SUPER SMASH BRRROTHERS MELEEEEEEE!
It's a French word, so it IS may-lay. The British pronunciation is NOT mee-lee - never heard *anybody* say that ever.
albino boo said:
zer0kevin said:
I used to say Me Lee also until someone told me the correct pronunciation.
ITS FRENCH: mêlée is the actual spelling. So the correct way to say it grammatically is may-lay
Do you also say Pari for Paris and Koln for Cologne? We won the battle Waterloo I will pronounce it the English way. Now pass me my cigarette case, its the one with two crossed dead Frenchmen with the background of dead Frenchmen on the lid.
It's OK to pronounce things as the native speakers do - you wouldn't ignore the umlaut over the 'i' in 'naive' and pronounce it like 'knave' or 'knive', would you? And yes, that's supposed to be the wrong spelling of 'knife'. You wouldn't pronounce 'Camembert' with a hard 'T' at the end, would you? It just depends on what's accepted as the correct pronunciation and in this case it's 'may-lay'.
P.S. 'Foie gras', 'mardi gras', 'Grand Prix', 'nouvelle cuisine', 'Cote d'Ivoire', 'gourmand', 'gourmet', 'l'Arc de Triomphe', 'le Tricolore', 'Nice (the place)', 'champagne', 'Roquefort', 'a la carte', 'carte blanche', 'm'aider! (written as 'may-day'), 'au contraire', 'femme fatale', 'genre', 'bon voyage'....
I'll stop now....