HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE

[Poulets De Cajun]

Just goes to show you that everyone has their own ways of doing things, and no one persons way is the absolute end all. Too many times we get caught up in the "I do it this way" and "He does it that way..."

Our chicken keeping habits are as varied as the pronunciation of the breed names we raise.....

 

[chickenfanatic]

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thats right hahahaha

 

[seismic wonder2]

I pronounce it...

CHI-KEN

 

[fullhouse]

Wyandotte was named after a Native American tribe that was in the northeast. I would guess however they pronounce it really is the "correct" way.

"The Wyandotte breed name derived from a once numerous tribe of North American Indains. These Indians have a lengthy and interesting history. A few members of the Wyandotte tribe still live in Northern Oklahoma today."

 

[mainchick]

In the shows i've entered in, they pronounce it like other people have said "why-an-dot!!"

 

[ravenfeathers]

you also have to take into consideration regional accents. around here, they're WY-n-dots, with literal discernable vowel sound before the "n". of course, i come from the land of the rampant glottal stop.

sometimes you hear two different pronunciations so often that they both become "correct" in your head. i'm thinking here of chanteclers, which i've heard pronounced "SHANT-i-CLEERS" and "SHANT-i-clers" equally often. i wonder if the former pronunciation is due to our proximity to quebec and the slurring of a more standard french-canadian pronunciation of "SHANT-i-CLARES".

Mom 2em All, around here, we say something that sounds like "COACH-ins".

 

[juliechick]

How do you pronounce D'uccle?

 

[ravenfeathers]

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personally, i pronounce it "doo-CLAY", but without such a hard "oo" sound, sort of a cross between "doo" and "duh".

 

[MissPrissy]

yes - doo - clay or dew - clay

 

[chicken_angler]

I say -Y An Dot- whenever anyone asks me.