How do you pronounce Beaufighter?

[Oreo]

Well, how do you?

 

[B-17engineer]

I am gonna say Byoo-fi-ter.......are you trying to figure this out or are you testing us?

 

[Oreo]

I am gonna say Byoo-fi-ter.......are you trying to figure this out or are you testing us?

kind of both. I don't know for sure the right way. I have been pronouncing it Bo-fighter all my life, but I rarely have heard it pronounced by anyone-- I've only ever read it or heard it said by people who may not have been a good authority on the subject!

 

[B-17engineer]

I am Pretty sure its Byoo-fi-ter

 

[Oreo]

Also I thought it would be a funny poll!

 

[B-17engineer]

haha I look at it I was like...hmmmmm...how to pronounce Beaufighter I never really thought of that becoming a thread

 

[lesofprimus]

It IS pronounced Bo fighter... As in boa...

 

[Njaco]

Bow (as in ribbon, necktie) fie -ter

Beau Bridges
Beau Geste

 

[Oreo]

Bow (as in ribbon, necktie) fie -ter

Beau Bridges
Beau Geste

You mean I was right? Gasp!

 

[Oreo]

And, uh, what about those two people who voted other?

 

[Njaco]

descendants of Helen Keller?

 

[Oreo]

descendants of Helen Keller?

noice! And they didn't explain.

 

[Matt308]

They would have, but their profile indicates they have no lips.

 

[Njaco]

Hey I was one of those!

 

[Matt308]

no nwhat is nyour pnoint, Njaco?

 

[Njaco]

(tyoing with elbows) %$#...0 ..,;hfd nm....

 

[Matt308]

 

[Njaco]

There is one other way to pronounce it

Bee-you-fighter

as in Beautiful. Yes?

 

[kool kitty89]

That's how I thought it was pronounced Njaco... Until I heard it pronounced by the narator on a British history programme. (I think it was from the Battlefield series)

 

[Freebird]

Bow (as in ribbon, necktie) fie -ter

Beau Bridges
Beau Geste

Beaucoup, Fantastique! Njaco Tres Bien!


Yes why be so dogmatic about pronunciation!

How about the US Battleship Wheezy-ana?

Or the US heavy cruiser class Gnarl-eens?