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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2014, 08:42:25 PM »
Pronounced exactly like the German word for 'Thank you', danke which is pronounced daank...ah. Just my humble opinion here but because it is a human's name rather than a languages' word, I think it should be pronounced the way the person with the name pronounces it. That said..... the actress, Rachel Weiss (Weiss is the German word for 'white').

Wice
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Vice

I think the next one should be in honor of Virgina Jim.... Vodka.

Vodka
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Wadka?

Or is it really Wirginia Jim?

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Porsche....


Porsh or Porsha?  ??? :-\
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2014, 09:18:46 PM »
Porsche....


Porsh or Porsha?  ??? :-\

Toy oat or Toy oat ah ?

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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2014, 09:23:47 PM »

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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2014, 09:30:15 PM »
Toy...yo... ta.

How 'bout that pesky one of late, calling coyotE's coyot's. ??? What is up with that. If the 'E' in not pronounced on the end of the name, the first name and initial, Wily E Coyot just does not sense? A national treasure, ripped from our collective psyche by the language police! And what if they are not right? Should we sick the polic on them? Put them in jal? For how many yars?

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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2014, 09:31:48 PM »
First off:  Crap! my bad, I didnt search for another thread....  I usually live in the maintenance/ mod portions of forums, not te open forums, and I hadnt seen it pop up there in the last few months.  Also, I may have been a bit on the drunk side when I posted it. (and it was only 1600! We finished our duties early...)



Anyways, what I'm gathering that theres really "no wrong way" to pronounce it, but the "right way" is the french way... (Not a bad thing, its a french word... Damn all of you who focus so much on political correctness that I have to lay this disclaimer... And if you don't care about PC, I congradulate you, and I'm sorry you had to read the disclaimer...)

I've never been one to really care about such things, I just plan on riding the wheels off of the freaking thing.  I just thought it interesting that there were so many different (2) pronunciations that were common for it, and dont exactly like sounding like a dömääss lol
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2014, 09:36:05 PM »
I thought you'ns sold that great bike.  :-\
Yup!!  Sad, but true.  I just wasn't going to ride it much the next couple of years (I think in French the "S" is silent). ;)

In Poland Vodka is pronounce "Voodka"  I think we should start a thread to discuss the proper pronunciation of various booze, including beer. 
I'll go first,  "Coors", pronounced the same as a motorcycle known as "Connie", or ZG, or C14.  Say it slowly, "Con-Coors" ;D

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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2014, 09:47:58 PM »
...
I'll go first,  "Coors", pronounced the same as ...

... the stuff that comes out the south end of a horse going north.

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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2014, 09:58:27 PM »
... the stuff that comes out the south end of a horse going north.

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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2014, 10:19:02 PM »
I have two motorcycles, one is "The Kaw" and the other is "The Zook".  That's good enough for me.
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2014, 11:10:36 PM »
I've always called it a ZG 14

That is one way to solve what is not really a problem

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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #30 on: February 11, 2014, 11:14:33 PM »
Just as a matter of opinion: I believe correctly it is pronounced Concour but we tend to 'fix' it by anglicizing it so we pronounce the 's'.  We borrow words from other languages but tend to 'English' them up by pronouncing them differently. After a while, that is accepted as one of the pronunciations.

To that I will just say "rendezvous"
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #31 on: February 12, 2014, 04:06:24 AM »
Ha...you think you got it tough.

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Goozee or Gootsee?

Hint: pizza.
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #32 on: February 12, 2014, 04:08:57 AM »
I'm more of a Gootsee person...
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #33 on: February 12, 2014, 06:17:42 AM »
Yep, that is why I said 'tend', not 'do'.

Some French words we use exactly as the French do- debris (like this thread) comes to mind.

And never forget, the "e" in 'douche' is silent.  ;)

Brian

To that I will just say "rendezvous"
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #34 on: February 12, 2014, 06:39:51 AM »


If you still don't believe history, dictionaries, tradition, and other language rules, then just go by the only three official, Kawasaki-produced videos where the word Concours is uttered:

2010 Kawasaki Concours™ 14 - Official Preview
Kawasaki Concours14 2008
2008 Kawasaki Concours14 Movie

You're welcome for that.   ;)
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #35 on: February 12, 2014, 08:02:49 AM »
Does it really matter how one word is pronounced when almost no one can speak, or write properly in English?   I will include myself as well.  I don't claim to be an expert, but some posts are really terrible! 
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #36 on: February 12, 2014, 08:14:44 AM »
Is that a result of a texting society or failure to use an education?

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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #37 on: February 12, 2014, 08:16:18 AM »
My unscientific survey shows that the following words are more often than not mispronounced:

- Realtor, most often pronounced as Real-a-tor (I have never understood where folks get that extra syllable).
- Moot, most often mispronouned as Mute, rhyming with butte.

Or maybe this is just a southern thing? In any event, I call my bike a C14. It's easier to say and to type.
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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #38 on: February 12, 2014, 08:24:56 AM »
How far south does a thing have to be to be called a southern thing?

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Re: 'Concours' or 'Concour'
« Reply #39 on: February 12, 2014, 08:34:23 AM »
Is that a result of a texting society or failure to use an education?

Yes.
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