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When travelling, a great faux-pas to avoid if you want to get in good with the locals is mispronouncing the name of the place you’re in. Luckily, this collection of images from Thrillophilia will take some of the most commonly mispronounced place names and show us how we SHOULD have been saying them.
Most of the difficulties, of course, arise from the adaptation of a name from one language to another. Most of us will probably never be able to pronounce “Beijing” (or even “Paris”) exactly the way that a native speaker might, but it’s always nice to try. Locals will appreciate it and may go out of their way to help you more if they see that you’ve made an effort.
(h/t: thrillophilia, demilked)
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GabrielLadouceur 10 years ago
I was wondering if Montréal would be there. Oh yes it is! Wait... They've got it wrong... It's a french word: MON(«silent N») - RÉ - AL
PatrickBenoît 10 years ago
You can always recognize an American visitor by the way they pronounce the name of our city... they usually say "MAWN-tree-all"... LOL
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rustyspoon 10 years ago
I lost my interest when I've seen my country's capital city "pronounced" wrong on the "correct" side.
ShannonO'Meara 10 years ago
Which one? So I don't go around saying it incorrectly ☺
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GabrielLadouceur 10 years ago
I was wondering if Montréal would be there. Oh yes it is! Wait... They've got it wrong... It's a french word: MON(«silent N») - RÉ - AL
PatrickBenoît 10 years ago
You can always recognize an American visitor by the way they pronounce the name of our city... they usually say "MAWN-tree-all"... LOL
Load More Replies... rustyspoon 10 years ago
I lost my interest when I've seen my country's capital city "pronounced" wrong on the "correct" side.
ShannonO'Meara 10 years ago
Which one? So I don't go around saying it incorrectly ☺
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