Kind of dumb question: how do you say khururki?

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Shann

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How do you actually pronounce khukuri, khukri, etc.

is is Kook-eri, kook-ri, cookri, what? For some reason its not in the three dictionaries I looked at.

I figure since I'm showing 'em off to everybody that comes to my house I should know the proper pronunciation.

Thanks.
 
Shann?

You're too young to remember, but there was a TV series, "77 Sunset Strip" which spawned pop hit record giving the correct pronounciation. :)


(Edit: Hard to believe how astonishingly dated the lyrics are. I'm not sure I ever knew them, beyond the title:

CONNIE: Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?
EDWARD: Well now, let's take it from the top & grab some wheels
& on the way we'll talk about some cuckoo deals.
C: But Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?

E: Now you're on the way, miss, & I'm readin' you just fine.
Don't cut out of here till we get on Cloud 9.
C: But Kookie?

E: I've got smog in my noggin ever since you made the scene
C: You're the utmost!
E: If you ever tool me out...dead, I'm the saddest, like a brain
C: The very utmost. Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?

E: Man, I got my bruise lighters in my flapsy-colored pen
You're gonna send me to that planet called...you know it, baby, the end!

(sax solo)

C: Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?
E: If you ever cut out, you might be a stray cat
'Cause when I'm flyin' solo, nowhere's we're on that!
C: Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?

E: What's with this comb caper, baby? Why do you wanna latch up with my comb?
C: I just want you to stop combing your hair...& kiss me. You're the maximum utmost.
E: Well, I beans & I dreams goin', I'm movin' right now
'Cause that's the kind of scene that I dig...baby, you're the ginchiest!

The detective drama 77 SUNSET STRIP/ABC/1958-64 featured a hip, young parking lot attendant
named Gerald Lloyd Kookson III (Edd Byrnes) more popularly called "Kookie" who was constantly
running a comb through his hair. His narcissistic habit inspired this hit rock and roll recording.
In the song, Connie Stevens continually asks Kookie to put down his comb. The song was originally
performed during the opening episode of the 1959-60 season when Kookie helped Stuart Bailey
(Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) catch a jewel thief.

And Roger Smith of that series married MY Ann-Margret, for which I will never forgive him. :grumpy:
 
Shann said:
Kind of dumb question: how do you say khururki?
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Ker-er-ki....:p





Seriously though...what Yvsa said. Except I'll change it to look this way:


/KOO-koo-ree/



and it's said

/KOO-ker-ee/

by our Kaintuck friends....:D :P
 
I've never had to say it in front of friends. Generally the situation goes a little something like this. "Hey, check out this knife i just got (pulls from scabbard). It's called a khu...ow! ow! OW! Dear God it's in the bone! Bandaid! Bandaid!...#$^%! BANDAID!" Not really, but i have done that before.

Actually, i'm lazy. I just say "Kook' ree" the extra "oo" is too much work and takes too much time for me. I usually just call them khuks.

Jake
 
A sound file containing a Nepali speaker's pronunciation would answer the question.
 
Had two Scouts in my Troop from Vietnam: Hung and Hung. Only the "u" in first was closer to "ah" and the "U" the second was closer to "oow." Neither was the sound we would usually assign to the word "hung." I got it. Few others bothered -- which bothered the kids and their family, especially Dad, who had been a Col. of Enginners.

(Then there was the time Canada didn't want them to cross the border with the Troop on the way to Sarnia -- might not be 'merican. Lord, did they sound like American kids from Cleveland! Finally let them in. :) )

I think (Note "think" :confused: ) there are three sounds here, but the second "k" sound is quite brief and slides into the last.
 
Shann?

Aside from the silliness, I think John Powell said once that it is "Koo-Kree", and most often spelled "kukri", not khukuri.
 
Kismet said:
Aside from the silliness, I think John Powell said once that it is "Koo-Kree", and most often spelled "kukri", not khukuri.
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John can speak for himself, but he doesn't seem to spell it kukri. He spells it khukuri so far as I have examples.

koo curry?

("You say potato, and I say potahto . . .")
 
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