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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

How to pronounce Pacino, Scorsese and Sean

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01b00102b00: I think 01i00Pacino02i00 in Al Pacino is pronounced like 01b00pa-chee-no02b00. But Why don't we simply pronounce it as 01b00pa-see-no02b00?02br
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01b00202b00: How do we pronounce 01i00Scorsese02i00 in Martin Scorsese? Is this02br
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01b00i: score-see-se02b02br
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01b00ii: score-see-ze02b02br
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01b00302b00: Why do we pronounce 01i00Sean02i00 in Sean Connery like 01b00shawn02b00? I think rather it must be pronounced like 01b00cean02b00 like sen in senate or like seen.0-
  

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0 Scorsese is pronounced02br 00score - say - zee02br 02br 00The English pronuncations of these words are approximating the pronunciations in the languages they are from. Pacino and Scorsese are from Italian, Sean is from Gaelic. 0-

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  • 0 Scorsese is pronounced02br 00score - say - zee02br 02br 00The English pronuncations of these words are approximating the pronunciations in the languages they are from.
  • Pacino and Scorsese are from Italian, Sean is from Gaelic.
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0 Scorsese is pronounced02br
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00The English pronuncations of these words are approximating the pronunciations in the languages they are from. Pacino and Scorsese are from Italian, Sean is from Gaelic. That's why their pronunciations are unusual.0-
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0 I say them as:02br
00Pacino [ patSino ]02br
00Scorsese [ skOrsEzE ] or occasionally [ skOrsEze(I) ]02br
00Sean [ SAn ] 0-
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01cite10Alienvoord12cite10Scorsese is pronounced12br
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10The English pronuncations of these words are approximating the pronunciations in the languages they are from. Pacino and Scorsese are from Italian, Sean is from Gaelic. That's why their pronunciations are unusual.12br
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10to you we pronounce 11i10Pacino12i10 as 11b10pa-chee-no12b10 because we are approximating italian pronunciation. But why isn't 11i10Pacino12i10 just written as Pachino or Pacheeno because 11i10Pacino12i10 is
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0Pacino is not an odd spelling. It is an Italian, not English, name.02br
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00Gere is pronounced Geer to rhyme with beer and steer and mere.0-
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01cite10Tanit12cite10Scorsese is an Italian name, too. Italian 11i11font10e12font12i10 sounds like 11i11font10e 12font12i10in 'bed.' For the above reason, we pronounce the two 11i11font
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11cite20Tanit22cite20Scorsese is an Italian name, too. Italian 21i21font20e22font22i20 sounds like 21i21font20e 22font22i20in 'bed.' For the a
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01cite10Alienvoord12cite10It is normally pronounced skOrsEzi or "score-say-zee". I know that it is not the same as the Italian pronunciation, but that is how it is pronounced in English.12br
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10Fair enough. Since he's American, you can decide how to pronounce his surname!02br
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0I saw an interview with Martin Scorsese and the interviewer asked him how to pronounce his last name.02br
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00He said it is pronounced Score-ses-ee although he does not mind when people pronounce it Score-say-see.0-
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AlienvoordScorsese is pronounced
score - say - zee

The English pronuncations of these words are approximating the pronunciations in the languages they are from. Pacino and Scorsese are from Italian, Sean is from Gaelic. That's why their pronunciations are unusual.
I'm sorry for digging up this old thread, but I thought it'd be useless to star
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