How to pronounce Schön

[Cornerman]

Yeah, 'Shurn' is the closest to my untrained ears...and this is from Terry
Romine, who actually owns Schon.
I had read Faust as a kid and I couldn't believe the pronunciation of the
author's name...Goethe sounds like 'gerta'.

The roots of English are German, and you can still hear 'R' being heard
where they don't seem to belong in Britain and parts of North America,
especially New England.

Tatar sauce is usually pronounced 'Tartar'...
Khaki is often pronounced 'Karkey'...etc

Sigh...
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[macguy]

I've played pool all over Tennessee...so it must have rubbed off....
'cause that's how I pronounce it...'SHOWN'

..incidentally, I was in Louisville, KY and asked a couple locals if you
pronounced the capital of Kentucky 'LOUIE ville' or 'LEWIS ville'....
...they argued about it for a while and then I told them they were both
wrong...it's pronounced 'FRANKFORT'....
..might be the biggest laugh I ever got from anyone at a tournament.:smile:

wrong post

 

[macguy]

The Chinese in Macau borrowed the word joss from the Portuguese.
Their word was Deos...which is pronounced somewhat like 'joss'.
I have a 68 Joss that hits divine...this could explain it.

Ronnie Sypher told me Billy had a Sheep dog named Joss that he took with him on the road. Ronnie always thought he named the cues after the dog.

 

[TheThaiger]

Try Pechauer and see what kind of response you get. I asked Jerry about it when I called to order a cue. Here in the South almost nobody pronounces it correctly.

How is it pronounced? I'd say Pesh-er, but have seen it as Peach-hour.

 

[Cornerman]

How is it pronounced? I'd say Pesh-er, but have seen it as Peach-hour.

Jerry told us it was PET chow er, but they acknowledge all the different pronunciation .

 

[TheThaiger]

Jerry told us it was PET chow er, but they acknowledge all the different pronunciation .

Blimey.

I wonder if it's good or bad for a brand to have several different pronunciations?

 

[cajunfats]

Multiple pronunciations

Blimey.

I wonder if it's good or bad for a brand to have several different pronunciations?

Hmm, could be both. I have a Pechauer by the way, and if I break it down to the German Root it is pech-auer. Which means the meadow of bad luck(pech- bad luck,misfortune/auer-from the meadow. So,maybe the Peach Meadow sounds better translated,lol.

 

[risky biz]

I've played pool all over Tennessee...so it must have rubbed off....
'cause that's how I pronounce it...'SHOWN'

..incidentally, I was in Louisville, KY and asked a couple locals if you
pronounced the capital of Kentucky 'LOUIE ville' or 'LEWIS ville'....
...they argued about it for a while and then I told them they were both
wrong...it's pronounced 'FRANKFORT'....
..might be the biggest laugh I ever got from anyone at a tournament.:smile:

It isn't the capital and it's pronounced "Lou-uh-ville".

 

[smoooothstroke]

err nm.....

 

[Jaden]

I was also taught Shoon...

Then I was taught totally wrong. And the way you guys are making it sound it shouldnt be pronounce shown or shawn but schoon.

The umlaut as I was taught should be pronounced with an u or oo sound. It would be Shun with an ooo in the middle. I have pronounced it like the company calls it though shawn...

Jaden

Sein oder nicht sein, das ist die frage...

 

[LAlouie]

Good evening, I'm Laura Dihaazzzzzzz with the news, LOL!!!

My wife and I always get a kick out of it. It comes of pretentious somehow even though they are Hispanic.

That's the word.:smile::smile::smile:

 

[Cornerman]

It isn't the capital and it's pronounced "Lou-uh-ville".

I think I just heard a jet plane do a fly over.

Freddie <~~~ whoosh!!!

 

[Rich93]

Here in Chicago, everybody knows you pronounce Schon "shahn" (say it fast) and Goethe "GO-thee" (with a hard "th" sound, like in through instead of the). If we ever hear anyone saying the name of Goethe Street like gerta, we know we're dealing with someone who stayed in school too long and is puttin' on airs, or a suburbanite who doesn't know any better.

Klein, however, is still pronounced the German way (Kline) except by stupid people, of whom the number has been steadily increasing in recent years.

 

[Jaden]

The thing that annoys me is the pronunciation most people do for Celtic..

Here in Chicago, everybody knows you pronounce Schon "shahn" (say it fast) and Goethe "GO-thee" (with a hard "th" sound, like in through instead of the). If we ever hear anyone saying the name of Goethe Street like gerta, we know we're dealing with someone who stayed in school too long and is puttin' on airs, or a suburbanite who doesn't know any better.

Klein, however, is still pronounced the German way (Kline) except by stupid people, of whom the number has been steadily increasing in recent years.

It is NOT pronounced Seltic... It is pronounced Keltic...

I told my DIV-O when he was practicing a brief to give to the PAC Fleet Admiral how it was really pronounced, because we had some missions planned using Celtic, like Celtic Hammer etc...

Even after I corrected him, he still gave the brief pronouncing it Seltic...

Made himself look the fool in front of the admiral...

Jaden

 

[TXsouthpaw]

Texas is very big. Please confirm that throughout Texas, Shawn is pronounced a half dozen different ways. This would validate what I'm saying, though it's already validated.

Freddie

Will do, the texas open is coming up ill ask everyone there. Now im curious, but if I had to guess id say its 80/20 for shawn. Ive only ever heard one person from here call it shown. So 80/20 is being generous. And ive never heard anyone prounounce it like shooin or shoon.

 

[Cornerman]

Here in Chicago, everybody knows you pronounce Schon "shahn" (say it fast) and Goethe "GO-thee" (with a hard "th" sound, like in through instead of the). If we ever hear anyone saying the name of Goethe Street like gerta, we know we're dealing with someone who stayed in school too long and is puttin' on airs, or a suburbanite who doesn't know any better.

Klein, however, is still pronounced the German way (Kline) except by stupid people, of whom the number has been steadily increasing in recent years.

Where's that big thumbs up button?

Freddie <~~~ and it's that easy

 

[Cornerman]

Will do, the texas open is coming up ill ask everyone there. Now im curious, but if I had to guess id say its 80/20 for shawn. Ive only ever heard one person from here call it shown. So 80/20 is being generous. And ive never heard anyone prounounce it like shooin or shoon.

Crazy as it sounds , shooin (or something close) is heard in parts of Germany and Europe but it's still not the way the cue company calls itself.

But ask how they pronounce the name Shawn. Record it. Have them read a sentance. The name Shawn you'll hear as something close to shone by a few people.

Maybe I didnt make myself clear. My whole point was that you can't say it sounds like "Shawn" because the name Shawn is pronounced vastly different throughout the country (and world) as well.

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=shawn (very Northeast, but with only one syllable)

http://www.forvo.com/word/shawn/ (which is I believe the closest to the Schon Cues but with more of an 'ah' not a "short o," but someone from Wisconsin doesn't sound like this when saying Shawn...as the Wisconsinites seem to add a lot more A's in shaaaaahn)

Freddie <~~~ see Rich93's post

 

[thommy]

The question that comes to mind after 6 pages is, if you don't own one, wgaf??

 

[elvicash]

Just like Shawn

 

[TATE]

I propose we refer to it henceforth as "the cue formerly known as Shawn".

Amen?