How do you pronounce Cunard?

[David Eanes]

I am not really sure how to pronounce Cunard and I've heard it a couple
of ways.

Can someone help me out?

Dave

[Butler1918]

It's most often pronounced "kun-ARD" where the first syllable rhymes with
"fun," the stress is placed in the second and the division comes after the
"n"; however that is incorrect. The correct pronounciation is ""kew-NARD"
where the first syllable rhymes with "few," the emhasis is placed on the
second, and the division comes before the "n."

Daniel Allen Butler

[TresBonBon]

To pronounce it in English, it is, duck.

En francais... koo-nard'
Bonbon

[Paulus von P]

On 27 Mar 1998 10:41:38 GMT, David...@mail.utexas.edu (David Eanes)
wrote:

>I am not really sure how to pronounce Cunard and I've heard it a couple
>of ways.
>
>Can someone help me out?

AFAIK it's pronounced Kyoo-nard (in the UK anyhow).

PvP.

[AA]

Jane Earle wrote in message <351CE5C2...@student.uq.edu.au>...

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>> I am not really sure how to pronounce Cunard and I've heard it a couple
>> of ways.
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>> Can someone help me out?
>>

>> Dave
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>I've always heard it pronounced "cue-nard" or "queue - nahrd" (ie.that's
>the same thing, just put different ways"
>
>Jane
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If I remember correctly the Cunards, who owned the Cunard Line lived in the
Miramichi area of New Brunswick Canada and there it is pronounced the way it
looks (cun-ard)

[JNugent231]

>>I've always heard it pronounced "cue-nard" or "queue - nahrd" (ie.that's
>>the same thing, just put different ways"

In my native Liverpool (a city with strong White Star and Cunard connections),
though most sat it as given above, many people pronounce it "kinard" or
"kunard" (the first syllable having an indeterminate short vowel sound
somewhere between a short "e" and an "o").

I feel this may have been passed down through families, from relatives (perhaps
now dead) who worked on the liners.