the how you "pronounce" thread....

[Dancing Fire]

lets start with this one...

okay ladies....you''re a Hermes freak ? sooo...how do you pronounce "Hermes" ?

i heard two different pronunciations.

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 5/15/2008 10:24:58 AM
Author:Dancing Fire
lets start with this one...

okay ladies....you're a Hermes freak ? sooo...how do you pronounce 'Hermes' ?

i heard two different pronunciations.

I say 'Herrmezzz' as the French do, some say 'air mess,' so yes I know of 2 different pronunciations too!

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 5/15/2008 10:26:57 AM
Author: Lorelei

Date: 5/15/2008 10:24:58 AM
Author:Dancing Fire
lets start with this one...

okay ladies....you''re a Hermes freak ? sooo...how do you pronounce ''Hermes'' ?

i heard two different pronunciations.

I say ''Herrmezzz'' as the French do, some say ''air mess,'' so yes I know of 2 different pronunciations too!

okay then,make that 3.

 

[mercoledi]

Lately I''ve been hearing a lot of "errmezzz" though I remember hearing plain old her-mees mostly before that.

 

[Delster]

Hmmm it comes out kind of like "urrrRRRrrr-may". I've heard 'hermees' fairly often. But then Irish people pronounce 'vehicle' as 'vitticle'

I saw this girl on America's Next Top Model one time and they had her reading off an autocue - she had to list off a load of designers and Hermés was on the list - she pronounced it 'herpes'!

 

[FrekeChild]

lol delster.

I always hear different pronunciation of Givenchy. "gaavanshi" is about how I pronounce it.

And it''s "errmezzz" to me...

 

[bee*]

Date: 5/15/2008 10:26:57 AM
Author: Lorelei

Date: 5/15/2008 10:24:58 AM

Author:Dancing Fire

lets start with this one...


okay ladies....you''re a Hermes freak ? sooo...how do you pronounce ''Hermes'' ?

i heard two different pronunciations.

I say ''Herrmezzz'' as the French do

me too!

 

[Delster]

Date: 5/15/2008 11:52:02 AM
Author: FrekeChild
lol delster.

I always hear different pronunciation of Givenchy. 'gaavanshi' is about how I pronounce it.

And it's 'errmezzz' to me...

zhee-vAWn-shee

But I don't speak French so best to double check that one!

 

[FrekeChild]

Date: 5/15/2008 12:56:54 PM
Author: Delster

Date: 5/15/2008 11:52:02 AM
Author: FrekeChild
lol delster.

I always hear different pronunciation of Givenchy. ''gaavanshi'' is about how I pronounce it.

And it''s ''errmezzz'' to me...

zhee-vAWn-shee

But I don''t speak French so best to double check that one!

I think I like your phonetic spelling better than mine...I''m not very good at it. I couldn''t figure out the g part. Eh. I''m still lost.

 

[Kaleigh]

Hermezz is how I have always heard it. Givenchy, I hear Geevawnsheee.

 

[Delster]

Hmmmm... Lancôme anybody?

I''ve heard both

Lan-comb

and

Lawn-comme

 

[somethingshiny]

Delster, I saw that episode of ANTM. It was hilarious!

and, I go with errmezz, but the "err" is like the word "err" so it sounds more like airmezz.

How bout Ralph Lauren, is "Lauren" like "Lauren Conrad" or "Sophia Loren"?

I say it like "Lauren Conrad". (which to me is correct because when I sold RL stuff that''s what the rep told me it was.)

 

[lyra]

Date: 5/15/2008 2:24:49 PM
Author: Delster
Hmmmm... Lancôme anybody?

I''ve heard both

Lan-comb

and

Lawn-comme

Hermes has me stumped because the way you should pronounce it in French is not the way they pronounce it in Hermes stores.

Lancome = Lan-comb

 

[Dancing Fire]

i heard people say.....HERRR-MESS

LAN-COME

 

[Dancing Fire]

Car-tee-air or Car-tee-A ?

i''am chinese,so if i pronounce wrong don''t laugh.

 

[Dreamgirl]

Date: 5/15/2008 11:52:02 AM
Author: FrekeChild
And it''s ''errmezzz'' to me...

Yeah I would say I say it "errmezzz" or "airmezzz"

I was telling the boyfriend about Hermes the other day. And he looks at me with this cute scrunched up face and says "Whaaat? What the heck is that?" haha it was the cutest thing.

 

[Dreamgirl]

Date: 5/15/2008 3:07:17 PM
Author: Dancing Fire
Car-tee-air or Car-tee-A ?

