Froese - The correct prenunciation

Barbakane · Post by **Barbakane** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:24 pm

I'm something of a pronunciation stickler myself (it comes from my line of work in spoken voice recording). Plus I took German years ago in school.

The sound for ö (or "oe") is made by forming your mouth to say an "oh" sound, but instead, saying "ee". It takes a bit of practice and sounds odd the first several times you do it, but if you want to be absolutely correct about it, that's how you go. Same with ü - form your mouth to say "oo" and instead say "ee".

I knew a guy once who said Edgar "Freeze." That's rather cold, also. But he sounds like a superhero that way!

Hobo · Post by **Hobo** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:35 pm

Barbakane wrote:I'm something of a pronunciation stickler myself (it comes from my line of work in spoken voice recording). Plus I took German years ago in school.

The sound for ö (or "oe") is made by forming your mouth to say an "oh" sound, but instead, saying "ee". It takes a bit of practice and sounds odd the first several times you do it, but if you want to be absolutely correct about it, that's how you go. Same with ü - form your mouth to say "oo" and instead say "ee".

I knew a guy once who said Edgar "Freeze." That's rather cold, also. But he sounds like a superhero that way!

Just tried that. Good job nobody was around, as I looked and sounded ridiculous. Sort of came out like Tim Nice But Dim saying "Freezer".

epsilon75 · Post by **epsilon75** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:24 pm

Hobo wrote:
Barbakane wrote:I'm something of a pronunciation stickler myself (it comes from my line of work in spoken voice recording). Plus I took German years ago in school.

The sound for ö (or "oe") is made by forming your mouth to say an "oh" sound, but instead, saying "ee". It takes a bit of practice and sounds odd the first several times you do it, but if you want to be absolutely correct about it, that's how you go. Same with ü - form your mouth to say "oo" and instead say "ee".

I knew a guy once who said Edgar "Freeze." That's rather cold, also. But he sounds like a superhero that way!
Just tried that. Good job nobody was around, as I looked and sounded ridiculous. Sort of came out like Tim Nice But Dim saying "Freezer".

A mate of mine Carl always said "Froze"

Barbakane · Post by **Barbakane** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:08 pm

Making the ö and ü sounds by themselves does make one sound rather odd. But that's only because we don't have any equivalent to them in English. If you learn a little bit of the lingo (much of which I've regrettably lapsed with), you begin not to notice it.

A close approximation of the ö without much need for lip exercise is to just make it something of an "ur" sound. Crude, but effective.

krismopompas · Post by **krismopompas** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:13 am

oe=ö ........ sounds like the "ö" in "schön"

Pertou · Post by **Pertou** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:39 pm

It's pronounced [FRØ·ZE]

24db · Post by **24db** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:43 pm

actually it's pronounced 'Neville'...but he wants to keep it quiet

epsilon75 · Post by **epsilon75** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:45 pm

24db wrote:actually it's pronounced 'Neville'...but he wants to keep it quiet

billythefish · Post by **billythefish** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:40 pm

24db wrote:actually it's pronounced 'Neville'...but he wants to keep it quiet

rofalmao!!

JD · Post by JD » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:20 pm

epsilon75 wrote:
Hobo wrote:
Barbakane wrote:I'm something of a pronunciation stickler myself (it comes from my line of work in spoken voice recording). Plus I took German years ago in school.

The sound for ö (or "oe") is made by forming your mouth to say an "oh" sound, but instead, saying "ee". It takes a bit of practice and sounds odd the first several times you do it, but if you want to be absolutely correct about it, that's how you go. Same with ü - form your mouth to say "oo" and instead say "ee".

I knew a guy once who said Edgar "Freeze." That's rather cold, also. But he sounds like a superhero that way!
Just tried that. Good job nobody was around, as I looked and sounded ridiculous. Sort of came out like Tim Nice But Dim saying "Freezer".
A mate of mine Carl always said "Froze"

I still say Froze ! I always said it and when I heard th correct pronunciation I didnt like it so Im not changing.

billythefish · Post by **billythefish** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:30 pm

JD wrote:
epsilon75 wrote:
Hobo wrote: Just tried that. Good job nobody was around, as I looked and sounded ridiculous. Sort of came out like Tim Nice But Dim saying "Freezer".
A mate of mine Carl always said "Froze"
I still say Froze ! I always said it and when I heard th correct pronunciation I didnt like it so Im not changing.

I'm like that with "Phaedra"... I've heard the correct pronunciation, (fade-ra), but will forever know it as 'fi-dra'.

Pertou · Post by **Pertou** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:38 pm

billythefish wrote:I'm like that with "Phaedra"... I've heard the correct pronunciation, (fade-ra), but will forever know it as 'fi-dra'.

[fää-dra] or [fææ-dra] as we say in DK and Germany.

Hobo · Post by **Hobo** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:24 pm

billythefish wrote:
JD wrote:
epsilon75 wrote: A mate of mine Carl always said "Froze"
I still say Froze ! I always said it and when I heard th correct pronunciation I didnt like it so Im not changing.

I'm like that with "Phaedra"... I've heard the correct pronunciation, (fade-ra), but will forever know it as 'fi-dra'.

I always assumed this to be pronounced "Fade-ra", but later discovered through research that the correct pronunciation is, in fact "Fee-dra".

http://web.uncg.edu/dcl/demo/flash/glos ... ossary.swf

timer · Post by **timer** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:41 pm

From the Closing words on the Tempodrom & SBE2005 DVD's I think it's Frose.

Neville Froese - classic !

Pertou · Post by **Pertou** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:42 pm

Hobo wrote: I always assumed this to be pronounced "Fade-ra", but later discovered through research that the correct pronunciation is, in fact "Fee-dra".

http://web.uncg.edu/dcl/demo/flash/glos ... ossary.swf

I'm pretty sure it was intended to pronounced in German fää-dra

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Froese - The correct prenunciation