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#590
I've heard it pronounced frequently as "Azure" ('ah-zoor', rhymes with "allure") or "Azur" ('ah-zer'). Even 'ah-zee-or' at times.

I've been following the crowd & saying "Azure" but will definitely revert to its correct form in French :tup: Thanks for the helpful link!

"Aahzz-yeux" - the last part sounds to me like 'yeux' ("eyes" in French)


shopsinparis said:
I say Ah - Zyur

This one is really tough to write phonetically. Try the link above to hear the word pronounced correctly by a french speaker. Its great!:smile1:
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#591
petitemn said:
thank goodness for taking four years of french, none of it went down le toilette! practiced my french by correctly pronouncing louis vuitton handbags :]
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LOL! I did the same thing, but for some reason as I was listening to the playback on the video, why aren't "bastille" and "melville" similar sounding in the way they end? I always thought that they should end the same... In the audio, Bastille = "bass-tee" but Melvillle = "mel-vil"... Am I wrong? :confused1:
 
#593
sophiae said:
LOL! I did the same thing, but for some reason as I was listening to the playback on the video, why aren't "bastille" and "melville" similar sounding in the way they end? I always thought that they should end the same... In the audio, Bastille = "bass-tee" but Melvillle = "mel-vil"... Am I wrong? :confused1:
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The audio is correct, they are pronounced differently. In French, the "ille" is pronounced differently depending on the letter that comes before. It's my mother tongue, but I can't explain why it's like that, it's normal for me I guess :p
French is a difficult language to learn! Even in Belgium, where we speak both Dutch and French, the Dutch speaking people have a very hard time learning and speaking French correctly.
 
#594
*bunny*LV* said:
The audio is correct, they are pronounced differently. In French, the "ille" is pronounced differently depending on the letter that comes before. It's my mother tongue, but I can't explain why it's like that, it's normal for me I guess :p
French is a difficult language to learn! Even in Belgium, where we speak both Dutch and French, the Dutch speaking people have a very hard time learning and speaking French correctly.
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Ok, thank you for the clarification, Bunny! I guess this is one of the cases Mme Flett warned our class about, "what you see isn't always what you get..." LOL!
 
#596
I'd posted this in another thread and nobody seemed to know, we speculated that it might be Bow-ehh-tee too, but we weren't sure. My mind automaticaly wants to say Bow-tie, but that's so un-french...hahahaha....hopefully someone will know! This is when online ordering is good...you don't have to embarrass yourself when you massacre the name...hahahaha.
 
#599
shells said:
someone once posted on here the website they used for french pronunciation, and i have always used it since!
http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html

u just pick the language, type in the word, and it says it for u

minus the accent, it seems it's pronounced "boy-tee"
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What a great website ... they pronounce it differently in French Canadian than in French ... oddly enough, both options are how I had thought it might be pronounced
 
#600
Boy-si is correct. It's a swank area of Paris close to Rue du Faubourg where the bag takes it's inspiration from. If you pronounce it according to normal french language rules it sounds a bit different but the correct way is boy-si...Kinda like if you didn't know any better you would go to New York looking for Houston Street like Houston Texas, but locals would say it's pronounced Howston
 
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