How do you pronounce Cobra?

[Rubbernuke]

Lets bring another David into the mix:

[video=youtube;JiCqXfHIpVY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiCqXfHIpVY[/video]

 

[bitstorm]

How do you pronounce code?

Well the same way I pronounce coke and code.

co, as in cope, cone, coat, cote, co-operate, co-locate, etc...

Not as in con, cot, cod.

 

[the100thmonkey]

I was watching David Braben in an interview and he said Cobra in the Cobra Graphics Engine as

Ko-bra Ko as in "cold" and "condition"

I've always pronounced the snake "Koh-bra" "Koh" as in "comb," "code" and "coke"
And the "bra" is more like the schwa reduced "ǝ" sound as the "i" in "April" or the final "a" in "Umbrella"

As a Brit expat. who's been out of the country for nearly 20 years, I'm just curious how you pronounce it.

Are you from the Midlands or the North of England?

In both Southern RP and Scottish General RP, "cold" is usually pronounced with the same vowel as "comb."

Google says he was born in Nottinghamshire, so I would look at the pronunciation round there. I couldn't find anything on YouTube that seemed relevant.

 

[timbero]

I was watching David Braben in an interview and he said Cobra in the Cobra Graphics Engine as

Ko-bra Ko as in "cold" and "condition"

I've always pronounced the snake "Koh-bra" "Koh" as in "comb," "code" and "coke"
And the "bra" is more like the schwa reduced "ǝ" sound as the "i" in "April" or the final "a" in "Umbrella"

As a Brit expat. who's been out of the country for nearly 20 years, I'm just curious how you pronounce it.

It's pronounced Kåbra of course, have some chokladkaka.

 

[[VR] Deggial]

Maybe helpful:
Press the 'play button' to listen.

(I don't think, it is TTS in this case (or at least it's a good one), so it should be relevant. The 'a' in the German pronunciation is a little bit too stretched out for my liking, though.)

 

[GunnerBill]

Option two obviously.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

The Germans have this all sussed out. This is why they have umlauts. It adds an e after the vowel. So if it was cöbra, or coebra then they know to pronounce it with a coe as in coke.

The north English and Scots are more likely to use coebra. In the same way the north west English say proeject or yoeghurt. The south English and also those with Received Pronunciation are more likely to pronounce the vowel like cob. You also see this with the word grass pronounces like grarss, path as in Parth whereas northerners are more likely to say paff.

Umlaute don't add an "e" after the vowel - they change the sound of the vowel. The "e" is just an approximation of what that sound would consist of. We certainly don't say Köbra, löl.

 

[Heavenly-Hammer]

I pronounce coke and cold the same way.

This.

I'm so confused.

 

[Wyaston Hypatia]

I pronounce coke and cold the same way.

As do I.

 

[BigFW]

ex Essex boy here...and it's 'Coh-brer' mate

Cob-brah? **chuckles**

 

[Bomba Luigi]

"Fabberwoggle"

 

[willowfan]

ex Essex boy here...and it's 'Coh-brer' mate

Cob-brah? **chuckles**

[Looks at forum avatar] Well out of everyone who's replied so far, you should know

 

[TomP]

Poll makes no sense.

But I also noticed DB's pronounciation of 'Cobra'. I was brought up, by parents from the north, saying it in that way. But after bumming round in India 20 odd years ago, I realised that in that neck of the woods it was pronounced closer to kohbrah. And you do sometimes come across them there, not just in zoos...

This sort of pronounciation is a matter of usage and/or choice. I don't think the short 'o' is a problem. Or should that be proh-blem?!

 

[JeffRyan]

I'm confused.

I am a Brit and I pronounce the co in cold and coke the same?

Isn't it cold vs cop/con/<filtered>/cot/cob/cod etc..

I had the same thought. I can't be bothered checking my dictionary for the standard
pronounciation. Actually in Scotland we do say kold (like cop), but I've been an English teacher so long a lot of my scots gives way to standard (not all of it though, court and caught are NOT pronounced the same way, whatever my books say! heheh)

 

[GraXXoR]

How do you pronounce code?

Not the same as cod...

 

[Luniticisi]

Lets bring another David into the mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiCqXfHIpVY

Solved !

 

[Codger]

What I find amusing about this is the poll. From a US speaker's perspective, they appear to be all the same. Cold, Coke, those have the exact same sound in my mind. So I didn't vote

 

[Krieger]

Umlaute don't add an "e" after the vowel - they change the sound of the vowel. The "e" is just an approximation of what that sound would consist of. We certainly don't say Köbra, löl.

Haha "löl" pronounced like that is a very tricky word in dutch

 

[DrakeAurum]

Well the same way I pronounce coke and code.

co, as in cope, cone, coat, cote, co-operate, co-locate, etc...

Not as in con, cot, cod.

I'm relieved that it's that way round - otherwise you'd get some odd looks asking the barman for a tall dark coke.

Still, I'm born and raised in southern England, and I pronounce 'cold' as in 'cop'.

But as for Cobra, definitely coe-bra, emphasis on the first syllable.

 

[Infidel Deity]

Hmmmm....
This is a though one! [where is it]