Guest guest Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 As far as I know that's how it's pronounced. K.C. Kefir Pronunciations Pat, You mentioned the correct pronounciation of kefir. I've always pronounced it "KEE-fur". Is that right? It's so embarrasing to mispronounce something! ~ Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Same here. I got booted and then they sent me a message as to how to get back on my groups. What's with that? Do they just arbitrarily boot people off? K.C. RE: Kefir Pronunciations I know I'm not Pat, but I got curious when the question came up. According the Webster Online Dictionary, there are three ways to pronounce kefir and "KEE-fur" is one of them. The other two are "Keh-FEAR", listed first, and probably the most correct way, and "KEH-fur" the way I always want to pronounce it. http://webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary & va=kefir And if someone has already posted a link to this dictionary entry, my apologies. I wasn't getting RawDairy messages for a while to due a Yahoo foul up and may have missed it. C. Coombes -----Original Message-----From: RawDairy [mailto:RawDairy ] On Behalf Of FitzhenrySent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:38 AMTo: RawDairy Subject: Kefir Pronunciations Pat, You mentioned the correct pronounciation of kefir. I've always pronounced it "KEE-fur". Is that right? It's so embarrasing to mispronounce something! ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 I think it's like anything else. Depending on where you live, you may pronounce things differently. You know.....you say tomato and I say tom-mat-o. K.C. Re: Kefir Pronunciations Hi all, Please, trust the foreigner, the correct pronunciation is Keh-fear..... Barbara Pat, You mentioned the correct pronounciation of kefir. I've always pronounced it "KEE-fur". Is that right? It's so embarrasing to mispronounce something! ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 That is true K.C. but I'm talking about the correct pronunciation from the country and the language of origin. If we "borrow" the word from other language we should learn to pronounce it correctly, otherwise we could use the English equivalent. Barbara I think it's like anything else. Depending on where you live, you may pronounce things differently. You know.....you say tomato and I say tom-mat-o. K.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 If we stuck to all of that, we'd never have the American English language. If Webster's offers the three pronunciations, I say, go with it! I pronounce it mostly as KEE-FIR, myself. Robin > > MessageThat is true K.C. but I'm talking about the correct pronunciation from the country and the language of origin. If we " borrow " the word from other language we should learn to pronounce it correctly, otherwise we could use the English equivalent. > > Barbara > > > > > > I think it's like anything else. Depending on where you live, you may pronounce things differently. You know.....you say tomato and I say tom-mat-o. > > K.C. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Since that's the only way I've ever heard it pronounced, I'll stick with myself. Within our country alone there are several different accents and I guess you could say dialects that pronounce the same words differently. Since I'm a West Coast person, born and raised and have lived in the west and northwest mostly, all the people I've ever heard say the word say KEE-FIR too. I would imagine people in Europe and Asia say it differently as well. K.C. Re: Kefir Pronunciations > If we stuck to all of that, we'd never have the American English > language. If Webster's offers the three pronunciations, I say, go with > it! I pronounce it mostly as KEE-FIR, myself. > > Robin > > > >> >> MessageThat is true K.C. but I'm talking about the correct > pronunciation from the country and the language of origin. If we > " borrow " the word from other language we should learn to pronounce it > correctly, otherwise we could use the English equivalent. >> >> Barbara >> >> >> >> >> >> I think it's like anything else. Depending on where you live, you > may pronounce things differently. You know.....you say tomato and I > say tom-mat-o. >> >> K.C. >> > > > > > > > > PLEASE BE KIND AND TRIM YOUR POSTS WHEN REPLYING! > Visit our Raw Dairy Files for a wealth of information! > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RawDairy/files/ > > Archive search: http://onibasu.com > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Want to actually here a recording of the correct pronunciation, go here http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html Scroll down to " So Dom, what is Kefir " Click on the link to hear the recording. See what you think. Pat H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 He says it's KAH-FEER...totally different than what I've EVER heard...oh well, guess it depends on where you're from, and who you talk to.... Robin > > Want to actually here a recording of the correct pronunciation, go > here http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html Scroll down > to " So Dom, what is Kefir " Click on the link to hear the recording. > See what you think. > > Pat H > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Yeah, it's almost sounds that we don't even make in the English language, but cool, huh? And sexy sounding voice. Pat H > > > > Want to actually here a recording of the correct pronunciation, go > > here http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html Scroll down > > to " So Dom, what is Kefir " Click on the link to hear the recording. > > See what you think. > > > > Pat H > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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