One More Pronunciation Please
How do you pronounce "quai"? Thanks
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K
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Are you sure it isn't "key"
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sorry, quay is key
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Like the italian "che". Hope you speak some Italian. ;)
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Che in Italian is also "K" I stick to my original assertion.
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quay (English) is "key" - - but "quai" (French) is much closer to "kay" - - or a hybrid between "kay" and "keh".<BR><BR>We've had this discussion on the sounds of mes, mets, mai and mais before.<BR><BR>You'll do fine with the "kay" sound.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>
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But in Italian, the letter K is pronounced kappa. So is quai really pronounced kappa? :-)
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Very cute, Kappa.
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So does that mean, in Italy, one orders a quaicinno in the morning? :~)
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What is a quaicinno? You lost me.
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*If* "quai" = "kappa" then...
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Quai can be k or kay or cay. It's not a sound on the river, of course, or what the late marshall called himself. This is being overstudied, naturally. Just give it the AO-K, and drop the Don Jo or caribbean sound portion. K?
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In French, "quai" as in the thing running along the Seine or the thing you stand on before you get onto the metro is pronounced : "kay".
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Sally,<BR><BR>Quai is pronounced "keh". Saying "kay" will instantly give you away as a native English speaker (not that saying "keh" will stave that off an awfully long moment though, or so I supose....;-)).<BR><BR>Phil
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Capo, you have way too much time on your hands.
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Phil is right; "quay" is pronouced "keh". C'est comme cela qu'il faut prononcer !
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Speaking of pronounciations...<BR><BR>In addition to the one on London, I also watched a Travel Channel show on Rome last night. The narrator kept pronouncing "pasta" as if it rhymed with "fast-a", not "cost-a." <BR><BR>In the U.S. it seems to be generally prounced as rhyming with "cost-a." Isn't that also the way it's pronounced in Italy?
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My Canadian (Vancouver) friends all say past-a like fast-a. (They also say Mazz-da for the car.) I have always wondered if Italians pronounce it to rhyme with fast-a....
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It's a British (and apparently Canadian) quirk. Italians say it to rhyme with "hasta" (as in la vista).
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