Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: YouTube

How is 'YouTube' pronounced?
Most here in NL say [yoo-tyoop].
I heard it has to be [yoo-toop].
Different prnouonciations here as well: 
http://www.forvo.com/word/youtube/
The choice of the name 
www.youtube.com
 led to problems for a similarly 
named website, 
www.utube.com
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
-- 
groetjes Renée
The way to know life is to love many things.
 Vincent van Gogh

 How is 'YouTube' pronounced?
Her'e it's 'YOO-toob,' with the final consonant voiced, not like in 
nederlands where it's not.
-- 
Joey from NY

> How is 'YouTube' pronounced?
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Thank you, you do pronounce a tube (tubo) as tyoob, right?
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 Thank you, you do pronounce a tube (tubo) as tyoob, right?
The Cambridge says that the AmE pronunciation is tu:b
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/tube_1
but according to American dictionaries both pronunciations are possible
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/tube
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tube
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861722345

edevils was thinking very hard :
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good :) I pronounce it as I want, thank you MR >:| >:| (you see 
devils?)
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 thank you MR >:| >:| (you see devils?)
Yes, I do, because I use MesNews, but others won't.

 
No. It's pronounced as TOOB here, for the most part, Tyoob would be 
considered pretentious. 
-- 
Joey from NY

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Who says tyoob, for instance?

edevils was thinking very hard :
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good! :0)
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 I heard it has to be [yoo-toop].
In US di solito è toob, in UK dovrebbe essere tyoob ma choob diventa
sempre più frequente.

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Mostly in the UK, but occasionally here, and rarely by Americans.
-- 
Joey from NY

Joey from NY submitted this idea :
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The UK is pretentious? :)
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I am in doubt about which version to use :)
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The colonies are revolting! :-D

 I am in doubt about which version to use :)
If you say zee, tomayto and stoopid, I guess you should also say toob.

It happens that edevils formulated :
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I say styoopid, I should become more consequent in English :)
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 I say styoopid, I should become more consequent in English :)
I think that's my problem too. I should choose one variant of English 
and stick to it. But I feel equally attracted to British and to 
American English! :-)

edevils explained :
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So am I, an American friend says I speak both at the same time. He 
laughed when I pronounced half, which was the British way [haaf], he 
thought [hafe] sounded better :) He is a poet and taught poetry in our 
oldest daughters class some years ago. That was fun to listen to, the 
teacher speaking English and he speaking American back. In school kids 
can choose, but stick to one of the two. They cannot mix and match it 
like I do ;-)
I found some interesting links about differences between speaking and 
talking:
http://www.juliansanchez.com/2005/08/15/talking-and-speaking/
http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/node/405
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 American English! :-)
Try with Irish English then! :-)

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And 'boob.' :)
-- 
Joey from NY

 more consequent in English
More 'consistent' maybe? What would the consequence of that be? :)
-- 
Joey from NY

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Jamaican English is even more fun!
-- 
Joey from NY

> more consequent in English
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Thanks! Mixing languages, in Dutch it would be 'consequent' here :)
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And boob toob, if you mean a television set :D

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I'll leave Irish for the fun part, that is to say, have Guinness and 
Shepherd's Pie :D

Renee, 14:26, mercoledì 8 dicembre 2010:
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I don't think I should stick to a particular dialect of English.
I will always and forever sound stranger to any native speaker,
so I don't worry about that.
If possible, I try to conform to the audience: "tyoob"
and "favourite" in Britain; "toob" and "favorite" in the USA.
 
My first interest is: am I understood correctly? 
I am not an actor performing in Macbeth or in Glengarry Glen
Ross.
-- 
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
superstition, and art into pedantry.  Hence University
education.
    -- G.B. Shaw

 Jamaican English is even more fun!
When somebody asks me which English dialect I would prefer to
learn, that is my choice!
 
-- 
"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't
bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to
learn."
                -- Richard Stallman 

 And 'boob.' :)
Is "bube" an English word with any meaning?
 
-- 
"Désormais pour apprendre le français, il faudra savoir le
français."
                -- Coluche (Michel Colucci)

 And boob toob, if you mean a television set :D
Excellent.
-- 
Joey from NY

 Is "bube" an English word with any meaning?
None that I'm aware of.
-- 
Joey from NY

 Ross.
dang...disappointed now.....:(
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 Is "bube" an English word with any meaning?
Der Bube means sonny, child, son in German :)
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 My first interest is: am I understood correctly? 
So, what is a "boob tube"? ;-)
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 dang...disappointed now.....:(
Did you think I was Al Pacino in incognito?
I only perform as Quasimodo.
:-)
-- 
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.
Unless there are three other people."
                -- Orson Welles

> Ross.
F**K! S**T! 
(this is a quotation from the last work I named)
-- 
"Chi non punisce il male, comanda che si facci."
                -- Leonardo da Vinci

 Der Bube means sonny, child, son in German :)
Have you read "la ragazza di Bube" by Carlo Cassola?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bébo's_Girl
Not sure there is a Dutch translation.
-- 
...an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and quite often
picturesque liar.
    -- Mark Twain

 What is it?
It's slang for 'television.'
It's a tube (or it used to be, when the expression was developed.)
Boobs watch it.
boob informal
noun
1 a foolish or stupid person : why was that boob given a key investigation?
-- 
Joey from NY

  :-)
Omg, it's getting worse! Now you spoiled my dream that all Italian men 
are gorgeous.
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 Not sure there is a Dutch translation.
No I didn't, I saw that there is an English version, it's put it on my 
list. I only read children's books in Italian so far :).
I am an avid reader, but so far I haven't read much of Italian writers 
(shame on me). What's a "must read", in general, because taste in books 
is another thing?
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 It's slang for 'television.'
In North America. But on the other side of the pond I gather that it is 
a piece cloth for women.
I mean (for ADPUF), in order to understand American you have to learn 
American, to understand British you have to learn British.
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 piece cloth
piece of cloth

 thing?
You might want to begin with some "children books" (thus easier for a 
learner) by a great Italian writer, Gianni Rodari.
http://www.giannirodari.it/bambini/index.html

 Boobs watch it.
At first I thought it was because you can see a lot of boobs in in it. :P
-- 
Take care now, bye bye then,
Didn't know who he was fucking with.
Richard B. Riddick

 At first I thought it was because you can see a lot of boobs in in it. :P
Not so often in the US, I guess, if you mean naked female breast.

 Not so often in the US, I guess, if you mean naked female breast.
I wasn't thinking about the naked part but I meant that... I mean those.
-- 
Take care now, bye bye then,
O'Neill: Well, we have a number of... shuttles.
Bra'tac: These shuttles, they are a formidable craft?
O'Neill: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Bad day.

 I wasn't thinking about the naked part but I meant that... I mean those.
I should've rather said "barely covered", as it is often seen in 
Italian TV shows.

 Italian men are gorgeous.
I am beautiful, inside.
You should see my gastroscophy.
 
-- 
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
                -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 You should see my gastroscophy.
Now that is s**T.
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