Les Miz or Les Mis?
Les Miz or Les Mis?
#0Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:39pm
Mizzzz or Misss?? i've seen it both ways...
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Updated On: 8/17/05 at 07:39 PM
#1re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:50pm
Les Mis to be spelling-correct
Les Miz to be correct to someone who has only said it.
I prefer Les Mis..since it's Les Miserables.
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#3re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 12:19amI saw Les Mis because, as was already said its the way you shorten the actual word.
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#4re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 12:21amLes Mis. I personally don't like it when people write (or say) 'Les Miz.'
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#5re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 12:24amI feel that Les Mis is more correct, but I think either or is completely exceptable. B/c it sounds more like it ends w/a "z". *shrug* It really doesn't matter.
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#6re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 12:40amThe English Major in me makes me go with Les Mis.
#7re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 12:52am
Well, the correct abbreviation is "Les Mis" but, since it's French, one "s" is pronounced like a "z." That's where "Les Miz" came from.
So, if you want to be correct, write Les Mis. If you want to get across how to pronounce it, write Les Miz.
#8re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:27amwell the official site is lesmis.com *shurgs*
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#9re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:36am
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#10re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:40ambut posters and ads (specifically in SF right now) it says Les Miz. I like Les Miz, personally. true it is Miserables, but if you're slanging the word, you might as well just spell it Miz.
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#11re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:42am
Well both are nicknames, so I don't think either is incorrect, but I always used Les Mis. I'm sure however you write it, you pronounce it lay mihz, but if you pronounced Les Mis correctly (as it's French), it would leh miss, I think. So yeah, just nicknames, no correctness or incorrectness either way 
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#12re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:40amYou know, I just think it's sad that at 1:40 in the morning I don't have anything better to be doing than reading this thread.
#13re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 3:27amI like Les Miz......and I like when the advertisements say "Don't Miz out!" yay.
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#14re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 7:36am
it should definitely always be mis
show some respect and tradition
music theater is not rap or hip hop, it's classical lyrical stuff.
there's no z in it, so why spell it that way?
no one says fantom? do they??
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#15re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 8:54am
LOL! It really matters little to anyone how you personally choose to shorten the name of the show.
While there's no official or correct standard regarding this nickname, both the commercial world (ads/promo's) as well as many of the actors who play/played in the show seem to favor calling it LE MIZ. So that's good enough for me.
Either way... I'm just glad so many people enjoy (ed) the show for so long.
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#16re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:56amLes Mis.
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#17re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:32amI said Les Mis, even though I had only seen Les Miz before...it just seemed appropriate to cut the word in the way it was spelled.
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#18re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 12:37pm
"it should definitely always be mis
show some respect and tradition
music theater is not rap or hip hop, it's classical lyrical stuff.
there's no z in it, so why spell it that way?
no one says fantom? do they?? "
Well, if you believe that, then you would only ever call it "Les Miserables". You would never shorten it to "Les Mis" or "Les Miz"
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#19re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 12:44pm
Doesn't matter how you spell it.
Just spell it the best musical ever.
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#20re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:31pm
Not that this matters really... but the producers and advertisments use the 'Z' in their print. I have requently seen ads that show little cosette holding tickets with the caption above saying "Don't Miz out."
(edit) **oops - i just realized that someone else already posted this...sorry.
Updated On: 8/18/05 at 02:31 PM
#21re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 8:58pmOn posters and flyers it says Les Miz, so I GUESS that's the correct way... but I say (type?) Les Mis.
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#22re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 9:04pmThe marketing material includes both spellings. Dewynters doesn't appear to care, as long as it's consistent within each ad.
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#24re: Les Miz or Les Mis?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 10:06pmLes Mis. The French student in me forbids me to spell it with a z.
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