***Official Phonetics 101 "Is It CO Burn or COCK Burn?" Game Thread***

[HawkeyeFever]

Once again, GO HAWKEYES!

 

[trj]

ISU had a fullback with the last name KOCH and he pronounced it COOK. Not really relevant to tonite's basketball game, but I thought I would contribute early.

 

[Luftgekuehlt67]

ISU had a fullback with the last name KOCH and he pronounced it COOK. Not really relevant to tonite's basketball game, but I thought I would contribute early.

It's because it's German. A native American English speaker seeing something spelt "koch" would be inclined to pronounce that either like "cock" or "cawsh", but the original German pronunciation is closer to something between "coke" and "cook".

Cockburn, to my knowledge, is pure English weirdness as far as it being == "coburn" for no apparent reason other than it being very common in British English to ignore inconvenient letters in a word in order to make it fewer syllables or otherwise quicker/easier to say. Like Folkestone == "fokstun" or Leicester == "lester".

 

[Esteshawk]

What? I can read. It's COCK BURN. If he wants it pronounced Coburn, go to Germany and play.

 

[chucktownhawk]

How do you say Illinois sucks ass in german?

 

[Esteshawk]

I have to stop reading these when I'm eating. Now I have to clean up. Classic!

 

[thedukeofearl]

Easy

COCK burn

 

[HaydenHawk56]

 

[HaydenHawk56]

 

[MILHAWKEYE]

It's because it's German. A native American English speaker seeing something spelt "koch" would be inclined to pronounce that either like "cock" or "cawsh", but the original German pronunciation is closer to something between "coke" and "cook".

Cockburn, to my knowledge, is pure English weirdness as far as it being == "coburn" for no apparent reason other than it being very common in British English to ignore inconvenient letters in a word in order to make it fewer syllables or otherwise quicker/easier to say. Like Folkestone == "fokstun" or Leicester == "lester".

It's because it's German. A native American English speaker seeing something spelt "koch" would be inclined to pronounce that either like "cock" or "cawsh", but the original German pronunciation is closer to something between "coke" and "cook".

Cockburn, to my knowledge, is pure English weirdness as far as it being == "coburn" for no apparent reason other than it being very common in British English to ignore inconvenient letters in a word in order to make it fewer syllables or otherwise quicker/easier to say. Like Folkestone == "fokstun" or Leicester == "lester".

The K in Koch is silent when speaking German.

 

[chucktownhawk]

Hawks 87-79. F Champaign and all the cocks that play ball there

 

[HaydenHawk56]

Odds Fran picks up a T tonight?

 

[trj]

Fran not in a suit. This is odd

 

[trj]

Conner getting open looks....keep shooting

 

[thedukeofearl]

It's all Good

Connor nails a three

And turns into a scoring machine

 

[thedukeofearl]

Illinois is such an unpleasant team from the coach all down
the line

 

[vork22]

Our defense is so bad.

 

[HaydenHawk56]

First to 110 wins.

 

[chucktownhawk]

Odds Fran picks up a T tonight?

Oh yeah...looking forward to it. CMAC may get one too

 

[InGoodCo]

Iowa matching the early intensity of IL