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How do you pronounce crayon?

How do you pronounce crayon?

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Originally posted by rwingett
My pencil is big and yellow?
My pencils is bigs and yellow.

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Originally posted by GalaxyShield
You mean crayoon's? (kraa-oon-z)
Are you serious? That sounds Canadian.

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Originally posted by rwingett
My pencil is big and yellow?
Well Yellow anyway..

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Originally posted by ark13
According to Merriam-Webster...
Ha ha!

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There are really more important things to worry about, don't you think? Like how to pronouce "water" 😛

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Originally posted by pinkbutton
There are really more important things to worry about, don't you think? Like how to pronouce "water" 😛
Or how to spell pronounce.

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Just because you're a proof reader doesn't mean you have to proof read the posts here.I work as a butcher,and you don't see me butchering the posts here do you?

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Originally posted by ark13
This is the word that has the most different pronunciations that I've heard. I've always pronounced it "CRAY-awn" ("CRAY" plus the word "on" ). But in New Hampshire, I discovered most people pronouce it "KRAN" (like in cranberry). When I first heard this, I had no idea what people were talking about. Recently, I've heard a third pronunciation, "KRAUN" (as in the word "crown" ).

How do you pronounce it? Have you heard another?
crayon, with a silent 'z'

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Originally posted by General Putzer
Cray-on, no other pronounciation is correct. I invented the term, so I should know
dont be silly. chuck norris did, as a secret ninja weapon

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I pronounce it "CRAY-awn". That's what I was taught in school, too.

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"cray-O-la."

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Originally posted by Bromage
dont be silly. chuck norris did, as a secret ninja weapon
He can say it all possible and some impossible ways simultaneously. That's the only proper pronunciation.

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Given that the letters being used to represent the sounds don't actually mean the same thing to speakers in different countries, this thread is pointless.

I went to America and saw an ad for Shish Kabobs. I suddenly realised that an American reading that would probably pronounce it much the same way as I would pronounce Shish Kebabs.

The word had been transliterated into American English in a different way to how it was transliterated into Australian English, to produce the same sound. But an American saying 'Kebabs' or me saying 'Kabobs' would be way off from the pronunciation intended.

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in the phonetical alphabet, CRAYON is spelled /KrEjõ/

or just open a good english-french translation dictionnary and look at pencil