How do you pronoune The Gullemots?

Dr.Slurm

I know how to pronounce the "The" can anyone help with the 2nd part? Is it gill-ah-mots like my mate keeps saying?

Edit. I meant to ask how do you pronounce the guillemots, but I am a moron.

Peyton Manning

Two 'How do you pronounce' threads in the space of a few days, how very od!

Im not really into them, but my mate keeps talking bout them and bronouncing it gile (rhymes with mile)-eh- motts....

Dr.Slurm

Archimedes wrote:

Two 'How do you pronounce' threads in the space of a few days, how very od!

Im not really into them, but my mate keeps talking bout them and bronouncing it gile (rhymes with mile)-eh- motts....

Never heard them before, but I am going to be seeing them at the Damien Rice concert, so I better learn how to pronounce their name. I hear good reviews of their album too.

padraig_f

Same as the bird as far as I know: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/guillemot

Also there's no 'The' in the name, it's just 'Guillemots' (I'm sure I've saved you from making an embarrassing faux-pas at the concert with that one ).

catch--22

Anyone who hasn't heard this band yet should really check them out. Through The Windowpane was one of my favorite albums of last year.

Two of their best tracks didn't feature though...one was a b-side to the single Made Up Love Song #43 called 'Woody Brown River'. The other featured on a limited release EP from last November called 'Rising Tide'. Worth having a listen!

NapoleonInRags

Personally I always pronounce it 'middle of the road crap'

merritt

Saucer of milk to Napoleon's table, please. Miaow!

It's gilly-moths.

("gilly" rhymes with "silly"!)

iFight

Deleted User wrote:

It's gilly-moths.

("gilly" rhymes with "silly"!)

Sure it's not Gill-i-mots?

catch--22

iFight wrote:

Sure it's not Gill-i-mots?

That's always how I'd say it!

OK then.. "gilly" rhymes with "sill-ih"!

Dublin's Finest

Sh*t name for a band.

Garret

NapoleonInRags wrote:

Personally I always pronounce it 'middle of the road crap'

MOR, Guillemots??

You listening to the same band? I can understand why one might not like Guillemots, but they are not MOR

and its gill (as in a fish's gills) eee, mots (rhymes with dots)

Thats what Fyfe told Tom Dunne anyway.

Oink

http://www.franceswood.net/pidgeon.htm

tells me that it is [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]'Derived from the Old French name Willelm, Guillemot means "Little William" ' . It's also a French last name. So I would pronounce it French style:

Guee-Yuh-mo (Guee as as guitar, mo as in Moses)

and voila, c'est magnifique and fantastique.


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(Garret)

you smell

Why thank you. Oink!

Dr.Slurm

Got their album anyway and I think it's great!It took me a few listens to get into, but so did a lot of my favourite albums. It's so atmospheric and powerful. Probably the best album I have heard all year. Definitely recommended.

magpie

"gill-eh-mots"