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You say potato, I say dictater
NPR's been pronouncing Pinochet as "Pin-o-chett" all week. I always thought it was "Pin-o-shay." Where did I get this idea from? Am I the only one who pronounced it this way? Is this some kind of Frenchie-ism?
srah - Sunday, 10 December 2006 - 9:32 PM
Tags: npr, pinochet
Comments (10)
Denzylle - December 11, 2006 - 7:48 AM - ℓ
He was a descendant of Breton immigrants to Chile, so his name should be pronounced the French way.
Andrew - December 11, 2006 - 10:08 AM - ℓ
"Should be" != is/was.
The unexplained change in pronunciation on NPR was driving me nuts too though, particulary over the backdrop of Chilean natives calling out what sounded like SHAY or CHEY not CHET.
Maybe I just can't hear the T when the Chileans say it though:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/12/how_to_say_pinochet.shtml
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2DD1031F936A35753C1A96E948260
Tony - December 11, 2006 - 5:13 PM - ℓ
You're such a square.
Allison - December 12, 2006 - 9:10 PM - ℓ
Actually I heard on NPR (Monday) that they were both right. This weeks only been 2 days long. Let's wait and see who wins....
srah - December 12, 2006 - 9:17 PM - ℓ
They've been talking about him for a while, now, though - ever since he had that heart attack and went into the hospital.
This morning, my local NPR newscaster person called him "Pin-o-shay" and seemed to really emphasize the "shay" part, like he was being all rebellious about it.
Amanda - December 14, 2006 - 9:32 PM - ℓ
Here's a Slate article about this very controversy
http://www.slate.com/id/2155292/
I too thought the latter...but apparently we were both wrong. According to wikipedia, via the International Phonetic Alphabet...
"Pih-noh-CHET" is correct rather than the common mispronunciation "Pih-noh-SHAY"
Who knew. They should have referred to him as Auggie. Would have solved the entire problem.