How to pronounce "Moet"
Matthew Chestnut
Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the champagne "Moet"?
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Michael W. Walker
Matthew Chestnut <nex...@fohnix.metronet.com> wrote:
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>Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the champagne "Moet"?
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Jeff Guild
: In article <3rih3l$8...@fohnix.metronet.com>,
I beg to differ. <grovel, grovel, ...>
I'm not French, but I'm semiliterate in French.
The accent is a diaeresis (i.e., two little dots side by side) and the
name is pronounced mo-AY.
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Christopher Migdal
|> Michael W. Walker (wal...@avenir.cerl.uiuc.edu) wrote:
|> : In article <3rih3l$8...@fohnix.metronet.com>,
|> : Matthew Chestnut <nex...@fohnix.metronet.com> wrote:
|> : >
|> : >
|> : >Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the champagne "Moet"?
|> : >--
|> : There is a ^ over the e, and it sounds as if spelled Mow-ette.
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|> I beg to differ. <grovel, grovel, ...>
|> I'm not French, but I'm semiliterate in French.
|> The accent is a diaeresis (i.e., two little dots side by side) and the
|> name is pronounced mo-AY.
Actually Mow-ette is correct. I got this from the Vinyard tour so I'm
pretty confident. An important fact is that Moet was not French (he
was Dutch I think, but I'm not 100% sure of that).
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|> O Jeff Guild, Librarian/Canoeist Dynix Library Systems, Inc.
|> (\____\==^\___/) j...@ca.dynix.com Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Duncan Phillips
says...
>|> I beg to differ. <grovel, grovel, ...>
>|> I'm not French, but I'm semiliterate in French.
>|> The accent is a diaeresis (i.e., two little dots side by side) and
>|> the name is pronounced mo-AY.
>
>Actually Mow-ette is correct. I got this from the Vinyard tour so I'm
>pretty confident. An important fact is that Moet was not French (he
>was Dutch I think, but I'm not 100% sure of that).
*Mo-wette* is correct... I went on the same tour :) and he was Dutch...
duncan
Marc Lavoie
|> In article <3rnm33$1l...@eljefe.ca.dynix.com>, j...@eljefe.ca.dynix.com (Jeff Guild) writes:
|> |> : In article <3rih3l$8...@fohnix.metronet.com>,
|> |> : Matthew Chestnut <nex...@fohnix.metronet.com> wrote:
|> |> : >
|> |> : >
|> |> : >Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the champagne "Moet"?
|> |> : >--
|> |> : There is a ^ over the e, and it sounds as if spelled Mow-ette.
|> |>
|> |> I'm not French, but I'm semiliterate in French.
|> |> The accent is a diaeresis (i.e., two little dots side by side) and the
|> |> name is pronounced mo-AY.
|>
|> Actually Mow-ette is correct. I got this from the Vinyard tour so I'm
|> pretty confident. An important fact is that Moet was not French (he
|> was Dutch I think, but I'm not 100% sure of that).
|>
In this case, I personally agree with Michael and pronounce MO-AY. When I visited the Champagne region, I remember it pronounced that way by locals also.
But then again, those darn regional differences...
Sante
Marc Lavoie
lav...@bnr.ca
Ottawa, Canada
Tamiko Matsumura Toland
>Michael W. Walker (wal...@avenir.cerl.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>: Matthew Chestnut <nex...@fohnix.metronet.com> wrote:
>: >
>: >Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the champagne "Moet"?
>: >--
>: There is a ^ over the e, and it sounds as if spelled Mow-ette.
>
>I beg to differ. <grovel, grovel, ...>
>I'm not French, but I'm semiliterate in French.
>The accent is a diaeresis (i.e., two little dots side by side) and the
>name is pronounced mo-AY.
I think you both may be right; the pronunciation may be affected by
the "et Chandon" that typically follows "Moet." Mo-ey e Shandon
doesn't flow off the tongue as well as Mo-et e Shandon. So it doesn't
seem right when the Moet is pronounced in exclusion of the "et
Chandon." Just a little linguistic theory (that's how it works in
Russian, and I seem to recall the French do the same thing).
Tamiko
Jeff Guild
: Tamiko
Well,...
as French is not my first language, I consulted a friend whose first
language IS French and she confirmed with conviction that the correct
pronunciation is 'mo-AY', not 'mo-ETT'.
