How do YOU pronouce Caribbean?

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Things that make me go "hmmmmmm"

CARE - UH - BEE - IN
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KUH - RIB - E - IN
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I say it both ways - just depends on my mood
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#21 Postby Lindaloo » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:06 am

I used to pronounce Gautier "Go Tee Aye" I hear alot of people call Pascagoula, "PasPaGoula"
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#22 Postby Agua » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:10 am

Lindaloo wrote:I used to pronounce Gautier "Go Tee Aye"

I still call it "Goiter"
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#23 Postby Betrock » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:24 am

Just so Florida is not neglected:
My 2 favorites is to hear what the tourists can do
to the pronouniation of-

Thonotassassa
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Micanopy
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#24 Postby rainydaze » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:51 am

What about Ocoee in Florida..............how the heck do you pronounce that?... (seriously, how do you pronounce it?)
I don't live near there so I've never heard it said. Lol....
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#25 Postby Betrock » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:54 am

Ocoee is
O- co - eee

O as in Open
Co as in Cold
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#26 Postby Ixolib » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:11 am

Agua wrote:
Ixolib wrote:
dhweather wrote:GOLF-port, and BYE-LOCKS-EYE drive me crazy too!


Yeah, used to hear those on TWC - but, they seem to be getting better. Heck, even Tommy and Rhonda mess things up on WLOX. Like mispronouncing "Beauvoir" and "Reynoir" streets in BA-LOX-EE. And they LIVE here!! :lol: :lol:

Well, quite frankly, the way Coast folks pronounce those as "boove-wah" and "ray-ner" does not appear to be correct, but hey, they're the ones living here so what they call it is what they call it.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#27 Postby EDR1222 » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:26 am

Ixolib wrote:
The Big Dog wrote:My problem is remembering whether it's one R and two B's, or two R's and one B.


I can relate!! :lol: :lol: :lol:



Me too! :lol:
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#28 Postby mahicks » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:28 am

another florida one that cracks me up when people pronounce it...


Ochlocknee River
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#29 Postby caribepr » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:29 am

We hear all the time CU LEE BRA...I made my brother a sign that said COO LAY BRA on it three times...and he still screws it up (and locals here are called Culebrense, which is said CU LAH BRENZ AY, just to make it more fun).
I do know how to say loca gringa...hmmm.
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#30 Postby Astro_man92 » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:39 pm

I say it both ways but it doesn't depend on my mood sometimes I say it one way and sometimes I say it the other.
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#31 Postby Hurricaneman » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:40 pm

I say it both ways
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#32 Postby wxwatcher91 » Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:38 pm

when I just say "The Caribbean" I say KUH-RIB-E-IN

when I say "The Caribbean Sea" I say CARE-UH-BEE-IN

wierd I know...

wow I spent like an hour trying to figure out how I say it lol... now it doesnt sound like a word...
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#33 Postby boca » Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:40 pm

I can't pronunce either one so I just say Atlantic basin. :lol:
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#34 Postby Ixolib » Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:05 pm

wxwatcher91 wrote:when I just say "The Caribbean" I say KUH-RIB-E-IN

when I say "The Caribbean Sea" I say CARE-UH-BEE-IN

wierd I know...

wow I spent like an hour trying to figure out how I say it lol... now it doesnt sound like a word...


Yeah, I think that about sums it up for me too. Just depends on the use - and what you've become used to. Most of which can be attributed to no reason at all!! Agree... weird.
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#35 Postby SeaBrz_FL » Sat Jul 30, 2005 4:07 pm

Another common mixup we hear alot in Central Florida:

"Nassau will try again today to launch the Shuttle."

"The straw market in NASA is using temporary headquarters since the fire."

Nassau: NAS SAW
NASA: NAS uh
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#36 Postby Swimdude » Sat Jul 30, 2005 4:33 pm

I tried saying them both out loud... Five times. I guess that's when I decided to pick the 3rd choice, because they both sound like what I always say. Haha. Nice poll!
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#37 Postby abajan » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:14 pm

The Big Dog wrote:My problem is remembering whether it's one R and two B's, or two R's and one B.

The word "Caribbean" is derived from the Carib people whose population was once quite great in this region. Unfortunately, when the settlers from the east (Chris Columbus et al) came, instead of trying to get along with the people who were here before them, they enslaved many and attempted to exterminate the others. To make matters worse, the settlers (quite unintentionally) brought diseases with them to which the Caribs (and others in the the so called "New World") had no immunity.

I know it's not the Columbus story most of you would have heard but a little research goes a long way.

It's a long and sad story. Suffice it to say that it becomes somewhat easier to remember how to spell Caribbean if you remember the Caribs.

(Btw, there are still small populations of Caribs in some of these islands.)
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#38 Postby Agua » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:35 pm

abajan wrote:I know it's not the Columbus story most of you would have heard but a little research goes a long way.

It's a long and sad story.


No, it's been drummed into our heads thorougly over the last 25 years or so.
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