Pronunciation of "turquoise garage"

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Got a few minites to kill?I'm surprised at how many different pronounciations of "turquoise" and "garage" I frequently hear:turk-oiseturk-woisetur-wahzgarrahge (with the accent on the ga)guhrahge (with the accent on the rahge)garridgeSo what is the correct pronunciation of "turquoise garage"??JK

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This is French language... so I suppose (I am not sure) that the pronounciation should be closed to French. (Phonetics: tyRkwaz + gaRaz - accent is on the last "a" of the both words) Sorry for the photenics symbols, I cannot type them correctly in this mail... hope it'll help.

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[nq:1]Got a few minites to kill? I'm surprised at how many different pronounciations of "turquoise" and "garage" I frequently hear: ... the ga) guhrahge (with the accent on the rahge) garridge So what is the correct pronunciation of "turquoise garage"?? JK[/nq]
"Turquiose Garage" is pronounced - hid e ous. ;-)
In my midwestern American English it's TURK-oise guh RAHDGE.

Steve
southiowa

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[nq:1]. . . garrahge (with the accent on the ga) guhrahge (with the accent on the rahge) garridge So what is the correct pronunciation of "turquoise garage"??[/nq]
Since these are geographic or class variants, you must first tell us which pattern of usage you want to recognize as correct.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

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[nq:2]Since these are geographic or class variants, you must first tell us which pattern of usage you want to recognize as correct.[/nq]
The average person within the populace of Britain, North America, Australia, South Africa, Gibraltar and New Zealand... Now there's no excuse for not answering definitively, Don... ;-)

JK

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[nq:1]The average person within the populace of Britain, North America, Australia, South Africa, Gibraltar and New Zealand... Now there's no excuse for not answering definitively, Don... ;-)[/nq]
Then the answer to your question can be found by going to www.onelook.com and looking up "turquoise" and "garage." The pronunciations given will be those used and considered standard in the Englishes covered by those dictionaries.
There's editorial judgment involved. For example, the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary* gives an American pronunciation for "turquoise" which is not given in the *Cambridge Dictionary of American English,* and the *Compact Oxford English Dictionary has a variant pronunciation for "turquoise" which is not found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's. But the editors of these dictionaries intend to show the actual pronunciations used by educated people, not just those pronunciations which the editors themselves might favor.
(I would say "TER-koyz guh-RAHDGE," by the way, where "er" is the sound a rhotic American would give for the first syllable of "urgent," and "uh" is the schwa, the first vowel of "about.")

Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com

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[nq:1]Got a few minites to kill? I'm surprised at how many different pronounciations of "turquoise" and "garage" I frequently hear: ... on the ga) guhrahge (with the accent on the rahge) garridge So what is the correct pronunciation of "turquoise garage"??[/nq]
Until I saw an episode of 'Sale of the Century' where Nicholas Parsons said 'toork-waahz' ie a la francais, I didn't even know there was an alternative pronunciation.
I say:
Turk - woyz garridge.
Alan in London

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[nq:2]Got a few minites to kill? I'm surprised at how ... garridge So what is the correct pronunciation of "turquoise garage"??[/nq]
[nq:1]Until I saw an episode of 'Sale of the Century' where Nicholas Parsons said 'toork-waahz' ie a la francais, I didn't even know there was an alternative pronunciation. I say: Turk - woyz garridge. Alan in London[/nq]
So do I, caught unawares; but with due notice I might posh both words up a bit.
The OP missed two further "garage" variants:
garrahdge (with the accent on the ga)
guhrahdge (with the accent on the rahdge).
The versions with the accent on "-rahge"/"-rahdge" are rarely heard in the UK, I think.
Alan (Jones) in Wiltshire

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[nq:2]Until I saw an episode of 'Sale of the Century' ... pronunciation. I say: Turk - woyz garridge. Alan in London[/nq]
[nq:1]So do I, caught unawares; but with due notice I might posh both words up a bit. The OP missed ... the accent on the rahdge). The versions with the accent on "-rahge"/"-rahdge" are rarely heard in the UK, I think.[/nq]
Whenever I've heard your first example it's been "GAIR-ahdge".
dg (domain=ccwebster)

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[nq:2]Then the answer to your question can be found by going to www.onelook.com[/nq]
Looks like a useful site. Thanks...
JK

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