New wave mispronounciation...

[darwinsky]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Crimsor[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by dcappe[/i]
<br>I always thought it was NEU! Waive
[8D]

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Even worse, i think thats pronounced [i]noy[/i]
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Believe me, it's nwah! As in nwah wa-vah

dar

[Ollie Stench]

I always thought it was Buh-LOO-eee Sum

[design_femme]

I've heard it as Buh Loo-ee Sum as well.

[My Aural Stimulator]

I have an old Star Hits article about him, and he said that it's pronounced Buh Loo-ee Sum.

[TragicMagic]

(dislikes it when youngsters pronounce Duran Duran "Durran-Durran" [:(!]

TM

[rewindmylife]

[quote][i]Originally posted by design_femme[/i]
<br>don't get me started on Einstürzende Neubauten [:D]

I'm not 100% positive on my pronunciation of

- Ceta Javu

- Les Rita Mitsouko (despite years of French, I don't think I'll ever get this one right)

- a:Grumph

- Nitzer Ebb (is it NITTzer or NIGHTzer?)
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That's so funny design...I was just thinking about Nitzer Ebb yesterday. I had always thought it was pronounced NIGHTzer Ebb but I've heard people say it both ways. I could swear when I saw them open up for DM in '90 they announced them as NIGHTzer Ebb but since that was 16 years ago, I'm not sure anymore!

[fanciz]

About Pere Ubu...
Pere in French means father, although the spelling is père. As far as the pronunciation is concerned, I guess pair will be OK.
Ubu is another matter coz U is the most difficult vowel to pronounce in French. If U have ridden a donkey, u should know what to say: hue, hue! to make it move[:D] But anyway, I don't think Ubu should be pronounced the French way so the problem is solved.

Les Rita Mitsouko

The only problem could be "les" which in French means "the". The final s is silent like les misérables so the pronunciation is lay.
Mitsouko sounds Japanese to me so I go for Mit-sou-ko.

"Actually I DO want to know how to pronounce Belouis Some
Is it like "Be" or "Bell" | "Lou-is" or "Louie" or "lwa" and is it "Sum" or "So-mé"?
I don't really know how to say it, but I tend to go French with this one and say Bel-lwa So-mé"

If U want to go the French way, it's going to be Beuh-Loui (s is silent)some (as in English) When a French word ends with an e, just pronounce the last consonant, the e is silent.

Bolshoi

Well a literal pronunciation would give Bol-shwa but since the French are familiar with the Bolshoi Ballet, I don't think any of them would pronounce it this way...

How about Siouxsie and the Banshees? Personally I say sushi but I heard a female DJ saying sioux-sy[:D]

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[Mechi]

Bolshoi... Bolshoy??? I say it like that.
Cetu Javu... Cetu Yavu
Siouxsie and the banshees... siouxsi and the banshiis

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[lal008]

I always heard that Siouxie was pronounced like "Suzie" and the Banshees.

[Ollie Stench]

I have always pronounced the bands name as Classics Noo-voh, but a french speaking friend of mine from Winnipeg claims its Class-eek Noo-voh

[iposse]

Lene Lovich

I used to mispronounce Lene as "Leen" (because it looks like Gene). People might also mispronounce her name as "Lanay Lovick". The correct pronounciation is "Layna Luvitch".

[Meglos]

Some common mispronounciations on the radio at the time :

Koo De' Tah - Koo DEE Tah
Nena - Neena or Nayna
Cyndi Lauper - Cyndi Lowpa
Alison Moyet - Alison Moyette [8)]

[empyrean]

Most people in our place cant pronounce this name.

X-mal Deutschland - Exsmal Doychland????
St. Etienne - St. Etiyen???

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