AIBU to hate people who pronounce Chile "Chil-AY" and Kenya "KEEENyar"

[ipanemagirl]

you know, I just don't care if it's right it just sounds dreadful and a great trumpeting of Arse.

YANBU!!!

I say Cheee-Lay deliberately to annoy.

It really annoys me that Bodecia is now BOO-DI-KA. Really silly.

I do, however, pronounce quinoa correctly but feel a right prat saying it. (keen-wah)

Why at 23:35hrs on a Wednesday night would this bother you?

Oh, Spidermama I too pronounce quinoa correctly but I think people care less about that, it is not Arse Trumpet in my book!

Boudicca has been Boudicca since at least the time I was at school 30 years ago!

Well scurryfunge (good name) I just heard it on a podcast as I, like Cinderella, cleared up the kitchen as usual into the wee hours it seems while dh hits sack with a terrible COLD.

So really this is just a wild bit of time off I'm having, this is me partying mid week....

I'm afraid I pronounce Barcelona, Bar-the-lon-ar and paella like a twat

The only person I know that says "Chil-AY" also says "Isabel Ayyyy-ENDE".

He's a bit of a cock.

YANBU.

Sorry scurryfunge imo, yours are not crimes against pronounciation. Barthelona is fine and Paella I can forgive, but I can't forgive the first Chilay or Keeenyar.

Oh dear Cornish I do pronounce her name like that too so I feel that I am guilty of Arse Trumpet! What's the cure?
Certainly it is not as bad as lapsing gratuitously into French and Latin in every day conversation.

I never know how to pronounce Chorizo. I mean I know how to pronounce it, but it sounds poncey and often I'm with people where hot gods from a tin are the norm.

I tend to go with Chor-eets-o and hope for the best. A sensible option I feel.
I just couldn't do the lisping thing without feeling like a twat.

But ipanemagirl, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...especially if that country is Chilay

Having spent 45 years trying to explain to people that my own name is pronounced as it is spelt and not any other way I have no energy left for those who can't pronounce Chile or Kenya correctly.

For the benefit of those who struggle with my name... it has an I in it, not an E... use it!

Don't forget to Carpe Diem Scurryfunge and noli me tangere!

Have never understood "KEEEEN-ya"... at least Chilay, Barthelona etc are (trumpet of arse-ish) attempts to get it right and sound like the natives. Do Kenyans say Keeeenya?

But to digress, I also hate it when very posh people (like MIL) say "PROP-lee" and "FAM-lee". I want to say CAN'T YOU READ????!!!

Isabel Allende is pronounced Ayenday though. I first read it in Spanish, so I can't pronounce it 'wrong' just to not sound like a ponce to people who don't kmow that.

You arse trumpeting ponce, Topsy

actually I do believe that Kenya did used to be pronounced Keeeyner before independence.....

Totally agree

[frendo]

The name Kenya originates from merging of Kikuyu, Embu and Kamba words Kirinyaga, Kirenyaa and Kiinyaa which means "God's resting place" in all three languages.
In the 19th Century, the German explorer, Ludwig Krapf, recorded the name as both Kenia and Kegnia believed by some to be a corruption of the Kamba version.[55][56].[57] Others however say that this was on the contrary a very precise notation of the correct African pronounciation /ˈkɛnjə/. [58] Nevertheless, the name was for a long time incorrectly pronounced by colonial-heritage Europeans as Kenia. The European pronounciation has been abandoned in modern times, in favor of the African version.[59]

Your reference to ˈkɛnjə/ is particularly arse trumpeter-ish toccatanfudge

YANBU!

'Chilli'. NO, dumb ass, it's not 'chilli'.

Sorry Toccatan, (while I bow and scrape with respect) so do you mean Keenya was wrong and Ken-ya is right? Im confused.

Claro que si...

Chile is so beautiful, and the people are wonderful and the Spanish . . . well, in Argentina they will say theirs is prettier.

But they are so wrong.