How do you pronounce Beaulieu?

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Sorry Lightfeat you were completely wrong! [img]wink.gif[/img]

[lightfeat]

Ahem...I don't think so....

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by lightfeat:

Beaulieu - as in Beau(tiful) Lee. In English at least, it is definitely beau as in beautiful not beau as in "a dandy" and lieu is lee for reasons ony the illogical ancients can explain. </font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think you will notice that I was talking about the English pronunciation. Beaulieu is also a place in England. We have lots of French words and names in our language. Ours is a mongrel of a language, with multiple origins, and when words become incorporated into the English language, we usually pronounce them differently, like all words ending in tion, which are all technically French too. The company is French, of course, but I was just relaying how we pronounce it here in England, in English, as a town in England.

D'accord?
Lucas [img]smile.gif[/img]

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*waves his arms around frantically*


Lightfeat is right you know, even if he has repeated what I said a few posts ago [img]confused.gif[/img]

[lightfeat]

Yes Jim, I was supporting your opinion. You know, like - "yes, Jim is right, I agree with him" kind of thing [img]wink.gif[/img] Actually, I believe posted this answer before, but in a repeat thread of the same topic.

Anyway, English, American and French will have their own ideas on this. You say tomayto, I say tamarto, let's call the whole thing off, etc.

.... But who says bow - tiful when something's pretty? It's Bewtiful in England (in the Summer anyway [img]wink.gif[/img] ) and in England it'll always be the little town of Bewlee, where they have a lot of classic cars. Anyway...people can call it what they like as far as I care... [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

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Sorry mate, indeed you did! [img]redface.gif[/img] I'm still trying to get my head round how you would interpret "Beau" as "bowl"?!?! Oh well doesnt matter now [img]wink.gif[/img]

[Matt Pacini]

I've always heard it pronounced like this, from everyone from old timers I've met like Georg Graf, to the guys at Super 8 Sound, who I would think would know the proper way to say it:

BULL-eee-you


MP

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Matt,

As Lucas said we were just discussing the English way to pronounce it, I dont theres really a "proper" way to say it and its bound to be said differently in America because of the accent. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Actor]

In Viet Nam the G.I.s mispronounced "beau coup" as "boo coo" and the Viet Namese followed suit. "Lieu" would be "loo", as in loo-tenent. That means you would pronounce it "boo-loo."

In Viet Nam.

Before 1975.

[lightfeat]

OK, but lieutenant is pronounced left-tenant here in England. Solve that! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

No? None of it makes much sense to me either.

Arkansas (Arkinsaw)
Leicester Square (Lester)
Lieutenant (left-tenant)

There are so many illogical pronunciations, that Beaulieu being b,you-lee is really not such a biggie.

Lucas