Pronunciation of these names...

[Mehrgan]

Hi,
Would anyone please tell me how these names are pronounced in English?

Paco Rabanne
And,
Dolce & Gabbana

Thanks in advance.

 

[euncu]

***neither a teacher nor a native-speaker***

It is always out of courtesy that the proper names should be pronounced as in their original languages. But as far as I'm concerned (maybe it's prejudicial to think this way-I hope our AE speakers reply) Americans mostly do it the other way round.

 

[Mehrgan]

As far as I've got, they must be pronounced something like:


/"dQltS@I g@"bA:n@/

And,

/p{k@U r{b@n@/

Though, I'm not sure if in the second one it'd be /r/ or /h/!
Any ideas, please?

 

[Tdol]

I've heard /pækəʊ ræbæn/ /dɒlʧe gəbænə or gəbɑ:nə /

PS I can't read your symbols. You can get phonetics for the web here: http://www.e-lang.co.uk/mackichan/call/pron/type.html

 

[birdeen's call]

I have also heard [dɒlʧi:] or maybe [dɒlʧi]

Tdol, Mehrgan's sybols are these, although I'm not sure if he really meant /dQltS@I/ and not /dQltSeI/.

 

[thatone]

From the YouTube ads I checked out

Paco Rabanne /pækoʊ rəbæn, pɑkoʊ rəbɑ:n/

Dolce & Gabanna /dɔltʃeɪn gəbænə, dɔltʃiən-/

 

[Mehrgan]

Hi,
Thanks to all for the kind help. All that aside, these are some great perfumes ever made! Also, Lady Million, smells great for women...


Thanks again!

 

[BobK]

I have also heard [dɒlʧi:] or maybe [dɒlʧi]

...

I've heard that too - 'i' and 'e' seem to be more-or-less interchangeable in the English pronunciation of anything Latinate: last month I was singing in a choir in which the entire soprano section insisted on singing In dulcE jubilo (in spite of the fact that the words In dulci jubilo actually mean something different :-()

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