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gothwalk ([personal profile] gothwalk) wrote2004-01-20 03:23 pm
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Cadre

How do you pronounce the word "cadre"? KAY-der, or should it be KAD-ray?
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[identity profile] iresprite.livejournal.com 2004-01-20 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
KAH-dre (french dreh, schwa, whatever)

[identity profile] kamaitachi.livejournal.com 2004-01-20 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
I would say it KAD-reh, but then again, I don't what it means so I couldn't be sure.

[identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com 2004-01-20 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty close to the latter...

[identity profile] bastun-ie.livejournal.com 2004-01-20 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
I've heard it pronounced KAH-der - or somewhere between that and your latter one...

[identity profile] sciamachy.livejournal.com 2004-01-20 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
kɑdRə

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[identity profile] salith.livejournal.com 2004-01-20 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Watch "Mystery Men" for a brief discussion of the pronunciation of this word :)
If I remember correctly, "Baby Bowler" pronounces it 'Kad-rah', but it's been a while :)

[identity profile] spiritseeker.livejournal.com 2004-01-22 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Lihke my sistah from the Noatheast, I think kahd-ruh is the way to say it.

OED be dahmned.
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[identity profile] kehoea.livejournal.com 2004-01-22 03:06 am (UTC)(link)

I've just went and listened to that and, umm, wtf? At least when the Weimar Germans pronounced Jazz "yats" it followed the spelling conventions of _German_, but "kadray" so does not follow the spelling conventions of American.

[identity profile] juanfandango.livejournal.com 2004-01-20 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
Card-ray
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[personal profile] phantom_wolfboy 2004-01-20 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"That word there."

[identity profile] kehoea.livejournal.com 2004-01-21 01:09 am (UTC)(link)

OED says /kadr/. I'd go with that.

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