Pronunciation question!

Cheery Bunny · 13-12-2005 10:29PM #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

BuffyBot · 13-12-2005 11:52PM

Mullingar, rhymes with car

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

whiskeyman · 13-12-2005 11:59PM

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

Briony Noh · 04-01-2006 11:26AM

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.

Pronunciation question!

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