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chopperbyrne wrote: »

Is the name of this animal pronounced DONkey or DUNkey?

Really depends where you're from, the first one would be the standard pronunciation! The second one is Shrek anyway!

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Is the name of this animal pronounced DONkey or DUNkey?

Divorce and burn the house down...only way to be sure

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Is the name of this animal pronounced DONkey or DUNkey?

I think you qualify as both you can take you pick which you prefer to be called

There's a children's book called The Wonky Donkey. Wouldn't work so well if it was a wonky dunkey.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonky_Donkey

Donkey is the correct pronunciation.

In the Weshct of Ireland it's Dunkey however.

Don but I know someone from Waterford who says Dunkey, never heard anyone else say it that way and I'm from the "Whesht"

Rhymes with wonky if you speak the Queen's English.

Rhymes with monkey if you're a hick.

Only scrotes pronounce it DUNkey.


Like pronouncing lorry "LURRY"


Like pronouncing spoon "SPOO-WIN"

The original pronunciation was probably "dunky". The word is thought to come from dun, the dull brownish colour, and the spelling parallels the spelling of monkey, which of course we pronounce "munky". Plus one of the earlier recorded instances of the word donkey is from a poem where it's rhymed with monkey. But the "don-" pronunciation is now dominant pretty much everywhere. So, "dunky" is not wrong, but it's very old-fashioned.

It's a surprisingly modern word; it only came into the English language in the 1780s, and probably started off as a slang or casual term. But it very rapidly replaced ass as the standard name for this animal. The reason for this is probably prudishness; in England at the time "ass" was pronounced with a long -a- (the same sound as in "father") and, given the English tendency not to voice the letter -r-, "ass" and "arse" were almost indistinguishable in speech. So there was much juvenile sniggering and maidenly blushing until someone came up with the word "donkey".

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

In the Whest, they'd call it a racehorse

Outrageously witty. Us "weshterners" would be lost without the rest of Ireland reminding us how clueless we are.

Pronounced Don key,
Surname is Hotay

For what it’s worth, say hello to Onkey, Wonkey and Zonkey...



dOnkey

It's donkey, as in Don Quixote;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7oa3kPQJKo

Strumms wrote: »

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/donkey

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That robot lady is pronouncing it almost exactly halfway between donkey and dunkey so that settles nothing!

It’s pronounced donkey.

A dunkey is possibly slang for a biscuit you dunk in your tea. Sounds like something they’d have in Australia.

Ray Darcy says dunkey….make of that what you will

In Dublin it often rhymes with buck or you get the other version which is like bewuuuuuke.

As in, where's me bleedin’ kuuukery bewuuuuke.

I have a feeling this is what lockdown has done to us. I would like to see more threads like this.

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Book is meant to rhyme with spook. Pronouncing it "Buck" or suchlike is just wrong.

Book rhymes with look.


That's of course if you say "I took a look" and not "I tewk a lewk".