#1 2015-01-05 23:12:10

windracer
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How do you pronounce it?

Newbie question here ... how do you pronounce Piwigo? I knew how to pronounce "Gallery" ;-)

Pee-Wee-Go?
Pi-Wi-Go?

Some combination of those?

Thanks!

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#2 2015-01-05 23:46:08

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Re: How do you pronounce it?

hi ^^ well in english that would be Pee-Wee-Go
at least in french that's how it sounds

does that sound bad in english?


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#3 2015-01-06 02:09:00

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Re: How do you pronounce it?

No, not that bad. ;-)

Is the accent on the middle syllable? So pee-WEE-go, or PEE-wee go?

(a moot point, I know, but I'd like to think at least internally I'm sounding it out correctly in my head)

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#4 2015-01-06 09:08:33

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Re: How do you pronounce it?

hmm on that point I don't know... I would say the PEE...


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#5 2015-01-06 19:56:59

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Re: How do you pronounce it?

windracer wrote:

Newbie question here ... how do you pronounce Piwigo? I knew how to pronounce "Gallery" ;-)

Pee-Wee-Go?
Pi-Wi-Go?

Some combination of those?
Thanks!

I have never heard it pronounced by anyone in authority!
My interpretation is that an English-speaker (as opposed to a Frenchman;) would say

Pi-Wi-Go


(with short 'i' and emphasis on the first syllable)...

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#6 2015-01-06 20:14:10

flop25
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Re: How do you pronounce it?

Tadjio wrote:

(with short 'i' and emphasis on the first syllable)...

that's how it sounds in french too, like "kit". In fact I thought windracer wrote "Pi Wi" to be like "life"/"pie"


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#7 2015-01-06 20:35:00

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Re: How do you pronounce it?

Got it, thanks everyone!

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#8 2015-01-06 22:03:59

Zentalquabula
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Re: How do you pronounce it?

It's pronounced ”Vive la France!”

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#9 2015-01-07 11:51:02

Stephen Peacock
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Re: How do you pronounce it?

Newbie answer hear,

I pronounce it piggywiggy,

The big bad fox came and blow the house down

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#10 2021-05-25 01:35:41

cbiweb
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Re: How do you pronounce it?

Six years later I chime in...

From the moment I saw the name I automatically pronounced it Pih-WEE-go, but is there an official pronunciation?

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#11 2021-05-25 12:59:14

Zentalquabula
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Re: How do you pronounce it?

Piwi is peewee, diminutive, something small. Going small.

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#12 2023-05-13 14:26:07

hog
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2022-06-21
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Re: How do you pronounce it?

I know this is super-old, and nobody cares anymore, but I did find this video on YouTube that looks to be authoritative o the pronunciation.  It's too bad the audio isn't better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWyD8xhV0ac

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#13 2023-12-14 03:41:30

executive
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Re: How do you pronounce it?

Piwi looks like kiwi, so I say it like that.  short staccato, and no syllable emphasis. Almost as one syllable.
Piwi-go

I think the brits draw it out more, though ... keeeee-weeeeee

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