JB's bureau of pronunciation

Ok, but it aside for a while then :wink:

I have watched a lengthy movie all about Napoleon.

It is quite funny that Napoleon's English is that so good .


Though the names which occurred in the movie were pronounced in French way.

Like Napoleone (Do I spell it correctly?) the stress is one "one".

I have some names which I still cannot pronounce it quite well:
1. Murat (Napoleon's brother-in-law)
2. Pouche (the head of the police)
3. A man who is the foreign minister and whose the initial of the name is "T" .

Murat : Mu (as in mute) + ra (as in RAM, random access memory).
Pouche : P + w (as in when) + sh (as in push)
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord : Tall (as in stall) + air (as in air) + an (as in errand).

WAYNE

This is a common word for name I know, But I am not sure I read it well.

It has a stress on "way"
"way" is pronounced simply as the word "way".
"e" is pronounced as "or" of "color".

Right?

SOrry for the stupid question.

I have known that "e" is aphonic

An interesting word, just where to put the stress?



Thanks

Not quite.
Murat: Mu (as in "moo" but a shorter sound) + ra (as in ra-ra skirt)
The Chief of Police was Fouche, not Pouche: pronounced Foo+shay
Talleyrand: Tully (as in sully) + rong (the last sound is a nasal sound which has no equivalent in Englis; if you say it as in "wrong" you'll be fairly close). Perigord: Perry+gor.
All are stressed on the first syllable.