by kendrive
@ 2007-04-29 - 08:38:35
We all know what it is - but how do you pronounce the noun used to describe the garments these girls are wearing?
The word is "Lingerie" - and most of the English-speaking pronounce it wrongly as "lunj-er-ray" - 3 syllables and rhyming with "say".
The derivation is, of course, from the French "linge", meaning "linen" and my preferred pronunciation is "lunj-er-ee", rhyming with "sea".
More pedantic still would be to use only 2 syllables, as in the French, and say "lunj-ree" - but perhaps that is going too far.
But I can see no justification in pronouncing the end of the word as "ay" and not "ee".
So, join my campaign and say after me:
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