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S/O Lauren Bush-Lauren - Pronunciation

OscarQOscarQ member
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When I was younger I heard Ralph Lauren's last name pronounced all Faux Frenchy "La'Ren" or however you would do that phonetically.  And it stuck.  To this day in my mind - and sometimes when I slip - I pronounce it in Faux French.  And I die inside a bit every time I do it.  Cause he's just plain old Lauren - like the girl's first name.

Anyone else?

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Re: S/O Lauren Bush-Lauren - Pronunciation

  • choirgirlchoirgirl

    David, her DH, Ralph's son, lived in my dorm in college. He just pronounced it LORen, so that's how I've pronounced it since then.

    ETA: sorry, I didn't read your whole post, I must have missed the last sentence, you knew that, what I said. Sorry.  But I know I would have that problem if I didn't picture his face any time I tried to pronounce the name.

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  • ateytelbateytelb

    I also pronounce it similarly but I am from Russia and mispronounce everything as I have a Russian accent.

    This is from Wikipedia (see below). Wonder how they pronounce it in The Bronx. Or in Belarus :) 

    "Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz in The Bronx, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants, from Pinsk, Belarus:[1] Fraydl (Kotlar) and Frank Lifshitz, a house painter.[2"

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  • ateytelbateytelb
    imagechoirgirl:

    David, her DH, Ralph's son, lived in my dorm in college. He just pronounced it LORen, so that's how I've pronounced it since then.

    ETA: sorry, I didn't read your whole post, I must have missed the last sentence, you knew that, what I said. Sorry.  But I know I would have that problem if I didn't picture his face any time I tried to pronounce the name.

    He had his son living in a dorm???  I will tell this to my oldest - she refused to live in a dorm and now she is living in a rental house.

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  • StrunellaStrunella member
    I also used to think it had a fancy pronunciation!  Too funny.  It makes sense to me that he lived in a dorm...how else do you meet people when you first get to college?   Even the uber-rich need friends.  To this day, two of my best friends from college were friends from the dorm freshman year.
     
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