How is this name pronounced?
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Topic: How is this name pronounced?
Posted By: Rabid
Subject: How is this name pronounced?
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 22:16
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British football commentators keep referring to the Dutch-born Liverpool midfielder Dirk Kuyt as 'Cowt', but I reckon it's pronounced 'Kite'.
I've got 2 reasons for thinking this:
1. There's a Dutch drink called DeKuyper. It's pronounced Dee-Kiii (as in eye)-per.
2. Jose Mourinhio called him Kite, in an interview, and he worked with Dirk Kuyt.
I can't see any circumstance where 'Kuy' would be pronounced 'Cow'. If so, then 'guy' would be 'gow'
and 'buy' would be 'bow'.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the Dutch language is'nt so different to English, regarding punctuation.
It's not a 'matter of life and death' thing, but I'm seriously getting p*ssed off with commentators who just
'say what they see'. These guys are being paid big bucks to commentate......the LEAST they could do is learn the proper pronounciation before spouting a load of crap, and making a complete dick-head of themselves.
Will welcome ALL comments (except mis-pronounced ones). Dutch speakers given preference.
Good luck for the WC finals, btw. (I got you at 9/1 for a £20 stake). Don't let me down....I need some skunk.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 04:48
| I've only heard it as "Kite" but from my knowledge Dutch has really weird and surprising pronounciations, very different to what you'd expect. I'm curious too. |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 04:52
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Yup, it's quite different. I don't think there's anything in English being pronounced the same way Kuyt is pronounced in Dutch. Here you go: ------------- 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 04:56
| That's a sort of Kaet... More surprising was that he said "Dirk" in a prolonged manner, more like "Derek". Thanks Loek. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 05:00
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I don't know how anyone could capture the sound of this exclusively Dutch diphthong in writing, but I found http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Nl-ui.ogg - this audio-file . "Cowt" and "Kite" are both wrong. ------------- 
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Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 02:44
Thanks guys !! 
That's certainly put my mind in a turmoil !
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 08:13
It's not that difficult  .
To be honest, you must know that we Dutch are often struggling to pronounce the English "th" right
 , not pronouncing it as "t" or "s" or "z".Next on this channel: how to pronounce the Dutch "g", as in Louis van Gaal and Ruud Gullit.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 13:15
^ That's easy, it's pronounced just like the so called "guttural wind" from ancient Greek, I suppose most people here know that right?  
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 13:36
Raymond Luxury Yacht 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 13:38
Oh no, we speakers of Dutch are much more subtle. It's more like a guttural breeze
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harmonium.ro wrote:Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 23:56
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in England, I understand they pronounce the word "perfect' as. "pesfect"
fascination/language ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 18:49
Robbed, in extra time. 
Bugger.
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Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 19:02
Only when they're drunk, or have a speech impediment.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 19:13
| Dirk Keut (Dirk Koyt) |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 21:16
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how do you pronounce cesc fabregas? |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 09:19
Koyt is something else:
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 15:06
^  draaaaaaaaaawl
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: September 05 2010 at 12:05
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At the beginning [0:00] and at the end [0:56] of the video the dutch commentator clearly pronounces the word 'Kuyt': |
Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: September 06 2010 at 12:11
I'm off to listen to Henesis.........Hong.............or maybe even Hentle Hiant.
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Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: September 06 2010 at 12:12
Hunner.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: September 06 2010 at 12:41
First he says "Kowt" then at the end he says "Kait", LOL |
Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 15:21
Don't even get me started on phonetics
No wonder people have such a hard time with the English language. Is that Yacht as in Yot, or Yacht as in Yatched?ie Devil....pronounced de (as in egg)...vil....(as in villa)
Evil.......pronounced e (as in easy)
Level....pronounced le (as in leather)....vel (as in velocity)
So why is'nt Devil pronounced Deeee-vil
Or Evil pronounced Ev-all?
Or Level pronounced Lee-val or even Le-veel?
Bough = bow
Rough = ruff
Cough = off
So why not Cough = cuff or cow?
Bough = boff or buff?
Rough = row or roff?
Oh, mate.....
FFS.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 16:19
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I think it was George Bernard Shaw who showed that ghoti is pronounced "fish" - gh as in "rough" o as in "women" and ti as in "nation" |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 18:25
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With a silent q.
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 19:02
I've never heard women pronounced "wih-men", it's always been "woh-men".
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 08 2010 at 07:11
I believe if they're really cute it's pronounced whoa man. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 08 2010 at 08:02
Really? In the UK it's wimmin.
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Posted By: John McIntyre
Date Posted: November 11 2010 at 17:39
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Partly hi-jacking this thread, but for a related reason, the Engineer on King Crimson's "Red" album was George Chkiantz. I know how George is pronounced, but what about Chkiantz? And (purely out of curiosity) where does George's surname originate (apart from his father!)? ------------- I am one of only about 1,800 people in the world with an original M400 Mellotron! |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: January 22 2011 at 04:37
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Ok, I'll try to explain it again. uy like ui is a unique dutch diphthong, that hardly exists in other languages. In Kuyt try to start with a weak ca like in Costa Rica and end with the second half of newt (omit the ny sound at the beginning). |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: January 22 2011 at 06:45
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Dirk Kuyt- it's pronounced misses
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