Hermes! How do you pronounce it

I love that MayBeMaw.

My DM told me about her German GF who had problems with English pronunciation.
Daughter and Slaughter were easy enough but then there was, Laughter.
Later he saw a poster advertising a show playing at a London theatre:
Floradora "pronouced success" and he gave up

Josianne

Ailidh

Herr Meez for the delivery company and the Greek god.

Err Mehz for the French fashion house.

Yes, I agree.

I know the latter from how the shop assistants in John Lewis Oxford Street say it!

Ha! I only know the French way from Sex and the City!!

We were once offered by a wine waiter a ^ chablisse^

chablisse

There is a wine made here which is called St Laurent. DH and I both being francophones, we thought it was pronounced Sanloro (that's the nearest I can get to the French pronunciation) However, it is, apparently, pronounced the German way (Sankt l-ow-rent) so we are careful to pronounce it that way and are grateful to the vintner who taught us that. So even with German which is very much pronounced as it is written, you can get it wrong sometimes.

I am very wary of pronunciations of (English) words I have only learned since moving to Germany. Often I have also only read them and not heard them, and can easily make mistakes, even though I know what they mean. "Coelecanth" had me flummoxed at first, and Instill get thrown by "hegemony". I looked the latter up and there are very different accepted pronunciations between American and British English, but I can never remember which is which. Which syllable to emphasise? Is it a hard or a soft "g"?

Think it’s a soft g Jacky

MayBeMaw

^Just before I was about to pay I saw some red wine on offer behind the counter so I asked him if I could have two bottles of the “Merlow”^
He responded with “ actually it’s Merlot with a T “
A bit like this?
Margot Asquith on meeting screen siren Jean Harlow
“[Jean Harlow] 'Say - aren't you Margott Asquith?' (pronouncing the hard 't')
[Margot Asquith] 'Yes Dear, But the “t” is silent as in Harlow” '

Ooooh brilliant.

silverlining48

Think it’s a soft g Jacky

No it’s a hard g

But soft in Anerica

Lucca

silverlining48

Think it’s a soft g Jacky

No it’s a hard g

Oh phew, I was just beginning to think I shouldn't be let out in polite society!

We don’t talk about any of the three Hermes much in our family so not a big issue.

Does it really matter how anything is pronounced these days, as the spoken and written English Language is so poor, or should I say abysmal, that I have stopped worrying about it.

It really is a pity, as the English Language is extremely good if spoken or written correctly.

Who's fault is it, parents, teachers, or people themselves.

Gripe over.

Deffo HER MEEZE (Isnt it on the advert?)

Why would Belvoir be pronounced Beaver?????

Unbeloivable!

Terrible delivery service.

Her mez .

Theres much hilarity of how Lancastrians pronounce words in our house(we live here, but not from here) they say Nikey, like mikey, not Nike, like Mike as we do, and A DEEDers not ADDie DASS, (which is like from the guys name, Add ie Das) (Adolf Dassler started company) it causes much hilarity for me while my 2sons find it totally annoying ??

HERMEEZE

Nike - Neekay, although I have heard people say Nigh-kay.

Nannan2

Why would Belvoir be pronounced Beaver?????

Just because it is!
Bel coming from “beau” = beautiful
Voir = to see - hence “Beauvoir/beaver”= beautiful to see

I agree with hermeez and airmez for delivery company and fashion house respectively.

A friend of mine drives me mad when he talks about 'PrEmark', it's PrImark, if it were what my friend calls it, it would be spelt with an E, not an I!

Hermees for parcels, Ermez for scarves.

Migraine.
Megraine.
Primark.
Premark.
Giraffe.
Girarffe.
Scone.
Scone.

Bath.
Barth.
Though, through, enough.