Expensive brands usually come with one thing besides high prices and glamour, they're absurdly hard to pronounce!! LOL Well, mainly because a lot of them are in French, so people like us Asians obviously struggle to get the right pronounciation.
Here's a few brands I've managed to confirm and sharing how they should be pronounced:
HERMES - In French, it's pronounced as air-mess (don't forget to accentuate the R for 'air'), but often known as Her-mees (also acceptable)
L'OCCITANE - lox- ee- tahn
LOUIS VUITTON - louie-vee-thonk (s for Louis is silent)
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO - Most of us would have gotten this one right, it's sell-vah-toe-reh-fair-rah-gah-moe (again, don't forget the strong R)
ESTEE LAUDER - This one's pretty easy too, it's es-tay-loh-der
GUERLAIN - ger-lahn (ger as in GARY's gar, with a strong R)
These are just a few. Do share if you have any others LOL
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
I Just Bought A Loo-Is-Wooi-Torn U'Know...LOL
Posted by mrs phillippe at 3:25 PM
Labels: much ado about nothing
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3 comments:
Haha, I never knew Vuitton is pronounced as 'vee-thonk', I always say 'vee-torn', thought I was right all this time hu..hu..
i know wat u mean. a few brands was like dat to me as well, i pronounced them confidently all this while not knowing i was pronouncing it all wrong LOL
Haha no la Savante, I do not own any LV yet, find myself interested in only very few designs from this brand actually, despite its popularity.
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