On Saturday 15 March 2003 08:26 am, Don Smith wrote: > It is por tauge so yes, like in sausage. I am Canadian and Americans > may say it different. They say we have a accent but I do not know what > that it aboot, eh? :)
I am an American, and I also pronounce it roughly the same way as sausage. I've never heard it pronounced by anyone who wasn't introduced to Gentoo by me, though, so take that with a grain of salt. If I were to think about it, my chosen pronunciation was determined mostly by cultural influences. For whatever reason my age/geographic group tends to occasionally stick "-age" on random words and pronounce them in the same way. And there's that Kia SUV, the "Sportage"; it's name is pronounced this way too. A. Craig West mentioned a French pronunciation. I wouldn't be surprised if many people chose to pronounce it that way. However people pronounce it, it's almost certainly pronounced as a single word, in any case. I've attached a sound clip to make the discussion more interesting. (Quality's bad for size and I was speaking softly, but hopefully you can hear me.) If anyone has wildly different pronunciations, or justification as to why their pronunciation is the more correct, I'd be interested. Evan
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