Why do people pronounce Honda Prelude like this? Honda PRAY-LOO?

Answer 1

I'm a musician, and this word comes up all the time. We always say Pray-lood, which is close to the original French pronunciation.

Answer 2

Prelude Pronunciation

Answer 3

I know they say it that way when there is a prelude in music (like a prelude to an opera). Maybe people just get mixed up with the musical term.

LOL I was never sure how to pronounce the car name.

Answer 4

Maybe they can't pronounce D. The E sounds like an A because the word comes from French.

Answer 5

Because they are ignorant and lazy, and probably have never had any proper guidence in that area.

Unfortunately this is common surely you have had someone want to axe you a question. In order to deter-mine whether or not to go to the buff-fet for some scrimps.

Answer 6

Why do some people pronounce library as lie-bury? I hear college kids IN the library pronounce it lie-bury all the time. Baffling.

Answer 7

the same reason pple pronounce PRONUNCIATION as PRONOUNCIATION.

They don't have a dictionary!

It's the standard preference to pronounce PRELUDE as PREL YOOD and the second variation that is accepted is PRAY LUDE

Answer 8

I've never heard it pronounced like that. I hate it when people say "acrost" As in "He's acrost the street".

Answer 9

I've never heard someone say it like that, but it might be because they've never heard someone say it, or a local dialect thing...

Answer 10

" I say tomAto, you say tomahto " I prounouce it "Prey-Lude"

I wouldn't worry about it