d'uccle pronounciation

[Pyncheon guy]

I agree

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Face it, however we say it (unless you happen to be fluent in more than one language) we are probably still butchering it!

Butchering it, indeed!

And dew-clay sounds so elegant

I cringe when I hear them called 'dunkles'

Yes, I know what you mean! I mentioned to a chicken keeping friend that I had a "doo-cluh" and she had no clue what I was talking about. When I described the birds she said "Oh, you mean a duckle! I had some of those little boogers." I just smiled and replied "Ummm, yeah, right, one of those."

 

[Tartannik]

I had to laugh when reading this post as I have always said it how it looks D-ookle!! I knew that wasn't right but didn't know what was!!

 

[TurtleFeathers]

Around here, I play it safe and call them my "millies, porcelains and lavenders" - I do have a friend that refers to them as "milflerdickles" - said really fast, slight emphasis on the "flerd", rhymes with "testicles"...