It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": Difference between revisions

 

Contrast [[No Pronunciation Guide]]. See Also: [[Uranus Is Showing]].

 

== Anime ==

* [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] has two middle names: Death and Bredon. The first is supposed to be pronounced "deeth". This actually matters in one of the novels.

** In ''Murder Must Advertise'' (and in at least one other story: "A Matter of Taste" perhaps?) he uses the pseudonym Death Bredon and remarks, more or less, "It's usually rhymed with teeth but I find it so much more fun to rhyme it with breath."

* Christopher Chant from the ''[[Chrestomanci|Chrestomanci Chronicles]]'' is a very lavish, high-class English gentleman, obviously having this trope as a ''very'' noticeable characteristic. (He pronounces it 'shahnt'.) It's so noticeable, in fact, that the author [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] it in the book ''Conrad's Fate'' where most of the characters found it more annoying than charming, to the point where one character yelled at Christopher to not call out his name with "posh voices like that," to which Christopher (not understanding at all how infuriating he sounds) unamusingly retorted that was just how he normally speaks.

* From ''[[Harry Potter]]'': [[Word of God]] states that the entire "Her-MY-oh-nee" discussion in ''Goblet Of Fire'' came about after J. K. Rowling learned that fans were having trouble pronouncing Hermione's name.

** Keith Dudemeister's last name is from German, properly pronounced "Doo-de-MY-ster". Keith and Elliot have both said it means "Master of Dudes".

* A ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch involved a couple trying to decide on a name for their expected child; the husband ends up rejecting practically every common name because it's too prone to being mocked. It's revealed at the end of the sketch that the husband's name is "Asswipe"... pronounced "ahs-WEE-pay".

** Subverted later on with Jeffrey Weinerslav, a human resources sexual harassment councilor, who assures Liz that his name is not "Weiner-slahv" but "Weiner-slave", and another time, when Liz called an NBC page "Ah-mohn-daah", only to be corrected "It's... Amanda".

* Rik Mayall's character on ''[[The New Statesman]]'', Alan Bastard, spells his surname "b'Stard" just to make sure everyone pronounces it the way he prefers.

** And in "The Problem with Popplers":

{{quote| '''Zapp:''' ''(eating a poppler, which, it turns out, are the larval form of the Omicronians)'' Mmm, these would go great with gwack-a-mole! <br />

* Parodied on ''[[Drawn Together]]'', during one of their finale's when Captain Hero corrected the host saying "It's pronounced Kah-Pee-Tawn. The Hero is silent." This is also a reference to Captain Hero's behavior after his last name, Shero, is revealed. It's pronounced "Hero", the "S" is silent.

* When Peter from ''[[Family Guy]]'' goes to an ultra-posh auction house surrounded of the wealthiest elite, he says "It would look really good in Lois's crapper... I mean, krah-pee-AY." This pronunciation is immediately corroborated. "Oh yes, I would simply love that in ''my crapier''!"

* On ''[[Clifford the Big Red Dog]]'', there was a story in which Jetta read Emily Elizabeth's private journal and was led to believe that Emily Elizabeth was going to Hawaii by reading one of her made-up stories. She kept dropping all sorts of hints about Hawaii to Emily Elizabeth, but kept pronouncing it in a really pompous way, with the accent heavily on the second syllable.

* In an episode of ''[[Doug]]'', Doug was trying to impress Patty by trying to look sophisticated and play classical music, only to be shot down by Judy when she corrected him on the pronunciation of the name, Chopin (pronounced SHO-pan).

{{quote| '''Pinkie Pie:''' Ooooh. They don't want to party. These ponies want to par-TAY!}}

 

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