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Violet pronunciation

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HelpMebeok · 03/03/2024 18:42

How would you pronounce Violet. I say Vi O Let but have lots of friends saying Vi Let

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ScierraDoll · 04/03/2024 10:29

The o is pronounced as far as I'm concerned. I've never heard anyone say vi let but then again it doesn't crop up all the time

aintnospringchicken · 04/03/2024 10:55

I pronounce it Vi-let in my Scottish accent

Lalupalina · 04/03/2024 12:07

user1492757084 · 04/03/2024 08:29

VIRE - let .. rhymes with fire-let.

I've never heard Violet pronounced like that Confused?!

FayCarew · 04/03/2024 13:12

It would sound like Varluh where I am

SoOutingWhoCares · 04/03/2024 13:20

Lalupalina · 04/03/2024 12:07

I've never heard Violet pronounced like that Confused?!

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This will be a rhotic/non-rhotic accent thing...

Scots/West Country/American speakers will recoil in horror at the suggestion

while RP speakers will insist it's a completely normal way of pronouncing the name.

Happens every time in these sorts of threads.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 04/03/2024 13:25

I know a Violet and we say it Vi-lut but we're in the midlands. And she gets called Vi

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 04/03/2024 13:26

If I was doing it properly I'd say Vi-ah-let

Ontopofthesunset · 04/03/2024 13:37

If I'm pronouncing the word slowly and focusing on it, I say VY-uh-lut, where the first syllable is stressed and the latter two syllables are unstressed schwas (as in SE 'put'). But in reality in normal speech I say VY-lut because that middle unstresed vowel just gets elided into the first syllable.

WhoaJayShettybambalam · 04/03/2024 17:05

FayCarew · 03/03/2024 20:40

@WhoaJayShettybambalam , but how do you say Viola. It can be Vigh-O-la or VIGH-uh-la.

Oh I hadn’t thought of that.

Vigh oh La

TheOriginalEmu · 04/03/2024 17:09

VY-uh-lut.

Bringtheweatherwithyou · 04/03/2024 19:30

SoOutingWhoCares · 04/03/2024 09:18

Dan-yell-eh is the correct Italian pronounciation for Daniele...maybe some Italian background explains it?

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Yes the person is from Italy. Pronounces it Dan Yell Ee though not Dan Yell Eh

TrainsPlanesAutos · 05/03/2024 03:08

VY-LIT, much like violent.

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