Straw Poll: how to pronounce 'Babel'

paddycorry

This is annoying me: how is the word 'Babel' pronounced?

I'm thinking it's bay-bull (as in Bagel)

But the announcer at the Oscar coverage said bah-bull (as in babble)

Please don't even suggest bah-bell (as in bah bah bah, bah baby-bell)

Straw poll please!!

Rhyme

Bey-buhl for me.

Although dictionary.reference.com (which i trust... kinda) gives both pronunications as correct.

Ghost Train

paddycorry wrote:

This is annoying me: how is the word 'Babel' pronounced?

I'm thinking it's bay-bull (as in Bagel)

But the announcer at the Oscar coverage said bah-bull (as in babble)

Please don't even suggest bah-bell (as in bah bah bah, bah baby-bell)

Straw poll please!!

you can hear it pronounced here, both ways
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/Babel
I would say it the second way as in babbling brook myself

dr.bollocko

Yeah its babble like brook. I watched 5 hours or something of that oscar ceremony! 5 goddamn long hours of boring speeches, confused clapping and child actors. Ick. But the one thing I did learn is that this week, hollywood is calling it babble.
Now how about volver? Is it Volver as in revolver? Or Volvay as in faggy french sounding verb?

red dave

babel as in ba ba blacksheep... ba ba babel

Vokes

I say Bay-bul.

Spanish ppl seem to call it Bah-bul.

I guess both are good.

Petey2006

Bay-bell

Crucifix

I say it 'bay-bull', as that's always how I've heard it pronounced prior to this movie. I laughed when I first heard it said 'babble', but I keep hearing people saying it like that.

humanji

I say Bay-bull, as in the tower of.

paddycorry

dr.bollocko wrote:

Yeah its babble like brook. I watched 5 hours or something of that oscar ceremony! 5 goddamn long hours of boring speeches, confused clapping and child actors. Ick. But the one thing I did learn is that this week, hollywood is calling it babble.
Now how about volver? Is it Volver as in revolver? Or Volvay as in faggy french sounding verb?

I think the spanish for a 'v' is equivalent to our 'b', so it would be more like 'bolber'...

although i could be babbling..

iremex

i use 'Ba-bell' but now and again i switch to BAY-BELL..

as for volver, its Vol-vair, but if you are from spain its Bol-bair!!

Lochaber

always thought it was bay-bull tbh.. as in the tower of as humanji says.

Zumpel

Bah-bell

supernic

bay-bull (tower of)

madrab

i believe the correct way to say it is "Pretentious Pile of Sh!te"