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Erm...try John Ruh and keep practising in front of the mirror.
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Yeah, that guy's right. It's not like "Jan-re" but more like "Djuan-re". Ha. Hard to explain...

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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Erm...try John Ruh and keep practising in front of the mirror.
hanging on to your Scots brogue Iain? John-Rah
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kflalfjslaj;lasjalsj;aljalsdjijskfal;sjfj click click

But actually it is pronounced john reh in my head.

What's kind of funny about language is that if you get an incorrect pronunciation stuck in your head, you likely won't be able to correct it.


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Seriously?

It's not a hard J sound, it's the soft one as found in "dijon mustard". Bearing that in mind, it's "jon-ruh". 
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Originally posted by Majikthise Majikthise wrote:

Seriously?

It's not a hard J sound, it's the soft one as found in "dijon mustard". Bearing that in mind, it's "jon-ruh". 


jean reh? dijionre?  Yeah it's a g that's a soft j in my head. LOL


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^ is that the French "jean" or the American "jean"?
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Erm...try John Ruh and keep practising in front of the mirror.
hanging on to your Scots brogue Iain? John-Rah


Yes, despite being surrounded all day, every day by the wretched so-called Australian Inflection (where the sentence rises at the end even if it's NOT a question?)Angry

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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Erm...try John Ruh and keep practising in front of the mirror.
hanging on to your Scots brogue Iain? John-Rah


Yes, despite being surrounded all day, every day by the wretched so-called Australian Inflection (where the sentence rises at the end even if it's NOT a question?)Angry

You are a cunning linguist Mr Dean Wink

I like your spelling better than Dean's.  Tongue  That's what I would have done.
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GEN RY

Like Henry with a  "Guh"


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Originally posted by Majikthise Majikthise wrote:

It's not a hard J sound, it's the soft one as found in "dijon mustard". Bearing that in mind, it's "jon-ruh". 


Yeap. Or like Dean says, it's the J from the French Jean.
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Erm...try John Ruh and keep practising in front of the mirror.
hanging on to your Scots brogue Iain? John-Rah


Yes, despite being surrounded all day, every day by the wretched so-called Australian Inflection (where the sentence rises at the end even if it's NOT a question?)Angry

You are a cunning linguist Mr Dean Wink

I like your spelling better than Dean's.  Tongue  That's what I would have done.
that's the difference betwix the American/Scots and English pronunstipation
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Originally posted by mEP mEP wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

it's the J from the French Jean.

Does the word come from Frenchland, or did we(/they) put the weird J there just for the hell of it?
It's a borrowed french word, meaning "kind"
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zhon-ruh, or more appropriately: zhän-rə

That first sound (zh) is like the middle of the word "measure" (meh-zhur).
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Interesting, I had a friend say "janruh" (soft j) all day yesterday and I thought "that isn't right, is it? It can't be!". I'm glad I'm actually right, haha.

But the word I DO get confused about is "timbre". Bloody French borrow words!
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Originally posted by popeyethecat popeyethecat wrote:

Interesting, I had a friend say "janruh" (soft j) all day yesterday and I thought "that isn't right, is it? It can't be!". I'm glad I'm actually right, haha.

But the word I DO get confused about is "timbre". Bloody French borrow words!


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Originally posted by mEP mEP wrote:

Like the title says, I'm not really sure how to pronounce the word genre.

I used to think it was "jen-re", but someone corrected me and said it was "djaaaan-er"
I got angry and came here.


that's a heavy load for us, really Smile  ... hopefully next time you come in with honourable intentions Big smile

I would say it's 'Jean Re' by the way


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