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  • Pronunciation experts?
  • billyboulders
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    Following a conversation regarding my riding attire at work today, how do we say “gilet”?

    Jee-lay?
    Jee-let?
    Gill-lay?
    Gillit?

    None of the above?

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    say what you see

    V E S T

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    Tank top.
    Or if it has a zip, waistcoat.

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    4ndyB
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    gee-lay is how I pronounce it, no idea if I’m right or wrong, it sounds right to me & no one’s corrected me on it so far

    yunki
    Free Member

    jee-lay

    Klunk
    Free Member

    gillit init.

    ElShalimo
    Full Member

    zhee-lay

    ps44
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    jojoA1
    Free Member

    It’s “zhee-lay” with the emphasis on the “zhee”. It’s French ffs, it makes me cringe to hear people say “ghyll-it” or “jill-it”. If you can’t bring yourself to say a French word properly, then call it a “sleeveless windproof” or “waistcoat” or something. And please not “vest”, it’s a vile Americanism.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    It’s French ffs,

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DSgsON3u8E[/video]

    Drac
    Full Member

    It’s “zhee-lay” with the emphasis on the “zhee”. It’s French ffs,

    http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en&tab=wT#auto|fr|gillet

    druidh
    Free Member

    jojoA1 – Member
    It’s French ffs,

    And how do you pronounce Gigot?

    ernie_lynch
    Free Member

    Yeah it’s zhee-lay, but the “lay” bit isn’t quite right. I don’t think there’s an english sound/pronunciation which corresponds with that french sound/pronunciation. If you know how to say “lait” as in the french for milk, it’s that – zhee-lait.

    Mind you I struggle even pronouncing english words correctly as Her Majesty would, so I’m probably not exactly the best person to give an opinion.

    billyboulders
    Free Member

    Cool-I was right then. Workmates are Cornish ‘tho so they struggle with English pronunciation, let alone French words! 😆

    #goes to practise smug look in the mirror ready for tomorrow#

    Drac
    Full Member

    And how do you pronounce Gigot?

    I wonder if he gets as angry when his wife ask for flowers.

    trailmonkey
    Full Member

    It’s French ffs, it makes me cringe to hear people say “ghyll-it” or “jill-it”. If you can’t bring yourself to say a French word properly

    right. i’m assuming your cross lingual pronunciation is perfect.

    bet you drink lartay.

    ElShalimo
    Full Member

    druidh – Member

    And how do you pronounce Gigot?

    – zhee-go
    or if you’re from oop north it’s a jiggot, as in gigot of pork

    “Gigot” is a ballache as it’s also slang franglais for “I go”

    ElShalimo
    Full Member

    I learnt all my French here

    julianwilson
    Free Member

    I love that video. 😀

    Funnily enough, for a song about 2 blokes who don’t know any french, their pronounciation is not bad really. Jermaine even says ‘Bonjour’ with something that sounds (to my half eeengleesh half pyrenéen ears) like a Calais accent.

    jojoA1
    Free Member

    “bet you drink lartay”

    Even when mispronouncing it, they don’t say it like that up here in North East Scotland. People would stab you for being from out of town.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    how do we say “gilet”?

    Correctly.

    jojoA1
    Free Member

    D’accord, Capitain Coer-eclair! 😉

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    And please not “vest”, it’s a vile Americanism.

    You’re fake scotch just like TJ, then ? 😉

    druidh
    Free Member

    She is, yes. Born south of the border but likes to pretend otherwise.

    (and that’s not a vest in the photo, it’s a simmit)

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    Jee ‘ey.

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    “(and that’s not a vest in the photo, it’s a simmit) “
    The king would beg to differ
    (don’t make us invade again, before you even leave !!)

    The sleeveless garment worn by men beneath the coat was introduced by Charles II.

    The King hath yesterday, in Council, declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes …. It will be a vest, I know not well how; but it is to teach the nobility thrift. [Pepys, “Diary,” Oct. 8, 1666]

    … don’t ask me how I know all this stuff 😉

    Pook
    Full Member

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvSnXl6GJHs[/video]

    it’s not though.

    It’s actually zjee-lay, with zjee pronounced like Zsa Zsa Gabor

    ojom
    Free Member

    That advert has to be the worst ever made. Could it be any cheesier?

    bruneep
    Full Member

    jojoA1 – Member
    “bet you drink lartay”

    Even when mispronouncing it, they don’t say it like that up here in North East Scotland. People would stab you for being from out of town.

    But life in Buckie is another thread altogether. Have to go there on Tuesday night for work, I’ll try not to do eye contact with the locals.

    boblo
    Free Member

    Must be time for this again?

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=f11-ClTi3og[/video]

    mrdestructo
    Full Member

    I own one, but never wear it. It was an insane purchase many years ago. When I got home I remembered the only French I knew courtesy of one of our local lads being trussed up in the back of a van at a dock strike about 20 years ago and thrown out after 5hrs.

    “Encule de Francais!!”

    jota180
    Free Member

    how do we say “gilet”?

    It doesn’t matter, it can’t hear you

    It’s only problematic at dinner parties in the ‘burbs should the polite conversation get around to cycling attire. The embarrassment from getting it wrong would probably mean a – self imposed – exile for a few months

    muddyman
    Free Member

    Muddywoman says jilay ( its a horsey thing apparently!? ) so naturally I say gillet as it winds her up a treat !! 😀

    Cougar
    Full Member

    It’s spelt “gilet” but it’s pronounced “throatwobbler-mangrove”.

    Rusty-Shackleford
    Free Member

    jojoA1 – Member

    It’s French ffs, it makes me cringe to hear people say “ghyll-it” or “jill-it”. If you can’t bring yourself to say a French word properly…So how do you pronounce Paris?

    konabunny
    Free Member

    Gilets are sibboleths. Or are they shibboleths?

    BigJohn
    Full Member

    L I M P

    Pronounced limp.

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    I’ve often wondered how shibboleth is pronounced
    (either/both)

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    I’ve often wondered how shibboleth is pronounced

    Why do you ask brother?

    DezB
    Free Member

    And please not “vest”, it’s a vile Americanism.

    It’s b-o-d-y w-a-r-m-e-r.

    Imbicylists.

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