roquefort

[9duval]

how do you pronounce this

[dundurn]

rock for - with slightly more stress on the rock - the 't' is silent

[Quizmonster]

Just in case you're American, they (you) apparently pronounce it as roke-fort...at least they do according to the online version of their Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Click here and then on the red loudspeaker icon.

[Quizmonster]

The days are long gone, IAP, when it was 'our' language, I'm afraid. I'm not sure why I said 'I'm afraid', because I strongly believe that variety is the spice of life in language as well as other things.
There is now American English, South African English, Australian English, Indian English, West Indian English and so on. The variant in Singapore is, apparently, called Singlish!
Good luck to all of 'em, I say.
The French Academy is always trying to stamp out franglais usages, but that doesn't stop the French people saying le weekend, le sandwich - probably pronounced song-weech - and so on. If they can use our language to suit themselves, I can't think of any reason why the Americans shouldn't have roke-fort!
Cheers

[fredpuli47]

That's nothing. You should hear Americans 'pronouncing' the name of the painter, van Gogh ! They think it's 'van Go '.

[Quizmonster]

I wonder how well the Dutch pronounce Poughkeepsie, Fred!

[USALady]

Yes, as an American we do pronounce it as roke-fort. So tell me, how do you (as an Englishman) pronounce van Gogh?

[Quizmonster]

Well, I - as a Scotsman - pronounce Gogh to rhyme with the Scottish word for lake, which is loch, as in Loch Lomond. Alternatively, if you are not familiar with that, perhaps you know the sound of the German ch in Johann Sebastian Bach.

[9duval]

thank you all for your responses

[fredpuli47]

USALady, Quizmonster, a Scot, has the 'ogh' as the 'och' in 'loch and so do the English.We are attempting to imitate the Dutch sound, which is similar . Whatever it is, it isn't ,and wasn't, van GO !

What word,if any, in American English ends 'ogh' and the 'ogh' is pronounced 'O' ?

[Quizmonster]

The only relatively common 'word' that fits that bill, Fred, is also a name, this time Irish...Keogh. The problem is...that IS pronounced kee-oh!

[fredpuli47]

Keogh is Irish Gaelic, which may present problems in spelling and pronunciation, for the English. The woman's name Clodagh is 'Clow-da' and. the surname Murtagh 'murr-ta' ', as though the 'gh ' is silent, but an Irish loch is a 'lough' pronounced closely to the Scottish 'loch' ! Those are quite easy.When the Gaelic spelling is closely adhered to the result can be very puzzling to the English. The girl's name Caoimhe is , of course (!), pronounced 'KEE-va'. ( I named an Irish wolfhound that once. In England. I soon lived to regret it ! LOL)

[hvt]

You pronounce it "rock - for", you don't pronounce the "T", and the 2o2 sound it short as it rock

[crisgal]

how do you pronounce
poughkeepsie?

is like those other words - colmondley, featherstonehaughs etc?

[Quizmonster]

Click here, Crisgal, and then on the red speaker-icon to hear an American say Poughkeepsie.
It was the first American place-name that occurred to me, but it has the added advantage as far as pronunciation is concerned of including the O - U - G - H letter-sequence. Even in British speech - never mind Dutch! - this has eleven different pronunciations, though only eight in 'standard' English.