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[stellamira]

Help me out. If you were to mispronounce JC's name, how would you write that: Chay-ses? Chaises? Chases? Something else?

Mmm, I made fresh bread, but it's too hot to eat yet. And I'm hungry! ETA: Screw hot. Mhmm

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[turps33]

I think I'd use Chay-ses.

Also, fresh bread...hmmmm.

[stellamira]

I think I'll go either with Chay-ses or Cha-zez, like phaballa suggested. It's not easy for me, not having English as a mother tongue I automatically got it right. ;)

It really is delicious. I should make it more often.

[phaballa]

I think most people would mispronounce is cha-zez. Or call him 'Chavez' instead :P

[stellamira]

Or call him 'Chavez' instead

Oh yes, they do! But in this case it's Sam who read the name in a magazine, so he does know how to spell it, just not how to pronounce it. ;)

[phaballa]

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That sentence makes me incredibly happy. Please tell me you are writing some awesome crossover thing.

[stellamira]

Ahem. Dean/JC. And, um, genderswap.

[ninjetti75]

If you're talking about how Americans mispronounce it, it's "Cha-sez", which is the problem, because people are just pronouncing it phonetically. The "Cha" is "chah", like "open your mouth and say 'Ahh'" at the doctor's office, so you could go "Chah-sez", and the "sez" could be phonetically represented as "sehz", even though "eh" is often much more nasal and brings to mind Canadians instead of the American standard short 'e'. Actually, looking at that in print, it rhymes with the "ea" in "stead", so you could go "Chah-seaz", but that'd probably get people to think "sees" or "seas", which is of course also wrong.

Yeah, that one's a pain, sorry. Actually, the best is probably "Chah-sezz", because the doubled consonant grammatically indicates a short vowel, even if it makes you think of buzzing bees. It's still closest. *g*

[stellamira]

Yes, I was refering to Americans (or specifically Sam, in this case), I should've added that. :) Thank you for all that info. I think I'll go with Cha-sezz, or Cha-sez. After all it's both wrong. But the double consonant might also help showing that it is mispronounced, people might just read over Cha-sez and think it's a spelling mistake of me.