Poll: How do you pronounce the "ProZ" in ProZ.com? Autor wątku: ProZ.com Staff
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| | neilmac
Hiszpania
Local time: 07:28
hiszpański > angielski
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Spock says: "Logically, captain, it should rhyme with 'pros' and 'prose'. But humans are fickle and are may pronounce it however it suits them."
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I say it in Portuguese and in Portuguese the final “z” sounds more or less like an “s” (Prós).
| | | | Agneta Pallinder 
Wielka Brytania
Local time: 06:28
Członek ProZ.com
od 2014
szwedzki > angielski
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| I say Pro-zed and feel silly doing it | Feb 11, 2018 |
Which is why I was interested in how other people pronounce this hybrid of a name.
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| Pro-zed as well | Feb 11, 2018 |
Agneta Pallinder wrote:
I say Pro-zed and feel silly doing it... Which is why I was interested in how other people pronounce this hybrid of a name.
Um... I say that too. I was perhaps affected by the Z being capitalised.
| | | | Anna Herbst
Australia
Local time: 15:28
angielski > szwedzki
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Never thought about any other pronunciation than "pros" for professionals, and understood the capital Z in ProZ and KudoZ to be a trademark of sorts, so I find all the different options presented here quite fascinating.
Cheers,
Anna
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I say Prozeta (in Spanish)
| | | | Joohee Kim
Korea Południowa
Local time: 14:28
Członek ProZ.com
od 2017
angielski > koreański
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I thought it's based on the pronunciation of "Pros," a plural form of "pro."
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Joohee Kim wrote:
I thought it's based on the pronunciation of "Pros," a plural form of "pro."
Same here, it is just "z" instead of "s". Not only that, in English language "s" can be pronounced as /ɪz/, /s/ and /z/. To me it just makes sense to pronounce it as /z/.
From http://www.grammar.cl/english/pronunciation-final-s.htm
If the last letter of the words ends in a voiced consonant (or sound), then the S is pronounced like a Z /z/(without creating another syllable). This Z sound is similar to the sound a bee makes zzzz.
We also use this ending when the word ends in a vowel sound (e.g. bees, flies etc.)
Examples of words ending in the /z/ sound:
B: crabs, rubs
D: cards, words, rides, ends
G: rugs, bags, begs
L: deals calls, falls, hills
M: plums, dreams
N: fans, drains, runs, pens
NG: kings, belongs, sings
R: wears, cures
V: gloves, wives, shelves, drives
Y: plays, boys, says,
THE: clothes, bathes, breathes
VOWEL SOUNDS: sees, fleas
| | | | Christine Andersen
Dania
Local time: 07:28
Członek ProZ.com
od 2003
duński > angielski
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| As in Cos lettuce ... | Feb 11, 2018 |
I am usually speaking Danish when I pronounce it, and Danish does not often use a voiced 'z' sound.
So it is a sort of light 's' like Cos lettuce, not a prolonged ss as in moss, boss etc.
In English I pronounce it with a z, but with a short o, like the Wizard of Oz or the first syllable of Aussies or Boswell. It was some time before I discovered it was thought of as Pros (professionals) and Prose.
| | | | Juan Gil
Wenezuela
Local time: 01:28
angielski > hiszpański
The friend who introduced me to the site called it 'Pros', so it's the way I say it.
(Venezuela)
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It’s all about prostituting ourselves innit?
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Ricki Farn
Niemcy
Local time: 07:28
angielski > niemiecki
I say "Pro-zee", but I've heard several Germans pronounce it as "Protz" ("tz" sounding like in "let's"), or pun on this in writing: "protzen" means "to boast" or "to show off".
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazylia
Local time: 02:28
Członek ProZ.com
od 2014
angielski > portugalski
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neilmac wrote:
Spock says: "Logically, captain, it should rhyme with 'pros' and 'prose'. But humans are fickle and are may pronounce it however it suits them."
This was likely the intent of those who created the name.
However, I use it a lot in Portuguese, speaking to other Brazilians, and we say "Pro-Zê", as the "Z" at the end of a word does not sound like the plural "S", as it does in English. Thus, we automatically say "Pro-Zee" in English, pursuant to the logical thinking in Portuguese.
| | | | Rachel Fell
Wielka Brytania
Local time: 06:28
francuski > angielski
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As a UK speaker, I've only ever thought of it as rhyming with "was" or "because"
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