How is Bouguereau pronounced?

[sciboy]

In the name of everything that is "HOLY CRAP!" how the heck do you say his name? :bashful:

[Rebeccak]

boo ger oh ;)

[Midnight]

To the best of my knowledge, it's 'Boo-gro'. That's what Google yielded for me a while ago, anyway.

Mid.

[blog]

I call him boo ger oo, lol :P

[romance]

Boo sherow?

[DavePalumbo]

it was tremendously funny to me when I was 10 to say booger-oh, which I believe is an acceptable pronunciation (though an "ooo" sound may be more appropriate, as in "boooger" as said above)

[Ilaekae]

You idiots! It's Welsh and it's pronounced "Wisconsin..."

[JAG.]

boo ger oh.. as stated. just call him Sir goddamnit.. - JAG

[Elwell]

boo ger oh.. as stated.
Although the g is slightly soft.

[asoir]

I always thought it was boo-sherow as well

[Elwell]

I always thought it was boo-sherow as well
Too soft.

[Alday.J]

My tiny heart is bleeding right now ! :P
Rebecca is close, even if the "gue" is the most difficult part, due to the way French people pronounciate the "E". Said quickly, his name sound close to "'Boo-gro" as said by Midnight. Maybe the most natural way for be understood by French people ?

[Jason Manley]

what i want to know is how the hell he managed to live with his mother so long. :)

[CaptainInsano]

i just call him "booger-nose." hehe...

I hear he was only 5 foot tall, and to compensate for his short stature he always did huge 12 foot paintings. Thats my theory at least.

[egerie]

High five Alday.J!

Don't have a mike here at work ;)

[Alday.J]

what i want to know is how the hell he managed to live with his mother so long. :)

Yeah, totally. An obssesive woman. He wait she die for get married again [he was very old at this time]. I know that patience is a virtue, but in some case... :nohope:

@ Egerie: Hehehe ! High five back at ya ! ;)

[JAG.]

heh.. why hasnt he shown up to calrify this for us anyway?? cmon 'boo-gro'! show yourself!! :404sign:

[Jason Rainville]

boo-jeroh (or quickly boojroh) right? if g is too hard and sh is too soft, I'm pretty sure a j does it. A soft j. A french soft J that is.

I can see how hard this would be to 'splain it to people who haven't taken at least a french class :$

[Eric Lofgren]

boo-jeroh (or quickly boojroh) right? if g is too hard and sh is too soft, I'm pretty sure a j does it. A soft j. A french soft J that is.



This is the way I say it. It must be right, because I like the way it sounds :)

[Jason Manley]

Most of the French I have spoken to say it with the hard G...though not all.

[Justin.]

I always imagined it sounded like Boudreaux with a g instead of a d, "Bu-grow",

I used to pronounce it Boge-ray-oh

[Qitsune]

I guess the easiest way for english speakers would be to say Booger-row, with a french R (you know what I mean) if it were Boo-jer-row the u in gue would have to go.

[jrr]

if you ever need to clear your throat after your many pronouncations of bouguereau, try Ingres.

[skvv]

ON-glrlgrlgerszzz

[Mike Dutton]

I remember asking this question to a french girl in art school years ago, and she sounded so good when she said it that I forgot to learn the pronunciation I was asking for in the first place. So thanks for this post.

[Puck]

while we're on the topic, what's the pronounciation for all sorts of artist's names? My old lecturers would all pronounce them differently.

This is what I've been thinking they are, so please correct me before i embarrass myself further.

Ingres - on-gre
Rondin - row-dan
Munch - Moonk
Schiele - she-lee
Titian - tiss-ian
Degas - de-ga
van Gogh - van gaw
Delacroix - dela-kwa

and finally
Picasso - Pick-arse-hole

any corrections?

[ooga booga]

ooo oooooogaaaaaaaa Bouguereau

ooo oooooogaaaaaaaa BoooooooooooooooooooooooooogaaaaaaaaaaROOOOOOOOOWW WWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

ooo oooooogaaaaaaaa BoooooooooooooooooooooooooogaaaaaaaaaaROOOOOOOOOWW WWWWWWWWWWW!!!! mudder fukker!

[Burp_Sanchez]

Bougger roff.

[shrub]

BoohghewhRo
DerhlakkRwa

[JAG.]

ya know.. for those that might not understand wtf we're talkin about here, this may seem like some discussion on outback aboriginee tribal speak :)

bee-longa mick..

[Carnifex]

Ingres - on-gre
Rondin - row-dan
Munch - Moonk
Schiele - she-lee
Titian - tiss-ian
Degas - de-ga
van Gogh - van gaw
Delacroix - dela-kwa


any corrections?
uh-gre
ro-duhn
moonch (short oo)
she-le
titsian
like you say "van goth" only with ch at the end.
dela-croa

but that's only as far as i know :)

[Elwell]

There's a book called Klee as in Clay that's a pronunciation guide to artists' names. It's out of print, but finding a library copy shouldn't be too hard.

[Justin.]

editted for stupidity :D

[Elwell]

Justin, you really need that book ;).

[seba_boi]

Djurdjevic = JurJevik?...

[Faxtar]

While were at it...

Elwell- el-well?
Djurdjevic- ?
llewellyn- ??
Barontieri- baron-tee-airy?
Mandryk- ?
Targete- ?

[Qitsune]

Ilaekae?

[nicolas]

fukifino = fuck-if-I-know?

[egerie]

Justin, you really need that book ;).

Yup. I wouldn't know who the heck they're talking about if someone would blab about 'that famous Row Dean sculptor'. Who? Was he an american? OH ! You mean Rodin! Gates of hell, etc. yeah get it... ahem.

NOW I understand why non french-speaker have trouble with french names. Not only for artists but for everything :) When chatting on TeamSpeak (something similar to Ventrilo), guys had a hard time with my nick at first but with a little hear/say practice anyone can do it.

P.S.: Delacroix = Dela-kRwah hard R !

*has visions of Jane Birkin speaking.* tee-hee!

[Carnifex]

did i get it right? :)
oh and
dshurdshevitsh.

[M.A.]

This link might be useful:

http://www.pronounceitright.com/pronuncia.php?id_pronuncia=3822

[TASmith]

I was told Ingre is pronounced Ang.

[ceddo]

Native french speaker here, it's boo-gr-oh, with hard g like GRRR. Jesus christ, French is a language not a secret code. There's no weird accentuation, clicks or other cryptic pronunciations in this word!

[Chris Bennett]

While were at it...

Elwell- el-well?


That's Lord el-well to you......:teeth:

[ThabisoMhlaba]

Native french speaker here, it's boo-gr-oh, with hard g like GRRR. Jesus christ, French is a language not a secret code. There's no weird accentuation, clicks or other cryptic pronunciations in this word!

If you don't speak it, it might as well be. I don't expect people to know how to pronounce my name, and i don't know how to tell them =\. So I'd say ndebele/zulu can seem like secret codes too. Good thing I'm not a world famous old master.

[Sady]

Five years later...