Vase or Vase

[Jinx]

Vays?

Vahz?

[Denmark]

Vase rhymes with race. or raze. depends on the day.

[Loony BoB]

You have got to be kidding me.

[Denmark]

Every poll thread should just default to these two options:


The correct way
Daniel Towns' or Sarah Cobb's way (context-dependent)

[Shorty]

Shut up, you. I say it in the way that rhymes with race, ie, the correct way. :colbert:

[Raebus]

Varse. :D

[Shauna]

I cannot think of what word rhymes with vase, certainly not race, so I say it "wrong", I guess.

[Tigmafuzz]

I don't think the word vase is very important, at least not compared to the other pronunciation debates we've had. "Vahz" is supposed to be the correct way, but who really gives a shit about that in America? Both are acceptable.

If you said "vayz" or "vace" in a foreign country or in high society, they'd probably laugh at you, but then you can laugh back at how ridiculous their stupid laugh sounds.


I cannot think of what word rhymes with vase, certainly not race, so I say it "wrong", I guess.

Lamaze?

[Pike]

I don't say it either of the ways in the poll

It rhymes with race

[Pumpkin]

I say it like it rhymes with rays. Vays?

[Faris]

I made a vote but now that I think about it, I'm not sure :(

Every time I hear that word, I hear this in my head Hercules - Zero to Hero (English Sing-along) - YouTube (http://youtu.be/KLn8QZFWiKI?t=41s)

[Jinx]

I don't say it either of the ways in the poll

It rhymes with race


This is what I meant when I put vays. If it ride with rays, I would've put vayz.

[The Man]

Every poll thread should just default to these two options:


The correct way
Daniel Towns' or Sarah Cobb's way (context-dependent)


Lonny BoB voted for one and Sarah Cobb voted for the other. What do?

[DMKA]

VEY-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Freya]

I say it both ways. I say it vahz when I'm trying to sound fancy.

[Psychotic]

So basically the poll is "Are you North American?"

[Shauna]

Seems that way. Lucky we know that they are always wrong, so it's okay that we're outnumbered.

[Pike]

So basically the poll is "Are you North American?"

I see Mirage agreeing with us though! :p



I don't say it either of the ways in the poll

It rhymes with race


This is what I meant when I put vays. If it ride with rays, I would've put vayz.

Vays looks too much like lays, rays, bays, days, ways and so forth to me xD Something spelled like that is usually said with a "z" sound at the end, thus my confusion.

[Loony BoB]

So basically the poll is "Are you North American?"

I see Mirage agreeing with us though! :p
Yeah. When I was five years old and stupid I'd have said it wrong, too.

Daniel Towns! You should know better than this!

[Quindiana Jones]

45300

[Goldenboko]

Rase

[Psychotic]

So basically the poll is "Are you North American?"

I see Mirage agreeing with us though! :pHe's not a natural English speaker he doesn't bloody count :colbert:

[Denmark]

Every poll thread should just default to these two options:


The correct way
Daniel Towns' or Sarah Cobb's way (context-dependent)


Lonny BoB voted for one and Sarah Cobb voted for the other. What do?


(context-dependent)

silly geese

[Rantz]

I didn't read the OP but if this is about pronunciations then everyone who doesn't pronounce it my way is gay and lame.

[Chris]

"Vayze"

Like "Swayze"

[Denmark]

"Vayze"

Like "Swayze"

...with 2 syllables, like "Swayze" as in "Patrick Swayze"?

[Chris]

As in not "Vahz" or "Vays". O:

[Spuuky]

Well, NORMALLY American English has bastardized the pronunciation of words from their original British English form, but that's actually not the case here. The original British English pronunciation is the one that rhymes with 'race.' This is evident in the many rhymes by British poets using the word from hundreds of years ago, like your friend and mine, Lord Byron.

I don't understand how or why modern British English speakers say it differently than older British English speakers clearly did. They're forced, however, to concede that either a) all other American English language changes are valid and correct, or b) the way they say "vase" is wrong.

So, Euros, which is it?

[leader of mortals]

Normally, when confronted with the problem of vase vs. vase, I just make loud grunting noises until the person understands that I do not have the intelligence to differentiate between vase and vase.

[Loony BoB]

Well, NORMALLY American English has bastardized the pronunciation of words from their original British English form, but that's actually not the case here. The original British English pronunciation is the one that rhymes with 'race.' This is evident in the many rhymes by British poets using the word from hundreds of years ago, like your friend and mine, Lord Byron.

I don't understand how or why modern British English speakers say it differently than older British English speakers clearly did. They're forced, however, to concede that either a) all other American English language changes are valid and correct, or b) the way they say "vase" is wrong.

So, Euros, which is it?
I don't think you understand. The way we say it is right, the way other say it is wrong. Keep up, Spuuky!

[Spuuky]

I don't think you understand. The way we say it is right, the way other say it is wrong. Keep up, Spuuky!That's perfectly fine. It simply means the way that we say everything else is right, and the way you say everything else is wrong (and by "we" I mean "me," since plenty of Americans pronounce plenty of words wrong). I listed that option for you: option A. I accept your apology for being so bad at so many other words.

[comma]

Do you think people who say vayz say envelope, and people who say vahz say onvelope? I do the latter.

[Jiro]

In what universe does race rhyme with vase? The word is stupid, I grant you, and I will just call it a glass fucking flowerpot to avoid having to say it, but it's not "vace" by any stretch.

22222

[Yerushalmi]

When I saw the title, I was expecting the ACTUAL POLL OPTIONS to also be "vase" and "vase".

You have disappointed me greatly, Sam!

[Spuuky]

In what universe does race rhyme with vase? The word is stupid, I grant you, and I will just call it a glass smurfing flowerpot to avoid having to say it, but it's not "vace" by any stretch.

22222So we're at Jiro on one side, and Jonathan Swift on the other. I wonder which opinion I should trust more.

[Jiro]

There's no need for that kind of a comment, especially following my prestigious 22,222nd post.

Perhaps I am misinterpreting how the folks in NA say 'race'; if you would kindly post a soundbite, I would be better able to evaluate it. But, based on my sample evidence of every time I've heard the word said (incl. by professors of the English language thank you very much) it has never rhymed with race. I have heard it rhymed with "raise/raze" and "Ra's (as in, belonging to the Egyptian God Ra)/bras (you know, women's underwear)."

[Pike]

Perhaps I am misinterpreting how the folks in NA say 'race'; if you would kindly post a soundbite, I would be better able to evaluate it.

Ugh I hate my voice I'm only doing this for you bro Vocaroo | Voice message (http://vocaroo.com/i/s0cJRO2M6lO9)

[Shauna]

:oo There are three pronunciations of vase. Like race, like raze and like bras. How can we have a split down the middle now, guys?!

[Denmark]

it's not an argument over the final consonant, it's an argument over the vowel sound! AYYYYY or AHHHHH

[Calliope]

what the fucking fuck (http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=vase&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l&org3=y)

[Spuuky]

what the smurfing smurf (http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=vase&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l&org3=y)What? Everyone cool rhymes "vase" with "equal protection of the laws."

[Raistlin]

what the smurfing smurf (http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=vase&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l&org3=y)

Ahahaha who the smurf wrote that? Did someone let Daniel Towns in to edit it? It gets many words right, and then just goes silly. Under what ridiculous pronunciation of "vase" does it rhyme with "arbitration clause"?

[Loony BoB]

I didn't edit it. My position is quite clear on this and it most definitely is in agrement with Quint Eastwood.