RebeccaYouSee

Hello everyone! Silly Question here, but I've always wondered how do you pronounce Fodor's...

Is it:
Foders like rhymes with doe (deer) and foe (enemy) "Foe-ders"
or,
Foders like cannon fodder "Fawh-ders"

Thanks,
Rebecca

Carrybean

There was another post on one of the forums asking this.

Foders like rhymes with doe (deer) and foe (enemy) "Foe-ders"

katya_NY

Fodors rhymes with odors

lobo_mau

For me is with 2 open "o".

caroline_edinburgh

I'd say "Foe-doors". Do people really say "Foe-ders" ?

Cimbrone

Oh gosh, I say "Foe-ders." But the British can't expect the same crisp diction of us Americans

JeanneB

Well, add me to the "foe-DOORS" category.

Perhaps the Moderator can help us here (though I don't know that I could ever retrain myself to pronounce it differently.)

massagediva

In the past there was a mention by the editors that Fodor's rhymes with motors.(Actually it would be odors.)

nyse

And I remember Rex recommended rhyming it with "loaders" and this makes sense to me.

doug_stallings

FOE-doors

Dukey

Doug, is that "official" or just one person's opinion?

RebeccaYouSee

Well, thanks to the Editor and everyone. I'm officially in-the-know.
The word is "Fodor's", emphasis on FO and rhymes with Odors.

Excellent feedback all, and thanks for the info! Off to re-read FOE-Doors Italy 2006 to plan our next daytrip.
CIAO.

Rebecca and her sailor stationed in Naples

PatrickLondon

A cynic might think the tone of some threads suggests "Foe-duhs".

WhineConnoisseur

I have a Foders language tape and in the introduction the speaker pronounces it to rhyme with odors.

That is not how I had pronouced it all these years

caroline_edinburgh

Confused now, people seem to be implying the pronounce "odors" as "oh-doors" ??

RebeccaYouSee

Reviewing the Editor's suggestion, emphasis on the first sylable, "FO" (rhymes with Doe) and dors, said more quickly, not exactly like a DOOR.

So, to close off, to each his own, Fodors, like odors, opens many doors.

Dejais

"Foe-duhs".....good one, PatrickLondon.

JeanneB

Well, I'm still not sure. Let's try this...

Would one say "FOE-ders" (last syllable sounds like the end of "odors" or "loaders&quot?

Or is it "FOE-dores" (last syllable sounds like "doors&quot?

NeoPatrick

I suppose it depends upon who is saying it. Not everyone pronounces "odors" quite the same for that matter, some putting more emphasis on the "or" and some saying it more like "ers" than "ors".