How to pronounce watch brands
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For a bit of fun shall we discuss how to pronounce watch brands as many of them have interesting pronunciations?
Quite a few of them I pronounced incorrectly for ages!
I'll start with a few:
Audemars Piguet - "Oh-de-mar pee-ghey"
Vacheron Constantin - "Va-sher-on con-stan-tan"
Breguet - "Breh-ghey"
A Lange & Sohne - "Aah long-ah oont sown-neh"
Glashutte - "Gl-ass-hooteh"
Tag Heuer - "Tag hoi-er"
Hoblot - "Ooh-blow"
Jaeger Le Coultre - "Yay-ger le-coolt" (The French way of saying Jaeger just sounds wrong to me)
Breitling - "Bright-ling"
Stowa - "Shtow-va"
Omega - Apparently all ways are correct! "Oh-meega", "Oh-mega", "Oh-may-ga"
Richard Mille - "Rik-ard mill" (Not sure about this one)
Piaget - "Pee-ah-zjay" ('zj' is like a sort of z and sh together sound. Basically a French 'g')
Blancpain - "Blonk-pan"
Chopard - "Show-par"
Ulysee Nardin - "You-lee-say nar-dan"
Any other you know of?
(I'm open to corrections and revisions on all the above! )
Quite a few of them I pronounced incorrectly for ages!
I'll start with a few:
Audemars Piguet - "Oh-de-mar pee-ghey"
Vacheron Constantin - "Va-sher-on con-stan-tan"
Breguet - "Breh-ghey"
A Lange & Sohne - "Aah long-ah oont sown-neh"
Glashutte - "Gl-ass-hooteh"
Tag Heuer - "Tag hoi-er"
Hoblot - "Ooh-blow"
Jaeger Le Coultre - "Yay-ger le-coolt" (The French way of saying Jaeger just sounds wrong to me)
Breitling - "Bright-ling"
Stowa - "Shtow-va"
Omega - Apparently all ways are correct! "Oh-meega", "Oh-mega", "Oh-may-ga"
Richard Mille - "Rik-ard mill" (Not sure about this one)
Piaget - "Pee-ah-zjay" ('zj' is like a sort of z and sh together sound. Basically a French 'g')
Blancpain - "Blonk-pan"
Chopard - "Show-par"
Ulysee Nardin - "You-lee-say nar-dan"
Any other you know of?
(I'm open to corrections and revisions on all the above! )
Rob_R said:
For a bit of fun shall we discuss how to pronounce watch brands as many of them have interesting pronunciations?
Quite a few of them I pronounced incorrectly for ages!
I'll start with a few:
Audemars Piguet - "Oh-de-mar pee-ghey"
Vacheron Constantin - "Va-sher-on con-stan-tan"
Breguet - "Breh-ghey"
A Lange & Sohne - "Aah long-ah oont sown-neh"
Glashutte - "Gl-ass-hooteh"
Tag Heuer - "Tag hoi-er"
Hoblot - "Ooh-blow"
Jaeger Le Coultre - "Yay-ger le-coolt" (The French way of saying Jaeger just sounds wrong to me)
Breitling - "Bright-ling"
Stowa - "Shtow-va"
Omega - Apparently all ways are correct! "Oh-meega", "Oh-mega", "Oh-may-ga"
Richard Mille - "Rik-ard mill" (Not sure about this one)
Piaget - "Pee-ah-zjay" ('zj' is like a sort of z and sh together sound. Basically a French 'g')
Blancpain - "Blonk-pan"
Chopard - "Show-par"
Ulysee Nardin - "You-lee-say nar-dan"
Any other you know of?
(I'm open to corrections and revisions on all the above! )
Agree with most of them but I would go:Quite a few of them I pronounced incorrectly for ages!
I'll start with a few:
Audemars Piguet - "Oh-de-mar pee-ghey"
Vacheron Constantin - "Va-sher-on con-stan-tan"
Breguet - "Breh-ghey"
A Lange & Sohne - "Aah long-ah oont sown-neh"
Glashutte - "Gl-ass-hooteh"
Tag Heuer - "Tag hoi-er"
Hoblot - "Ooh-blow"
Jaeger Le Coultre - "Yay-ger le-coolt" (The French way of saying Jaeger just sounds wrong to me)
Breitling - "Bright-ling"
Stowa - "Shtow-va"
Omega - Apparently all ways are correct! "Oh-meega", "Oh-mega", "Oh-may-ga"
Richard Mille - "Rik-ard mill" (Not sure about this one)
Piaget - "Pee-ah-zjay" ('zj' is like a sort of z and sh together sound. Basically a French 'g')
Blancpain - "Blonk-pan"
Chopard - "Show-par"
Ulysee Nardin - "You-lee-say nar-dan"
Any other you know of?
(I'm open to corrections and revisions on all the above! )
- Aah Lang and Zone (not adding the extra syllable for some reason...?)
- Zhay-zher le-coolt (but JLC to be safe!)
- Ree-shard Mill
- Show-pard (do you not pronounce the 'd'?)
I am the first Omega; Oh-meega.
Edited by WhisperingWasp on Wednesday 23 June 21:55
OP I don't know if you've seen this video as you have a lot of the pronunciations correct and many of those I learned / was corrected by this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8AyFs2uESg
It's a little bit, erm, pompus, but he does go through the actual correct pronunciations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8AyFs2uESg
It's a little bit, erm, pompus, but he does go through the actual correct pronunciations.
smithyithy said:
OP I don't know if you've seen this video as you have a lot of the pronunciations correct and many of those I learned / was corrected by this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8AyFs2uESg
It's a little bit, erm, pompus, but he does go through the actual correct pronunciations.
Thanks for that one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8AyFs2uESg
It's a little bit, erm, pompus, but he does go through the actual correct pronunciations.
ZesPak said:
I'm struggling to find an English word that sounds similar as the ö in Söhne, but "soon" is definitely not it.
More like when you pause in a sentence and use "eeuhm" if that makes sense.
Correct! - That's the sound I was hearing in my head, but picked completely the wrong word to describe it! Doh!More like when you pause in a sentence and use "eeuhm" if that makes sense.
Chs, CF
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