Fun Beer Mispronunciations or Misinterpretations

We do, however, have writings from the classical era and the Middle Ages/Renaissance which discuss the evolution of pronunciation written by native Latin speakers.

 

DUVEL: "Doo-vel" vs "Doo-vuhl" // CANTILLON Can-till-e-uhn vs. can-ta-loon vs. can-tee-on // STELLA ARTIOS Stell R-Toys vs. stella arghh-twah // LEFFE: Lef-ee vs. Luh-fay

**Note: I do live in KY so people tend to add an extra syllable or two to almost everything which can be very FUN deciphering

 

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Also DIPA (pronounced dippa, like someone from Jersey saying they saw the big dippa). Cracks me up, yet also makes me hate beer.

 

Have heard several customers come in to the bar I visit and ask if they have any 'Hot D'.... Haha sound like a dirty sex thing. No Hair of the Dog today, sorry

 

i either point and grunt- dat one. or order something i can pronouce.

 

I say "Ood Brewin'". Guess that's wrong.

 

Thank you!

 

That pronunciation is not too far off from the French pronunciation, and you are inadvertently giving a shoutout to @UCLABrewN84 each time. If you call it a brune (as in the french spelling), no one will fault you.

 

looking for kbs at a generic corner store i said to the lady behind the counter "excuse me, I'm looking for a specific beer." must have mumbled because she walked me to the cooler and pointed out Pacifico

 

TIL ive been saying it wrong all along. non-ic

 

Haha of course people can. It's not like Latin just "disappeared." When it stopped being the official language of anything, people still knew how to speak it. We know Latin the same way we know English. It was passed down from people who know how to speak it.

 

You should have asked for a lime and enjoyed a "Kentucky Corona"

 

I am learning so much from this thread. Some I will use (Jai Alai), some I probably won't ever need (Cantillon), and some I will stubbornly ignore (Pliny).

 

Even the most educated people will say they "have a pretty good idea" but with no recordings, no one can be positive. When the British settled in New England everyone had a British accent but within 200 years that accent completely changed. Even within counties that speak English, words can have 3+ pronunciations, all correct in their own culture. Why would Latin be any different, and why claim to know how a word was pronounced 2000 years ago?

 

A co-worker the other day was talking about beer, and mentioned she didn't like a particular brewery's "huppinweizen."

 

True enough.