Re: Zooey v/s Joey

Laura Boyce (laboyce@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 16:58:24 -0400

Sonny:

when I posed the question, I was just considering the o's - "pot" vs.
"put".  Z's, as far as I am concerned, are pretty much standard here (or
at least it is in Florida).  

Just another thought, I would like to think that it was pronounced
Zoo-ey rather than rhyming with Joey, but only because everyone seems to
have this name.  David Bowie's offspring comes to mind and Lisa Bonet's
also. 

"a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" (something like that),

laura
laboyce@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu

 

Sundeep Dougal wrote:
> 
> This pronunciation thing is driving me nuts. Having all my life known
> Zoo-ey (which is how everyone I have met here's pronounced it, by the
> way), I am a bit disturbed at the fact that maybe the man is called (well,
> in a manner of manner of speaking) something else.
> I wonder. Rhymes with Joey some of you seem to be saying.
> But then, the way we pronounce Zoo-ey here also rhymes with Joey.
> Are we arguing over the Z-sound v/s J-sound or over o-sound (pot) v/s
> oo-sound (put)?
> My Zooey has a Z and an oo-sound.
> Still rhymes with the way I'd pronounce Joey.
> Feeling very phonetically challenged suddenly,
> sonny
> 
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> Sundeep Dougal (Sonny, to friends) Holden Caulfield, New Delhi, INDIA