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How do you pronounce banana?

Asked by rebbel (35553points) March 29th, 2012

After the kill pronouncement question and someone answered that he/she pronounced it banana I thought it a good moment to ask how we (possibly) pronounce the name of this greenish yellow fruit differently?
After all, it has three times the vowel A in it, so there coud be several ways to say it.
I spell it buh-naa-naa.

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Blackberry's avatar

Buh-nah-nuh.

fundevogel's avatar

Exactly like this.

JLeslie's avatar

Bah-nan-nah. But, close to buh-nan-nah. Either sounds right to me.

ucme's avatar

Bey-nah-nay.

KateTheGreat's avatar

Baa-naan-uh

augustlan's avatar

Buh-naa-nuh

stardust's avatar

Ba-naa-na

iphigeneia's avatar

Using the International Phonetic Alphabet, I’d say bənaːnə. Yeah, I just don’t think that I have any idea what a-ah-uh-aa sounds like in your heads.

marinelife's avatar

Buh – nan- uh!

Sunny2's avatar

I answer to either, but I say buh-nah (rhymes with hat)- nuh.

MilkyWay's avatar

Buh Nuh Nuh

augustlan's avatar

“Kill” ~

rooeytoo's avatar

@fundevogel – that is so funny, all of his videos are. I am not sure if I understand it but I don’t care, it makes me laugh anyhow! Thanks for sharing.

And yes that is the way I pronounce it but I am probably the only one is Australia who does.

fundevogel's avatar

@rooeytoo Not really anything to get, it’s just weird. I’m glad it amused you.

Berserker's avatar

@augustlan dammit I was gonna say that

Coloma's avatar

Aaaaa-pull!

cookieman's avatar

buh-nan-nah

dappled_leaves's avatar

But seriously: Buh-nah-nuh.

ragingloli's avatar

baˈnaːnə

Blackberry's avatar

Only the internet can make a bunch of random people type the phonetics of the word banana repeatedly.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

@Black-beh-ree Yew awre coh-rekt

Blackberry's avatar

@WillWorkForChocolate That made me laugh out loud.

SpatzieLover's avatar

It hurt my brain ;P

Coloma's avatar

Haaap eee brow-knees!

rooeytoo's avatar

@fundevogel – they remind me of the senseless but funny jokes of yesteryear, such as: What’s purple and rides a white horse? The Lone Eggplant.

I guess I just have a strange sense of humor!

PurpleClouds's avatar

ban an a

I don’t say bu nana

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

@Blackberry Thaynk yew gud ser! I aym two pleez!

basstrom188's avatar

Yes we have no Ban-na-nuhs we have no ban-na-nuhs today

mazingerz88's avatar

My name is Bon. Bon Nah Nah. : )

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