Here we tend to shorten the voo - so it comes out more like DEV au coo
(devil audit with emPHAsis on the first syllABle) :lol:
Only got through page two… but heres my take of the few Ive read:
Amerigo - I have one - “Am - er - E - go”
Fjord - I dont have one i wish! - “FEE - ord”
Hermes - “Her - mees”
Albion - “Al - bee - awn”
Devoucoux - “De - voo - coo”
Ariat - “Air - i - at” like “Lariat”
Passage - as in the movement - “Puh - ssage” like “Massage”
The one that always did and still does get me is “Chincoteague”… I remember reading that when I was little and God knows what I read in my head…
Is it “Chin - cot - egue”???
shin - ka - tig
with the emphasis on the first syllable
Chincoteague; “shin coh teegue” (hard g sound)
Rhymes with… “pin go league”! :lol:
That’s how I pronounce it anyways.
There was a post on CoTH a while back from somebody from there and (IF I remember correctly) this was the right way 
Not pronounciate, more like don’t have a clue what its called:
those nose guard things just below the noseband you see on horses doing XC - what are they called???
^ Yep thats them - thanks!
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Um, DAY-voo-coo? I’m only guessing!!
Mine is Arete.
I keep sending people to the www.aretesaddlery.com website. And every time I type it, I wonder, how the HECK do you say it??
I had many words like that. Not the least of which was “surcingle” which for whatever reason I always read as ‘surch-ingle.’ The other, was the Black Stallion’s Son–never occurred to me it was Satan–as in the devil–I always thought that was the material, the shiny material, you know, “satin?” And the Black Minx will always, always be prounounced “minks” in my head. Not mink. :lol:[/QUOTE]
It’s NOT Minks???
Nevada or Nevada?
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Has anyone mentioned Nevada(I can say it, but some people apparently have problems with that pronunciation)? PC is slow and I refuse to read all 9 pages to find out.[/QUOTE]
I believe the state is a short A, NeVAda. There is a city in mid-southern Mo called
NeVA [long A]da. BTW there is a long standing argument about Mo. I live in Missour-I. A lot of people live in Missour-ee. Don’t know how that started. I guess it’s a bit like ’ You say tomato’…
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It’s minks:)
I grew up reading every horsey book ever written but having next to no conversations with horsey people, so I had my own personal idea of what words sounded like. I know there are tons of them, but the two that spring to mind are:
Equitation - you don’t even want to know how this sounded in my head
Percheron - I never was good at French
Okay, can somebody please tell me how to pronounce Alois Podhajsky?
About Missouri, I’ve also heard the Missour-uh version.
One of my favorite stories about a disagreement over pronunciation. True story - I knew the DQ worker. Little town named Aurora, and two people traveling through were having their burgers and debating how that name was pronounced (obviously not Mensa material there). They finally decided to ask the people working there for the expert local opinion. Up they went to the counter and said to my friend, “Ma’am, could you please settle a dispute here? How do you pronounce the name of this place?”
She’d overheard their original conversation, but she couldn’t resist the opening. Very slowly, she said, “Dairy Queen.”
This is the southern version of that story.
Two people are traveling through Georgia to a certain town, Lafayette, named for the famous French hero. They are arguing about the correct pronunciation of the town’s name. One says it is Lah-fah-YETTE. The other says it is La-FAY-ette. When they get to the town, they stop at the first place they reach, which is a restaurant. They go in, and one of them asks the hostess, “Could you please tell us, very slowly and distinctly, where we are?”
The hostess looks at them as if they, too are not MENSA material, and says (very slowly and distinctly), “Bur-ger King.”
But as to how to pronounce Alois Podhajsky’s name, I’m sorry, I can’t help.
AL-ois Pod-AHJ-ski?
Here’s my guess: AL-wah Pod-YAE-ski
Went to school at Ole Miss, in Oxford, Miss., which is in Lafayette County. Learned very quickly that the county name is pronounced Luh-FAY-ett, or drawled down to just Luh-FETT.
Never try phonetically to pronounce any city in Louisiana. Ever. Nothing sounds like it is spelled!
Take Nachitoches, for example. Pronounced NACK-A-TISH.
I got a good one…
Przewalski’s Horse… Try teaching a Pony Club quiz study lecture on breeds and trying to spit that out correctly! Funny thing is, the correct pronunciation is close to the french word for horse! Cheval-ski.
OK if anyone else tries to say that Hermes is pronounced Her-meez, I’m going to scream. It’s Air-mez. I’ve been to their original saddle-making shop in Paris. It’s Air-mez. No more!
My instructor from England called it DRESSage, with the accent on the first syllable instead of the last, like dressAGE.
it rhymes with cheese, I’ve heard
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Oh, thank God for this topic! Somoeone help me with the show jumper Norman Dello Joio (who rode I Love You). I have always said (& heard) “Dell-oh Joy-oh” (Italian), but just recently I was talking to someone who was claiming that she was going to train with him & pronouncing it in a very Spanish way–“Dell-ah Hoy-ah” (like the boxer). So, can anybody tell me who’s right?[/QUOTE]
He says it Dell-oh Joy-oh.
