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    How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    What is the right way to pronounce "coupon" in English?

    Note: I am interested in knowing the right way, and not the accepted ways.

    coo - pawn?
    coo - pun?
    co - pawn?
    co - pun?

    any other?

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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    Coo - pon
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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    Of those 4 only the first looks right. I've never heard the other three. But I did hear

    queue - pawn

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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    I agree with queue-pon, though I would have written it q-pon.
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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    and the o is pronounced as in oh or as in aw ?

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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    I pronounce it to rhyme with "grey poupon". Or rather the help does. I seldom have to pronounce things myself these days.
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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    Would you mind PMing me the name of your typist...I rather fancy the way he [or she] constructs your sentences.

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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    Quote Originally Posted by honeybee View Post
    and the o is pronounced as in oh or as in aw ?

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    Neither.

    Coop
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    The 'o' sound is the one made from the back of the throat (although this might depend on accent, I suppose).

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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    Quote Originally Posted by penagate View Post
    Neither.

    Coop
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    The 'o' sound is the one made from the back of the throat (although this might depend on accent, I suppose).
    Ah, for me then it's more like aw than oh.

    I don't know what all I can make from the back of my throat apart from lumps of white/brownish stuff, but I shall try and produce this sound from there as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hack View Post
    Would you mind PMing me the name of your typist...I rather fancy the way he [or she] constructs your sentences.
    I'll mention it to a footman during the hors d'oeuvres.
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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    Its pronounced: "grill me a frankfurter clown"
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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    cow pun

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    Koo-pun! or Queue-pon, depending on the person who's listening to me.
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    Re: How do you pronounce "Coupon" ?

    booroo glauw
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