আলাপ:বিগ সার

pronunciation

I was going by the pronunciation mentioned here: http://www.bigsursource.com/history.html, where they say: The correct pronunciation of sur sounds like a softly spoken "suwehr." --অর্ণব (আলাপ | অবদান) ০৫:১৭, ১১ নভেম্বর ২০০৮ (ইউটিসি)

Hm, strange... I've always heard this pronounced "Big Sir" [bɪg sɹ] here in California... but it's true sometimes locals have unique pronunciations of areas that differ from the pronunciation prevalent in surrounding communities. I'll look into this, but I think that the standard pronunciation across California (in the cities at least) would be Big Sir (বিগ্‌ সার্‌).

Also, I feel that writing বিগ সুয়ার sounds too much like "Big Sewer". If anything, the "sur" part should be সুর্‌ (reflecting the Spanish pronunciation), not সু-আর্‌... of course, it's unclear what the website you reference is describing, as "a softly spoken (??) suwehr" is not a very technical transcription... but I can see why it would look like সুয়ার would be the best transcription into Bengali. --সামীরুদ্দৌলা ০৫:২৮, ১১ নভেম্বর ২০০৮ (ইউটিসি)

Well, I was going to write it as সার myself as that intuitively came to me, but still googled to be sure, and came across that site. Not sure why they would pronounce it like that. May be what they mean is kind of an anglicized version of the actual spanish pronunciation. I don't know. I don't have any major problem if it's সার. --অর্ণব (আলাপ | অবদান) ০৫:৩৮, ১১ নভেম্বর ২০০৮ (ইউটিসি)

Okay, let's keep it at সার for now then. --সামীরুদ্দৌলা ০৫:৪৩, ১১ নভেম্বর ২০০৮ (ইউটিসি)

সামীর ভাইয়ের সাথে একমত, ঐ এলাকাতে "সার" উচ্চারণটাই শুনেছি। --রাগিব ^{(আলাপ | অবদান)} ০৮:৩৯, ১১ নভেম্বর ২০০৮ (ইউটিসি)