How do you pronounce "YouTube"?

hatrickpatrick

Not sure if this is a country specific thing, an accent thing or what, but I've noticed people have a bunch of different ways of pronouncing this:

You-chewb (how I say it)
You-Toob (American?)
You-tewb / you-tyoub
You-choob

Which way is technically correct and what differentiates people with different ones? I get the feeling turning a "t" into a "ch" sound is an Irish thing?

wazky

Porn-choob

Pai Mei

First one. But what is different from the first and last choice? Sound the same to me.

Links234

I pronounce it Youtube

Talib Fiasco

You-chew-boob

PizzamanIRL

You should have said how do you pronounce 'tube'

greentea is just wrong

you're a tube

DEFTLEFTHAND

You Chewb.

P_1

Tube-you-ca

Duckworth_Luas

U2boob

JustAddWater

Red tube

For, emmm... all the latest man utd news

The Backwards Man

Ewetube sur.

rustedtrumpet

I'm going to enter you into a world of pain..

Duckworth_Luas

JustAddWater wrote: »

Red tube

For, emmm... all the latest man utd news

I just check that site, looks like there are a lot of tits and cocks at United these days. Just like during the Ferguson years! :eek:

efb

You tyoub

downwithpeace

You Chewb in a sentance.
Youtube in a question.

fussyonion

I pronounce it: "Wkjndfjkbmkbmfogmbofigmb".
And that is the correct way. Fact.

Jimmy Iovine

I convinced my brother a few years ago that it was pronounced "the ooh tube". He feel for it for a few weeks.

Mr. G

You-chewb. You've confused me now thinking about it!

I know someone that always types U Tube in Google. The first time he did it I nearly pissed myself laughing

I still don't know does he actually know its You and not U, or whether he couldn't be bothered typing in You.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Yawooooo Tayooooob.

Reamer Fanny

You Porn

hatrickpatrick

Pai Mei wrote: »

First one. But what is different from the first and last choice? Sound the same to me.

"chewb" has a bit of a "you" sound in it whereas "choob" only has an "oo" sound. "Chewb" is rounder.

Think of it like the difference between the vowel sound in "cube" and "cool".

hatrickpatrick

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

You should have said how do you pronounce 'tube'

Not necessarily, a word being the suffix of another word can change its pronunciation completely I've found - Struggling to think of any examples now (Say how "man" in names like "Goldman" is generally pronounced much shorter than "man" on its own)

Firefox11

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

You Chewb.

Chewb Chewb:P

ado100

It depends on where you're from.

fonecrusher1

You-Toob (American?)

Well unless you're American thats deeply sad. Hearing a lot of little Americanisms infecting the Irish accent lately.

Mom
Soda
Sneakers...

....hold on a sec....sneakers? WTF is that? you mean runners is it you sad cabbage.

:rolleyes:

BTW: Nothing against our American brothers. I suppose imitation is the highest form of flattery as they say. :pac:

rustedtrumpet

Youtube Youtubee

ardle1

The video thingy me bob

rustedtrumpet

U2

Davidius

yoh-uh tubby

bored swahn kur

yoot youb

Novella

I say You-Choob. My boyfriend is American and he's started to say it like that to mock me. He pronounces it YouToob.

MugMugs

Novella wrote: »

He pronounces it YouToob.

They all do !

Tube - Toob
Attitude - Attitood
Tune - Toon


It drives me demented

stoneill

I pronounce it the same way that people from Tuam do.

Czarcasm

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kiffer

I thought I said tube... but on closer inspection these are loafers I say chewb. I would prefer to say tewb with a more distinct 'T' sound as this means less misunderstandings.

Years ago I said 'actually' a lot. A Canadian girl asked me if I thought it was a real word... only now do I really realise that she was hearing ak-shoe-alley...

hatrickpatrick

kiffer wrote: »

I thought I said tube... but on closer inspection these are loafers I say chewb. I would prefer to say tewb with a more distinct 'T' sound as this means less misunderstandings.

Years ago I said 'actually' a lot. A Canadian girl asked me if I thought it was a real word... only now do I really realise that she was hearing ak-shoe-alley...

Myself and my mates are even worse, for us it's a two syllable word pronounced "acksh-lee" (first syllable is like "axe" except with a "sh" sound on the x instead of just an s). The phrase "Did he ackshlee?" is common when talking about an unbelievable story, and it's a four syllable sentence

Genuinely only realised recently that this might be a uniquely Irish thing

RossyG

Yoo Tchoob.

I pronounce Google as 'tax-dodging ****ers'.

Red Nissan

GoogleTube is more accurate.

Red Nissan

RossyG wrote: »

Yoo Tchoob.

I pronounce Google as 'tax-dodging ****ers'.

It gets worse, google search, chrome, gmail, youtube, google maps, google earth, google satnav

and they know everything about you and will for one thousand years after your death. their alleged tax manipulation is only a smoke screen.

Nemeses

Czarcasm wrote: »

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