maroon
Where I am, in Queensland, Australia, the word "maroon" (in reference to the colour) is pronounced to rhyme with "bone". In the same place, the unrelated verb "maroon" meaning abandon etc is...
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We had a thread on the "stupid person" sense of "maroon" a couple of years ago, here.It's rather off-topic as to the OP. As a USer, I've only heard the boon-rhyme for both color and the abandon-verb...
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Never heard maroon (colour or castaway) pronounced that way. Strikes me it also rhymes with roan, though that's probably coincidental.
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The Spanish word for brown is marrn (the last syllable rhymes with "roan"). I've always thought there had to be a relation between marrn and maroon.
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AHD says of maroon, "[from] French marron, chestnut, from Italian marrone." Like as not the Spanish word shares the same root.
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The pronunciation /m@roun/ is more or less the old French-type pronunciation, I suppose. This would go with the spelling "marron", however, rather than "maroon". MW3 does show this "marron" as a...
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RAE give as one of the senses of "marrn": "dicho de un color: castao", i.e. "chestnut coloured". It gives the derivation from the French "marron".I like the way you and your countrymen pronounce it,...
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It's unusual but not unheard of for the spelling of a word to be from one source and the pronunciation from another; cf. colonel, where the spelling is from French and the pronunciation from Spanish...
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The sailing ship was carrying black paint in one hold and red paint in the other. As it passed an uncharted island it struck the reef and was torn apart. What happened to the sailors who went over the...
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I don't think this example is completely analogous but the pronunciation of Celtics in the US differs depending on what you are refering to:Relating to the Celts or their language: |?keltiks |Boston...
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This thread made me re-visit Dr T's great poem of April 15, 2003:A quahog and quaggaMarooned off MalagaWere singing a sagaIn Old OnondagaWhile playing a ragaBy Sonia Braga.I hadn't thought of the...
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The US pronunciation of "Celtic" is not that straightforward. The word relating to the Celts and their language is pronounced both ways. The basketball team, however, is always | seltiks |
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