When you see one of these, what do you say?"Look! There's a La-ZOO-lee Bunting!"?
"Why, I believe that's a LAZ-oo-lie Bunting!"?
Or maybe "Check out the the little blue dude!"?
Leave a comment with your favorite pronunciation, or take the poll in the sidebar. --SW
1 comment:
Great question. Brings up many pronunciations like Pile-ee-ate-d versus Pill-ee-a-ted, etc.
Personally I have always pronounced it as the gem Lapis Lazuli is pronounced which is according to various online dictionaries is LAZ-oo-lie or LAZ-oo-lee. Most of the pronunciations were of the latter ending in "ee".
Listen at http://www.answers.com/topic/lapis-lazuli
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