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08-22-2018, 11:27 AM
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Pronunciation of "Jaguar"
Alright, no more screwing around. How do you pronounce "jaguar"?
Is is true that Americans say "JAG-wahr"
and Brits says "JAG-you-are"?
T.S. Eliot, an Anglophiliac from Missouri, says, in "Whispers of Immortality"
the couched Brazilian jaguar
Which pronunciation does he intend? I think he affects the British one. Yes?
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08-22-2018, 12:24 PM
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Well, I say jag-you-are and Eliot spent a lot of time in my territory.
More to the point, in that poem, only jag-you-are will scan.
Balance it, as he does, against the marmoset.
Editing in to explain that my jaguar is a dactyl, like my marmoset. I say the "ar" as a definite syllable, but not stressed. It is as if I were saying it as a part of the verb "to be" in a conversational sentence, not "Ah!" like a Romantic Poet, or "Arrr", like a pirate.
Let's ask the man who really knows the beasts: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6byu15
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Last edited by Ann Drysdale; 08-23-2018 at 03:56 AM.
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08-22-2018, 12:37 PM
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I say it more like Jag-you-uh, like this lady
Though if you're Madness then you rhyme it with "car" for obvious reasons.
Last edited by Matt Q; 08-22-2018 at 12:57 PM.
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08-22-2018, 12:47 PM
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Yep, same as Matt and the pronunciation lady.
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08-22-2018, 12:52 PM
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A lot of americans say JAG-wire, and I've always wondered why. Anybody know? Spanish speakers who live where the animals live say HAHG-wahr...
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08-22-2018, 01:12 PM
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I learned to say "JAG-wahr" from Marlin Perkins on Wild Kingdom as a wee person. I didn't know why on earth my teacher pronounced it "JAG-you-are" when she read to us from Winnie the Pooh.
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08-22-2018, 02:12 PM
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If it's a car we Brits pronounce it Jag.
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08-22-2018, 05:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt Q
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Definitely 3 syllables, the way Matt and the lady in the link pronounce it.. not Jag - U - R with the stress on the last syllable; it's more of an 'a'.
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08-22-2018, 06:29 PM
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Oh, you Brits and what you do to terminal "r"s!
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08-22-2018, 07:32 PM
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In New England we call jaguars cougars. My brother-in-law has one. Actually both. (Bostonians say jagwah -- the "h" is silent).
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