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Old 06-22-2010, 11:22 AM   #301
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Talisker [currently]

Edradour ....
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Old 06-22-2010, 11:26 AM   #303
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nothing stupid about it, there are plenty of words i didn't know how to pronounce until i heard someone else say them.

it's something like "leez-uhz" ; the vowel sound in the second syllable is the same one in "hers" or "furs" (but without the r).

in this page you can hear the word spoken.

Pretty sounding word. But then again the Romance languages are pretty sounding for the most part anyway. (My guess at pronunciation was almost bang on.)

(Shall I add a Nook to my liseuse harem? Why harem? Liseuses cost money, keep sucking up money, are willing to talk about anything they're gotten information on, and pay absolutely no attention to anything I say...)
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or would that be e-book reader ?
Yes.
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:01 PM   #306
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Chocolate? Did you say Chocolate?

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Old 06-22-2010, 01:08 PM   #310
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nothing stupid about it, there are plenty of words i didn't know how to pronounce until i heard someone else say them.

it's something like "leez-uhz" ; the vowel sound in the second syllable is the same one in "hers" or "furs" (but without the r).

in this page you can hear the word spoken.
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Have a look here: http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to...tive-demo.html
It looks like a really cool application. Type a word, select the voice and language you want, and you can hear it pronounced. Try it with liseuse

By the way, of course it's not a stupid question! No one can know how any possible word is pronounced, and asking is the best way to knowledge after all!
I sounds to me like "Lee zoos", although some of the speakers seem to make it almost three syllables "Lee zoos it", with a very short "it". If I said Lee Zoos in Paris, would folks know what word I meant?
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POOH! that early in the morning!? did you end up packing your boxes and leave!?
Oh no - not yet - the boxes are still resting on my office chair - funny to see people looking at them - then at me - and leaving!

I meant "currently" as in "what's in my liquor cabinet. Talisker = wonderful smooth nightcap!
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Oh no - not yet - the boxes are still resting on my office chair - funny to see people looking at them - then at me - and leaving!

I meant "currently" as in "what's in my liquor cabinet. Talisker = wonderful smooth nightcap!
ah! ok

I agree, Talisker is verrrrry good!
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Old 06-22-2010, 01:29 PM   #313
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I sounds to me like "Lee zoos", although some of the speakers seem to make it almost three syllables "Lee zoos it", with a very short "it". If I said Lee Zoos in Paris, would folks know what word I meant?
yes, presuming you said it to a parisian who knows what ebooks are. (you don't even know what "niche" means, over there. they are only just barely starting to enter general consciousness.)

(the almost extra syllable at the end : in certain regions of france, particularly the south, people add extra vowel sounds and pronounce the normally silent final e of many words a little bit. i imagine you heard some voices with a southern accent, i didn't listen to all of them.)
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Some extra pronunciation info, feel free to ignore if it looks boring

In the phonetic alphabet, liseuse is transcribed as [lizØ:z]
I think everything must be obvious except Ø and maybe :
: is used to lengthen the preceding sound, in this case Ø
Now Ø is the tricky part. Wikipedia gives several examples of its uses, but it doesn't seem to come up in english. I'd say it's something like a lengthened uh sound.
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Okay, so I have definitely been pronoucing it wrong...lezzers is what I've been using
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