pie Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 I can't even pronounce my dog's breed he is a petit brabacon - I have no idea how to pronounce the Brabacon part. Lucky they are not known as petit brabacons here but rather smooth coat griffon bruxellois (the bruxellous I have trouble with pronouncing as well maybe I should have just stuck to golden retreivers ) I just say Griffon, not game to attempt the Bruxellois part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allerzeit Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 No, it's not bad manners to pronounce it wyler instead of vyler - lots of rotty people pronounce it that way, probably the majority of them in fact The breed is named after the German town of Rottweil, which is pronounced with the V sound, so strictly speaking it's rott-vyler, but as long as you say wyler and not wheeler you are making rotty people happy :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dame Aussie Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 No, it's not bad manners to pronounce it wyler instead of vyler - lots of rotty people pronounce it that way, probably the majority of them in fact The breed is named after the German town of Rottweil, which is pronounced with the V sound, so strictly speaking it's rott-vyler, but as long as you say wyler and not wheeler you are making rotty people happy :D That's like Weimeraner, it is supposed to be pronounced vy-ma-rah-ner but not many Australina pronounce it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conztruct Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 In my breed I've heard quite a few: Pig dog Bull Pit (?) Roman Noses and the list goes on.... The two I've found the most amusing was when I overheard Foxies being referred to as Giant Tenterfield Terriers (LOL) and Weis being called Wire Llamas...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull Arab Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 A long time ago on a plane of existence far far away a lady with an odd accent rang and asked to have a White Monaro picked up. After asking her to say it again it still sounded like a White Monaro..... When it was confirmed she was not talking about a car and it was a fairly large bluish coloured dog the Weimaraner light came on!!!! We are sure that’s what she was saying it is just not what we were hearing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ons Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I can't even pronounce my dog's breed he is a petit brabacon - I have no idea how to pronounce the Brabacon part. Lucky they are not known as petit brabacons here but rather smooth coat griffon bruxellois (the bruxellous I have trouble with pronouncing as well maybe I should have just stuck to golden retreivers ) I just say Griffon, not game to attempt the Bruxellois part so do I my friend who is a toy judge pronounced it once and she did a good job, it doesn't sound like it is written! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trojka Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 My son misheard Weimaraner as "bite your arm off" And I got ripped off with my Malinois pup - she's looks nothing like a Malamute, must be a GSD cross. Errrrrrr...... oh goody you can clear something up for me! friend and I were talking about malinois. I pronounce it 'mal-in-wah' and my friend thinks the correct pronunciation is 'mal-in-woo'. She is actually Belgium though so I am inclined to think I must have it wrong? If it was the 'wah' sound at the end it would be 'noir' Nois sounds like 'oo'.. French is a strange language haha I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. Malinois is pronounced Mal-in-wah, as SecretKei said. Any oi in French produces a wah sound, and never an oo. The only difference between your two examples is that the s in Malinois is silent, whereas the r in noir is not (so noir is pronounced nwahr). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fbaudry Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 That is correct Trojka! And I am French :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raineth Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 My son misheard Weimaraner as "bite your arm off" And I got ripped off with my Malinois pup - she's looks nothing like a Malamute, must be a GSD cross. Errrrrrr...... oh goody you can clear something up for me! friend and I were talking about malinois. I pronounce it 'mal-in-wah' and my friend thinks the correct pronunciation is 'mal-in-woo'. She is actually Belgium though so I am inclined to think I must have it wrong? Mal - in - wah http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?malino01.wav=Malinois I've never heard it pronounced malin- woo by any european friends either. Though they do pronounce the other three types of BSD's in ways that I could never get my tongue around . oh I'd missed this! thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic.crocodile Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Bike on Freeze for a Bichon Frise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minimiss Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) My son misheard Weimaraner as "bite your arm off" And I got ripped off with my Malinois pup - she's looks nothing like a Malamute, must