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[PixieDust]

When I went to the Farm shop the other day I asked the price of Aubiose. I gathered it was a French name and pronounced it "aw-bwaa". The girl said "oh no its French it's O-bee-ose.

 

Just curious. How do you say it?

[gavclojak]

After calling it Ambroise for god knows how long I now ask for 'awwboys'

[Cinnamon]

It is as the girl in the shop said

[PixieDust]

Just found someone on the net who spoke to UK rep and apparently it is pronounced O-Bio-Se.

 

Think I will just call it hemp lol

[bluekarin]

I say it like aww bose

[Groovychook]

It is as the girl in the shop said

That's how the distributor from Aubiose pronounced it when I was trying to locate some.

Quite jealous- can't get hold of it around here anymore

[soapdragon]

I used to point to the stack of bales and say 'one of those please' !!

 

However, if pushed, I'd say O bee ose but very quickly in case I'd got it wrong

[Egluntyne]

It is as the girl in the shop said

 

Yep.

[Alis girls]

"Aw-boys" - bit like Mrs Awboys in One foot in the grave. Mind you I aint posh like you girls and I tend to pronounce things phonetically - must be my East Midland up bringing.

[WitchHazel]

It's O-Bee-Ose.

(If the o and the i were reversed and it didn't have an e on the end -Aubois- it would be Aw-bwa)

[chickencam]

I agree with the girl in the shop, that's what our local merchant calls it.

[Lewis]

Orbeeose here tooo!

[Alis girls]

OO er - I would never have thought it was that.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

When I go to my local feed store, I always pronounce it in my best French accent and then the girl on the cash desk shouts across to the 'lift it and shift it' guy and totally strangles it in a broad Suffolk accent. It's an old fashioned place where you order the big sacks of stuff at the cash desk, the girl on the desk shouts the order across the shop and then your goods appear by your car and the nice man loads your car for you.fantastic service

[Valkyrie]

Same as Lewis!

[Daphne]

O-bee-ose

 

Now a variation - do you all say the 'ose' bit to rhyme with 'dose' or 'toes' I grew up in Hampshire so I sometimes have a country drawl and sound one like of the 2 Ronnies ....'toes' ''Os', Mon Repose

[Valkyrie]

I say to rhyme with toes, nose, woes you knows!

Very few Hampshire burrs around here nowadays. Go to Basingstoke and it's mostly Eastern European. Very irritating as I can't eavesdrop!!!

[soapdragon]

On the subject of accents...I grew up in Surrey (terribly Surrey!) but, having lived in South Oxfordshire for the last 25 years I now, according to mother, have a country burr (and am delighted with it!) However, someone asked me last week if I was from Bristol (Brisssol) and I, apparently, said 'houuuse' instead of house!!!!

 

Regional accents rock...long may they last! The day we all speak the same with the same inflections will be a sad one indeed! My two boys aged 10 and 6.5 actually have slightly different accents despite having been at the same address, in same village all their lives...fascinating!

[Luvachicken]

"Aw-boys" - bit like Mrs Awboys in One foot in the grave. Mind you I aint posh like you girls and I tend to pronounce things phonetically - must be my East Midland up bringing.

 

I always thought she was called Mrs Warboys ???

 

Anyway, I always say aw - bi - ose and then say to the chaps whatever its called, but the last time I went the chap said he always called it Oreo like the biscuit

[gavclojak]

I love regional accents too soap dragon but isn't if funny how people are judged on them.

 

I have a friend who is teeny tiny scoucer, she is a real pistol, she has a really high powered banking job and she said when she first came to work in London she was treated terribly and was not taken seriously.

My Lovely OH is very intelligent, has a good job and he also he has a really strong South London accent bordering cockney and I have been there when consultants have directed questions at me rather than him. He was also treated really badly on a flight when the trolley dolly was incredibly rude when he asked for an extra "pilla" oh you mean a pillow she retorted sarcastically.....I was seething for the rest of he flight.

[soapdragon]

That's a big prob with accents; some small minded people tend to make judgements about you. I was bullied mercilessly at secondary school for sounding 'posh' which I absolutely wasn't/am not! However, I still maintain that regional accents make Great Britain!

[Lavenders_Blue]

I was bullied mercilessly at secondary school for sounding 'posh' which I absolutely wasn't/am not!

 

Me too, soapdragon. Well, 'mercilessly' is perhaps a bit strong, but there certainly was more than a little teasing about the way I speak. Despite having lived in the same area all my life, I somehow managed to escape the local accent - it's not particularly strong, but it's certainly a distinctive twang. Somehow I ended up sounding like I graduated from Cheltenham Ladies College, which is hilarious because I am a total bumpkin It used to really bother me but now I accept that I can't do an awful lot about it. Nowadays people still comment on it, but tend to say they rather like it. I agree that people tend to take you more seriously if you don't have a regional accent (so yes, I do tend to ham it up when needed ) but I wish it wasn't the case. The diversity of British accents is wonderfully unique and I love to hear them. Keep twanging away, folks!

 

ETA - I forgot this thread was about Aubiose I just buy woodshavings which completely avoids the problem, but if I did buy it, I'd probably ask for 'that French hempy stuff' or possibly 'Ohhhhhhhh-bee-oze dahhhhhhhling'

[Christian]

I buy Hippofan now, pronounced "hippo fan"

[Purplemaniacs]

I buy Hippofan now, pronounced "hippo fan"