How to pronounce "Busse"?

ooitzoo said:
So your recommendation is that I call them, wait for them to answer, and then hang up? Its a little rude, no?

"Good afternoon, Busse knives, how may I help you?"

"Thanks, that's all I wanted to hear"

[hang up]

Also, who's to say that the person answering the phones gets it right? I mean, could be someone new to the job. Could be a way of doing I guess but I'd rather get the opinion of the forum before calling.

Thanks though.
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Hahahahaha well we DO get a lot of hang up calls :D
 
M67 said:
AWE-SOME, that's how you pronounce Busse.





Nope, too easy for a comeback.

I must refrain myself.


:D
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Come on!! I know you hang up when you hear me answer, but come on Mark! You can do better than THAT! :p
 
Pokey1 said:
Come on!! I know you hang up when you hear me answer, but come on Mark! You can do better than THAT! :p
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I don't hang up when you answer the phone, I just cringe a little and suffer through the pain then I console my wallet after you take my money :p
 
Airborne Falcon said:
It's more about regional individuality RF. Anyone who produces a man's blade, as Jerry does ... deserves to have a Southern sounding name. So we honor him with our annunciation. It's a you say po-tah-tow, we say po-tay-tow kind of thing.
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Purposely mispronouncing a man's name does him no honor. Unless you have a speech impediment, one should be able to form the syllables correctly. One can say any name with a regional accent. It is just that, an accent, not a foreign language.

When people mispronounce my name, I know they are telemarketers.

Nobody says "PooTaytooo" :p
 
Pronouncing people's names incorrectly sometimes leads to perceived defamation. For example in "The Bank Dick" W.C. Fields is a drunk who must repeatedly remind people in exasperation that his name is
pronounced "Sousé – accent grave [sic] over the 'e'!", because people keep calling him "Souse" (slang for drunkard).

I have had my name mispronounced all my life. It's Haines (rhymes with rains) but many people insist on calling me Hines.

In the case of Rat Finkenstein I must have made the mistake that I'm sure others have made and thought it was Finkelstein (sorry Rat).

Not any deliberate act of discourtesy just a lazy attitude in skimming without reading the name clearly.

For the longest time I thought Busse was pronounced "Boose" until it was pointed out that the correct pronunciation is "Bus-ee".

Anyway, hope everything is cleared up for those who weren't sure.
 
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Thomas Linton said:
If you elect to hang-up that's on you -- or your mood-altering substance of choice. I think you should order something. ^___^
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You don't think it'd feel kind of silly to be like "ok, thanks for the clarification!" Plus I can't really spend money on this stuff right now.

RobStanley said:
Peter, you have talents I didn't know existed in humans :D Mind reading around the planet indeed! Goodness!

But then, if had said pussy, I would've been referring to the condition a nasty infected sore gets ;)
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Yep. Made me laugh.

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David Brown said:
rhymes with were is all my Money
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Pokey1 said:
Hahahahaha well we DO get a lot of hang up calls :D
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Ok, seems like an awkward way to go about it. Then again, there doesn't seem to be much agreement on the forum either.

adrock1978 said:
I love the cycle of newb questions, every time we get a new crop of newbs... :D
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I'd rather ask and look foolish for a short time then go about my life mis-pronouncing it and looking foolish.

digdeep said:
Pronouncing people's names incorrectly sometimes leads to perceived defamation. For example in "The Bank Dick" W.C. Fields is a drunk who must repeatedly remind people in exasperation that his name is
pronounced "Sousé – accent grave [sic] over the 'e'!", because people keep calling him "Souse" (slang for drunkard).

I have had my name mispronounced all my life. It's Haines (rhymes with rains) but many people insist on calling me Hines.

In the case of Rat Finkenstein I must have made the mistake that I'm sure others have made and thought it was Finkelstein (sorry Rat).

Not any deliberate act of discourtesy just a lazy attitude in skimming without reading the name clearly.

For the longest time I thought Busse was pronounced "Boose" until it was pointed out that the correct pronunciation is "Bus-ee".

Anyway, hope everything is cleared up for those who weren't sure.
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Yep. Better to get it right I think. Then again, to each his own.
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Purposely mispronouncing a man's name does him no honor. Unless you have a speech impediment, one should be able to form the syllables correctly. One can say any name with a regional accent. It is just that, an accent, not a foreign language.

When people mispronounce my name, I know they are telemarketers.

Nobody says "PooTaytooo" :p
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Yeah, well, some of y'all are uptight up above the Mason Dixon line when it comes to the haughty holier-than-thou stuff ... so I get where you are coming from. But we're going to keep doing it how we want to do it down here - if that's alright with you Rat?

In the meantime, is it Rat Fink-in-steen or Fink-in-stighn? I wanna make sure I know to tell the guys how to pronounce it correctly before I put you on the do-call shill list over at telemarketers R-us.com.
 
So if you are going to ride public transportation, you go and catch a "Boose"

Sounds more Canadian than southern, eh.:p
 
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