QUANDRIES FOR JACQUES BAILLY: Is that thing now pictured in our masthead a "Tree-Buck-it" or a "Tray-boo-chay?" Related--is the game you play with rackets and a shuttlecock (yes, cue Butthead laughing) "bad-mitten" or "bad-mint-on?"
From someone who is fluent in French, I'd say tre-bu-shay. As for the other, I've never been able to figure out where people get bad-mitten from. Isn't there an "n" before the "t"? I've always said bad-min-ton, with the stress on the first syllable. But I could be wrong.
I've always said bad-mitten, but I know that's not pronouncing it how it's spelled. Still, neither is Con-net-i-cut, and that's how my husband and in-laws say it, and everyone else there I've met.
I thought it was treh-boo-shay. And I'm never sure about the second.
ReplyDeleteIt's a treh-boo-say. And although it's rightly Bad-Mint-on, my wife has her HS Varsity letter from playing "bad-mitten" so I stay with that.
ReplyDeleteOn Punkin' Chunkin', they call it a treh-buh-SHAY. And they's the experts.
ReplyDeleteI say bad-mitten, right or wrong. It's unlikely I'll manage to change that now.
Treh-boo-shay, I have it as, and bad-minton.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely trey-boo-shay or trey-buh-shay depending on how you like your "uh"s
ReplyDeleteAs for the second, I think I fall somewhere in between, with "bad-minten"
Definitely is trey-boo-shay and bad-mint-en/on/in/howeveryouwanttopronouncethatlastsyllable.
ReplyDeleteFrom someone who is fluent in French, I'd say tre-bu-shay. As for the other, I've never been able to figure out where people get bad-mitten from. Isn't there an "n" before the "t"? I've always said bad-min-ton, with the stress on the first syllable. But I could be wrong.
ReplyDeleteI'm not wrong about trebuchet, though.
I've always said bad-mitten, but I know that's not pronouncing it how it's spelled. Still, neither is Con-net-i-cut, and that's how my husband and in-laws say it, and everyone else there I've met.
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