How do you pronounce Chile and The Seine
 

On the Olympics coverage the Seine has been refererred to as 'the Sen'

And Chile....as Chilaay


how do you pronounce them :umm2:

Wait for the Poll

Chilly and Sen

Chilly and Sen

Chilly and Sane

Please vote in the poll I fear the posh folk who use ...the Sen...are winnng :worry:

The Sane sounds very posh and la de da to me

A French mate at Uni ordered us to say Senn

Ah.... I did wonder

At least we are all on board with Chilly :laugh:

Chilly.

But for the Seine, I'm gonna go with a maverick approach and pronounce it the Seine as in Seinfeld. :smug:

:joker: yes indeed Cherie.

Chilly and Sen

Chillay is more of an American pronunciation?

But it reminds of the piss take video of someone on their gap year and how they would say it.

the americans do the same with porche, they pronounce it porcha, the also pronounce solder as soder and herbs as erbs

I only know how to pronounce Chilly

The commentator was British though, he sounded quiet young, not sure who he was, he started off saying Chilly then changed to Chillay maybe he heard someone else refer to it as that and thought he might be cancelled, I was still reeling from Claire Balding and 'the Sen'

It wouldn't be the first time a young Brit's pronunciation of certain words was subconsciously influenced by an overdose of American media throughout their youth, in fairness.

I remember I pronounced the word 'girl' with a hard 'r' til I was around 11.

When people pronounce foreign words the way foreigners do it sounds pretentious to me. Like when BBC news readers pronounce an African leader's name.

When you look at the 5 of us who pronounce it that way 2 of us are Irish and 2 are Northern English (not sure what kind of accent Livia has, London maybe?) don't reckon us first 4 at least would sound posh or la de da :laugh:

East London. I am definitely not la de da!

We need to do another of those threads where we record ourselves saying a list of words and include these ones :laugh:

I'll make sure I use my telephone voice.

:laugh:

Oh god, not again.

Guys we got ourselves a Chillay :clap1: well done Josiah

Having been to Chile twice. And travel the full length and breadth of the country, from
Punta Arenas to Arica, I can confirm the correct way to pronounce it is Che-le
As for the Saine, I know it Sen but I still say Sane.