Hotel de la Paix
 

Need help on pronunciation. My wife says Paix is pronounced like: Pa ees sounding like 2 syllables. I say it's like : peh as in the word pet. Any help out there? Thanks

"<i>peh as in the word pet</i>"

More like that than two syllables. Something between pay and peh

Translate with google http://translate.google.com/# and listen. One syllable.

To someone whose native language is English the closest most people will probably get is "pay". It is definitely one syllable - not two, And "pay" isn;t exactly right but will be understood.

French is hard to figure out, if you drop the P to Aix, then it's eggs rather than ae.

peh??? not close according to any pronunciation of a short "e" which I assume is what you mean. Just a suggtestion, but why don't you two get a basic French-English dictionary, it will have the pronunciation of words in phonetics. I agree with nytraveler, just say "pay" and that's infinitely better than either one of your two guesses. Even a rudimentary travel dictionary should havepronunciation in it (I have some real small cheap ones by Dover that are pretty good).

The 'X' is just silent in that word, that's all, so if you don't know how to pronou

French isn't at all hard to figure out, it has very standard rules of pronunciation. It's just hard to figure out if you don't learn anything about it, that's all.

<<French isn't at all hard to figure out, it has very standard rules of pronunciation>>

So how come AIX en Provence is pronounced like Eggs or Eks instead of between Ay and Eh when PAIX is pronounced Pay or Peh.