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AbbeFaria
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| poet13 wrote: |
| Was that really a serious question, or just something to spark debate? |
No, I was really curious. Sometimes I use the 2 syllable pronunciation, but most of the time it comes out as one. Perhaps I'll start using the 2 syllable one from now on. I am from Missouri (for the person who said southern US) which is borderline south, but I don't have even the slightest drawl. I don't say it "arnj", but with the O instead. Perhaps some of that southern flavor has seeped in though.
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flotsam
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| Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| 1 syllable is certainly dialect. |
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cypher
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| Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I think that for many people, well many north americans anyway, the second vowel is very schwa'd, if you can say such a thing. The vowel is so minimized that it sounds like one syllable. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| Orange is said with two syllables. |
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Natalia
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: Re: Orange: 1 syllable or 2? |
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| AbbeFaria wrote: |
Just curious about how you all my pronounce it. I pronounce it as one syllable when teaching younger kids about the colors and they tend to pronounce it as 2 syllables. I'm tempted to try and work it out of them, to say it "my way" but it doesn't really matter so I don't push it.
Thoughts?
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The first time I ever heard it pronounced (almost) as one syllable was when I used one of the tapes at the school. It had a woman's voice with the broadest American drawl I have ever heard. I stopped using the tapes after that.
I don't know. Maybe some Americans pronounce it like that. I certainly don't think it's correct.
Any dictonary will tell you it's two syllables. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Two is standard.
One is regional.
Three is just plain wrong.
(but pronunciation only really matters in terms of understanding, and Koreans have more serious issues with r/l and p/f than with that word) |
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risuhyeon
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:59 am Post subject: |
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You may find that people's pronunciation becomes lazy in everyday talk.
Another example is hungry and Hungary. Although the 2 words have different number of syllables, people, when they talk, may shorten Hungary to 2 syllables.
so, correct dictionary pronunciation or lazy speech pronunciation. Which should you be using in class? |
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jacl
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| Orange you thinking that this is a stupid thread? |
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HapKi
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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2 syllables.
A better debate is finding a word that rhymes with orange. Not really a debate, since there isn't any. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Chuck Norris is the only man who can find a word that rhymes with orange.
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JLarter
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| The Hof could find words thats ryhme with Orange |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:27 am Post subject: |
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A[r]nge?
Fingernails on a blackboard. |
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jay-shi
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jinks
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
2 syllables.
A better debate is finding a word that rhymes with orange. Not really a debate, since there isn't any. |
I grew up near a mountain called
The Blorenge http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.benham/aber/blorenge.htm
rhymes with orange |
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AbbeFaria
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like a French word though. Would that count as an english word that ryhmes with orange if it's french?
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