to be a bit fed up with all this Anna/ARNA business

[itsnotjustastick]

Its finally getting on my tits!

I can cope with the songs
I can cope with the invasion onto EVERY product

I can even cope with incessant begging on FB 'does anyone have a spare...?'

But really hearing people say 'ARNA' instead of Anna just tips me over the edge and makes me lose my Christmas spirit.

I know that that's how her name is pronounced in the film, but i live in England and we say ANNA.

[trots off to open the christmas sherry early]

We do say erbs because it's French. Like filet which we pronounce fi-lay.

Mind you, erbs and Cregg do make me a bit

Trills

Northerners say b-a-th not baff

You can't just change someone's name because they don't pronounce it the way you would, surely? Her name is pronounced Ah-na, so that is her name. You can't just change it cos you don't agree with the spelling...

How do y'all pronounce Eugenie, by the way, as in the York princess?

Until I saw it written down I thought her name was "Honour"... Opppssss

Trills, 'Northerm people' don't pronounce it baff, they pronounce it b a th. The only difference is the a vs ar sound. The 'th' sound remains the same. Now must be off to walk mi whippets

it just sounds so 'Affected'

Scone I pronounce it You-gee-nee but with a zjha sound as the gee part. God I can't explain it over this. Same as how Zsa Zsa is pronounced. Oh and I agree with your name btw!

Now must be off to walk mi whippets
Lmao

There's two words that DP says that really grate on me. Barrrth instead of b-a-th and Rarrrssberry instead of Raz-berry (yeah I know it's raspberry)

Bloody Southerners

U - jzhain - ee

I've not noticed it but I am probably the only parent on the planet not to have seen Frozen

Of course, in France its a male name and pronounced Uh - jzhen- eh

And I know a Mar-ee - the Mar is emphasised and rhymes with car, but it's spelt Marie. That one really surprised me, I didn't expect it to be spelled like that!

Haven't you ever sung "Marie's Wedding"?

Step we gaily, on we go...

Eugenie is apparently Yoo-genny but I hear Eu-Jayn-ee more than that.

I've not seen Frozen either. (mother of obstinate boys who insist Frozen is girly rubbish)

americans say pahsta. 'snowmain' sounds like an attempt to sound american. it's more like "snowmeän"

it's just accents. words are pronounced differently even throughout the UK, I don't see what the problem is.

I don't know about name pronunciation but must we copy everything the Americans do i.e. "gotten" for "got" really grates? Yes, I know we apparently used to say gotten way back in the 15th and 16th centuries but we haven't for 400 years so why now?

Sorry for rant but I am currently reading The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman. It is set in England, published in England and she is an English author. "Gotten" is used all the way through. Just why?

OK I'll give you that it's still a TH not an F, but that was the only way to emphasise the short A without reverting to weird phonetic stuff.

Americans do say possta! I watch the food channel

God knows why they say it when it's an Italian word.

Anna Faris pronounces her own name as Ahna.

It might be the Scandinavian pronunciation but it's an American film with American accents spoken in English. So I think getting all snooty and saying they are using the Scandi pronunciation (when unless someone from Disney can CATEGORICALLY tell me that is true) is a bit silly!

Yes I find 'Southern people' can struggle with the weird phonetic stuff

We say pahsta, not posta (as in postman).

I thought in France, Eugene was the male version and Eugenie the female one as in Empress Eugenie. No one has really said what syllable is accented, though.
There are quite a number of Eugenies in New Orleans. They tend to pronounce it EU-jzhe-nie, accent on first syllable, soft French j.

moresproutsplease it doesn't ring a bell. So I googled it, and it actually came up as mairi's wedding as an alternative title, which is more or less how I thought Mar-ee would be spelt (wasn't sure if there was maybe a 'h' in there somewhere). Don't quite know what my point was now, other than I wasn't totally wrong!

moresprouts That's Mhari's wedding (Gaelic spelling and pronunciation)

And yes, sung and danced it, many times over. A great tune!