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I'd like to take this opportunity to share with you all that Wero is called Wero because Euro is pronounced "you-ro" and when you share your you-ro it becomes a
by skrebbel 5mo ago
I'd like to take this opportunity to share with you all that Wero is called Wero because Euro is pronounced "you-ro" and when you share your you-ro it becomes a we-ro.
- CharlesW 5mo agoAnd when anything goes wrong, that's a ruh-ro.
- irishcoffee 5mo agoWhen I give someone money I don't feel like I'm sharing it at all. Sounds like it goes from a "my-oh" to a "your-oh" and is aptly named from the jump.
- jeroenhd 5mo agoThere's supposedly also an Italian pun based on "vero" in there. I've heard pretty much every European English-as-a-second-language speaker pronounced the W differently, though, and pronunciation of the E isn't even consistent within native English populations. I can't wait for the "vee-ro? oh, you mean whay-ro" discussions between tourists and stores.
- ragebol 5mo agoNever realized this, mind blown :-)
- IshKebab 5mo agoHmm Euro is actually pronounced roughly like yeuroh (like voyeur); not you-roh, and by the normal heuristics of English at least Wero would likely be pronounced more like weir-oh than wee-ro. I guess it doesn't have to be perfect to make a funny name though.
- wasabi991011 5mo ago> Euro is pronounced "you-ro" This in not true for everywhere that uses the Euro, unsurprisingly because that encompasses a large linguistic area. I know for a fact France doesn't pronounce it that way.
- LelouBil 5mo agoIn France it's pronounced "uh row"
- nasso_dev 5mo agointerestingly, french speakers just have to pronounce "wero" as "nouro" for the same pun to work ("eux-ro" vs "nous-ro")
- beAbU 5mo agoHow does France pronounce it?
- cnd78A 5mo agowéro (é like elephant)
- pluies 5mo agoI've racked my brain trying to write it in a good enough approximation, but honestly the "eu" sound doesn't have a match in most English accents, and neither does the "r", so it wouldn't make much sense trying to write it down in English. Youtube will give you hundreds of videos pronouncing it correctly if you want to check!
- beAbU 5mo agoMerci, the hint about youtube set me on the right path.
- DCKP 5mo agoUnless you're in Germany, when it's more like "oy-ro"... and Wero would be pronounced "ve-ro"... I don't think there's a German pun hiding here!
- niccl 5mo agoHaving associations with Aotearoa/NZ, I read it as w-eh-roh, which is part of the traditional Maori greeting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(M%C4%81ori) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(M%C4%81ori)
- Klaster_1 5mo agoFunny because euro is Greek ευρώ, which is pronounced ev-ro. The Cyrillic евро on notes is also pronounced the same.