How to pronounce?

[chicks rule]

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FOR REAL ? its not like how its spelled ho-va or hoova? It is pro nounced with an er?

Is Hova a breed???? I always thought it was short for "Hovabator" a brand of incubator???????

 

[brooster]

I am talking about the incubator, there is no "Hova" breed that i know of.

 

[LilDucky85]

Pekin is Pee-kin right?

I've been saying "Peckin" but I just heard it said differently on dictionary.com?! lol

 

[Bock_Bock]

D uccle is D you cool to me

 

[Slywoody]

Where are the grammar police when you need them???

 

[Mahonri]

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I showed that to a person I know who spent two years in France and he pronounced it

Dah-ook. With more emphasis on the D than the ah

 

[Mahonri]

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Araucana= R-ah-oo-cah-nah

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

Mahonri is right about D'Uccle.

If there were an accent over the final e then it would be pronounced dew-clay.

But I have never seen it that way, so I think it is more like "dook" (the le is nearly silent).

 

[speckledhen]

D'Uccle, if used with the French pronunciation, would be something like DOO-Kluh (French student for years here) nd the last syllable really is hardly spoken at all, just sort of falls off the tongue, though I usually say Doo-KLAY for a more Americanized version. Some of it depends on what the person who named the breed intended, really.

 

[Shared Acres]

I looked up Cochin the other day and the source I found had it pronounced Coach IN, or as my husband likes to say "the coach is in."