How do you pronounce Violet?

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DP and I disagree...

Three syllables. But I also put three syllables into the word chocolate.

Vylet.

As for handbags I always though they where called hambags as that's how everyone I knew growing up pronounced it so as a child I thought they were made of pig.

Vee-oh-lay

Oh good, I'm sat saying 'violet, library and handbag' to myself over and over again.

Vye-lut

Han-bag

Lye-bree

Wtf? I thought I was well spoken but am actually a fucking idiot!?

Doing the same. How friday nights have changed conclusion:
Li-bry
Hanbag
Vi-let

Lady Bracknell most definitely says 'hand-bag'.

I read Vi-olett.
I say Vhylut.

Vie uh lut

Vye-let

Hambag here too :)

Vi-let

Two syllables: Vile-ett

Vi-let
Hambag
Lie-bree

How do you and dh pronounce it OP?

I say via-lut. And han-bag.

3 syllables, Vi o lut. Also han bag.

That's very funny @pizzaexpressreview as I had this very revelation yesterday when dd age 6 asked why it's called a HAM-bag. As I corrected her I realised it does sound like that!

Vye - let.
The girl in incredible says vye-let
And in my opinion, 'Roses are red, vi o let's are blue' - puts too many syllables in the second line.it only makes sense as ' vye-lets are blue'

I say something a bit like vialet too op. Or viulet. The middle sound is an a/u combination.
I'm Scottish if that helps. I definitely wouldn't annunciate an o sound in the middle.

It was one of my favourites for my dd1.

Vye-lut (lut rhymes with put)

"A Handbag" in Oscar Wilde definitely sounds the d but day to day we dont. there's a few like it - not to do with being well spoken but how certain sounds run together and mouth shape etc. In our heads we hear/think were saying a d.

There were other fab examples of words that sound the same but we think are different in our head. it was only a small part of my course though (I got a first but don't retain info!!) so would have to Google to find out all the why's!!

I say library, han-bag*, and via-let.

I also say Prime Minister instead of priminister.

*I think my pronunciation originated in full Norn Iron spake - it would have been 'hawn-beg' when I was growing up, so I wouldn't have learned the ham-bag pronunciation.

I realise my comment about Prime Minister doesn't really make sense - most people only pronounce one m, but I somehow pronounce both.

I pronounce it vy ah lut

Vi oh let. It has three syllables.

No one says hand bag

Erm, I do. Why would I say ham?! It's not a bag of meat.

Vi-alet
Han-bag
Lie-brerry