How do you pronounce...

**OceanPrincess** · March 18th, 2012, 08:18 PM

VALE.

Used in a farewell or RIP context. As in "Vale Margaret Whitlam".

???

**Maruschke** · March 18th, 2012, 08:19 PM

vah-lay (i think) there are online dictionaries with pronunciations, I am just not sure if we are allowed to link to them.

**PumpkinZulu** · March 18th, 2012, 08:19 PM

I always thought it was vay-elle

**OceanPrincess** · March 18th, 2012, 08:21 PM

I've tried them, M, but it just gives me vale as in valley, not in the RIP sense.

I always said it like PZ - but DH just said it (reading off someone's FB) and said it like Valet. Which would be how M says it...

**nothing2lose** · March 18th, 2012, 08:22 PM

It is vahr-lay.

**PumpkinZulu** · March 18th, 2012, 08:23 PM

*skulks off into her own ignorant little corner*

**OceanPrincess** · March 18th, 2012, 08:24 PM

It is vahr-lay.

Very confident there

I feel stoopid, pronouncing it wrong in my head all these years

**OceanPrincess** · March 18th, 2012, 08:24 PM

*skulks off into her own ignorant little corner*

Bahaha - room for one more?

**Netix** · March 18th, 2012, 08:25 PM

Well I would pronounce it as "veil", like a bridal veil, or bridal vale. Pronounced the same.

Oh well.

ETA, is it a name, or what?

**Nai** · March 18th, 2012, 08:26 PM

It is vahr-lay.

Yeah that

**OceanPrincess** · March 18th, 2012, 08:28 PM

ETA, is it a name, or what?

Apparently it is from Latin, "goodbye" or something.

And apparently only Aussies do it...

**nothing2lose** · March 18th, 2012, 08:43 PM

Meh....I can't say 'regularly' without stopping to think.

That's why I do things 'often' or 'frequently', but never 'regularly'

**Maruschke** · March 18th, 2012, 08:53 PM

Meh....I can't say 'regularly' without stopping to think.

That's why I do things 'often' or 'frequently', but never 'regularly'

Ahh great, because that word always reminds me of metamucil.

I can't say vocabulary.

**Phteven** · March 18th, 2012, 09:02 PM

It's Latin therefor there is no correct pronunciation. It is a dead language and we have no idea how it was pronounced so generally people use the pronunciation rules of their first language.

I like it when people pronounce it the same way as the guy who parks your car at the hotel - it tickles my funny bone.