Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
xthexwickedxone
Swing Joined: 8/14/06
#0Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 9:48pm
I know that there are a lot of tough names to figure out how to pronounce, just by reading them.
How do you pronounce Barrett Foa's first name?
#1re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 9:54pm
if i'm not mistaken i think it's...
Barrett:
bear-et
xthexwickedxone
Swing Joined: 8/14/06
#2re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 9:55pmI didn't know if it would be "bear-et" are "buh-ret". Like a hair clip.
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#3re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:10pmI've been pronouncing the A in Barrett like the A in bat.
#4re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:14pm
OK, this thread makes me happy. Help (in bold):
Charlotte D'Amboise
Sarah Uriarte Berry
Michael Berresse
(I'm sure I'll think of more)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#5re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:17pmSix pages for your reading pleasure: https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=868792
#6re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:43pmSo we don't have any other people who think differently on Barrett's pronunciation.
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<^>RENT is LOVE<^>
<^>WICKED is LOVE<^>
<< Me and Norbie. I look icky becuase I was FREAAAAKKKIIINNNGG out.
#7re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:50pm
The name "Barrett" is of Irish origins; it wouldn't have a French pronunciation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#8re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 11:06pm
Wouldn't Barrett have the upside down "e" or "eh" pronounciation on the vowel of the first syllable rather than the sound in "bear/bare?"
Anyone know how he himself says it?
Updated On: 8/16/06 at 11:06 PM
#9re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 8/16/06 at 11:07pm
I always remember the pronunciation of his name this way:
BARE-IT
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-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#10re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 5:00pm
How do you say Celia Keenan-Bolger's name?
"SEE-lee-ah KEE-nan Bol-ger" (w/ a j-sound) or "SAY-lee-ah KEE-nan BOL-ger" (like with a g-sound)
#11re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 5:03pmThe first one.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
bwaynut2
Swing Joined: 11/13/06
#12re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 5:25pmWhat about Alexander Scheitinger? How are the vowels in the first syllable pronounced (like a hard E or I or some combination) and is the G hard or soft? So is it SHY-TIN-JER, SHEE-TIN-JER, SHY-TIN-GER, SHEE-TIN-JER, or something else?
punk ballerina
Understudy Joined: 10/14/06
#13re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 5:55pm
d'amboise pronounced:dem-bwa
Berresse:ber-es
For Barette Foa, I just call him Boa. I asked my French teacher how to pronounce it, but she couldn't get it. Its my little acronym for him! (did i spell acronym right?!?)
#14re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 5:59pm
Lea Michele
Is it Lay-uh, or Lee-uh...or something else entirely?
#15re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 6:33pm
Could someone help me pronounce John Lloyd Young?
(HEE HEE)
#16re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 6:51pmSo "Bolger" is with a "j" sound, not a "g" sound?
thirtythirtyninety
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
#18re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 10:04pm
Alexander Gemignani
Manoel Felciano(Is it like Felch-iano Or Fel-see-ano)
And for a character ...
HOW DO YOU SAY ENJOLRAS.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#19re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 10:09pm
Enjolras = au(n)-johl-ras
j as in s in pleasure.
And, yes, final "s" is pronounced.
And on the other French side:
d'Amboise is dam-bwahz. Unless she says it wrong. Or her name defies French logic. Either way, her papa is dam-bwahz.
#20re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/24/06 at 11:45pmAnd Mano is Fel-see-ah-no...he's not Italian, so no "chee".
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#21re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:31amFor a brief moment, I thought this was going to be an Idina thread. Thank goodness it wasn't.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#22re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:02am
"I didn't know if it would be "bear-et" are "buh-ret". Like a hair clip."
That made me laugh so hard. I was talking to someone on the phone a while ago (actually, she's from BWW too) and we were talking about something relating to Broadway and she said "Buh-ret" and I was like "huh?!" and she thought I was kidding because I love Barrett but she didn't realize I didn't understand because she was saying it that way. heh
Anyway, to make it easy- it rhymes with "carrot"
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#23re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:22am
Repeat after me: O-wat-ta goo-si-am
Now say it a little faster: O-wat-ta goo-si-am
Faster: O-wat-ta goo-si-am
That's it,fella, that's how you pronounce it.
Chowfa Chulalongkorn
In Palace, In Palace
Updated On: 11/25/06 at 01:22 AM
#24re: Name Pronunciations [HELP!]
Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:44am
For Alexander Gemignani, I believed it is pronouned:
je-mih-NYAH-nee
A good, Italian name, heehee.
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