Can we have a 'how do you pronounce that' thread please?

[Wonkybanana]

I'll start with one that drives me crackers, Louboutin.

Is it -
LOO-boo-tan

Loo-BOO-tan
or
Loo-Boo-TAN

Please put me out of my misery!
(As you might have guessed, they're not in my price range however it's pronounced.)

@WhippetyStourie
Agreed, I don’t anyone who pronounces it with a harsh AYE LEE, likewise ceilidh isn’t a harsh LEE, rhyming with Bailey is an excellent description, this is how my garlic speaking grandfather pronounced it as it was his wives name!

Anyone mentioned hyperbole?

For years I said it as hyper-bowl.

Discovered at the age of 30+ it was hi-per-boh-lee.

That should probably be more like Carra-be-an vs Carrib-e-an

Chorizo.
Obviously not chor-itzo, what is the correct pronunciation?

I know an Ay Lee

And I’ve never heard Cay lay, it’s Cay lee in my bit of Scotland.

Clarins = kla - ranz

I've never been entirely sure about that one. But they were running radio ads for one of their new serums, and the ad was Kla - rins (rins as in pins). So I assumed that either that was the correct pronunciation, or that they'd got fed up of trying to educate the British. (I tended to go for the first explanation though.)

Place near where i live is called Tarbolton but pronounced Tar bout in

Clematis

Clem atis or Clemertis

I recently learnt that the brand Loewe is pronounced low er vay, the v sound because the founder was German, despite it being a Spanish brand. I was not expecting that.

Segue is still the one I find hard to wrap my brain around.

Blackley in Manchester is pronounced Blakely

I had no idea how to say ‘’minutiae’ until I heard a colleague say it. I had to ask an Irish friend how to say Aoife, it was a main character in a book and I had no idea.
The proper way to say ‘Menzies’ in Scotland is ‘Ming-is’ like Ming-is Campbell. @kierenthecommunity it’s pronounced ‘Cul-ain’ like rain not ‘cul-een’, I’ve lived in Ayrshire my whole life.

The pronunciation of Catriona annoys me when people say ‘cat-ray-ona’ no it’s ‘cat-teens’ I heard a woman with a very well to do accent saying ‘yes, Cat-ray-Ona is now at university...’ no it doesn’t make you sound posh it just makes you sound stupid!

@lowlandLucky my mum is from ‘tarbowtin’ lol

I once had to tell several colleagues how to pronounce Cockburn (Cobern). I was quite surprised that despite a range of ages it was the first any of them had heard of it. I actually had to google it for them to prove I wasn't taking the piss.

@ShrimpSymphony. I'm pretty sure that Hebe is pronounced Heebee.

Ah my poor English DH gets frequently bamboozled up here by things that sound nothing like they're spelled:

Garioch - Gee-ree (hard G)
Findochty- Fin-ech-ty
The surname Tough - Tew-ch (as in loch)
Strachan - Strawn
Finzean - Fingin

He's still discovering new ones and comes home from work muttering about them

A woman who works in a local shop has “Louvaine” on her name tag.

Anyone know how it’s pronounced?

Most Scottish accents don't pronounce the Lee part of ceilidh it certainly doesn't sound right in my central accent, i think the further north you go they pronounce it as Lee.
Culzean is Cul-lane

Catriona - Cat-tree-na i had flowers from my aunt Catriona while i was in hospital as a child and none of the nurse knew how to pronounce it.

Pharmaceutical? : pharma soo tickle, or
Pharma cuticle

Probably making myself look a complete dick now, but What does hard and soft mean in pronunciations.

@Whatisthisfuckery

It's sin-eck-doh-key

I consider myself something of an expert on this matter

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit no it isn’t!

L’Occitane is lock see tan

Chagrin....I mean just how?

@JKScot4

Culzean
.Milngavie
.Auchtermuchty
.Kirkcudbright
.Kilconquhar*

Cull-een
Mul-gye
Ochtur-muchtee
Ki-coo-bree
Ki-nuch-ur

The word "ETHEREAL"
in my head it's "Etha Ree Al" which sounds a bit like Ethel so can't be right...