how to pronounce..

[robmazco]

Chilee or Chilay?

Chili - Chile'

Do I want a bowl of chili or chile
Was there an earthquake in Chili or Chile

I guess it probably comes down to accents and such. Was never good at foreign languages (english either for that matter..) so...Ideas?

 

[Welshbird]

From the side of a pond with Queen Betty, I'd have to say Chillee with no doubts whatsoever.

Fee

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[SF0751]

You have a bowl of CHILLY for lunch.
There was an earthquake recently in CHILL-LAY.

At least, that's how I say it.

Susan
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and you have their shoes.”

 

[CajunCenturion]

I'm with Susan
chili (Chil - EE) is the food.
Chile (Chil - AY) is the country.


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[Trevoke]

I'd say a bowl of chil-ih con carne, and an earthquake in Chil-eh, not chil-ay.

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[Turkbear]

Hi,
To hear the country name :

http://www.forvo.com/word/chile/

(Spanish pronunciation)

or

to read a large discussion ( with much disagreement) try:

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=23

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[flapeyre]

Spanish is one of those languages where everything is supposed to be pronounced consistently (which is why there are very few bad spellers in Spanish - few, if any, homonyms).

I was taught that it was pronounced CHEE-lay.

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[SkipVought]

How about...

Afghanistan?

af-GAN-nih-stan

or

off-GONE-nih-stahn

http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/d154/Afghanistan

I've hear somebody rather famous using the latter.


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[tcsbiz]

I vote for CHEE-lay. I've also heard it as SHEE-lay.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I'm with Fee on this one... both would be Chillee.

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[Annihilannic]

As with Fee and Dan, I have always heard and said "chilly" for both.

Of course, if I was Spanish or Chilean, I would disagree with myself:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/RepChile.ogg

Annihilannic.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Saying Chill-lay would remind me too much of "respect my authorit-tay"



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[stackdump]

Listening to how Chileans say it at

http://www.forvo.com/word/chile/,

the "i" sounds like "e" in cheese, the final "e" sounds more like the "e" in "chess", so Cheelleh (rather than Chillay or Chillee).

 

[hjgoldstein]

I think the issue is not "correct" but "received" pronunciation.

We say Paris, the Parisians say Paree. Neither one is wrong, simply the local variation.

 

[2ffat]

I'm surprised no one has brought this up, "It was chilly in Chile so ate some chili." [small]Ducks and runs away[/small]


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[gbaughma]

Listening to the pronunciations sounded... well... a lot like the way I was always taught it sounded. "Chee-Leh" (almost sounds like "lay" at the end, but softer).



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[Trevoke]

We say Paris, the Parisians say Paree. Neither one is wrong, simply the local variation.

No, actually.. Parisians say "Parih". It's a short 'eeh' sound, like at the end of "chilly" (just to stay on topic).

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[Turkbear]

Hi,
But if the terminal e in Spanish is eh ( Like the e in Chess ), why is it
for Ole you say O-Lay and not O-Leh ?



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[Trevoke]

Because "Ole" is actually written "Olé" ;-)

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[flapeyre]

Tevoke is correct.

In Spanish, a word with two or more syllables is always accented on the second to last syllable, unless the word has an accent mark on another syllable. The accent on the "é" in Olé means that it must be pronounced with its long vowel sound.

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