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 Post subject: Music mispronunciations you didn't realise
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Björk is pronounced byerk, rhymes with jerk
-I thought it was byork, rhyming with fork


Chan Marshall (Cat Power) is pronounced Shawn
-I thought it was chan, rhyming with fan


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for the first year or two of my fandom, i called Geoff Tate of Queensryche, Gee-oof.

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For years I never realized that Sting was pronounced "pompous shitbrick."
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alongwaltz Wrote:
Björk is pronounced byerk, rhymes with jerk
-I thought it was byork, rhyming with fork


Chan Marshall (Cat Power) is pronounced Shawn
-I thought it was chan, rhyming with fan


I was going to say that I have none, but apparently I have at least 2 :oops:

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I hear people get ABBA wrong a lot

its more like AW BAH, than ahhh bahh

and Gyro is pronounced YEE-ROH, not Jy-roh...dipshits.

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and Gyro is pronounced YEE-ROH, not Jy-roh...dipshits.


When I read that, I pronounced it as guy-row.
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my friend is adamant that it is actually pronounced more as hero then yee-ro
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For years I never realized that Sting was pronounced "pompous shitbrick."


indeed.
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It's suf like tough, right?

I think I read some people pronounce it as soof but looking at it should be a short u sound.
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Radcliffe Wrote:
For years I never realized that Sting was pronounced "pompous shitbrick."

:rawr: i will use this insult now and forevermore
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alongwaltz Wrote:
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Sufjan


It's suf like tough, right?

I think I read some people pronounce it as soof but looking at it should be a short u sound.

throw logic out the window. it's soof-yahn. i've seen him twice. that's how he says it - "hi. my name is sufjan stevens."
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alongwaltz Wrote:
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It's suf like tough, right?

I think I read some people pronounce it as soof but looking at it should be a short u sound.

throw logic out the window. it's soof-yahn. i've seen him twice. that's how he says it - "hi. my name is sufjan stevens."


I can understand the Bjork thing.

But he's a white American boy, right? What's with the name, first off? Secondly, what's the history behind it? Because I've never heard of it before.
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But he's a white American boy, right? What's with the name, first off? Secondly, what's the history behind it? Because I've never heard of it before.

some story during illinois press time came out about how his parents were in something like a cult and the cult leader named him. i really have no idea about its origins apart from that.
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some story during illinois press time came out about how his parents were in something like a cult and the cult leader named him. i really have no idea about its origins apart from that.


This cult?

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iron_and_beer Wrote:
alongwaltz Wrote:
Björk is pronounced byerk, rhymes with jerk
-I thought it was byork, rhyming with fork


Chan Marshall (Cat Power) is pronounced Shawn
-I thought it was chan, rhyming with fan


I was going to say that I have none, but apparently I have at least 2 :oops:


ME 2!!!!!!!!!

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Is that true about Bjork? I've never heard that, like even on TV and shit.

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Is that true about Bjork? I've never heard that, like even on TV and shit.


I never did either until I stumbled upon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjork#Her_name while doing some research.
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This totally ruins my Swedish-Chef/Björk joke... which wasn't really that funny in the first place.
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When I was a lot younger, I had been reading a lot about Bob Dylan, and had also heard he had a book out. I went into teh bookstore and asked where the books on Bob Dye-lan would be. :oops:

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"timbre" as in the sound quality of a musical instrument or voice is actually pronounced "tamber" like the opening syllable of "tambourine"

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"timbre" as in the sound quality of a musical instrument or voice is actually pronounced "tamber" like the opening syllable of "tambourine"


Oh, now that's lame. :roll:





















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