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Pronounciation of: "to push the envelope" | ||
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4698 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 17 of 21 11 June 2012 at 1:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pronouncing it with the "on" sound makes it sound really French to my ears. Think I prefer "envelope".
Coupon = Coop-on though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6940 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 18 of 21 11 June 2012 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm from southern California. I say "thee (en)velope" and I think I'm the first "KYOO-
pon" in this thread. "COO-pon" sounds goofy to me :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lingua nova Newbie United States Joined 4546 days ago 25 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Indonesian, Tagalog, French | Message 19 of 21 11 June 2012 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wonder if there's any correlation between the "en"-velope "on"-velope thing and how you
pronounce "roof"... :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5947 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 20 of 21 11 June 2012 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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on-velope and coo-pon.
Born in North Dakota, raised in Winterpeg (Manitoba), then west coast Canada and briefly (about three months, though time calculations become a bit nuanced) on Tralfamadore. I hear both on-velope and en-velope in Canada. I believe it is mostly coo-pon rather than kyu-pon up here, at least west of the flatlands. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5947 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 21 of 21 11 June 2012 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||
For many years (now affectionately known as the hillbilly years), we pronounced "roof" as "up where the goats is" (the roof generally being considered relatively safer for the goats given the occasional coyote that would sneak around). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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