Oh! this is a very good lesson for a new hermes memeber like me.. i cant pronounce at all.. million thanks!
Reference: Hermes Pronunciation Guide
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What about the 'Collier De Chien'? I use 'CDC' all the time because I don't really know how to pronounce the word. :shame:
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
Ardennes is pronouced ar-den - the last syllable sounds like den - don't pronouce like ardun - as in Eliz Arden
Actually, the emphasis in Elizabeth Arden is on the first syllable and Ardennes, the emphasis is on the second. Please correct if I am wrong...
Speaking of which, does anyone know why Hermes is pronounced "air-mess" rather than "air-may" as the French would have it?
Speaking of which, does anyone know why Hermes is pronounced "air-mess" rather than "air-may" as the French would have it?
I love language and I love this thread; my first thought when I saw this was the ever-complicated Chinese romanization. The British went to such lengths with Wade-Giles, that it was a language unto itself.
Nice touch, hermesqueen, with the "co leeyea"! I guess I would change the "chi" to our word "she", but then of course, THAT could be interpreted as "shuh".
Possibly because Hermes is a classical Greek figure (messenger to the Gods) and so the French pronunciation respects the Greek pronunciation (i.e. rather than Frenchify a Greek name).
Thanks Marquesa for this suggestion; of course that opens up a new can of worms: How do the Greeks pronounce it? Is it air-mess? Common pronunciation has it as Her-meees, which is probably totally wrong.
Interesting...
Jahna said:
Perhaps l'accent grave at the end of the last "e" has something to do with the pronunciation.