Is it P-lynn-y or P-line-y??? Pliny the Elder Pronounced!

[Remmy]

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[ChefRex]

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Random posting again?

 

[Remmy]

Random posting again?

Wrong thread.

 

[Qhrumphf]

I have a question for those of you pronouncing it the correct way. Is it more important to you to hear a word pronounced correctly and have to endure the person pause their sentence and make a very obvious and conscious attempt at pronouncing a word correctly, or forgo that social awkwardness and let people say a word incorrectly.

I would much rather hear a person walk around a Mexican restaurant saying "kay-suh-dill-uh" than hearing some midwestern teenager practice rolling their R's when ordering a Churro.

I ordered a sandwich called "The Coyote" with correct pronunciation once and the server looked at me like i was nuts.

 

[Brew_G]

I have a question for those of you pronouncing it the correct way. Is it more important to you to hear a word pronounced correctly and have to endure the person pause their sentence and make a very obvious and conscious attempt at pronouncing a word correctly, or forgo that social awkwardness and let people say a word incorrectly.

I would much rather hear a person walk around a Mexican restaurant saying "kay-suh-dill-uh" than hearing some midwestern teenager practice rolling their R's when ordering a Churro.

It's easier for me, as an American, to say "plinny" than to roll my Rs. I'm also one of those history types, so I like to at least pronounce the names of historical people or places the right way, especially if it's easy for me to do so.

 

[ChefRex]

Wrong thread.

As i said

 

[singybrue]

Sometimes you just have to just say F-it and drink the beer.

It's pronounced "fook-it"

 

[Paps]

It's pronounced "fook-it"

THAT'S HISTORICALLY INCORRECT DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!

It's Ph-uck


:rockin:

 

[Qhrumphf]

Fick dich ins Knie.

There. I said it.

 

[drainbamage]

I say Plinny, but then I live nowhere near anywhere I can get it, so it doesn't really come up that much. :/

 

[Brew_G]

Fick dich ins Knie.

There. I said it.

OK...how do you pronounce the beer called "Märzen?"

 

[chisena]

Pee-loo-AHH-knee

 

[Qhrumphf]

OK...how do you pronounce the beer called "Märzen?"

My German is really bad so someone who speaks fluently would probably say I'm wrong, but "Mare-tzen".

 

[1977Brewer]

My German is really bad so someone who speaks fluently would probably say I'm wrong, but "Mare-tzen".

Seems about right. I took German in High School. On paper, I made an A, in reality I think I only showed up for tests.

 

[govner1]

Pliny the Elder



Is it P-lynn-y with the empysis of sounds like the name "Lynn"



or is it Pine with an L: P-line-y?



Discuss!

It is P-Lynn/y
Not p-line/y

 

[whovous]

Plinny is correct, but if I ever get the chance to order it, I promise you I will not pronounce it correctly. I would rather have the opportunity to drink the beer than to correct the great unwashed.

 

[BigPerm]

That's pronounced "Tinny". Vinny Cilurzo told me so.

I can't believe you haven't moved this to the debate section yet....

 

[Hoppity]

Well, languages happen. We'll live through it I'm sure.

I don't really care that she always closes the windows before dinner, but thanks for the view of how it is said so many ways. Greco-Roman etymology is prevalent in all of those sentences.

My Classics prof in College was partial to Plynnie. He also said SOCK-rah-tees. My b-i-l married a Greek girl whose father they called Sew-CRAT-ees.

Things change over time and I'm straddling the line with Plynnie and SewCRATees.

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

Plinny is the philosopher
Pline-y is the beer.

And don't get me started on the pronunciation of the Unibroue beers.

Fin du Monde = Fah(in) duh mond(e).
Maudite = Mow-d(tz)eet.
U2 = U^^ D-(e)uh
Eau Benite = Oh Bay-knit.

MC

 

[ktblunden]

The people that brew and serve it pronounce it pline-y. Historical pronunciation is irrelevant.

 

[Singletrack]

Agree. It is pronounced however Vine-y C. wants to pronounce it.

 

[SevenOaks]

This reminds me of back in junior high school when our science teacher taught us about Pith-a-GOR-us and our math teacher taught about Pi-THAG-or-us. We pitted them against each other and got a kick out of the passive-aggressive and sarcastic responses we got from them about each other.

 

[cannman]

what I am curious about is how this thread made it to 4 pages?????

check it now

 

[sandyeggoxj]

check it now

It is only on page 3 for me. But I run 30 posts per page. :rockin:

 

[MagicRat]

My BA is in history and it was pronounced "Plinny," like "skinny," by my profs, but I understand the brewer uses the long "I." I'd really like an opportunity to drink it and not just pronounce it, but haven't seen it in FLA.

 

[soccerdad]

FLA ? Is that Flow-da?

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I wonder what the brewery has to say?

They say "We don't GAF what you call it so long as it's paid for."

 

[MagicRat]

FLA ? Is that Flow-da?

Yup, the so-called "Sunshine State."

 

[Brew_G]

Just because the brewer didn't know how to pronounce it doesn't mean his way is the right way.

 

[chisena]

Plee-Zee-Knew-HINEE

 

[ktblunden]

Just because the brewer didn't know how to pronounce it doesn't mean his way is the right way.

Means his way is the right way to pronounce the beer. It's his product.

 

[cannman]

Means his way is the right way to pronounce the beer. It's his product.

This frustrates me so........

 

[Gentlemans_Ale]

Transliteration

 

[slym2none]

No, no, no. It it spelled like "Pliny" but it's pronounced "Throat warbler mangrove"!

 

[cannman]

I just got corrected by a server at a Yardhouse: it's PLAINY

 

[chisena]

I just got corrected by a server at a Yardhouse: it's PLAINY

Servers don't know....

 

[chisena]

Pleeze-aye-nizzle-asties

 

[unionrdr]

Well, there's the historical "Pliny", then I got to wondering that since the beer has some resiny hop qualities, that maybe the brewer's pronunciation is alluding to the piney/resiny qualities, interjecting " piney" into " pliney"?

 

[fredthecat]

is it a beer thats easily reproducable as a much much cheaper homebrew?

trick question, such a thing aint not dint exist.

 

[GrainToGlass]

P-(Get-in-LINE)-EE