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

[MardyBra]

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

I say shay for Shea but have no idea if that's right.

I've never known how to pronounce it. Luckily it's far too expensive for my budget so I never go there!

But if you say it fast enough, then it could sound like "lossitan", which some pp have mentioned.

Whereas I say "she-uh" and I have no idea if that's right either!

However fast you say it, there ought to be a break after the first Oc, unless you are mumbling

Aha. Cambridge say its "shay". So I am wrong.

Oh, I'd always assumed She-uh. Although I don't think I've ever said it out loud.

I remember the Great Apoptosis Debate in the science community.

Was the second "p" silent or not?

I don't even know what apoptosis means.

And now it's snowing outside...

At least I know how to say "snow"

Apoptosis is "programmed cell death".

An inbuilt mechanism that ensures cells don't become immortal.

No need to blush if you don't know it!

I was just showing off...

jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/89/5/351.full
It was silent if you remembered that the word was Greek in origin, apparently.

Eek.

It's born a bit blizzardy out there!!

Ooh. It's sunny here but I would love some snow

akachan, because other French words are pronounced similarly (with a loxy sound) - eg l'occident. I am not an expert though.

I say shay, but that's more because I'm used to pronouncing the Irish name that way tbh.

Yes, the scientists who had done any Greek insisted on the silent second "p".

Science is crammed full of words to make your head spin and no two people will pronounce things the same way!!

Have we had buffet and buffy yet?

Moet is pronounced with the T? Oh the things you never knew! I blame Freddie Mercury.
she's got the moet and chandon, in a pretty cabinet
I guess this is what happens when you are educated on such matters by rock bands.

How about :-

HIMalayas

or

HimALayas

DS1 is doing science at Uni. His girlfriend has a most unfair advantage- she is Greek :)

I would pronounce Moet in Dutch as 'moot'?

And the correct way to pronounce the town of Rheims.

A French friend very politely corrected me once to inform me it was pronounced Rance.

Did I spell Rheims wrong?

I think it might be Rhiems...

I say it wrong, I know. Everyone tells me it ought to be him-MAH-li-yeh. Apparently it's Sanskrit.