be a GSD cross. Errrrrrr...... oh goody you can clear something up for me! friend and I were talking about malinois. I pronounce it 'mal-in-wah' and my friend thinks the correct pronunciation is 'mal-in-woo'. She is actually Belgium though so I am inclined to think I must have it wrong? If it was the 'wah' sound at the end it would be 'noir' Nois sounds like 'oo'.. French is a strange language haha I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. Malinois is pronounced Mal-in-wah, as SecretKei said. Any oi in French produces a wah sound, and never an oo. The only difference between your two examples is that the s in Malinois is silent, whereas the r in noir is not (so noir is pronounced nwahr). Well there you go! Edited November 23, 2011 by minimiss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ons Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 That is correct Trojka! And I am French :D so how do you pronounce my griffon then? petit brabacon and griffon bruxellois many thanks :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minxy Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 That is correct Trojka! And I am French :D so how do you pronounce my griffon then? petit brabacon and griffon bruxellois many thanks :D I keep seeing this now and thinking how unfortunate it is that your dog is a "bra-bacon" dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simply Grand Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Petit Brabacon = pet-ee bra-baa-con (technically silent n; and if there's a actually a little squiggly on the bottom of the c it would be bra-baa-sson) Griffin Bruxellois = Griff-on brew-sell-wah Think that's right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffles Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) The best I have ever heard is at the Royal Melbourne Show this year, a lady points at a dog in a crate and says "Is that a DASH-HOUND?" and her friend nods, yes yes it is.... It was a Weimaraner!! Edited November 23, 2011 by Ruffles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjelkier Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 With the Samoyeds I have gotten: White Malamute White Sibe Long haired Malamute Long coated Sibe Siberian Malamute (that was my favourite) Polar Bear Snow Dog Giant Jap Spitz And then there is the pronounciation of Samoyed. Most people say Sam-oyed, like annoyed. This is techincally incorrect although almost every Australian I know does it, including myself at times It's said either sam-e-yed or sa-moy-ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ons Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I keep seeing this now and thinking how unfortunate it is that your dog is a "bra-bacon" dog It's funny that you say this - Griffons are supposed to be notorious for their love of bacon although my fellow has never been given any. It all started from As Good as It Gets with the griffon in that - Verdell from memory - being fed copious amounts of bacon by Jack Nicholson's character. As for bras - I come home from work each day and Mochy has normally been in my dirty clothes and taken them all out to the hallway by the front door so he is familar with bras Thanks Saxon Pup! sorry the quotes were mucked up so I deleted them the above in bold was from Minxy's post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minxy Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I keep seeing this now and thinking how unfortunate it is that your dog is a "bra-bacon" dog It's funny that you say this - Griffons are supposed to be notorious for their love of bacon although my fellow has never been given any. It all started from As Good as It Gets with the griffon in that - Verdell from memory - being fed copious amounts of bacon by Jack Nicholson's character. As for bras - I come home from work each day and Mochy has normally been in my dirty clothes and taken them all out to the hallway by the front door so he is familar with bras Thanks Saxon Pup! sorry the quotes were mucked up so I deleted them the above in bold was from Minxy's post :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puppybella Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 At the risk of being ueber nit-picky (something we Germans are known for) I'll add my two cents' worth in the name of education... I would reccommend Dachshunds to be pronounced phonetically as 'ducks hoondt'. Dachs is German for badger, and the vowel sound is most like our duck or yuck sounds, rather than dark. But like I said, I'm splitting hairs here. The hund part is the sound from book, with a rather short d on the end. I've seen so many funny phonetic spellings, my favourite being 'dack sihnt'. I just call them Dackels! (duckles) Having said that, if people ask what type of dog Bella is I often just say dash-hound to save confusion, it doesn't really bother me. Many people don't believe she's a purebred because she's longhaired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyt Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I saw a guy once with a dachshund and started chatting to him and he told me the dog was a doosh hound I wonder if he called himself a Douche-bag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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