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Pronunciation
Posted by: GaKaye (---.rcmdva.fios.verizon.net)
Date: April 14, 2009 03:28PM

This post is really a question for Philippe..

There's a thread on another forum about the proper way to pronounce Grand Case. There are as many answers as there are posts confused smiley. Philippe, can you write it phonetically for us English-speaking folks?

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: DanandPam (---.dsl.bell.ca)
Date: April 14, 2009 03:47PM

My 22 years in Quebec tell me it is......


Grand (do not sound the d ) Cas

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: Tabba Khady (Moderator)
Date: April 14, 2009 05:12PM

Gran Cazz ... I believe. French Phonetic is very different than English Phonetic, and the signs indicating the sounds are also different... So Dan is right...: Grand Case will be pronunced like Grand Rapid but without "d" at Grand, and "case" will be like if it was ending with one or two "z"

Kind Regards,
Philippe



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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: GaKaye (---.rcmdva.fios.verizon.net)
Date: April 14, 2009 05:35PM

OK..does the "a" in Case sound like the a in bag, or the a in ah? confused smiley

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: DanandPam (---.dsl.bell.ca)
Date: April 14, 2009 06:02PM

AH...the same with the A in Grand

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: MarcG (---.si.cgocable.ca)
Date: April 14, 2009 06:03PM

It would be like in "ah", and the "s" pronounced more like a "z"....

So, to me, being French Canadian, it would sound like "Grahn Kahz"

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: GaKaye (---.rcmdva.fios.verizon.net)
Date: April 14, 2009 06:19PM

OK! That's the way I'll say it from now on!! And if some Frenchman laughs at me I'll blame Marc! winking smiley

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: Tabba Khady (Moderator)
Date: April 14, 2009 07:14PM

Actually Marc is right... I am not very good at phonetic and how do you translate in phonetic English some French sounds but the addition of the "h" before the "z" will do it.. I am not sure about the "h" in Grand thuogh, but like I said I don't know much about phonetic English re-transcription... But there is one thing you can be sure, it is that you do not pronunce "Case" as a "court Case"...

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Philippe



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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: Tabba Khady (Moderator)
Date: April 14, 2009 07:17PM

But I have a small and simple trivia for all of you (except for the French Canadians, Please!!! LOL)...

Do you know what means "Grand Case" ?... smoking smiley

Kind Regards,
Philippe



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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: Barbara1 (Moderator)
Date: April 14, 2009 07:18PM

I know
I know
I know

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: GaKaye (---.rcmdva.fios.verizon.net)
Date: April 14, 2009 08:14PM

Well, Babelfish translates it as "large puts", but somehow I don't think that's quite right!!winking smiley

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: Tabba Khady (Moderator)
Date: April 15, 2009 08:02AM

Ok and I forgot to mentioned "except Barbara" too ...LOL !

No Georgia, it is not "large put"... it is a very specific definition

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Philippe



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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: annie (---.hsd1.fl.comcast.net)
Date: April 15, 2009 10:52AM

Philippe...is it a 'take' on Spanish and means Large House?

Annie

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: mikentara (---.153.5.191.Dial1.Atlanta1.Level3.net)
Date: April 15, 2009 11:12AM

Big House?

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Re: Pronunciation
Posted by: Tabba Khady (Moderator)
Date: April 15, 2009 06:26PM

yeah close enought... a "case" is a simple basic habitation. It is used in Africa as well as in the French Antilles or where ever French Creole is being spoken. So it would mean pretty much that... "great House", "Large House" "Big House" or even "Large Cabin" since "cabin" maybe a translation of "Case" as the book's tittle "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was translated in French as "La Case de l'Oncle Tom"...

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Philippe



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