How to read 'buoy'

Mark Leanne wrote on 05 Mar 2005:
[nq:1]Seinfeld again. Elaine was corrected on 'buoy'. m-w.com lists two pronunciations for 'buoy'. Is Elaine wrong to pronounce as 'boy'? Is one pronunciations more preferred than the other?[/nq]
"Booey", which rhymes with phooey, GUI, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
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[nq:1]Seinfeld again. Elaine was corrected on 'buoy'. m-w.com lists two pronunciations for 'buoy'. Is Elaine wrong to pronounce as 'boy'?[/nq]
She should pronounce it however the scriptwriter intended; otherwise it might spoil the plot and they'd have to do a re-take.
[nq:1]Is one pronunciations more preferred than the other?

[nq:1]Seinfeld again. Elaine was corrected on 'buoy'. m-w.com lists two pronunciations for 'buoy'. Is Elaine wrong to pronounce as 'boy'? Is one pronunciations more preferred than the other? http://www.geocities.com/web378/buoy.mp3[/nq]
Elaine was not wrong to pronounce "buoy" a

(indentation for Bill) I've never heard anyone pronounce it "boy", although MWCD lists it. Living right on one of the Great Lakes, in a state with a tremendous amount of lakes, I've been around them all my life. If it is pronounced "boy" somewhere, its probably just a matter of an accent or local idiomatic histrionics making a mess. I think it would be hard to find anybody around here who would kn

[nq:2]Seinfeld again. Elaine was corrected on 'buoy'. m-w.com lists two ... 'boy'? Is one pronunciations more preferred than the other? http://www.geocities.com/web378/buoy.mp3[/nq]
[nq:1]Elaine was not wrong to pronounce "buoy" as "boy." Bothpronunciations are standard in Ameri

[nq:2]Elaine was not wrong to pronounce "buoy" as "boy." Both ... with the Cambridge showing "BOO-ee" to be an American variant.[/nq]
[nq:1]I live near the coast and i have never heard it pronouced "boy" only as booie.[/nq]
How about the soap called "Lifebuoy"? I cannot remember ever having heard it pronounced (in advertisements or elsewhere) as anything but "LIFE-boy."

Raymond S.

The only time it's "boy" that I know of, is Lifebuoy soap.
dg (domain=ccwebster)

[nq:2]Mark Leanne wrote on 05 Mar 2005: "Booey", which rhymes with phooey, GUI, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie.[/nq]
[nq:1](indentation for Bill) I've never heard anyone pronounce it "boy", although MWCD lists it. Living right on one of the ... upon that technicality. Elaine is exactly the type of person who would say it the incorrect right way. Mike G.[/nq]
Three points:
(1) *The Century

[nq:1]Seinfeld again. Elaine was corrected on 'buoy'. m-w.com lists two pronunciations for 'buoy'. Is Elaine wrong to pronounce as 'boy'? Is one pronunciations more preferred than the other? http://www.geocities.com/web378/buoy.mp3[/nq]
Here in Oz, 'boy' is standard.
Stupot

[nq:2]I live near the coast and i have never heard it pronouced "boy"only as booie.[/nq]
[nq:1]How about the soap called "Lifebuoy"? I cannot remember ever havingheard it pronounced (in advertisements or elsewhere) as anything but"LIFE-boy."[/nq]
A product names is a different case.
If you were dirty I'd give you Lifebuoy{lifeboy} if you were drowning I'd toss you a lifebuoy{lifebooie}