How do you pronounce LeCellier?

[cer]

Please be gentle, I know this may be a dumb question. This Texas girl can get by with Spanish ok, not so much with French Canadian...How do you pronounce LeCellier? My first guess would be "le sel-ee-air" or "le sel-ee-ay" -but truly I have no idea...

Thanks Y'ALL!

[ibrowse17]

La Sell Ah Ria

[ibrowse17]

Actually I am not 100% on that, but that is how we say it in our family

[cer]

This is funny.

Just for grins I googled that same question and to my surprise it came up on a random discussion board. And here is the funny part... Someone posted: It's pronounced, "THAT RESTAURANT IN CANADA"

Cracked me up.

[Camping Mom]

You are one up on me...I am a Texas gal and can't speak Spanish....I DID take one year of French in HS but that was so long ago. I would have said Luh sell yay. Now I know.

[Flower]

La Sell Ah Ria

This sounds more Italian - like Mama Mia!!!!

I would have said Luh sell yay. Now I know.

That is how we pronounce it! Luh sell-yay

[wendy*darling]

La Sell Ah Ria

I really do not think this is correct.

I do think either of your 2 choices work.
For years I pronounced it La-sell-year. (emphasis on the bolded syllable)
However, nowadays I only hear it pronounced Le-sell-ee-yay.

I do like "That restaurant in Canada!"

[disneydeb]

That is how we pronounce it! Luh sell-yay

That is the way I say it too. The CM that took my ADR kept saying " the Canadian Steakhouse". So I think she was afraid to say it too.

[Goes4FastPass]

"Luh cell YAY"
or based on the food,
"Outback"

[Polynesian Dweller]

That is how we pronounce it! Luh sell-yay

Pretty good. Coming from an officially bilingual area of Canada, English and French, we do know how to say it since it is French for The Cellar. The Le part is pretty close to luh with a soft u and not much of an h on the end.

Oh, and its two words not one. Le meaning 'the' (masculine form) and Cellier meaning 'Cellar'. Le Cellier

[1DisneyNut]

Luh-Cell-Yay as Goes4FastPass stated is the correct pronunciation.

[ElenitaB]

I do think either of your 2 choices work.
For years I pronounced it La-sell-year. (emphasis on the bolded syllable)
However, nowadays I only hear it pronounced Le-sell-ee-yay.

I do like "That restaurant in Canada!"

While that "restaurant in Canada" is possibly the EASIEST pronunciation for all concerned, you're really close on the phonetic spelling for Americans. I would transcribe it as:

Lu* Sell-ee-a**

Emphasis on the bolded syllable
*Not like "Lou" but instead like the beginning of lunge
**Like the letter "a"

Or at least that's how I'd Americanize it (without mangling it), after far too many years of French in high school, college and grad school.

Polynesian Dweller, does that pass muster?

[BraddyB]

If you are making ADR's just call it

Lay Sale Er

and laugh when you say it and go thats probably not right and the CM taking the adr's will laugh and told me how to say it. Then I just kept calling it the cellar place joking around with him about it. The guy I talked to was really friendly

[crazypoohbear]

Don't know if this is right or not but I pronounce it

Lay Sell E air.


Of course it took me about 2 years to learn how to pronounce the Welcome To sign in New Hampshire many years ago.

[Marceline]

Welllll Ahm from Missoura and here we pronounce things our own special way. A town named Versailles is literally spoken Ver-sales, not no fancy pants frenchy way and a town named Nevada is spoken Ne-vay-da. SO at my house Le Cellier is Luh-Sell-Yare.

Alrighty ya'll, I gotta go warsh mah dishes.

[Bethis26fan]

lol glad I'm not the only one that has problems saying it.

[princessimagineer]

thank you for this because i am always wondering this too.

in my house, since we are italian, its pronounced : leh-chell-eh

or if we are feeling too american to care, we say : leh-sell-er

i hate it when people butcher pronunciations, so thank you for clarifying this for me. now, how do you properly pronounce mitsukoshi teppanyaki?

[Hair_Razor]

oui, Luh-sell-yay the "r" is silent.

[ibelieveindisneymagic]

We've been saying Le Cellier around our house for the past 15 minutes, trying to figure out how to write it out...DD is asking "Since I go to French School, can I write it?"

So, I've told her no, but we've come to a consensus...le (with a short e) cell-yay.

This should be the triva question one day at Le Cellier, or at least another at least another French activity

[Polynesian Dweller]

While that "restaurant in Canada" is possibly the EASIEST pronunciation for all concerned, you're really close on the phonetic spelling for Americans. I would transcribe it as:

Lu* Sell-ee-a**

Emphasis on the bolded syllable
*Not like "Lou" but instead like the beginning of lunge
**Like the letter "a"

Or at least that's how I'd Americanize it (without mangling it), after far too many years of French in high school, college and grad school.

Polynesian Dweller, does that pass muster?

I wish I was as good at phonetic representation as you did for the Le portion.

However, sell-yay would be better. The i sound is said so quickly it really doesn't come off as the hard ee sound. As I say it to myself, the ee is sort of there but would be hard to pick up. Say sell-yay, its closer to the ear.

By the way, I am anglais but live in a bilingue area so je parle francais and english.