How do you pronounce.........

[Swinging Swede]

Jan Savitt

Emphasis on the first or second syllable?

[jazztrain]

I've always heard it with the accent on the first syllable.

Jan Savitt

Emphasis on the first or second syllable?

[ghost of miles]

Johnny MAN-del or man-DELL? I've heard it both ways.

[Niko]

how do you pronounce "Berlin" in English? emphasis on ber or on lin? (heated discussion over lunch today )

Edited November 14, 2007 by Niko

[aparxa]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6nQhss4Yc

Let them come to Berlin !!

[Niko]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6nQhss4Yc

Let them come to Berlin !!

great, i was right! nice how he pronounces berlin in the german portion in a way that you can really hear it comes from (the (very similar) german word for) "bear"

[jazztrain]

I've always heard (and used) man-DELL.

Johnny MAN-del or man-DELL? I've heard it both ways.

[Guest Bill Barton]

I've always heard (and used) man-DELL.

Johnny MAN-del or man-DELL? I've heard it both ways.

same here...

[Swinging Swede]

I've always heard it with the accent on the first syllable.

Jan Savitt

Emphasis on the first or second syllable?

Thanks!

[Niko]

slightly off topic, i need to write a letter to someone's secretary... is "Tracey" a female or male name (or more accurately, can i safely assume it is female... it is a person in england)

[aparxa]

mightfully a woman.

http://images.google.fr/images?q=tracey&am...tart=0&sa=N

[Niko]

mightfully a woman.

http://images.google.fr/images?q=tracey&am...tart=0&sa=N

wish i was as clever as you thanks!

[BillF]

slightly off topic, i need to write a letter to someone's secretary... is "Tracey" a female or male name (or more accurately, can i safely assume it is female... it is a person in england)

I've never heard it other than for a female in England.

[Niko]

slightly off topic, i need to write a letter to someone's secretary... is "Tracey" a female or male name (or more accurately, can i safely assume it is female... it is a person in england)

I've never heard it other than for a female in England.

thank you... these names ending on "y" are tricky, like Sandy is female but Randy is male...

[Swinging Swede]

Sandy Brown was a male jazz musician, and I've heard Randy for a female.

And then there's Stan Tracey...

[king ubu]

yeah, and Sam Spade, too!

[Rosco]

Tete Montoliu?

[king ubu]

Tete Montoliu?

easy one, just phonetically, but without english accent (latin accent wouldn't be all that wrong... Italian or Spanish even better...)

sorry, but that's not an easy one to transcribe... I thought about it for a while now... and no, T-ay-t-ay is wrong, it's just Tete, no double vowels, and the T is short/voiceless, not hard/accented.

Mon is as in monastery or monster, only with actually the other "o" (as in "saw", I think), not the one going towards "a", but the "pure" one. Same for the second "o" (or similar), the "l" is heard, and "iu" is like "you", but the stress is on the end, on the "u".

Really difficult, sorry! Maybe someone can do better!

[umum_cypher]

slightly off topic, i need to write a letter to someone's secretary... is "Tracey" a female or male name (or more accurately, can i safely assume it is female... it is a person in england)

Female, very much so. Which is why it's so funny that gangsta rapper Ice-T's real name is Tracy.

I suppose that's the 'T'.

[Alexander Hawkins]

Female a safe assumption - although like in the US, it's not unheard of as a male name. Casey, Randy - either way (although neither is particularly common).

Sandy is very commonly male over here, especially in Scotland - it's a variant of 'Alexander'.

[tkeith]

No takers on Johnny Dyani, eh?

I recall reading somewhere (damned if I can remember where) that the Dy makes a J sound, something akin to Johnny Jah knee

This sound right, or am I high?

[clifford_thornton]

Dunno.

Welcome, though!

[tkeith]

Thanks. I did some searching and found an article where Dennis Gonzalez was discussing Johnny, so I e-mailed him and asked him. He says:

Keith Knox, who runs Silkheart, always told me that they called Dyani

"Jawnnie Johnnie" in the South African accent.

So, another one solved.

Also, I noticed on the WWUH website that they say Charlie COAL hace... to the best of my knowledge, it's COAL haze.

[ghost of miles]

Is this WWUH listing correct?

Gilberto, Astrud ah-strude zheel-bare-toe

[JSngry]

To the best of my knowledge, yes.