Need pronunciation help with a French name...

[kayla87]

Druillettes = Dru-ee-ye't

I agree with this...

I also found this cool site, type in the name and select French as the language, and the computer will speak the word. It garbles the D at the beginning and sounds more like a B, but you can hear how the rest of the word should sound.

http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/

...but this spoken word sounds nothing like it should. I'm 99% sure you should not pronounce the l's, like the voice translator does.

The "uill" is an extremely hard combination for English speakers, I have to think hard to say it.

The best way to get it close is "drew-yet." Don't pronounce the "ll" or "s" but pronounce the "tt"

 

[lyzziesmom]

I agree with this...



...but this spoken word sounds nothing like it should. I'm 99% sure you should not pronounce the l's, like the voice translator does.

Did you change language at the top to French? If not, it will sound horrible because it will apply English rules to the French name.

 

[rie'smom]

This is for dd's history assignment and sometimes the names throw me off.

How would "Druillettes" be pronounced?

Thanks.

I'm a French Cajun and we would pronounce it:

Droo yet

The double l is pronounced as y.

 

[kayla87]

Did you change language at the top to French? If not, it will sound horrible because it will apply English rules to the French name.

Oops, yeah, that sounds better! And I hear what you're saying about the "d" sounding like a "b."

 

[rie'smom]

Just to add my sister in law's last name is Brouillettes and it is pronounced Broo yet.

 

[mommasita]

I'm a French Cajun and we would pronounce it:

Droo yet

The double l is pronounced as y.

This is correct. I do thing it is spelled Drou, or at least it is in this part of the French world.

I would say more Drew though. The S at the end is always silent.

 

[rie'smom]

This is correct. I do thing it is spelled Drou, or at least it is in this part of the French world.

I would say more Drew though. The S at the end is always silent.

I meant it to sound like drew.

 

[1955girl]

I teach French.. Drew yehet

 

[BEloveDisney]

It would be something like "Dwee-ette", with the "r" being very soft and more like a "w" (as in "oui"). It's true that French drops a lot of their ending sounds, but they do not generally drop consonants that are followed by a vowel, so there would still be the hard T sound at the end. The double L's make a sound roughly equivalent to a Y.

I agree.