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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2010 at 13:38
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

That's easy, it's pronounced just like the so called "guttural wind" from ancient Greek, I suppose most people here know that right? WinkLOL
Oh no, we speakers of Dutch are much more subtle. It's more like a guttural breeze Cool LOL


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^ That's easy, it's pronounced just like the so called "guttural wind" from ancient Greek, I suppose most people here know that right? WinkLOL
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It's not that difficult Wink .
 
To be honest, you must know that we Dutch are often struggling to pronounce the English "th" right Embarrassed, 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. LOL .
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I don't know how anyone could capture the sound of this exclusively Dutch diphthong in writing, but I found this audio-file. "Cowt" and "Kite" are both wrong.



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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post 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.

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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. 

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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post 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.
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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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