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Finally got round to playing with this. I could listen to him saying "Poonch" all day
I love saying Poonch Poonch or Poonch Corona Doe-bley.
Or Ray Dell Mooondo!! or Roe-may-oh-EE-Hoolee-etta!
Got into this originally when trying to buy a box of Saint Luis Rey (Sain Lui Ray) Regios in Varadero several years ago. I said Reggie -ohs and the clerk said Regghhios and I tried Redjios and she looked me right in the eye and said Regghhios!
This went forth and back for a number of iterations as I got closer to the correct amount of ggghh back in my throat. Finally she gave me a big smile and said "Muuuy bueno!!" and went off to the storage room for my SLRs.
I resolved right then and there to get my butt to Havana to study a bit of "Cuban" Spanish and while I'm still not very usefully fluent, I can now chat with my favorite torcedor (a non-English speaker) and get a particular kick out of folks in Spain who criticize my "terrible Cuban accent".
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Wow, good response Guys. Seems I'm not the only one unsure of the pronunciations. As someone said already, I'm not sure it matters as long as I know what I'm talking about, a rare occasion I know, but interesting and fun listening to the recordings.
Anyway, thanks Men, guess I should just get on my behike and cycle away. Buh-hee-kay, bee-hih-kay my bahooky.
nb. "bahooky"- colloquial old Scots term for ones bottom....or arse as I like to think.
LOL
I like your suggestion. I think all Scots should now pronounce it as a....
Wow, good response Guys. Seems I'm not the only one unsure of the pronunciations. As someone said already, I'm not sure it matters as long as I know what I'm talking about, a rare occasion I know, but interesting and fun listening to the recordings.
Anyway, thanks Men, guess I should just get on my behike and cycle away. Buh-hee-kay, bee-hih-kay my bahooky.
nb. "bahooky"- colloquial old Scots term for ones bottom....or arse as I like to think.
The fun part of this guide is that originally Rafael did have what he calls the "Castillian" pronunciation of the cigar brands but he's Asturian so there was a bit of a "northern" twang : bottom line being that the cigars were not being named as they would be in the place of their birth. The guy who is reading them now has a genuine Cuban accent and while many of the names are pretty close to what you hear in Spain, the "controversial" ones are given the Cuban rather than the local accent.
Example: "Partagas" in USA = Part?gas (Par-tag-us)
en Espa?a = P?rtagas (Par-tagas)
and en Cuba = Partag?s (Par-ta-gas)
Example: "Bolivar" in USA = Balivar (Ball-iv-ar)
en Espa?a = Boliv?r (Bowl-ee-var)
and en Cuba = Bol?var (Bowl-ee-var)
FWIW, in Gib, the Spanish guys in the shop were saying it "buh-hee-kay".
The only problem is it is not a spanish word? its a taino native word. believe it means "shaman" or medicine man or similar. In mexico we have many native words as well that are not pronounced anything like a castilian speaker would say them.
OOOoooo.... Thank you Dave! Now I can be a pretentious prick too! LMAO J/K. Honestly, thanks as I've had many discussions with brothers in real life about how to pronounce certain names (I seem to be phonetically challenged). Do I need the spanish accent?
You're welcome Warren!You cannot pronounce properly without the accent.Don't even try.
Just what have I been asking for over the last six months, I was so far out on some of those that I am surprised I did not end up buying a Korean sports car
Well this has been and entertaining thread... Its making me think im smoking something that i think is called one thing but when pronounced think... what they on about lol.... if it smokes and i like it, who cares what the snobs call em. Oh unless they wanna share, then im only pleased to listen, nod and agree
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