By the by, when the conjunction 'et' follows a word that ends with a
silent 't', one does not pronounce the 't' in order to make a smooth
transition to the 'et'. You would do this with most other words (.e.g,
'est') that start with a vowel, but 'et' is an exception.
Garth Watson
>In article <3rih3l$8...@fohnix.metronet.com>,
>Matthew Chestnut <nex...@fohnix.metronet.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the champagne "Moet"?
>>--
>There is a ^ over the e, and it sounds as if spelled Mow-ette.
wrong!!!
say "moey" the accent conflex over the e (^) makes the t silent but the
e has an ey sound hence the pronunciation MOEY
Jacques Messines
>In article <3rnpqr$7...@fido.asd.sgi.com>, mig...@stranger.asd.sgi.com (Christopher Migdal) writes:
>|> In article <3rnm33$1l...@eljefe.ca.dynix.com>, j...@eljefe.ca.dynix.com (Jeff Guild) writes:
>|> |> : Matthew Chestnut <nex...@fohnix.metronet.com> wrote:
>|> |> : >
>|> |> : >
>|> |> : >Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the champagne "Moet"?
>|> |> : >--
>|> |> : There is a ^ over the e, and it sounds as if spelled Mow-ette.
>|> |>
>|> |> I'm not French, but I'm semiliterate in French.
>|> |> The accent is a diaeresis (i.e., two little dots side by side) and the
>|> |> name is pronounced mo-AY.
>|>
>|> pretty confident. An important fact is that Moet was not French (he
>|> was Dutch I think, but I'm not 100% sure of that).
>|>
>Actually, you "could" both be correct. French pronounciation, like any other language, varies from area to area, from (french speaking) country to country. Canada is a good example of that, we pronounce many words differently than in France, but not ne
>In this case, I personally agree with Michael and pronounce MO-AY. When I visited the Champagne region, I remember it pronounced that way by locals also.
>But then again, those darn regional differences...
>Sante
>Marc Lavoie
>lav...@bnr.ca
>Ottawa, Canada
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Pretty good for all your answers
Excuse my english, but I must reply, because I'm french from the South-West
and in that country, we usually pronounce all the letters... Well we say as
you prefer :
MO-AY-T (without E behind the t)
or MOW-ETTE but without the terminal E
The fact that Moet is sticken to "et Chandon" only makes the addition of
sounds...
---- J. Messines from Bordeaux ------ France -----
Of course I'm not in the native champagne country, but we know a bit about
wines :-)
A la bonne votre,
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Glen Roger
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>Jeff Guild <j...@eljefe.ca.dynix.com> wrote:
>>Michael W. Walker (wal...@avenir.cerl.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>>: Matthew Chestnut <nex...@fohnix.metronet.com> wrote:
>>: >
>>: >Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the champagne "Moet"?
>>: >--
>>: There is a ^ over the e, and it sounds as if spelled Mow-ette.
>>
>>I beg to differ. <grovel, grovel, ...>
>>I'm not French, but I'm semiliterate in French.
>>The accent is a diaeresis (i.e., two little dots side by side) and the
>>name is pronounced mo-AY.
>
>the "et Chandon" that typically follows "Moet." Mo-ey e Shandon
>doesn't flow off the tongue as well as Mo-et e Shandon. So it doesn't
>seem right when the Moet is pronounced in exclusion of the "et
>Chandon." Just a little linguistic theory (that's how it works in
>Russian, and I seem to recall the French do the same thing).
>
>Tamiko
>
sure that they prounounced the "t". However, they may have been catering to
the "anglais."
It's quite a tour. They have 26 kilometres of tunnels under the chalk. Along
the tunnels, about 20 ft apart, are caves, containing 100 K bottles of bubbly.
They call it the Champs Elysee of Champagne.
Christopher Migdal
|> In article <DA87J...@CSUFresno.EDU>, tm...@lennon.csufresno.edu says...
|> >
|> >Jeff Guild <j...@eljefe.ca.dynix.com> wrote:
|> >>Michael W. Walker (wal...@avenir.cerl.uiuc.edu) wrote:
|> >>: Matthew Chestnut <nex...@fohnix.metronet.com> wrote:
|> >>: >
|> >>: >Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the champagne "Moet"?
|> >>: >--
|> >>: There is a ^ over the e, and it sounds as if spelled Mow-ette.
|> >>
I just checked a bottle and there is NOT an ^ over the e. It is a ".."
(two dots over the e). This is not a french accent because Moet is not
a french name (in this case). It is Dutch, and it is correctly pronounced
Mow-ette.