
feadog
etc.

that is a great idea.

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Mon May 07, 2007 6:39 pm

sturob wrote:Yeah, it's actually "mow-PAW-nee," as has been suggested.

It's actually not "mmmm-PAW-nee," it's from a different language than is the word mpingo, which is Swahili. I think it might be Ndebele. I also think it's more correct to spell it "mopani."

Stuart

I doubt that the vowel in "pa" is as long in Ndebele as most English speakers enunciate the vowel in "PAW".

In the circumstances it may be more "correct" to spell it "moponee" but, then, Roman script English and phonetics are not bedfellows.

sbhikes · Post by **sbhikes** » Mon May 07, 2007 7:44 pm

I'd be embarrassed to ask how to pronounce Bodhran or feadog. I don't even know what that is. Is feadog the song you tune your ukulele to?

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Mon May 07, 2007 7:55 pm

right you are!

about being embarrassed

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:04 pm

sbhikes wrote:I'd be embarrassed to ask how to pronounce Bodhran or feadog. I don't even know what that is. Is feadog the song you tune your ukulele to?

it is bow-rhan i think, and feadog is i think fedoh. is that right?