firecatpickles
I will mark this off on my calendar as the day I actually got something correct before noon.
How Do You Pronounce 'Tarot' When Talking?
I will mark this off on my calendar as the day I actually got something correct before noon.
swimming in tarot
That's funny, Kalliope, all day yesterday I had the song "We'll all be merry when I marry Mary Mack" on my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3sOA6yQc4A
merry, Mary, cherry
but: marry, carry, Harry
I'd be interested in hearing the difference between merry and Mary.
merry, Mary, cherry
but: marry, carry, Harry
I'd be interested in hearing the difference between merry and Mary.
kalliope
Exactly! It's hard to know which OW (or TEAR) is meant unless you provide some rhymes or examples. That's why I vote for ROE or ROH (TAIR or TARE) instead. (But as we've seen above, TAIR isn't quite right for many people either, so I don't know how we can win, heh.)
But eeesh, your poor poll is seeming doomed! (Doomed in the sense of valid results, anyhow.) Such a good idea, but as you say, not easy!
Oh, English...
kalliope
Haha, that song sounds like a pronunciation nightmare! I still have trouble with the merry vs Mary one. But I know to locals here and to my husband, it's clear as day!
Marry I've got down. I learned to channel my inner Martha Stewart or Maria Shriver for that one.
(Since to midwestern ears, when an American says it, it initially feels like an affectation, like one is putting on airs. But when a UK English person says the same thing it sounds normal, of course!)kalliope
swimming in tarot
The Italians themselves might say ee-TAlia, though I don't speak eye-, ee-, or i-talian, myself, to know for sure.
paperfolder
Precisely the way I pronounce it. Didn't really see this pronunciation as one of the poll selections, but I chose TAR-oh as the closest approximation. In my humble opinion, the pronunciation examples in the poll could have been made a bit less ambiguous if "rhymes with" explanations had been used.
gregory
They do.
Barleywine
Well yes, my grandparents were from New Brunswick, Canada, and both said "Eye-talian" and "Ty-ota." She also said Porco Rican, but that's another story
prudence
I think the first choice is the closest approximation to how I pronounce it.
Growing up back east (New England) I remember I used to pronounce it as tear-oh. I really don't know when I started saying it differently. Weird.
Growing up back east (New England) I remember I used to pronounce it as tear-oh. I really don't know when I started saying it differently. Weird.
