Cigar name pronunciation.

[cbob]

Here you go.
http://www.mycigarsite.com/subopcion...cion5aeng.html

The fun part of this guide is that originally Rafael did have what he calls the "Castillian" pronunciation of the cigar brands but he's Asturian so there was a bit of a "northern" twang : bottom line being that the cigars were not being named as they would be in the place of their birth. The guy who is reading them now has a genuine Cuban accent and while many of the names are pretty close to what you hear in Spain, the "controversial" ones are given the Cuban rather than the local accent.

Example: "Partagas" in USA = Part?gas (Par-tag-us)
en Espa?a = P?rtagas (Par-tagas)
and en Cuba = Partag?s (Par-ta-gas)

Example: "Bolivar" in USA = Balivar (Ball-iv-ar)
en Espa?a = Boliv?r (Bowl-ee-var)
and en Cuba = Bol?var (Bowl-ee-var)

?Claro que no?

Commandante Robe,
Disguised as

[seanbeer]

No matter how hard I try, my version have Chinese accent to it. LoL !

It's quite funny and inspiring that Trinidad's brand name in Chinese is meaningful and at the same time sounds quite similar the name in english.

Trinidad's Chinese branad name
in Chinese traditional character "千 里 達"

pronouced like: "Chin Lei Da" in Cantonese

it means roughly : "Reaching a Thousand miles"

千 "Chin" = Thousand
里 "Lei" = Mile
達 "Da" = Reached / arrived

how cool !

Now i am the prick !

[Jimmeh]

ARCHAY OOOOOOPMANN.

[Lionhound]

Wow, good response Guys. Seems I'm not the only one unsure of the pronunciations. As someone said already, I'm not sure it matters as long as I know what I'm talking about, a rare occasion I know, but interesting and fun listening to the recordings.
Anyway, thanks Men, guess I should just get on my behike and cycle away. Buh-hee-kay, bee-hih-kay my bahooky.
nb. "bahooky"- colloquial old Scots term for ones bottom....or arse as I like to think.

[Gordonbcb]

Wow, good response Guys. Seems I'm not the only one unsure of the pronunciations. As someone said already, I'm not sure it matters as long as I know what I'm talking about, a rare occasion I know, but interesting and fun listening to the recordings.
Anyway, thanks Men, guess I should just get on my behike and cycle away. Buh-hee-kay, bee-hih-kay my bahooky.
nb. "bahooky"- colloquial old Scots term for ones bottom....or arse as I like to think.

LOL

I like your suggestion. I think all Scots should now pronounce it as a....

COHIBA BAHOOKY

[Styler]

LOL

I like your suggestion. I think all Scots should now pronounce it as a....

COHIBA BAHOOKY

Hehe, agreed!

[bambini]

Finally got round to playing with this. I could listen to him saying "Poonch" all day

[cbob]

Finally got round to playing with this. I could listen to him saying "Poonch" all day

I love saying Poonch Poonch or Poonch Corona Doe-bley.
Or Ray Dell Mooondo!! or Roe-may-oh-EE-Hoolee-etta!

Got into this originally when trying to buy a box of Saint Luis Rey (Sain Lui Ray) Regios in Varadero several years ago. I said Reggie -ohs and the clerk said Regghhios and I tried Redjios and she looked me right in the eye and said Regghhios!
This went forth and back for a number of iterations as I got closer to the correct amount of ggghh back in my throat. Finally she gave me a big smile and said "Muuuy bueno!!" and went off to the storage room for my SLRs.

I resolved right then and there to get my butt to Havana to study a bit of "Cuban" Spanish and while I'm still not very usefully fluent, I can now chat with my favorite torcedor (a non-English speaker) and get a particular kick out of folks in Spain who criticize my "terrible Cuban accent".
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[Dencappo]

http://www.simplycigars.co.uk/cigar-guide-pronunciation-guide-c-74_94_93.html

Just for fun, try clicking on several icons as quickly a possible and you'll hear a hidden message.

Yep! He's right! I remember doing the exact same thing several years ago on the same site... Felt the urge to kill my parents after.