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Pronunciation question!

  • 13-12-2005 9:29pm
    #1
    Cheery Bunny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi!

    I'm auditioning for an Irish radio commericial (they wanted an authentic American accent-- I'm in the US) and I need to know how to pronounce and emphasize some of the copy. Can you help, please? ASAP?

    "Buckley's Supervalu Austin Friars Street Mullingar"

    Is that:
    Buckley's Supervalu, Austin Friars Street, Mullingar?

    Mullingar. I know Mull = as in "mullet." But does "gar" rhyme with "car" or "gir" like in "girl"?

    Phone number:
    Would 1515 500 581 be pronounced:
    fifteen fifteen, five hundred, five-eight-one? Or some other way?

    "Just text 57000"-- would that be pronounced "five seven zero, zero, zero"?

    Thank you very much!
    Amy


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  • #2
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Mullingar, rhymes with car

    The phone number seems ok to me. As for 57000, five seven zero, zero, zero seems fine to me.


  • #3
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Cheery Bunny wrote:
    Is that:
    Buckley's Supervalu, Austin Friars Street, Mullingar?
    That's correct.

    by the way, Supervalu is pronounced as the word Supervalue.

    Mull-in-gar with the phonetics as put above.

    Phone numbers sound fine.

    Good luck with audition ;)


  • #4
    Briony Noh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭Briony Noh


    Sort of stressing the last syllable, if you hadn't already guessed. Not so heavy on the first and second. Am I stating the obvious? Sorry, but it's so easy to get strange place names wrong in such a way that the natives would only chuckle.

    Ignore me if you figured it all out already.


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