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The name of the province - it's pronounced pun-jab, not poon-jab. (pun intended)

by mdani 3y ago

n1b0m 3y ago
Also Mos-co not Mos-cow :)
- somedude895 3y ago
  Is that really true? In Russian it's Moskwa afaik so neither of those would sound correct anyway. In German it's Moskau, which sounds like Mos-cow.
  - rob74 3y ago
    The closest transliteration of the Russian pronunciation is probably Muskvah (with accent on the second syllable).
- throwaway675309 3y ago
  The Anglicization is mos-cow. Using Cyrillic it's pronounced in neither of those two ways that you've written.
  - programmer_dude 3y ago
    > The Anglicization is mos-cow. It's not. The anglicization is MOS-koh. MOS-kau is American. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
    - forgingahead 3y ago
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPdn9_h2dCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPdn9_h2dCY
      - smcl 3y ago
        If this song is the reason Americans use "mos-cow" I am 100% here for it and will back any campaign to change the British pronunciation to match :)
        n1b0m 3y ago
        The original Power Rangers lol
    - Y_Y 3y ago
      It's also German ("Moskau") which I assume is where the American pronunciation comes from.
  - Cthulhu_ 3y ago
    Given that everyone and every country will pronounce it differently, the attempts at correcting the video creator's pronunciation of location names seems pretty futile.
- smcl 3y ago
  I think you’re fighting a losing battle here, mos-co will sound as wrong to an American as mos-cow sounds to us. I presume both US and UK both used “mos-co” originally, and the US broke away with the newer bovine pronunciation at some point. I’m curious why and when this happened though - maybe the advent of TV or Radio there were some prominent announcers who used that pronunciation and it stuck? What puzzles me are the elongated “aw” some use in place names like Milan, Prague and Hamburg (“Milon”, “Prog”, “Homburg”) - because they’re not correct in either English or the local languages. I wonder if that came from the realisation that "France" uses that "aw" vowel sound in French, so the assumption is other European languages would be the same (i.e. it's a misguided attempt to be more correct)?

The name of the province - it's pronounced pun-jab, not poon-jab. (pun intended)

by mdani 3y ago

The name of the province - it's pronounced pun-jab, not poon-jab. (pun intended)

n1b0m 3y ago

Also Mos-co not Mos-cow :)

somedude895 3y ago
Is that really true? In Russian it's Moskwa afaik so neither of those would sound correct anyway. In German it's Moskau, which sounds like Mos-cow.
- rob74 3y ago
  The closest transliteration of the Russian pronunciation is probably Muskvah (with accent on the second syllable).
throwaway675309 3y ago
The Anglicization is mos-cow. Using Cyrillic it's pronounced in neither of those two ways that you've written.
- programmer_dude 3y ago
  > The Anglicization is mos-cow. It's not. The anglicization is MOS-koh. MOS-kau is American. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
  - forgingahead 3y ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPdn9_h2dCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPdn9_h2dCY
    - smcl 3y ago
      If this song is the reason Americans use "mos-cow" I am 100% here for it and will back any campaign to change the British pronunciation to match :)
      - n1b0m 3y ago
        The original Power Rangers lol
  - Y_Y 3y ago
    It's also German ("Moskau") which I assume is where the American pronunciation comes from.
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  Given that everyone and every country will pronounce it differently, the attempts at correcting the video creator's pronunciation of location names seems pretty futile.
smcl 3y ago
I think you’re fighting a losing battle here, mos-co will sound as wrong to an American as mos-cow sounds to us. I presume both US and UK both used “mos-co” originally, and the US broke away with the newer bovine pronunciation at some point. I’m curious why and when this happened though - maybe the advent of TV or Radio there were some prominent announcers who used that pronunciation and it stuck? What puzzles me are the elongated “aw” some use in place names like Milan, Prague and Hamburg (“Milon”, “Prog”, “Homburg”) - because they’re not correct in either English or the local languages. I wonder if that came from the realisation that "France" uses that "aw" vowel sound in French, so the assumption is other European languages would be the same (i.e. it's a misguided attempt to be more correct)?