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What's the correct/most common pronunciation of "Lamy" in English? Is it LAME-Y, LAMB-Y, LARM-Y?

 

Anyone know? Anyone German?

 

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Hi,

 

It's La m ee. (I don't know how to drop in the accent marks)

 

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Think of these two musical notes: "la, mi."

 

I don't know why the spelling would lead anyone

to assume an /r/ sound anywhere in the word.

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Think of these two musical notes: "la, mi."

 

I don't know why the spelling would lead anyone

to assume an /r/ sound anywhere in the word.

How do you pronounce the musical note "la" to not have a r sound at the end. Everywhere I have heard that note it is lard without the d. The only other way to pronounce it is the French feminine of the English word the

 

I have never heard the musical note pronounced that way.

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Think of these two musical notes: "la, mi."

Kate has it right. A German pronounces it "la mi", as in "lahhhmeee" (emphasis on the first syllable). How most English speakers pronounce it might be another matter. :doh:

 

This reminds me of the first time my Opa (grandfather) came over from Hamburg and visited the U.S. back in the 60's. He said (in German, of course) "Oh you have a 'sahfuhvye' here too!" I was completely puzzled for about a minute, until I realized he was referring the the Safeway supermarket we had just passed. :roflmho:

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Lamy rhymes with "Tommy," not "Tammy." B)

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How do you pronounce the musical note "la" to not have a r sound at the end. Everywhere I have heard that note it is lard without the d. The only other way to pronounce it is the French feminine of the English word the

 

I have never heard the musical note pronounced that way.

I suspect this is a UK / US difference in pronunciation habits. At least in the western US, the note is usually pronounced "lah" (rhymes with awe) or "luh" (schwa sound, rhymes with duh).

 

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced to rhyme with "awe" in the musical "The Sound of Music", but then again Julie Andrews is British...

 

I've definitely heard British accents where "Lamy" could sound like "lahrmy", though. I think that's called an "intrusive R" sound.

 

I'm going to pronounce it to rhyme with "Tommy" instead of my former "Lambee" ... thanks everyone.

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Lamy rhymes with "Tommy,"  not "Tammy."    B)

Rhyming with Tommy is the best example. Perfect. (But the American pronunciation of Tommy, not the British one.) :doh:

Wow now I'm confused. Does it sound like "lomy" then?

 

I've always said "lam-me" lam as in lamb... me as in me...

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Lamy rhymes with "Tommy,"  not "Tammy."    B)

Rhyming with Tommy is the best example. Perfect. (But the American pronunciation of Tommy, not the British one.) :doh:

Wow now I'm confused. Does it sound like "lomy" then?

 

I've always said "lam-me" lam as in lamb... me as in me...

Perhaps a few more examples of rhyming words would help:

 

tommy, mommy, commie, swami (American pronunciation, again)

 

That's all I can think of. :doh:

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balmy?

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Hmmm... there was a thread about pronouncing the name Lamy, but I can't find it now. In it, I think it was concluded that the correct way to pronounce it is "Lamb-mee", which is close to "Tammy". So that's not right then? It's "Lah-mee", similar to how Llama is pronounced?

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The confusion is over how an "a" is usually pronounced in French and German, as opposed to how it is sometimes pronounced in English.

 

The way people from the US generally pronounce the car maker Mazda, has exactly the same "a" as in Lamy. Does that help?

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In standard American English. "Tommy" sounds like "Tah-mee" (similarly, "hot" has the same vowel-sound as "hah," etc.) ... so "Tommy" rhymes with "swami" which rhymes with "Lamy."

 

I can't believe that anyone, anywhere, would pronounce "la" (the name of the musical note) so that it ended with the same sound which begins "rack, rent, rip, rod, rug," etc.:

the /r/ sound, the same sound a dog makes.

"Car" ends with that consonant-sound: "la" does not — at least, not in the English I grew up with.

 

As Mark Twain noted: "There is no such thing as the 'Queen's English.' The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we [the Americans] own the bulk of the shares."

 

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Hmmm... there was a thread about pronouncing the name Lamy, but I can't find it now.  In it, I think it was concluded that the correct way to pronounce it is "Lamb-mee", which is close to "Tammy".  So that's not right then?  It's "Lah-mee", similar to how Llama is pronounced?

Well, the original question was how would a German pronounce it, and the answer is it double-rhymes with Tommy (and commie and mommy), all pronounced in the American way. Yes, the "ahh" sound is like in llama.

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Hmmm... there was a thread about pronouncing the name Lamy, but I can't find it now. In it, I think it was concluded that the correct way to pronounce it is "Lamb-mee", which is close to "Tammy".

Perhaps this thread?

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I am German, by the way, and can confirm that there's no "r" sound and that it definitely doesn't rhyme with "Tammy". :)

 

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