More like AB-sinth or more like AB-santh? Or something else entirely? Chris Hennes Director of Operations chennes egullet. I go with the former, although I know the latter is correct; this holds true for pretty much everyone I know who doesn't actually speak French. My impression is that to most people, the French pronunciation sounds pretentious from someone whose grasp of French is limited to a few words, but it seems natural from someone whom they've frequently heard holding conversations in French this seems to extend to foreign language pronunciations ins general.
Michaela , aka "Mjx" Manager , eG Forums mscioscia egstaff. French is my first language, but I would never pronounce it in the French manner in an English language setting. Anyone doing so comes across as somewhat pretentious. It is the sort of behaviour I would expect from supercilious waiting staff in bad French restaurants.
The Kitchen Scale Manifesto. If I were paying attention, I'd probably say "AB-sinth. Homepage and writings ; A Frolic of My Own personal blog. Not quite sure I follow Mjx's point about people who do speak French using the "former" i. English pronunciation, but anyway what I've explained to Chris and Liuzhou is that I've been hearing about absinthe for, literally, about 40 years it was an extremely uncommon word in US for the first 35 of those and only ever heard the French pronunc. Some years ago on a New Orleans online food forum, I saw postings from people who saw others swirling wine in glasses, didn't know what it was about, and assumed I think more technically the behavior word is projected that it was some kind of affectation or pretense.
I suppose there may actually be people who do it for that reason, but it's amazing to see someone interpret wine-swirling that way, if you like wine and regularly taste, and just want to get a good solid smell impression, which is why everyone I know swirls it in glasses.
That was my mistake: I meant 'latter'. But among those I know, the only ones who inevitably use the French pronunciation are, in fact French.
A large part of this may be due to the fact that, among those I know, the word generally occurs in the sentence 'I've never tried absinthe. As a French and Spanish speaker, I've always pronounced it ab-SANt h with the th sound pronounced more towards t than th. At least with absinthe the two pronunciations are relatively close to one another. I went to grad school with a guy who insisted on using the italian pronunciation of "biscotti": I never saw a clerk in the US understand him on the first try in the whole time I knew him!
There are always subsets of people who insist on using the pronunciation from a word's original language out of some sort of idealogical purity: it seems at least with absinthe that's not really the case, it's just that historically the only people who talked about it spoke French! So perhaps as the word is further assimilated into English that usage will fall even further away.
How did he pronounce it?! The English pronunciation isn't that different from the Italian one, it's just I've e-mailed some people I know, who actually drink absinthe, since I'm curious as to their pronunciation; they may be more accurate in their pronunciation. Very interesting!
I pronounce it approximately ab sant because, well the French speakers surrounding me growing up pronounced it that way. A Quick Overview Of Absinthe Absinthe Pronunciation Absinthe is a French word - you may not realize this, but there is no 'th' sound in French, so if you want to be authentic, say it with a hard 't' sound on the end. What is Absinthe exactly?
Absinthe - The Green Fairy Absinthe is traditionally served by pouring it into a glass over which a special spoon is suspended. Drink it at your own risk - in the words of Oscar Wilde: "After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were. Similar Words. Which only goes to prove how little you actually know.
But I haven't gotten out to see you Left Coasters, so I'd imagine there are regional differences. I'm with Hiram on that I have always heard it pronounced as though it rhymed with couch Do you guys mean regional differences in america?
The french pronounce it "loosh". I have served it to several close friends who are native french, and not only did they pronounce it that way, but told me a few extra meanings for it. It's most commonly used to mean cross-eyed, and because of that it is also used as slang for crazy like when you point at your ear and twirl you finger to mean crazy It's also used to mean evasive, a sketchy character, and that's derived from the "cloudy or unclear" definition of the word. In the movie French Kiss, when Luc is trying to explain to Kate how to pronounce his name, it sounds the same only with an sh instead of a k.
Sheesh, talk about pedantic Why is it so pedantic? This is an absinthe forum, and we want to know how to pronounce the word louche. I should add the pronunciations back to the Glossary. Oh goody! I'm so glad someone started this, I didn't want to for fear of flamage. Oh watch how I butcher this Fougerolles I know that other thread covered the "G" but not the word itself. I just can't speak a lick of French Pontarlier - the ie at the end is a glide between the two vowels, like in liaison.
The final "r" is silent, but the first is pronounced. And of course, all pronounced "r"s are French "r"s. So, put that all together for Fougerolles. The only thing that runs through my head when I see that word is "For gey rolles" haha. And with the second of Montmartre, you're right, I meant "truh" that's how I said it to myself in trying to spell it phonetically.
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