Charisma, how is it pronounced?

[Cockneycarl]

I always thought that charisma and charismatic where pronounced > Carizma and carizmatic<

But on this advert the small cowboy pronounces it as it's spelt which heavily relies on the >Ch< sound @15 and 18 seconds

Which is the right way?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3pZqWG5k2g

[MarkRae]

That's because the advert is for keys.

[Nibble]

Try this, usually as three syllables, i.e ka-riz-ma

http://www.answers.com/topic/charisma

or as charismatic

ka-riz-ma-tic

http://oald8.oxfordle...tionary/charismatic_1

[EvianBaby]

They are trying to be clever. He says CH... because its CHeese/

[bookbinder]

These 5 websites say it's 'karizma':
http://www.forvo.com/word/charisma/
http://oald8.oxfordle...m/dictionary/charisma
http://www.macmilland...tion/british/charisma
http://www.goodenglis...to-pronounce-charisma
http://www.wordhippo....he-word/charisma.html

MarkRae's answer is a good one!

[Peter Pedant]

I think it is about CHeese.....

although the questions a good 'un

In Charlie's Angels - Jigglevision, if you've got it bump it with a trumpet - yeah that one, Farrah FM at one point says, having being temporarily bested, " touche ". and then pouts beautifully

the only thing is , she pronounces it like the airport, Le Touquet

and I wondered that there was no one in the tv production team on the west coast of amerikee that had done a year's French

[sir.prize]

Cos many the words begin with CH

[mike11111]

Ideally the "ch" should be pronounced in the Scottish /German /Russian /Greek fashion. However,as most English speakers do not possess a twisty clack, they settle for "k".

[guilliebrougues]

when people are charismatic or have charisma this is how it is supposed to be spelled.

[FredPuli43]

Brilliant, Peter (and what a commendable choice of art house film ).Bet they get the Spanish pronunciations right. Somewhat surprised that anyone learns French in the US, particularly on the West Coast, seeing how Spanish speakers are so numerous there. How on Earth do they communicate with their staff, by Jove?

Mitt Romney's team were recently boasting of their man's foreign policy experience on the grounds that 'he speaks French', which suggests that Americans regard that as an exotic skill of only the most international of minds!

[mike11111]

"Mitt Romney's team were recently boasting of their man's foreign policy experience on the grounds that 'he speaks French', which suggests that Americans regard that as an exotic skill of only the most international of minds!"

That's him buggered then, admitting that he talks the lingo of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
Just a thought.

[jno]

it's astonishing that the Charlie's Angels film wasn't screened at the American Film Fesitval at Deauville, just along the coast. The whole cast could have gone there, walked on the red carpet, learnt how to say "Royale with cheese" and "cul de sac" and stuff.

[DTCwordfan]

Fred - in balance to your comments on our American friends' linguistic skills, I would add, that in my not inconsiderable experience, a lot more Americans speak decent Mandarin than we do.

Any an aside - the word for someone who speaks three languages is "trilingual"
For two languages, "bilingual"
For one language?


Yep, American, or English.

[DTCwordfan]

"Anyway" not "Any"!!!

[mike11111]

You missed out cunnilingual.

[NoMercy]

Well praise the lord you didn't miss it, Mike.

[DTCwordfan]

can you define that, please, or is it using many tongues, mike?

[FredPuli43]

mike, it just shows how desperate Romney's team are. His heralded trip abroad was a disaster, which Obama immediately picked up in his speech to the Democrat convention (If you insult our oldest ally, don't speak to Beijing). Since then, Romney's team have been saying 1) the Democrats mention foreign policy only because they daren't talk about the economy and 2), in the alternative, 'our man speaks French'. That speaking French, and a French connection, was used against the last Democrat candidate, and having anything vaguely European about you is meant to be a bad feature, seems to have been forgotten.

[woofgang]

errm folks, its meant to be a joke.....

[mike11111]

Were I an American, which thanks to the grace of God I am not, my instincts would tend towards the Republican party. However I think that this year they are on a loser; I can't see them voting again for a Moron (Bush was one too many).

[mike11111]

Did I omit an "m" in my previous post?