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Apparently annoyed with scores of witless people mispronouncing New York notables' names, New York magazine publishes a pronunciation guide to a few of the essential names you'll need to drop in your water cooler conversation. Names include Wylie Dufresne(right) of wd-50, PR gal/bad driver Lizzie Grubman and Choire Sicha (who will always be "kwire-eee" to us). Here are a few others Gothamist only recently figured out:
Sridhar (Pappu) - "shh-reader" but faster
Lorne (Michaels) - "lorn," not "lorny"
P. Diddy - "P-Diddy," not "P-dot-Diddy"
(Michael) Wolff - "wolf," not "wolffffff"
Houston Street - "how-ston," not like the city
Bronx - "the Bronx"
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DA bronx, jen. not, the bronx.
We learn something new every day!
and for a second, i read that Pot-diddy. minor detail.
I'll never let my wife live down the day she was reading a listing and blurted out that she wanted to go to someplace near the "Flatterin" building...aka Flatiron
what about Lizzie Spiers buzz ... or did last month's NYT article clear that up for anyone who's anyone? "SPY-ERS" instead of "Spears" ... who knew?
What about Fitty-Cent(instead of 50 cent)?
Wrong NYMag, it's Boo-SKEM-eee.
Jeez, the research, the research.
and to be totally ignorant...
outside of Steve Buscemi who gives two shits about the rest of these people anyway... ;)
What about all the out-of-towners who think that Newark is actually "New York" pronounced with a nooyawk accent.
Flatiron seems to be troubling for some people (see also Jimbo's post above). A couple of my friends were calling it the Fla-teer-on building for a while.