Foyer? (1 Viewer)

[belljr]

Apparently I'm British.....



https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/foyer

What say ye?

 

[El Floppo]

Don

 

[tri-man 47]

American.  MAGA!  Shouldn't this be a poll (or in British English, "poll")?

 

[Osaurus]

Apparently I'm British.....



https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/foyer

What say ye?

You sure you’re not French?  

 

[facook]

I say "Foy-YAY" because my dad was a pastor and referred to this part of the church in that pronunciation.  Apparently he thinks he's highfalutin.  Even though he says "Eye-talian."

 

[Osaurus]

The Davenport is near it, right?

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I say "Foy-YAY" because my dad was a pastor and referred to this part of the church in that pronunciation.  Apparently he thinks he's highfalutin.  Even though he says "Eye-talian."

That's a narthex.

 

[facook]

I say "Foy-YAY" because my dad was a pastor and referred to this part of the church in that pronunciation.  Apparently he thinks he's highfalutin.  Even though he says "Eye-talian."

That's a narthex.

Not in a small-town evangelical church.  

 

[That one guy]

It is a word of French origin, so you gotta give it a bit of vocal jazz-hands when pronouncing it...ya know, if you’re trying to sound like a d-nozzle that is

 

[El Floppo]

One who foys is a foy-your. That little space at the entry of a house is a foy-yay.

 

[TheIronSheik]

I say both.  It's kind of like the word route.  Sometimes it's ROOT, sometimes it's ROUTE.

 

[belljr]

The Davenport is near it, right?

Lmao.  My grandmother still calls the couch, the Davenport

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

I say "Foy-YAY" because my dad was a pastor and referred to this part of the church in that pronunciation.  Apparently he thinks he's highfalutin.  Even though he says "Eye-talian."

I did not know churches had foyers.  I thought they had vestibules.

 

[rockaction]

I did not know churches had foyers.  I thought they had vestibules.

A vestibule with an ingress for congress. 

 

[Kanil]

REAL Americans would never say that Frenchie sounding word.  We call it a ####ing lobby.  'Merica!

 

[Jules Winnfield]

The Davenport is near it, right?

Yes, it’s right next to the telly