Mare - Ee - Oh? Mah - Ree -Oh!
Mare - Ee - Oh? Mah - Ree -Oh!
why do you guys say Mare e oh, is it a canadian thing? its always been Mah rio for me and my friends
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In Italian, and almost all other Romance languages, and countless other languages (even Japanese and other Asian languages) normal vowels sounds go "Ah" "Eh" "Ee" "Oh" "Oo" for a, e, i, o, u. So katana is "kah-tah-nah" and meteoric is "meh-teh-oh-ric".
Thus Mario is "Mah-Ree-Oh". It's just phonetics.
However, as has been brought up on these forums before, English is whacked, and English speakers more-so. I tend to go with phonetics when saying anything not English in origin, but it's always a toss-up for English things because those tend to have come from Anglo-Saxon, Gaelic, German, Norwegian, and the other early formative "English" languages.
As they say, "Poh-tah~eh-toh", "Poh-tah-toh".
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Thus Mario is "Mah-Ree-Oh". It's just phonetics.
However, as has been brought up on these forums before, English is whacked, and English speakers more-so. I tend to go with phonetics when saying anything not English in origin, but it's always a toss-up for English things because those tend to have come from Anglo-Saxon, Gaelic, German, Norwegian, and the other early formative "English" languages.
As they say, "Poh-tah~eh-toh", "Poh-tah-toh".
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Precisely. English speakers have both long and short vowel sounds, dictated by a couple of rather loose rules regarding letters after the vowel sound.
So while we say "Mah-eh~eet", a phonetic speaker would say "Mah-teh".
Further confusion is derived from combined vowel sounds. The above example of the English pronunciation of mate shows how we literally run vowel sounds together into one sound, without even realizing it. This originates from familiar speakers pronouncing words at great speed, slowly changing the total sound.
Example Words
(Try saying the phonetic parts all at one once, very quickly, and it sounds normal.)
Coin: "Koh~een"
Door: "Doh~ohr"
Quick: "Koo~eek"
Fear: "Feh~ahr"
Tree: "Treh~eh"
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So while we say "Mah-eh~eet", a phonetic speaker would say "Mah-teh".
Further confusion is derived from combined vowel sounds. The above example of the English pronunciation of mate shows how we literally run vowel sounds together into one sound, without even realizing it. This originates from familiar speakers pronouncing words at great speed, slowly changing the total sound.
Example Words
(Try saying the phonetic parts all at one once, very quickly, and it sounds normal.)
Coin: "Koh~een"
Door: "Doh~ohr"
Quick: "Koo~eek"
Fear: "Feh~ahr"
Tree: "Treh~eh"
~Alja-Markir~
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