Barleywine
Someone should ask Henry Higgins. "You say "TARE-oh -ta, I say Ta-ROT-a."
How Do You Pronounce 'Tarot' When Talking?
prudence
ctrymaus just posted this very helpful link in the Doreen Virtue thread, in reply to the pronunciation discussion that happened in it.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tarot
No mention of "tear-oh" (rhymes with barrow).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tarot
No mention of "tear-oh" (rhymes with barrow).
Barleywine
Yes, I found that one in my search. I don't trust written deconstructions of pronunciation since regionalisms are somewhat invisible, so I went and found a spoken-word pronunciation that represents the apparently common American usage. It's certainly how I've been saying it for four decades, so I'm not likely to change now
nord_drache
I guess this Canuck from Ontario must be one of the odd ones . . .
te-ROW
Jim
te-ROW
Jim
gregory
Take out your ideas about what the pronunciation is.
NO English or Canadian is going to be OK with TAIRoh rhyming with sparrow.
It DOESN'T.
And TOUR-oh as in burro - that doesn't work for me either. I'd have said burro as boo-ro (as in book).
This doesn't work unless you run with IPA, actually. Because the words you are using as examples are - pronounced differently too...
NO English or Canadian is going to be OK with TAIRoh rhyming with sparrow.
It DOESN'T.
And TOUR-oh as in burro - that doesn't work for me either. I'd have said burro as boo-ro (as in book).
This doesn't work unless you run with IPA, actually. Because the words you are using as examples are - pronounced differently too...
Barleywine
The etymology of the word shows it to be of Middle French origin and derived from the Italian word tarocchi (which itself has no known origin or etymology). So . . . how would a Middle Frenchman pronounce "tarot?" Seems like that would be the most authentic way.
firecatpickles
I think your phonetics are completely understandable, as one would naturally need to read them in context of te-ROW pronunciations.
My second graders could decipher them....
My second graders could decipher them....
prudence
hmm, well I chose ta-row thinking row as in "...your boat gently down the stream...." not as in two English people having a fight.
RavenLuna
I voted ta ROW, but it's more like TA row. I never knew some people pronounce sparrow to rhyme with Pharaoh!
gregory
Of course they could. Your second graders talk American - like TB. MY grandchildren could too - and the sounds they would read them as would be COMPLETELY different.
