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How does one pronounce "Duiker"?

#21 Sinisdar Toste

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Posted 30 October 2007 - 02:02 AM

dweeker i says and its definitly not bryce for brys. its brees

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Posted 30 October 2007 - 02:30 AM

D-yu-ee-ker.....

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 04:24 PM

how does ui make an oy sound? suit, disguise, these words aren't pronounced close to oy. what led to this interpretation? I personally envision it falling between doo-e-ker and dweeker.

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 04:33 PM

ui makes oy sounds in certain contexts and word arrangements, this is a vague example : luin is pronounced almost indistinctly to loyn or loin.

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 04:48 PM

oh, i've never encountered this myself.

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Posted 13 November 2007 - 06:38 PM

I always thought it was Jew-kur, and Brice.

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Posted 13 November 2007 - 06:49 PM

Nightmare;223316 said:

I always thought it was Jew-kur, and Brice.

Yeah, I always stutter the 'i' a bit at the end, not quite a dipthong, but not totally separate either.

and Brys = briss

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Posted 15 November 2007 - 05:04 AM

i tested it out on my computer: opened up word, typed duiker, went to beginning of line and hit windows s. here is what it said: deweykur (dewey as in dewey decimal system, kur as in current). the dewey was pronounced quickly, almost soinded like doyker, but not quite,

and i thnik brys is briss, pronounced like the jewish ceremony.

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Posted 03 October 2008 - 11:30 PM

I pronounce it Doo-ick-er, everything else sounds wrong to me....... Now pronouncing names and places from Prince of Nothing is a different story!!

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Posted 04 October 2008 - 10:14 AM

In South Africa there's a small buck called a duiker. It's an afrikaans word and is pronounced Day-ker. That's the only way I've ever imagined it

According to all-knowing wikipedia:

A duiker (pronounced /ˈdaɪkɚ/) is any of about 19 small to medium-sized antelope species from the subfamily Cephalophinae native to Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Posted 20 October 2008 - 12:43 PM

I've always thought that it was pronounced "Do-WEE-ker".

I mean...It just sounds right. o.o

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Posted 20 October 2008 - 12:44 PM

Do- Ichor, in my mind.

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Posted 20 October 2008 - 01:07 PM

You're all wrong. Mostly.

It should be pronounced DWI-KER. Like the antelope.

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 10:45 AM

I pronounce it in the dutch way that no other language can pronounce, the way we say ui. Kind of like oai when beathing out. I cant explain, you silly english cant do it at all.

But yeah I know thats wrong, I just prefer it, also duiker means diver in dutch, and lull basically means penis, made it a bit awkward tbh. PENIS says..

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Posted 30 October 2008 - 11:28 AM

I just thought bugger it, he's going to be called Duker. Don't know where he gets these names from, good old Erikson, but I liked his pov.

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Posted 30 October 2008 - 04:24 PM

I too pronounce it doo-e-ker.

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