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Title: Carcassonne pronunciation? Post by: CKorfmann on August 18, 2011, 09:43:59 am THIS (http://carcassonnecentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=1688.0) thread got me thinking about how to pronounce Carcassonne. I have heard several people pronounce it differently than I do while watching some review videos lately.
I have been pronouncing it as Carcass-On - rhymes with gone. I have heard it pronounced Carcass-Own - rhymes with lone. Does anyone know the proper pronunciation? Preferably a French speaking person. Title: Re: Carcassonne pronunciation? Post by: ne0x on August 18, 2011, 10:50:16 pm We pronounce it rhyming with "lone". But in French I would pronounce it sounding more like Kerr-ka-sunn (I wish I understood phonetic spelling that would be used in this case).
Title: Re: Carcassonne pronunciation? Post by: Carcking on August 19, 2011, 05:14:22 am We pronounce it rhyming with "lone" also, for no particular reason - I guess that is what came to us naturally.
Kar-ka-sown Interestingly, Webster's has is Kar-ka-sawn. Title: Re: Carcassonne pronunciation? Post by: CKorfmann on August 19, 2011, 07:50:57 am Interestingly, Webster's has is Kar-ka-sawn. That's how I've been pronouncing it all this time and was wondering if I was wrong. Edit: Problem SOLVED (http://www.forvo.com/word/carcassonne/). Title: Re: Carcassonne pronunciation? Post by: Scott on August 27, 2011, 03:40:19 pm Google Translate pronounces it the same way as the guy in the link that CKorfmann posted. If I think about it, the French pronounciation makes sense to me (six years of learning French in school). Interestingly, if you do a French to English translation on Google Translate, it pronounces it as kar-kas-on, but I've always pronounced it kar-kas-own because that feels more correct to me (and to my ear sounds closer to the French pronounciation).
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