"Gooz" or "Gair-zuh"?

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mumares
beers 98 º places 1 º 10:09 Thu 6/21/2012

http://nl.forvo.com/word/geuze/
Maybe a bit Dutch, bit it comes close to the Flemish pronunciation.

 
brewolf
beers 169 º places 16 º 12:46 Thu 6/21/2012

Originally posted by 3fourths
Originally posted by brewolf
I always thought the ’g’ was pronounced similar to an english ’h’ ... so something similar to the english word ’whose’ ???

I’ve heard it a bunch of ways, so I am really curious what the consensus is.


french and flemish say it sometimes as "huuzah" with a small throat rattle on the h, but "gooz" is perfectly acceptable. what’s not acceptable is "guz".

Gotcha. This (with the ’throat rattle’) sounds exactly like what I had concluded from what I have learned over the years. Nice to know I’ve had it ’right’. Thanks.

 
hopscotch
beers 11919 º places 307 º 12:56 Thu 6/21/2012

You’re all wrong.
It’s actually pronounced "Shah-Shef-Skee."

 
hopscotch
beers 11919 º places 307 º 12:56 Thu 6/21/2012

One of the Shelton Brothers told me it was pronounced Gooz. I’ve been saying Gooz for over ten years and I’m sticking to it. If you don’t know what I mean when I say "I have a bottle of gooz to share," you probably won’t get any of it.

As soon as I started saying Gerza, some Belgian would tell me it’s pronounced gooz.

More importantly (to me), is Gose pronounced GOSS or GOSSAH?

Calling Mr. Danko.