AIBP (pretentious) to pronounce L'Occitane "LOCK SEE TAN"?

[MardyBra]

Especially when friends and family call it "LOCKY TAIN"?

To go off on a slight tangent, does that Alexis woman who flogs the stuff on QVC drive anyone else mad?

Oh - and you're

I thought it was lock-y-tene. As in locky-y-tene de Provence. As in its full name. Or so I thought.

Dh pronounces it - that fancy French stuff you like.

That's all well and good, until nobody knows what the hell you are going on about because they don't pronounce it that way!

Ooh thanks for this Mardy I've never had to say it out loud but always thought of it as locky tan in my head

I love me some almond series locky tan.

Never mind what the correct pronunciation is (can't click the link from here!), you've got a golden opportunity to insert a posh nasal vowel in there!

Does it really matter?

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Horrr eeet sooooo?

It is lock.

As in vin de pays d'oc. Which you also say as OKK.

In the olden days, there were two ways to say "yes" in French, Oui, and Oc. People in the South said Oc. There were two territories, pays d'oc and pays d'oui. L'occitane means, inhabitant of the southern lands, in this case, Provence. People don't say pays d'oui these days, cos Oui won the battle, but they still call their wine pays d'oc.

HTH

No, it really doesn't

Womma, it could be argued that a lot of AIBU topics don't matter.

However, it's an interesting thread that you are free to hide if it isn't for you. You can't police what others talk about.

Then why do you care?

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Chanel used to do a really great lipstick, named Soleil de nuit.

I used to travel a lot in my work, and one day I found myself in Cardiff (could have been anywhere) without me lippy.

Ran to the local big department store and had about a ten minute argument with the chanel counter lady as she stoutly denied she had any 'Solay de newee'

Penny dropped for her eventually and she laughed merrily at me and said

'oh, you meant Soylel do newt!'

Yeah. whatever. Hand it over.

Mmedefarge

I'm not policing, but this is dull as dish water. Who really gives a shit how a bubble bath brand is pronounced?

I am free to express what a dull thread this is, I don't need telling off for putting my point across. Carry on.

you know womma. sub specie aeternitatus, not a whole heap really matters.

The story behind it is interesting. The fact that there was a whole Occitan language and culture, and that it lost out to the mainstream who say Oui, like basque and euskadi and Catalan..

aeternitatis...damn...

OMG MmeD, misspelt Latin

The N20 autoroute goes southwards in France. It is called L'Occitane and the French pronounce it ossy tan.

Womma, there's an easy way to resolve your boredom - go and do something else while we carry on chatting.