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"uh-MEN" not "AH-men", right?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by burlesk, Jul 9, 2023.

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  1. burlesk

    burlesk Serious business

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    Help? Hearing both.

    And it's pronounced "Akeem" cuz the H is silent, no?
     
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    So long as it's not a-women, you're good.
     
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    The announcers usually have pronunciation guides and I've always heard them say it like uh-men, so that's what I've been rolling with
     
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    It's pronounced Uh-men. If you have trouble remembering, just think of what the pair of Stone and Patrick would be called in comic books.
     
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    Akeem is pronounced Uh-legend
     
    #5 wlekfjv923n, Jul 9, 2023
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    I kept calling him Jammin ‘ ( rhymed) Amen lol .
    I knew a guy with the same last spelled Amen named it pronounced it “ Ammin.“
     
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    it’s aye-min
     
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    Been hanging with Jock Landale?
     
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    Well, he is a men.
     
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    Just like you say Akeem, Amen. Thrres no silent H. He was born Akeem and changed to Hakeem when he became a Muslim.

    When you were a kid at the doctor and they asked you to open your mouth and go ahhhh. Ah-men. Unless I too have got it all wrong?
     
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  11. Caesar

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    Aye mayne It's Alparahn Chengine
     
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    Uh-God
     
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    Uh Mees
     
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    Did you know his middle name is excellence? No, I’m serious.

    Ameiz XLNC "Amen" Thompson

    https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/twins-amen-ausar-thompson-set-top-10-nba-100249856

    Kidding aside, their aim is to live up to their shared middle name of “XLNC” (pronounced excellence), which was bestowed on them to convey a sense of power.

    “Just so with every time you’re saying their name, there’s that power behind it,” their dad, Troy, said. “Excellence, greatness — we always use all these power words and so do they, in their own expressions, so they’re always thinking on that high note.”
     
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    Uh shoot.......Uh clank.

    Where Amaze happens.

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    #15 daywalker02, Jul 9, 2023
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    If the H in Hakeem is silent, I need to question all of my teenage years.
     
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    giphy.gif

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    More confused now
     
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    It's "Excellency" to you
     
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    this now a thinly-disguise Uh-men-is-moar-excellent-than-senjune thread
     
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