Why, Markus... Fenno-Swedish, is that what it is? It sounds like something you catch when struck by Northern Lightning... Insults are thorough in any language.
Maybe we're just polite on this forum because we're stuck with this anglosaxon jibberish.

Btw, my Danish guy Rolfs girlfriend confirms the hot potatoe. She may know, living with a Dane and having worked in Danmark for years.

How's this wine related? Well, they're trying to grow vines in Jylland...

Belatedly... Freddie Mercury doesn't say Mo-et, he says 'mo-ay'.
Check it out!!
It's definitey 'moet' as in 'poet' when it has 'et chandon' afterwards but we need proof that the guy's name was pronounced with a 't' because otherwise gramatically the word would end with a silent 't' when said on it's own. Was he Dutch or German? Anyone, anyone? :-)

I found this on a U.K. merchant's site:

"Contrary to popular belief the T in Moet is a hard T and should be pronounced. Jean Remy Moet was Dutch not French. Hence it was highly amusing when the script writers for 'Only Fools And Horses' tried to make Del Boy look stupid by getting him to pronounce the T in Moet, it turned out he was one of the few brits who got it right."

Sounds reasonable, but it doesn't really make a lot of sence.
The fact that Moet was Dutch is no reason to pronounce his name Mo-et.
If you respect the Dutch way, you would want to say: "Moot". That's how we pronounce "oe".
But the chap was making champagne in Epernay since the early XVIIIth century, so I guess his name has become French at a 100%.
Therefore, people who live in the upper part of France will pronounce Moët (hey, look, the ¨ is there too, that doesn't make sence in Dutch in this case either) as mo-èh, while those from the Southern halve will say mo-et.

And they are both right.

Rik:
Do you pronounce it Moet (with the hard "T")
and then Et Chandon (and pronounce the "T" in Et as a hard "T" ???

By the way, how do you pronounce "Boechout"?

Rik: you're spouting a grand load of B.S. Tell me, how do you pronounce "huit" in the north of France.

Foreign words are prounounced differently in French--north and south.

Plus, in Belgium, they pronounce "quatre-vingt" like this.................huitante.

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Claire B
Posted Aug 04, 2007 08:00 PM
Belatedly... Freddie Mercury doesn't say Mo-et, he says 'mo-ay'.
Check it out!!
It's definitey 'moet' as in 'poet' when it has 'et chandon' afterwards but we need proof that the guy's name was pronounced with a 't' because otherwise gramatically the word would end with a silent 't' when said on it's own. Was he Dutch or German? Anyone, anyone? :-)

Moet is a German name. This was established months back in the thread.
If you need proof, ask the company (as I have in my former job as a wine merchant). Go to a wine fair (a proper one) and talk to the rep. Look it up on their site, why do you need proof anyway? it's logical, it's CLEARLY not a French name.
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Therefore, people who live in the upper part of France will pronounce Moët (hey, look, the ¨ is there too, that doesn't make sence in Dutch in this case either) as mo-èh, while those from the Southern halve will say mo-et.

And they are both right.

Wha? They can't be BOTH right. Sorry Rik, but that's a ridiculous assumption.

We're talking about a company name here.

The company has only ONE name, and ONE pronunciation. It's not open to regional (mis)interpretations. However the name is pronounced within the headquarters of Moet is how it should be pronounced everywhere.
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Originally posted by matthk:
"Work is the curse of the drinking class" - Oscar Wilde

Love it!

Of course they can be both right, Matthk.
A Londoner doesn't pronounce "Aberlour" or "Glenkinchie the same way as one from Edinburgh. I even suspect someone from Glasgow pronounces these words differently. They can all be right at the same time. It's a question of pronunciation, it's got nothing to do with brand.

To others: it's not German, Moet isn't, it's Dutch. But as I stated: the etymology doesn't come into it, since the guy has been French for over two hundred years.

And it's funny to argue about French pronunciation with all these nice people who don't know zilch about French. People who try to establish a relationship between the way "Moët", "huit" and "et" are pronounced and then put it with a straight face that I'm talking manure from big male animals...

Boechout? Don't go there, peeps, way out of your league...

The French speaking part of our wee great nation doesn't say huitante. Septante for Soixante-dix and Nonante for quatre-vingts-dix are used. As the are in the north of France, in Luxemburg and in Switzerland. Some Suisse people may say huitante too.

Anyway, one thing still stands: in the southern part of France people tend to pronounce end-consonants, in the North they don't. Nothing you can do about that.

I heard that in London they pronounce Beauchamps like this: Bee Cham.
That is ridiculous.

Moet put out a press release back in the mid-late 80's stating that the correct pronounciation is Mo-et..... The reason they gave is that the full name is moet et chandon....... They feel that if you use just the Moet then you SHOULD follow the correct pronounciation of the full name. That was their take on it back in the 80's... no idea if they have changed their mind since.

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Originally posted by Rik:
Boechout? Don't go there, peeps, way out of your league...

Aw, c'mon Rik. Does it sound a little bit like bulls__t?

PH

Alright then if you want to break your tongue...

If you mean bullshout, you got the ____ about right.

And then replace the "ll" by the guttural KH" in Khomeini. Or the Spanish "j" in joven.
Or the end-consonant in Groundkeeper Willy's Aaaach.

Oh, dear, why do I even try???

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Originally posted by Rik:
Oh, dear, why do I even try???

Because you're a good sport, Rik! Keep in mind that there North Americans who can actually pronounce foreign words without butchering them too badly..... I think there may actully be several hundred of us.

PH

There are millions of them, PH...

In Quebec!