Meplat?

[Schreck5]

What is the correct pronunciation of "meplat"? Is it a French word?
Bruce

[beagle]

Don't know the origin but I've always pronounced it: me plat./beagle

[high standard 40]

It is pronounced. "Me play"

[Hamish]

The same way you pronounce "sabot",,,,,,,

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[farmerjim]

I was thought that in French you only pronounce the last letter if it is C R F or L.

[Rcmaveric]

Owe my. I need to look ot up in a dictionary now. I have been pronouncing it meh-plate.

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[Tracy]

I just listened to two different pronunciations online. The first was given as the correct English pronunciation, and was "meh-plat." https://www.howtopronounce.com/meplat/

The second was the French pronunciation, by two native French speakers both of who pronounced it "me-plah." https://forvo.com/word/m%C3%A9plat/

[TNsailorman]

Guess I'll have to give up casting. I don't pronounce French correctly.

[JMax]

I’m an Okie and have difficulty pronouncing English let alone French.

[Hossfly]

Down here in red neck country we just call it flat nose.

[Rug480]

Mee-plat works for fortunecookie, works for me

[jsizemore]

He don't look French to me.

Don't worry, we'uns no wat ur talkn' bout.

[Bookworm]

I’m an Okie and have difficulty pronouncing English let alone French.

I'm an Okie, and I don't speak English at all.

I speak 'Murican.....with an Okie accent.

[gwpercle]

I don't think I've ever heard it pronounced... I've read it in print a gazillion times....
When I see it written my little brain says "me plate".

Being Cajun French the word seemed familiar ....I did some looking around....
low and behold Meplat is from the French word "Me'plat" which means ... " Flat " !
So it looks like the word is from the French word for flat , just leave out the french comma up high (me'plat) (meplat) and you got the way we spell it .

I have no idea about proper pronunciation ... Cajuns talk funny..like
Geaux Tigers !
Gary

[fatnhappy]

It’s pronounced “flat spot”

[murf205]

Oh boy! How about Kynoch. I've probably butchered that one as much as meplat.

[beagle]

Me too. Didn't know what a meplat was until I started casting. Were flat noses to me./beagle


Down here in red neck country we just call it flat nose.

[William Yanda]

Guess I'll have to give up casting. I don't pronounce French correctly.

just hold your nose. Apologies, that passes for wit in my feeble mind. And in my own defense, I have ancestors of French derivation through Canada to Missouri then to Tennessee and Kentucky.

[Texas by God]

Meh plat is how I say it. Kennock is how I've always pronounced Kynoch. I have no idea on either. Flat Point seems like an oxymoron......

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[INTRLOPER]

Meh plat sounds much more righter er to me.

[Traffer]

It’s pronounced “flat spot”

You guys are funny!

[Traffer]

I'm gonna give it the French pronunciation from now on. ME'-plah. Hey it's a French word might as well say it they way they do.

[Traffer]

I had to look up how to pronounce ogive too. Now I just sing "Willie and the ogive" (you have to be at least 65 to remember that song) It's "Willie and the hand Jive. I know you guys don't mind going off topic so Ima post the song here for the younger folks...
https://youtu.be/9kIswurDJt4

[TNsailorman]

Traffer, tht is one beautiful 58 Impala. My uncle had one in two tone tan and light brown. The 58 in my all time favorite car. Maybe a 66 Chevelle SS, which I had at one time. james

[Shopdog]

Meh-plat.....

My favorite is Moet champagne. Everyone likes to practice their French with a silent "T"... to the point of seeing it necessary to correct anyone pronouncing said letter.

Funny thing is,Moet is a German family who does enunciate the "T". Back to regular programming.

[Sig556r]

it's plateau

[nun2kute]

It will always be "Me Platt" to me. Incidentally, I speak French just fine, I just cant type it here without being reprimanded.

[Hogtamer]

Pecan: If a southerner hears it pronounced peh canns' it's a warning from another southerner that there's a yankee present. Otherwise it's the can you pee in.

[farmerjim]

Just to stir the pot a little, how do you pronounce this one.

We could put the boolit with the meplat into a sabot.

Feel free to add to this sentence.

[gwpercle]

Just to stir the pot a little, how do you pronounce this one.

We could put the boolit with the meplat into a sabot.

Feel free to add to this sentence.

Could it be a say-beaux ?
Sabot ...a French wooden shoe ?

The road was rough but we had our sabot's to protect our feet .

[mdi]

My head says "Me Play". I don't need to know how to pronounce it 'cause I don't know any casters to talk to, face to face...

[nicholst55]

it's plateau

Where I come from, it's a mesa. I don't speak French, so it MEE-plat.

[Thin Man]

The photo of a '58 Chevy blasted me with childhood memories. A close friend's father bought a new '58, color gold, convertible, with a full Continental kit on it. That was the car I drooled over for about a year, until it disappeared from their driveway. My friend claimed the car was stolen from them.. Later I heard 2 stories about the disappearance, either of which could have been true: (1) the owner lost it in a crooked poker game, or (2) the bank re-possessed it. Knowing the owner's job swapping history I favor the second option as most likely to be correct.

[RED BEAR]

I could care less how the french say it in my neck of the woods it is pronounced as it is spelled met plat. And the french can stay the heck out of it.

[murf205]

Pecan: If a southerner hears it pronounced peh canns' it's a warning from another southerner that there's a yankee present. Otherwise it's the can you pee in.

Yep, Hogtamer, "down here" it's pronounced puh-kahns, and as far as meplat, I'm not in France so it's me-plat if we want it to be.

[Taterhead]

Way out here in the northwest we don't think about Yankees or Southerners much, unless we're thinking about regional cuisine. And we are thankful for both. We like French food too.

The folks I know pronounce it:

MEHplatt

Around the holidays, my loved ones insist that I make pehCONN pies.

We also believe that the correct pronunciation is GAIRund, but we say GuhRAND anyway.

The season between summer and winter is Fall, and our father's sister is pronounced ANT.

We also chuckle when Easterners pronounce Oregon.

I have no idea how to pronounce

Sellier & Bellot (Sell ee ay & BellOH?)
Grendel (GRENdel, GrenDELL?)
...

[762 shooter]

may-platt, pee can, ki nock, say beau, ant, breakfast-dinner-supper.

762

[kevin c]

Well, then it sux tu belleaux...

:kidding::kidding::D;-)