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What is a good website for pronunciation?

Asked by flo (13313points) June 14th, 2013
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How do you pronounce the name Deshaies? It is a French name.

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glacial's avatar

I’ve found Forvo to work well for European place names. Here is their pronunciation. I have no idea whether it is correct.

gailcalled's avatar

^^^Audio part of your link doesn’t work.

The name you gave us is tricky because it is officially two words.

Des Haies (meaning “some hedges.”)The issue with the h is that it is not pronounced (called an aspirant h) and the Des has a silent s as does Haies.

So you have Day Hay. Difficult to say.

It is tempting to make the liaison and say “Day Zhay.”

I am sending this to Bookish.

glacial's avatar

@gailcalled It works for me. Their pronunciation is, as you first suggested, like “des haies”, without the liaison.

gailcalled's avatar

glacial; Got the audio. And you’re right. No liaison. The guy seems to nasalize all those vowels (as he should, being French.)

glacial's avatar

@gailcalled Oh good – glad others can hear it, too.

flo's avatar

Thank you @glacial and @gailcalled

By the way the OP was had been in editing till a few min ago. I put the words I am not sure of in Google search and if I don’t see the squiggely line under it it is fine. There was no squiggly line with an o after the n. Do you think it is a glitch in google or is it correct with an o too?

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glacial's avatar

@flo Do you mean that you initially wrote the word “pronunciation” as “pronounciation”?

If so, the latter is definitely incorrect. I’m not sure about the squiggly line, because I don’t use spell-checkers.

flo's avatar

@glacial Yes, and I tried to have the proof of it (I wonder if there is a trick to it) but it is impossible to post the link of the fact that there is no squiggley line.

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glacial's avatar

Ah. And does it still have no squiggly line if you try misspelling it? I don’t have any way of experimenting with it.

flo's avatar

@glacial still, there is no squiggley red line. Why can’t you experiment with it? Have you disabled the function, and permanently, if there such a thing?

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glacial's avatar

I’m using Internet Explorer as my browser, and I’ve never seen the “squiggly line” on Google using that. I have no idea whether there are settings that introduce a spellcheck, but if there are, I’d rather not change them. I find the lines irritating.

flo's avatar

I love not having to open yet another window/tab if I don’t have to just to check spelling. Isn’t it nice that google is saying “Even though here are websites with the misspelled word, we are making it unnecessary for you to have to go to a dictionary. Killing 2 birds with one stone.”

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