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how is this pronounced? I once mentioned this in a meeting and got pronunciation nitpicked for allegedly not saying it correctly - but according to the Oxford

how is this pronounced? I once mentioned this in a meeting and got pronunciation nitpicked for allegedly not saying it correctly - but according to the Oxford dictionary it is pronounced the "obvious" way that I pronounced it: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/robert-s-rules-of-order https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... but the smug pronunciation nitpicker insisted "Robert" was pronounced the French way, i.e. https://www.howtopronounce.com/french/robert https://www.howtopronounce.com/french/robert

epgui 4y ago
I’ve lived in an English-French community my whole life, and AFAIK, Robert’s Rules are mainly used by English organizations. All French orgs I know of use some variation of the “Code Morin” instead. I’m francophone and I pronounce “Robert” the English way.
- InCityDreams 4y ago
  Or go Scottish, and roll the 'r'...
olivierestsage 4y ago
I have definitely never heard anyone pronounce the "Robert" of "Robert's Rules" in the French way. If I encountered that, I would find it abhorrently pretentious.
ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
Like the French pronunciation of "Bucket." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro
- pfarrell 4y ago
  I knew exactly what I’d be seeing. That show was outstanding! It gets funnier the older I get.
  - jamiek88 4y ago
    Good,point about aging into it. When you are younger you don’t care what the neighbors think really, your only social positions that count are amongst your friends and at school so you don’t really grok where Violet is coming from it’s all just boring old people without that.
brians 4y ago
Perhaps your interlocutor was confused with Roget.
balderdash 4y ago
Lol, ‘cause this American general pronounced his name “the French way” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Martyn_Robert https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Martyn_Robert
thaumasiotes 4y ago
> but according to the Oxford dictionary it is pronounced the "obvious" way that I pronounced it: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/robert-s-rules-of-order https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... Just to point out, if you refer to "the Oxford dictionary", people are likely to think you mean the immensely prestigious Oxford English Dictionary, not the completely irrelevant Oxford Learner's Dictionaries.

epgui 4y ago

I’ve lived in an English-French community my whole life, and AFAIK, Robert’s Rules are mainly used by English organizations. All French orgs I know of use some variation of the “Code Morin” instead. I’m francophone and I pronounce “Robert” the English way.

InCityDreams 4y ago
Or go Scottish, and roll the 'r'...

olivierestsage 4y ago

I have definitely never heard anyone pronounce the "Robert" of "Robert's Rules" in the French way. If I encountered that, I would find it abhorrently pretentious.

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago

Like the French pronunciation of "Bucket." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro

pfarrell 4y ago
I knew exactly what I’d be seeing. That show was outstanding! It gets funnier the older I get.
- jamiek88 4y ago
  Good,point about aging into it. When you are younger you don’t care what the neighbors think really, your only social positions that count are amongst your friends and at school so you don’t really grok where Violet is coming from it’s all just boring old people without that.

brians 4y ago

Perhaps your interlocutor was confused with Roget.

balderdash 4y ago

Lol, ‘cause this American general pronounced his name “the French way” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Martyn_Robert https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Martyn_Robert

thaumasiotes 4y ago

> but according to the Oxford dictionary it is pronounced the "obvious" way that I pronounced it: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/robert-s-rules-of-order https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... Just to point out, if you refer to "the Oxford dictionary", people are likely to think you mean the immensely prestigious Oxford English Dictionary, not the completely irrelevant Oxford Learner's Dictionaries.