How do you pronounce "Feadog"?

Whistle
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I’m looking to get one at my local music store and I don’t want to sound like an idiot mispronouncing it :slight_smile:

2

FATH-ogue. “A” pretty much as in “rat”, “TH” as in “that” but more like a D, “ogue” as in “rogue”. That’s as close as you can get with English equivalents.

I’ll bet your music store clerk doesn’t know how to pronounce it, either. Dollars to doughnuts you’ll hear, "Oh, you mean “FEE-dog”! :wink:

3

LOL Thanks for the help.

Worst case scenario, I locate it, point and say, “I want THAT one” :smiley:

4

We pronounce it Fee-dawg in the south.

5

:laughing:

6

Fad-oh-geen! :wink:

J.

7

[in Ed MacMahon voice]
“I did not know that.”

8

…and what about the pronounciation of

s t r a t o c h i c n i c

???
:boggle: :boggle: :boggle:

9

Nano’s right. You can’t win - if you choose the Irish pronunciation they’ll do the "Oh, you mean “FEE-dog” thing, while if you say “fee-dog” you can bet the store assistant will be fluent in Gaelic. :roll:

Solution 1) Point and say: “I want that one”. (For those of you in the UK, this should be delivered in the voice of Andy Pipkin from Little Britain.)

Solution 2) Get it mail order.

10

Now are you sure? We don’t want to cause a kerfuffle…

11

Yeah you’re probably right. I’ll just go and pick it out myself :roll: :laughing:

But I’ll ask my professor next week. She’s Irish :wink:

12

It’s not Irish that’s for sure :smiley:

‘Strato’ → Abbreviation of the Fender Stratocaster
‘chic’ → NO, not the abbreviation of Chicken, just chic, as in girl :laughing:
‘nic’ → Abbreviation of Nicki :wink:

13

Some days, I can’t pronounce “Generation.”

14

The one that always gets me is “Oak”

15

:laughing:

Generation:

JEAN-RA (like GENRE)-TIE-ON :smiley:

16

:wink: :laughing:

17

I decided to go straight to the horse’s mouth, so I emailed Feadog from thier website and got the following reply:

Dear John,

Thank you for your enquiry. I am delighted you are enjoying playing the Feadóg.
Your enquiry isn’t the first I have had with regards to the pronunciation of Feadóg. The best explanation I have is as follows: I was discussing this with a colleague and we have different ways of pronouncing it because I’m from Donegal and he is from Dublin!! The best we can come up with is: Fah-doh-g (Fah, as in “do, re, me, fah, so, etc”) Doh (Doh as in Homer Simpson “Doh!” or dough used in a cake) G (G-irl): “Fah-doh-g” and it is the Irish for “whistle”. I hope this helps!

If there is anything else I can help you with, please do not hesitate to contact me. Remember to keep an eye out for news and product developments on our website, > http://www.feadog.ie> !

Kind Regards
Paul McCarron
Feadóg “Original Irish Whistle”
Tel: +353 1 456 9533
Fax: +353 1 456 9535
E-mail: > whistles@feadog.ie

Paul continues to provide quick service - I got the reply less than 24 hours after sending him my question.

I guess language is the same all over - i.e. it ain’t the same. Don’t get me started on “pecan.”

18

Burk-BURN-it, right? :smiley:

Chickasha, OK = CHICK-uh-SHAY
Neodesha, KS = Nee-OH-duh-SHAY

19

Not to, y’know, pick on your name and stuff, but isn’t ‘chic’ usally pronounced ‘sheek’
meaning suave, cool, or classy? Chick as in girl usually has that k on the end of it,
at least, 'round these parts it does.

20

Hmmm? Why it’s prounced Peak as in mountain and then An like the first part of Aunt…
Huh? What do you mean people don’t all pronounce Aunt the same way? :wink:

–Chris