I’ve heard both PEAR-ee-AY and PEAR-ee-AIR.
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This was my first thought. We are still here.
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‘Toledo’ is Spanish, and we also don’t pronounce it correctly.
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Romani, or colloquially, Roma. The g-word is a slur.
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It’s complicated, some GRT communities choose to identify as Gypsy, but generally the rule is that if you aren’t sure it is OK, don’t use that word.
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Oddly enough in Italy they call them Rom, because Roma is taken. I wouldn’t call it a slur, as there are many worse words, but it is a bit “those people” still.
Fair enough.
I did not intend a slur. It was simply that in primary school we were taught that the letter Y could be used in very rare instances as a vowel. That word was the only example we were given.
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Syzygy is a good example.
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That is a good example, which I just had to look up.
In 1973, however, when I was 8, there were limited options.
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There is that. In the UK, we even have TV shows - my big fat gypsy wedding, for one. The title of gypsy king goes to the best bare-knuckle boxer, and that is designated by the gypsy community.
Having said that, in public, or at the pub, we use the term gypsy or roma. There are many more derogatory terms, akin to the n-word, which I am happy to say the majority of us manage to avoid.
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No sweat. As most Black folks will point out, it’s not really in white folks’ (or the oppressor’s) purview to make the rules about what offends the oppressed. It might not be as bad as the N-word , but looking at the Roma Genocide, I believe folks when they say it’s at least as bad as using the I-word for Native Americans and the O-word for Asians.
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Johnny said that he still wants his “two dollars, cash!”
What does “double vowel last name” mean here? My last name is Green. Is that going to confuse anyone?
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Thanks for asking, my last name is spelled Yi, so it’s a name that only the initiated would know to pronounce with the scorn it should be JK, it should get more scorn than normally due IMHO. I do have to admit that a weird last name does come in handy when identifying phone scammers. ^____^
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Just the other day I used that method on a prospective phone scammer.
After a long pause, “Hello?”
“Hello? Yes? Are you going to waste my time?”
Somewhat shorter pause.
“I … have I reached mister stap-lez?”
“If you can’t pronounce my name correctly, then you’re wasting my time.” *click*.
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Love it!!! I picture the telemarketer pronouncing your last name like Leeloo saying “Please Help” in the back of Corbin’s taxi in the Fifth Element:
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