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PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
Until now, I pronounced it Penny but Pen-ey (as in Pen-ay!) appears to be correct.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronun ... lish/penne
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pe ... &FORM=VIRE
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronun ... lish/penne
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pe ... &FORM=VIRE
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
AleisterCrowley wrote:Pennay
Penny
Pen
Pennuh
Other?
None of those quite work. Two syllables, the first strong, the second throwaway, a very natural "ne" that might be approximated by any of your two-syllable options [edit: your "pennay" was hiding when I typed the first version of this reply].
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
All that time spent in Italian restaurants has not been wasted...
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
redsturgeon wrote:All that time spent in Italian restaurants has not been wasted...
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Time spent in Italian restaurants is never wasted, IMHO.
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
AleisterCrowley wrote:Pennay
Penny
Pen
Pennuh
Other?
1. If you're English: any bloody way you like, but commonly "Pennay", i.e. rhyming with 10a in "The correct house number is 10a, not 9a".
2. If you're Italian or are trying to approximate Italian: Italian has five vowel sounds [EDIT: actually 7, c.f. 20 in English RP]: a, e, i, o, u; as a first approximation they never change their pronunciation and are spoken as written. Thus pen-ne is two syllables: unaspirated p in the first; the same e vowel sound in each; first syllable stressed; and the "n" pronounced in each syllable, i.e. sounding like the n in the two syllables of "pen-knife".
The whole word would approximate to an unaspirated version of the English "pen-neck" without the final "ck" -- if such a word existed!
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
Penne is pronounced " puh-en-nay" ( the p as in puff ) and is the plural of penna (pen).
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
It's pronounced PEN in our house and we'll probably continue to pronounce it that way forever more.
We eat it, buy it, order it and talk about it so infrequently it really doesn't matter diddly squat wether we are right of wrong.
We eat it, buy it, order it and talk about it so infrequently it really doesn't matter diddly squat wether we are right of wrong.
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
Listen on Google Translate https://translate.google.com/#view=home ... text=penne (use the loudspeaker icon).
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
There's never any consistency in how we pronounce foreign words in English. Note for example the (usually) different treatments of the French cities Paris and Lyon.
Maybe we always land on a pronunciation that's not too foreign sounding. Pen-nay may sound better to our ears than pen-neh.
Scott.
Maybe we always land on a pronunciation that's not too foreign sounding. Pen-nay may sound better to our ears than pen-neh.
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Re: PENNE (pasta) pronounciation
Maroochydore wrote:Listen on Google Translate https://translate.google.com/#view=home ... text=penne (use the loudspeaker icon).
Compare with: https://translate.google.com/#view=home ... &text=pene
Almost as entertaining as mispronouncing the response to "How old are you?"
Responding with "Ho quaranta ani" instead of "Ho quaranta anni" is guaranteed to get you a laugh...
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