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post #21 of 32
8/22/08 at 2:49am
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Originally Posted by Swan3 View Post
Gosh, I don't mean to get all funny about this, but I'm a native speaker and it's not a long a. It's a short e. It always drove me crazy that my uncle was called HOSE A instead of Jo-seh by English speakers. I think there's been some sort of confusion with the french e sound in ballet.


my teachers were native speakers too. even the ones that taught advanced linguistics. just relaying what i learned many times over.

maybe it's the distinction that has to be made for native english speakers when learning spanish since english vowels have so many identities.
post #22 of 32
8/22/08 at 2:54am
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Originally Posted by Gumby View Post


my teachers were native speakers too. even the ones that taught advanced linguistics. just relaying what i learned many times over.

maybe it's the distinction that has to be made for native english speakers when learning spanish since english vowels have so many identities.
Could be, I know if I went to my mom's and asked for LAYCHAY in my coffee she'd be all

I'm going over there tomorrow, I think I'll try it just to see what she does!
post #23 of 32
8/22/08 at 3:45am
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Originally Posted by NorthernPixie View Post
At my first Florida LLL meeting I was surprised to hear it pronounced like you all are more or less describing it...because in Canada I had only heard it referred to as 'LESH', which is how it would be pronounced in French (where leche means 'to lick'). Mind you I didn't attend any meeting there, so perhaps they've got it right and it's just the public who puts the French spin on it!
My mom, who was involved in LLL in the 70s in the Maritimes, calls it, "La leh-SHAY League," but in Toronto, I've only heard the proper Spanish version.

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Originally Posted by Swan3 View Post
Gosh, I don't mean to get all funny about this, but I'm a native speaker and it's not a long a. It's a short e. It always drove me crazy that my uncle was called HOSE A instead of Jo-seh by English speakers. I think there's been some sort of confusion with the french e sound in ballet.
: When I lived in South America, 'leche' sounded about halfway between Lay-Chay and Leh-Cheh. It isn't an English sound, and there isn't a great way to type it IMHO, but it definitely isn't a long a.
post #24 of 32
8/22/08 at 3:47am
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Originally Posted by ~pi View Post
My mom, who was involved in LLL in the 70s in the Maritimes, calls it, "La leh-SHAY League," but in Toronto, I've only heard the proper Spanish version.


: When I lived in South America, 'leche' sounded about halfway between Lay-Chay and Leh-Cheh. It isn't an English sound, and there isn't a great way to type it IMHO, but it definitely isn't a long a.
I guess a rose by any other name huh?
post #25 of 32
8/22/08 at 1:52pm
on about.com it says:

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Pronunciation: LEH-chay
post #26 of 32
8/22/08 at 10:03pm
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Originally Posted by MommyJoia View Post
on about.com it says:
Whatever gets you through the night!

It's a Spanish word, leh-cheh is the correct pronunciation. Not that it matters, I mean, it's a great organization anyway you say it.
post #27 of 32
8/22/08 at 10:07pm
I think it is in the middle of the two sounds in that the sound itself most closely resembles a long A in English, but the breath is cut short like a short E sound so it doesn't have that Y finish as is 'AY', if that makes any sense to anyone but me.

And I didn't know until college that it was not 'la lesh'. In my northeast town everyone pronounced it as if it were a French word and I still heard it this way when I visited just a few months ago.
post #28 of 32
8/22/08 at 11:45pm
"Leh-cheh" is what I was taught in all my spanish classes (pre-k through college). Though, in Spanish, "eh" is pronounced more closely to the english "ay" than "eh" in English is to "ay" in English - if that makes sense. My DH agrees and he teaches languages and IPA to singers in college.
post #29 of 32
8/23/08 at 12:17am
Leetchee.

...just kidding.

It comes out Le-chay, or at least thats as close to "pronunciation spelling" as I can get it.
post #30 of 32
8/23/08 at 12:31am
http://www.123teachme.com/learn_span...anish_alphabet

click on leche. That's how it's pronounced.
post #31 of 32
8/23/08 at 2:23am
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Originally Posted by Equuskia View Post
http://www.123teachme.com/learn_span...anish_alphabet

click on leche. That's how it's pronounced.

That's how I pronounce it...and that's how they pronounce it at the LLL conferences, and how one of LLL's Founder pronounced it during her presentation. It's NOT Lay-Chay....
post #32 of 32
8/23/08 at 3:34am
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Originally Posted by FancyD View Post
'Lesh' As in 'Lah Lesh'.
Me too!
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