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06-12-2010, 06:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Newfoundland, Canada. | | | Another pronunciation question; "Luthier"
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I've always figured it was pronounced like "Lew-thi-yer", but I recently heard a couple people say it as "Lew-thi-yay".
So, folks, which is correct? |
06-12-2010, 07:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | I have always heard it as Lew-thi-yer, but I could see how it could be pronounced Lew-thi-yay. Seeing you are from Cananda someone with a French accent may say it that way. It may even should be pronounced like that, but we Americans have butchered it. Like a Jaguar car name LOL
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06-12-2010, 07:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | Lute--ee-yay, but I say it like them 'Mericans do. |
06-12-2010, 08:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Newfoundland, Canada. | | | There's not too many french canadians on Newfoundland.. well, not on the east coast anyways.
I guess it's just a matter of location and opinion - like all pronunciation |
06-13-2010, 02:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ireland | | Is it a legitimate word at all ? I could not find it in the dictionary. 
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06-13-2010, 04:11 AM
| | Fueled by chocolate | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | Proper French pronunciation would involve a "u" sound that is not found in English, so good luck with that one! The closest you would probably come to making it sound right would be "loot-yay". Might as well just say "luth-ee-er". |
06-13-2010, 04:19 AM
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06-13-2010, 01:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi. Quote:
Originally Posted by grrrr!!!!  | ^This.
A great thread. Will probably create more confusion though  .
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06-13-2010, 08:27 PM
|  | Jammin for the Lamb! | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chicago - NW Burbs | | | in South Chicagoan its pronounced "Lootchear"
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06-14-2010, 08:19 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | Doesn't anyone know how to use a dictionary any more?! They include pronunciation keys. Look it up, and ignore the dolts who mispronounce it as "luth e aye"...
Oh heck, you're probably too lazy to find Merriam-Webster on-line so here's the link... http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/luthier
Geez....
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06-14-2010, 03:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JTE Doesn't anyone know how to use a dictionary any more?! They include pronunciation keys. Look it up, and ignore the dolts who mispronounce it as "luth e aye"...
Oh heck, you're probably too lazy to find Merriam-Webster on-line so here's the link... http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/luthier
Geez....
John | This would be an Americanized pronunciation. Funny, as the dictionary acknowledges the French etymology of the word and then completely ignores it in the audio track. Credit where credit is due: loo-tee-ay. |
06-15-2010, 10:21 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | I pronounce it "instrument maker." |
06-15-2010, 11:41 PM
| | Fueled by chocolate | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthbass This would be an Americanized pronunciation. Funny, as the dictionary acknowledges the French etymology of the word and then completely ignores it in the audio track. Credit where credit is due: loo-tee-ay. | Reminds me of the time I was in Boston looking for Faneuil Hall. I'd been told to go to "Fan-yull" Hall and couldn't for the life of me find it on a map. Finally someone pointed it out to me and there it was under what I would have pronounced closer to "Fan-oeil". Honestly, Americans tend to have atrocious ways of pronouncing French names and words. "Mont-pell-yay" becomes "Mont-pee-lee-er" and so on and so forth. Then again, who am I to talk - I live in Mont-ree-all, which sounds nothing like Mont-roy-al.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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