Dinnuh-sty?

[Prufrock451]

Those of you who have watched the intro movie and grew up speaking English... surely this stuck out for you too.

Yes, I realize every other civilized language keeps the Latin pronunciation, but we don't. The whole intro screeched to a halt for me when I heard "dinnuh-sty."

 

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Those of you who have watched the intro movie and grew up speaking English... surely this stuck out for you too.

Yes, I realize every other civilized language keeps the Latin pronunciation, but we don't. The whole intro screeched to a halt for me when I heard "dinnuh-sty."

Oh yes, it all sounds very "proper" - it didn't really bother me, but I noticed it.

Jono

 

[Tolstoyevsky]

dinnuh-sty is still better than nuculear.

 

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Isn't that the way the British pronounce it? I've never actually heard a British person say it, it just seems to sound right with the accent

 

[Eldin]

The speaker in the intro movie is most definitely no Brit, or at least not one speaking in an accent I know of. I doubt it is even a native speaker...

 

[Commandante]

Isn't that the way the British pronounce it? I've never actually heard a British person say it, it just seems to sound right with the accent

It does sound correct, now that you mention it, but I thought it was pronounced more along the lines of the first "y" of "dynasty" like "y" in "why". But perhaps that is the North American pronounciation?

 

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Isn't that the way the British pronounce it? I've never actually heard a British person say it, it just seems to sound right with the accent

No, not really. I have a very neutral/standard English accent and I'd say it as

die-nas-tee

But the 'nas' should be a soft A, more like 'nus'. It's not dyNAS-ty with a big pause before the last syllable, however you say it.

 

[Kurek]

I be British, and I don't know how you foreigners pronounce dynasty but it sounded fine in the intro to me
mmmm That Into was good, and those screenies... man I want this game.

 

[Prufrock451]

Be that as it may, "dinnuh-sty" still sounds weird in an American Broadcast Standard accent.

 

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so we have one Brit saying it sounds fine, another saying he knows no one who says it like that (the description given is how I pronounce it), must be a regional pronounciation.

It definently sounds weird to North American ears.

 

[bgibbard]

so we have one Brit saying it sounds fine, another saying he knows no one who says it like that (the description given is how I pronounce it), must be a regional pronounciation.

It definently sounds weird to North American ears.

Not necessarily. Like you, I am Canadian, but I sometimes use one pronunciation, and sometimes the other. (I haven't been able to decide if there is any particular pattern to when I use which pronunciation.)

 

[Xoxxon]

It's like how Julius Caesar would say "dynasty" if he spoke English and was still alive. And he'd enunciate clearly and everything, just like he did in all those movies he starred in in the fifties.

 

[Earl Uhtred]

Well, this Englander says dinner-sty.

 

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Well, this Englander says dinner-sty.

why does that make me think of a farm at meal time

die-nasty, like your wishing bad upon someone, thats the only way I have heard any local around here say it, though I have heard other ways on TV.

 

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Well, this Englander says dinner-sty.

That's because you is a Geordie.

 

[Earl Uhtred]

That's because you is a Geordie.

I'll let you in on a secret, I'm not really a Geordie... I only moved up here two years ago. They tell me I sound like William Hague...

Geordies would say 'fambleh'

 

[Kurek]

Two years living up north is enough to permanently destroy your English. They speak in strange ways... Not like us from the Westcountry, drink up thy zider! ooo aaarrrr

 

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I'll let you in on a secret, I'm not really a Geordie... I only moved up here two years ago. They tell me I sound like William Hague...

Geordies would say 'fambleh'

Is shocked to the core

Well I have a thorough-bred Geordie in my office and I asked him how he'd say Dynasty; like you, he said "dinnur-stee".

 

[trajan]

Oh why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

For those who are about to jump me, go watch My Fair Lady.

 

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Oh why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

For those who are about to jump me, go watch My Fair Lady.

Because there's never been a more accurate representation of what the English are really like.