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How do you pronounce zebra in your country: zeebra or rhymes with Debra?

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How do you pronounce zebra in your country: zeebra or rhymes with Debra? - Lemmy.ca

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May 2 at 6:45pmWeb
Show threadHumaniusMay 2
Zay-bra
Show threadJeeve65May 2

Zay-braah I guess, if I would try to write Dutch sounds in English spelling.

There’s a sound version available at https://webwoordenboek.nl/uitspraak/zebra

Uitspraak zebra, hoe zeg je zebra?

Hoe spreek je zebra uit? Twijfel je over de juiste uitspraak? Lees & luister verder om erachter te komen wat de juiste uitspraak van zebra is.

Show threadslazer2auMay 2
Australian here so zed-bra
Show threadLady Butterfly she/herMay 2
Uk, rhymes with Debra
Show threadMirror GiraffeMay 2
Sweden: the e is more akin to the sound in the word ear, but I don’t really know how to phoneticize it in English properly.
Show threadprintf("%s", name);May 3

Seebra, but the “ee” is the “ee” in “eerie” or “ea” in “ear”? :)

The “s"("z") is unvoiced.

Also, the final “a” is quite sharper than the English one.

Show threadneidu3May 2
Rhymes with Debra, provided that the B is soft. Not English, BTW.
Show threadInEnduringGrowStrongMay 2
Zèbre
Show threadkbalMay 2
Canada: I don't know, they both seem pretty normal to me. We don't say "zebra" too much around here. I just typed "zerba" and feel like I should say it like that next time.
Show threadBjörnMay 2
In Germany it’s pronounced Tsébrah. Though I have a hard time thinking about an example for our e sound. It’s like halfway between zeebra and Debra. The sound is more similar to Debra but less flat. Maybe like the second e in electricity but a little bit longer.
Show threadElilolMay 2
Z(D)ebra, Spanish.
Show threadHubertManneMay 2
depends if they are male or female. zeebra is for females and zeebro is for males.
Show threadwetsoggybreadMay 2
Bruh
Show threadbaronvonjMay 2
Debra the woman’s name? Or the verb for removing a bra?
Show threadQuilotoaMay 2
Aren’t they pronounced the same?
Show thread_NetNomadMay 2
in the states, the de- prefix is either pronounced "dee" or just "d" without a vowel sound, and in both cases the emphasis is on the verb. whereas debra would be "deh-bruh" with even emphasis
Show threadsemMay 3
Dee-bra (the verb) vs Debra, the person. That’s how it sounds
Show threadhansoloMay 3
Woman’s name. Deb-rah. A lot of places say it like “zeb-rah”
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkMay 4
Is Zeebra and animal, or a French person asking for lingerie?
Show threadbaronvonjMay 4
je ne sais bra
Show threadAstroLightzMay 2
My country pronounces it as “Zee”, but I say “Zee” or “Zed” depending on mood. (North America)
Show threadPan0wskiMay 2
Croatian: zeh-brah.
Show threadhanrahanMay 2
Australia: rhymes with Debra
Show threadresipsaloquiturMay 3
m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1rbcy2kDo0
Deborah - T. Rex

YouTube
Show threadFrChazzzMay 3
US and I say “zehbra.” But I do this intentionally because that’s how I’ve heard South Africans say it and I figure they are correct. My wife thinks I’m pretentious. But not as pretentious as her friend who insists the pastry is pronounced “kwah-sahn.”
Show threadbutwhyishischinabookMay 4
Pronouncing the pastry like that outside of a French sentence irritates me so much that I do as my more rural relatives used to and say “crescent roll” and stress the “cress.”
Show threadAnchorxietyMay 3
I’m from Ireland, and I hear both used. I personally say “Zehbra” though.
Show threadhexdreamMay 3
South African here. I pronounce it Zeh-bra . So not using the American zee.
Show threadBeBopALouieMay 3
Canada, rhymes with Debra. Mind you my mom was British so that may have been why I say it that way.
Show threadwolfpack86May 3
Deebra
Show threadhansoloMay 3

Zeb-rah, as was how everyone across southern Africa says it. My partner and I always say “Debra the Zebra” after saying zebra. The places that have zebras says it like that… Maybe they know better.

In the US I don’t try and make people worry about it that much and usually use their strange word.

Show threadqevlarrMay 3
Zaybra
Show threadStarya67May 3
Ditto (Dutch)
Show threadbiofaustMay 3
In Italian it rhymes with Debra. Italians also feel sorry for all kids whose parents thought omitting an O would make for a good name choice.
Show threadJeeBaiChowMay 4
Ze-bra, like le in french and bra like a piece of lingerie.
Show threadjimmy90May 4
in northern ireland that’s “Deeebrah”
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkMay 4
I knew a person in NC who pronounced it “De-bore-ah”.
Show threadPamasichMay 5
How does zeebra not ryhme with debra already? I mean, I know english pronunciation is put through a random IPA generator before being finalized, but Wiktionary gives the same exact IPA (bɹə) for the -bra part in both words. So shouldn't they be rhyming then?
Show threadQuilotoaMay 5
In the U.S., the letter Z is pronounced zee. The rest of the English-speaking world pronounces it zed. Thus the difference.