How do you pronounce Beaufighter?

[Oreo]

There is one other way to pronounce it

Bee-you-fighter

as in Beautiful. Yes?

I think that's just a coloquialist version of Byoo-fighter. The fact is, not everyone says bee-you-tiful. Some just say Byoo-tiful. Splitting hairs, here, we are!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I have always pronounced it Byoo-fi-ter, but I am not really sure how it is pronounced.

 

[lesofprimus]

As I stated up above, Beau is Bow is in archery bow... I choose Other because the listings didnt look right to me....

Bo fit er is sounded out to me as Bofitter... To correctly list it I would have done this:

Bo fie ter

 

[Oreo]

As I stated up above, Beau is Bow is in archery bow... I choose Other because the listings didnt look right to me....

Bo fit er is sounded out to me as Bofitter... To correctly list it I would have done this:

Bo fie ter

OK, OK, sorry! "Bow-fie-ter"

 

[B-17engineer]

There is one other way to pronounce it

Bee-you-fighter

as in Beautiful. Yes?

Thats how I pronounce it

 

[hunter0f2]

How do you pronounce Beaufort???

 

[Njaco]

How do you pronounce Beaufort???

"By the power invested in me, I hereby......"

Didn't mean to confuse with all those ways to say it, but like Dan, I wasn't sure about the choices at the beginning. I've always pronounced it like "bow".

 

[hunter0f2]

Yep Bow!! as in Bow Tie!!

 

[ToughOmbre]

I think the Japanese pronounced it "Whispering Death".

TO

 

[Oreo]

Well, since they had a bow-fighter, why didn't they have a sword-fighter, too?

 

[Oreo]

Well, since they had a bow-fighter, why didn't they have a sword-fighter, too?

They probably just didn't think of it. You know the Brits. I mean, really, who would name a bomber a "Bolingbroke?" Or a "Wellesley?" And surely they could have come up with better names than "Skua," "Fulmar," or "Albemarle." And naming their bombers after cities was just weird. Whenever I hear of one of those British cities, out of the aviation context, I immediately think of the corresponding bomber that went with it. Now what if we had named our bombers "Houston" "Los Angeles" "Philadelphia" or "Chicago?"

"Achtung, Heinz, ich sehen einen staffel dem Schikagaoen!"

"Schikagoen, Dieterich?"

"Nein, sie sind nicht Schikagoen, sie sind San Diegoen!"

 

[hunter0f2]

The Edsel Fish Fighter--- Ummm the enemy would scramble to Intercept them in their Peashooter Potatoe Pursuits---

 

[bigZ]

I say tomato. You say ...


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For me its Bowfighter. Although a younger generation may pronounce it differently. Eg Kids will say lieutenant adults leftenant.

As Churchill said (Of England and America) 'Two nations separated by a common language.'

 

[trackend]

deffinately bow fighter but then we say boy for buoy
where I believe you say booey and lets not get into hoods, fenders, bonnets bumpers

 

[evangilder]

or aluminum versus aluminium?

 

[claidemore]

I had a chat with Dallas Schultz a few years ago, a canadian who flew both Beaufighters and Mosquitos in WWII, and he pronounced it Bow-fighter.

Here's a tougher one for non-German speakers, how do you pronounce Jagdgeshwader? And no, "dishwaher" ain't even close.

 

[hunter0f2]

JAG-GESH-VADER---- Ithink ???? I only did 2 years of German at School...

 

[Njaco]

well, there is a Tie-fighter.

 

[merlin]

JAG-GESH-VADER---- Ithink ???? I only did 2 years of German at School...

It may be spelt with a 'J' but isn't it pronounced with a 'Y'? As in Ja, is pronounced yah, isn't it!?
Therefore it would be Yag-gesh-vader ('yag' as in English bag)!

 

[Njaco]

I thinks its more like "Yahg -"