how do you pronounce aquitaine

[Fish Salad]

ack-wee-uh-tayne or ack-wih-tayne

[al_x_ator2411]

Wikipedia says: UK: /ˌækwɪˈteɪn/, US: /ˈækwɪˌteɪn/, French: [akitɛn].

[The Cure]

Ack-wuh-tain is the the Anglo way of pronouncing it.

[Fish Salad]

AY-KWEH-TAINE?!

[galadon3]

Originally posted by NUK3D:

AY-KWEH-TAINE?!

Without the first "Y", so more like AK-WEH-TAIN

[Herb & Bea Ehltée]

Stress on first syllable. Otherwise, as others said: AH-quit-ain

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[Sand]

Depends how authentic you want to be with this. The French pronounce it ah-ki-tan, and that's probably how the English would've pronounced it in the Middle Ages, too.

[galadon3]

Originally posted by Yevaud:

Depends how authentic you want to be with this. The French pronounce it ah-ki-tan, and that's probably how the English would've pronounced it in the Middle Ages, too.

The nobles for sure, since they spoke french (being norman invaders originally and english as a seperate language, blending it with anglo-saxon dialects, not having been invented yet).

[Jukelo]

The French pronounce it Ah-kee-ten - no diphtong anywhere.

[Yaldabaoth]

I quit AYYYn

[Sergent H]

it's AH-Kee-Tan ; "an" as in the "and" without d

[Fish Salad]

Ah or eh? Ah, like aw, right?

[Sergent H]

no "AH" like the A in "attention"
Like there
https://translate.google.fr/?hl=fr#view=home&op=translate&sl=fr&tl=en&text=Aquitaine

[Sergent H]

our vowels and your vowels; specially the A and E have a very different pronunciation.

William did quite a bad job in 1066 on this topic

[Sand]

Originally posted by galadon3:

Originally posted by Yevaud:

Depends how authentic you want to be with this. The French pronounce it ah-ki-tan, and that's probably how the English would've pronounced it in the Middle Ages, too.

The nobles for sure, since they spoke french (being norman invaders originally and english as a seperate language, blending it with anglo-saxon dialects, not having been invented yet).

Indeed. By the time Henry IV usurped Richard II virtually all nobles spoke English among themselves, with Norman French being reserved strictly for courtly occasions and IIRC the writing of laws. But Henry IV was the nail in the coffin for French among the nobility, since he abolished its use at court and restarted the Hundred Years War. But those Englishmen running the English parts of France would've been French speakers, (or perhaps even Frenchmen who'd switched sides) and I see little argument for people for whom French was such a prominent language enforcing an English pronunciation. So ah-ki-tan (I checked with a French colleague at work) it is.

Originally posted by Sergent H:

our vowels and your vowels; specially the A and E have a very different pronunciation.

William did quite a bad job in 1066 on this topic

Considering the sons of the conquerors were adopting English fashions, such as long hair and moustaches, passed on to them through their English mothers, within a single generation of the conquest I would agree with you that William did a dreadful job.

[zoellerama]

I always say AH-kwa-tane, as in Aqua-tain - makes me think that there is a lot of water there. ;)