"DAY-luge?" or DEL-yooj?"

[Stinky The Clown]

[SoCalDem]

1. I'll take del-yooj for $400 , Alex

:)

a local weather-bimbette pronounced it Dee-lug the other day.. spilled coffee over than one

[MadHound]

2. DAY-loogy!

:evilgrin:

[boston bean]

3. del

[truedelphi]

4. Doesn't DAY-luge refer to the sled team from Chicago trying

Out for the Winter Olympics? (As in Dey Bears, Dey Cubs, Dey White Sox...)

[boston bean]

5. however if you were to put a d at the end I might say day

[HopeHoops]

6. Depends on how stoned I am.

Fuck. I gave up pot more than 20 years ago. Now I'm NEVER going to know the answer.

[mike_c]

7. del-yooj....

That's the way I learned it, I suppose.

[rug]

8. I'm still trying to pronounce "apres moi".

[CTyankee]

25. I think it is Apreh mwah.

[frogmarch]

9. DELL yooj is how I say it.

But I like dee-lug better, so that is how I'm going to pronounce it from now on. :-)

[tularetom]

10. "HOO-cares" or "hook-AIRS"?

[boston bean]

12. eye doo

[Liberal Veteran]

11. D á à â ä å ÿ £ ûÜgœ

[eleny]

13. DEL-yooj

[northoftheborder]

14. Neither. It's del-OOJ (emphasis on second syllable)

[slackmaster]

15. Da-Loogie!

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Oxford English Dictionary sez:

/ˈdɛljuːdʒ/

ie DELLyoodge , I think.

[PoliticAverse]

17. Toe-May-Toe or Toe-Mah-Toe ? n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

18. H'it don'matter none to me

Long'z ya spell it with an "E."

--Dan Quayle

[Stinky The Clown]

19. No

tu-MAYD-uh

[boston bean]

20. do you say pa dayd uh? or do you say pa da da?

[Stinky The Clown]

24. "Spud"

[bigwillq]

21. I say DAY-luge (nt)

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. Da' luge.

Or, as we call it around here "Like a cow pissin' on a flat rock."

[SoCalDem]

23. Spoken dictionary says.....

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=deluge&submit=Submit





other words "out-loud"
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php

[Stinky The Clown]

26. And then there is the closely related "deluginous."

[Warpy]

27. It's regional and also depends on how many years of French you took

Day-LUGE is the Francophile pronunciation. Otherwise, just say what the locals say if you don't want them to look at you funny.

[MerryBlooms]

28. SaWeet. I love the winter Olympics.

[Bigmack]

29. In my neighborhood, it's pronounced....

"Raining like a mutha!"

[MineralMan]

30. Depends on your language and location.

Both are correct, depending on those factors. Why does it matter?

[socialist_n_TN]

31. Hell, I thought either pronunciation...........

was acceptable. But what do I know?

[Iggo]

32. Dell-yoozh. (n/t)

[d_r]

33. after me

the DAY luge

[WilliamPitt]

34. Deh-loogh

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

35. Wasn't Del Huge a porn star?

[Gold Metal Flake]

36. Toad floater.