pronunciation of Fleurieu
May 30th 2002, 7:20 pm
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pronunciation of Fleurieu
My preferred destination at the moment, from online and literature research is the
Fleurieu Peninsula just south of Adelaide.
Can someone offer a phonetic spelling of Fleurieu for me ?
thanks in advance.
Fleurieu Peninsula just south of Adelaide.
Can someone offer a phonetic spelling of Fleurieu for me ?
thanks in advance.
May 31st 2002, 1:02 am
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Re: pronunciation of Fleurieu
Hmm, thought this would be easy...
The Fleur bit is not pronounced like the French word for flower, it's more like.... ?
Well I just asked a colleague to ensure I was correct, she said yep, and that some people shorten it (surprise suprise - they are Aussies!) to The Flury, which would be pronounced like Fury (but with the L of course)....so from there you can see how one might pronounce the first 2 syllables.
So it goes Flury-Oh.
You should hear an Aussie saying Leicester or Gloucester! Or rather they should hear us saying them...!
Nara
The Fleur bit is not pronounced like the French word for flower, it's more like.... ?
Well I just asked a colleague to ensure I was correct, she said yep, and that some people shorten it (surprise suprise - they are Aussies!) to The Flury, which would be pronounced like Fury (but with the L of course)....so from there you can see how one might pronounce the first 2 syllables.
So it goes Flury-Oh.
You should hear an Aussie saying Leicester or Gloucester! Or rather they should hear us saying them...!
Nara
May 31st 2002, 4:20 am
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Re: pronunciation of Fleurieu
Rob,
I don't know how Australians pronounce Fleurieu, but if it helps, in French it would
be something like:
Flow - rree - oh
The stress would be on the "rree" and it would be a hard "r", the kind that doesn't
really exist in English.
Lana
rob <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
> My preferred destination at the moment, from online and literature research is the
> Fleurieu Peninsula just south of Adelaide.
>
> Can someone offer a phonetic spelling of Fleurieu for me ?
>
> thanks in advance.
I don't know how Australians pronounce Fleurieu, but if it helps, in French it would
be something like:
Flow - rree - oh
The stress would be on the "rree" and it would be a hard "r", the kind that doesn't
really exist in English.
Lana
rob <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
> My preferred destination at the moment, from online and literature research is the
> Fleurieu Peninsula just south of Adelaide.
>
> Can someone offer a phonetic spelling of Fleurieu for me ?
>
> thanks in advance.
