What is the CORRECT pronunciation of "laguiole?"

[Lavan]

Lag-wee-OLE?
Lahg-WHEEL?
La-GHWEE?
Lajh-wahl?
LAJH-wah?
LAG-wee-ole?
La-GWOLE?

Quelle?

 

[Quiet Storm]

It's lah-wee-oll.

 

[choubbi]

for me it's
lah-yoll (don't pronounce the H) that's how I've always heard it pronounced in france. only the "gu" is not pronounced.

 

[Blades_Two]

Actually it is Lee Yoll. One of those French head scratchers.

 

[Quiet Storm]

Actually it is Lee Yoll.

Actually...it's not.
Well, maybe if you say it really fast...

"how do you pronounce some of these knife names?"

 

[T. Erdelyi]

for me it's
lah-yoll (don't pronounce the H) that's how I've always heard it pronounced in france. only the "gu" is not pronounced.

This is the way I've heard it pronounced.

Here is an excerpt from laguiole-elite.com


The word Laguiole (pronounced LAYULL), being the name of a village, was never allowed to be registered as a trademark. Therefore products bearing the name Laguiole are made by a number of different manufacturers in France, some located in the city of Thiers, others in the village itself of Laguiole where the knife was ''historically'' conceived some 200 years ago. However some Laguiole products originate from different countries and, in this case, quality of components and workmanship does vary greatly.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

La yule, although the French pronunciation is a little different than that.

 

[Blades_Two]

Actually...it's not.
Well, maybe if you say it really fast...

It's the way a factory rep pronounced it. Perhaps he didn't know any better.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I'm not up to pronouncing it yet! I just learned how to spell it! Ya know, da frensh knife wit da bug on it.

 

[Quiet Storm]

It's lah-wee-oll.

Let me clarify that, it's LAH-wee-OLL.

 

[MelancholyMutt]

what about cheeseeatingsurrendermonkey knife?

 

[Planterz]

OK, we've got silent "e"s and the ocassional silent "h", but seriously, a silent "q"? WTF?

 

[Roodog]

OK, we've got silent "e"s and the ocassional silent "h", but seriously, a silent "q"? WTF?

The french love to swallow entire syllables with no attention to any linguistic rules. With all the silent letter they have, they could probably do with half the f'en alphabet.

 

[Nordic Viking]

How do you guys pronounce Mora as in Mora knife?

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Please let's not have any mora these funny foreign pronunciations.

 

[ELDE]

"Say la yol" by Tom Sewell in National Knife Magazine march 1988.

'nough said

ELDE

 

[Lavan]

Thank y'all.

 

[j.h]

I like

LAG-yewee-olee

or, as John Elway said when the Avalanche acquired Patrick Roy, "Why can't it just be Roy?"

 

[Larry S.]

What Lavan said!!

Larry S.

 

[choubbi]

"Say la yol" by Tom Sewell in National Knife Magazine march 1988.

'nough said

ELDE

I'm OK with that pronounciation (at least that's how it's pronounced in France)