I pronounce it Carr-tee-A

 

[Krissie]

I say:

Air MEHZ

CAHR teeay

Lawn COHme

I don''t know about Ralph Lauren

 

[cnspotts]

And for humor since I live in the south

Lew is Veet On

 

[Elmorton]

OH, fabulous idea!!! I''m always afraid of making a complete @$$ of myself because of this!

Here are my pronunciations for the ones mentioned:

Air-mezz

Lancomb

Ralph Luh-REN

Jzuh-VOHN-shee (but I have no freakin clue if that''s even close)

Carty-AY

Oh - and DH makes fun of me because he says I''m the only person in Iowa who says "Pore-sha" and "Jag-you-ar"

Here are the ones that I always freak out if I have to say them:

Yves St. Laurent (Eevs? Ehvs? Yeevs? Ives?)

Christian Loubatin (Loo-bah-teen? Loo-bah-tawn? lOW [like in Matt Lauer] bah-something?)

Bulgari...is it phonetic? And why do they stick the V in there for the U? Bull-gahree or Bool-gahree?

I have a Francesco Biasia bag and I always wonder if I''m pronouncing it right - Fran-CHESS-ko Bee-YAH-see-yuh?

Anyone have one for shu uemera?

 

[monarch64]

Ralph Lauren= Lauren Conrad...RL is an American designer, hence the American pronunciation.

 

[somethingshiny]

Ha Ha! Look what I found. A Designer Pronunciation Audio page!!

LINKY

 

[Elmorton]

OMG, that is awesome!!!

I thought of another that isn''t on that site though while I was cruising the jewelery pieces section -

Tag Heuer?

 

[monarch64]

Date: 5/16/2008 1:43:49 AM
Author: Elmorton
OMG, that is awesome!!!

I thought of another that isn''t on that site though while I was cruising the jewelery pieces section -

Tag Heuer?

I always hear it pronounced "Hoy-er" on the Jared commercials on the radio.

 

[monarch64]

Date: 5/15/2008 11:02:17 PM
Author: somethingshiny
Ha Ha! Look what I found. A Designer Pronunciation Audio page!!

LINKY

So cool! Let me tell you guys, sometimes I thought taking 4 years of French in high school was a mistake, but I have used it countless times working in retail and it was definitely not a mistake, LOL!

 

[Elmorton]

Tag or Tahg?

 

[sera]

Date: 5/15/2008 4:22:23 PM
Author: Elmorton
OH, fabulous idea!!! I''m always afraid of making a complete @$$ of myself because of this!

Here are my pronunciations for the ones mentioned:

Air-mezz

Lancomb

Ralph Luh-REN

Jzuh-VOHN-shee (but I have no freakin clue if that''s even close)

Carty-AY

Oh - and DH makes fun of me because he says I''m the only person in Iowa who says ''Pore-sha'' and ''Jag-you-ar''

Here are the ones that I always freak out if I have to say them:

Yves St. Laurent (Eevs? Ehvs? Yeevs? Ives?)

Christian Loubatin (Loo-bah-teen? Loo-bah-tawn? lOW [like in Matt Lauer] bah-something?)

Bulgari...is it phonetic? And why do they stick the V in there for the U? Bull-gahree or Bool-gahree?

I have a Francesco Biasia bag and I always wonder if I''m pronouncing it right - Fran-CHESS-ko Bee-YAH-see-yuh?

Anyone have one for shu uemera?

That''s how I say it... no idea if it''s right. It''s not quite a G or a J or a Z... Jzuh sounds closest to how I say it.

I''ve been embarassed to look for a new watchband because I didn''t know if I should be asking for skaw-gen or skay-gen for Skagen- I say SKAWgen.

As for the others...

AIR mez

LAWN-comb

Ralph LOR-en

EVES sayn lor ahn

car tee AY

CHristian Luh boo tawn

fran chess ko bee ah see uh

bul gar ee... not quite bull and not quiet bool for me, though closer to bull

shoo oo mair uh?

What about Anna Sui? is it swee?

 

[Madam Bijoux]

Hi! Here is a link to the Hermes section of The Purse Forum. It has a pronunciation guide and lots of information about all the styles and colors.

http://forum.purseblog.com/hermes/

 

[isaku5]

Date: 5/15/2008 11:02:17 PM
Author: somethingshiny
Ha Ha! Look what I found. A Designer Pronunciation Audio page!!

LINKY

Darn LINKY doesn''t work for me

Apparently you have to register on The Purse Forum to hear info? I''ll put that on the to-do list

 

[darkeyesredshoes]

Here''s the insider info on Ralph Lauren - FI is a graphic artist for their design team, and it''s Lauren like "foreign," not "lauRENN." On FI''s first day, his coworkers pointed out the fact that Ralph isn''t French. Hope this helps!