For newbies like me...

[BrewMeister]

Hello all,

If you are like me, you slaughter the proper pronunciation of many cigars. Here is a website that plays a .wav file pronouncing each name listed... I actually thought I knew how to pronounce "PUNCH" well according to this fellow, not quite. :thumbs:

 

[PTownshend]

Excellent site! I took 5 years of Spanish... its good to see its paid off in my annunciation of ISOM brand names! hahahaha :sign:

Thanks for sharing,
Darren

 

[stevehawk]

3 years of Spanish for me, plus my wife is Hispanic. The only one that kinda threw me was "H. Uppman".

Cool site.

 

[CalixEros]

Those are the Spanish pronunciations of each brand, not necessarily what we would or should call them here. Most people here probably don't pronounce Mexico like Meh-he-ko. That's because the English and Spanish pronunciations are different. Just my $.02.

 

[natejustice]

Cool, thanks Tim

 

[Ginseng]

Excellent find! Thanks.

Wilkey

 

[Lumberg]

That guy has great pronunciation. I do detect a hint of the Castillian in him, though, as he pronounced the z in "Sancho Panza" with a bit of a "th" sound.

I think it's OK to pronounce Uppmann and Punch as the English do.

After all, "Punch" is named after a famous English cartoon character.

 

[Matt R]

Here's my friend Rafael's updated page: My Cigar Site.com pronunciation page. He has a lot of very good information on the other parts of the site, too.

 

[Lumberg]

The only one I didn't know was Quai D'Orsay (I dont' even know if I spelled that right)

 

[KayakinBoy]

I said Anejo wrong and Eric got so pissed. Then I went to the other local shop to get some sharks and he said it with a nice southern Twang!

 

[thejollyco]

when i went to the nat sherman store, i wanted to buy a Padron Anniversary '64.

i pronounced it pad-ron. the guy looked down on me and said... " A Pa-dron...?"

is there any domestic ones that aren't pronounced as they look?

 

[cloudsofcuba]

I grew up with spanish and all of the different countries have different dialects.

 

[caudio51]

very cool site!

 

[bmd34202]

I have to learn how to roll my "R"'s better...

 

[skrgrl74]

Old school trick taught to me about rolling r's is to repeat 'atta boy' really fast numerous time and after a bit the r's roll quite nicely.....