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Title: What's the Italian pronunciation
Post by: sonofagun on February 12, 2004, 10:25:49 AM

of "Tucci?"  Are the "cc" pronounced as an english 's' or as 'ch'?

Title: What's the Italian pronunciation
Post by: Mickey1992 on February 12, 2004, 10:32:35 AM

There is a restaurant about a 1/2 mile from me called "Tucci's" and they pronounce it "Toochies".  Of course, it is in the US so they could be pronouncing it wrong too.

Title: What's the Italian pronunciation
Post by: Naso on February 12, 2004, 10:44:25 AM

In this case Tucci is prononced with double "ch" sound (like in charlie or church, but doubled=strong).

I have'nt at hand the phonetic symbol, but i hope you got the idea.

Title: What's the Italian pronunciation
Post by: john9001 on February 12, 2004, 01:20:08 PM

my mothers maiden name is lucci , and thats how they pronounce it , with a strong "ch"

Title: What's the Italian pronunciation
Post by: Dinger on February 12, 2004, 01:32:06 PM

Okay, I'm only going to say this once, so Vulcan, you better not be sleeping:

Italian pronunciation of the G and the C:

the G and C are generally pronounced as hard consonants (as in gear, gart, great, goo, caraway, cokehead, creepy), except:

When followed by an E or an I, in which case they are soft, as in cheese, loge.

In italian, a hard G or H sound followed by an E or I is indicated by uses the H,
so bruschetta, is properly pronounced brusk-etta and not brush-etta. macchiato is "makk-i-ato", not "machado", and  tucci is toochie, not "tukki"

Oh yeah, and a g followed by an l is pronounced like the double l in "million"

Title: What's the Italian pronunciation
Post by: sonofagun on February 12, 2004, 01:38:17 PM

Thanks for all the input.  The "ch" is the winner.  Now to tell my buddy Mr. Tucci that he has been mispronouncing his name all his life.

:p

Title: What's the Italian pronunciation
Post by: beet1e on February 13, 2004, 12:44:44 PM

ca, co & cu in Italian are all hard C (like a K). ce and ci use the ch sound.

Feminine gender words (ending in a) are pluralised by changing the a to e. Many words in Italian like La Banca (the Bank) preserve the hard C sound preceding the E by inserting an H. Thus the bank is La Banca, the banks is Le Banche. Another one: the word for German in Italian is Tedesco. Plural is Tedeschi - the ch makes it a K sound. There are MANY words in Italian that use the H like that.

Interestingly, the Italian language makes no use of the letters J and K. So kilo is chilo etc...