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Title: Pronounce this
Post by: HeelSpur on March 16, 2014, 06:20:18 PM
Trimo;

Tree-mo

or

Try-mo

Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: rusty on March 16, 2014, 06:24:00 PM
Not a long I , because it doesn't end with a vowel, originally Trimont....Shortened by the lazy advertising folks ;P

PS: Would also note 'Tremolo'

So, really, it should be an -eh-

Tr-eh-m-oh

2c...won't buy you the sugar for your coffee...
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: oldgoaly on March 16, 2014, 06:37:46 PM
I've heard it Treemoe. have one of these in a Trimo-Ferguson
rh-10 have 3 all slightly different but all with square head, haven't found a round head one yet.
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: Nolatoolguy on March 16, 2014, 06:40:57 PM
I always thought it was pronounced Try-mo
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: HeelSpur on March 16, 2014, 06:43:42 PM
I always thought it was pronounced Try-mo
This is how my buddy says it but I'm with tree-mo and I reckon tr-eh-mo is out there too.
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: lbgradwell on March 16, 2014, 06:57:42 PM
Trimont would surely be "Try-mont", not "Tree-mont".

It follows the shortened version would be "Try-mo"...
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: Branson on March 17, 2014, 09:14:31 AM
General rules for English pronunciation (yeah, lots of exceptions) would indicate "trim-o."
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: wvtools on March 17, 2014, 09:23:45 AM
I am going with Try-mo.  Name pronunciation never seems to follow any rules anyway, particularly between regions.
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: mvwcnews on March 17, 2014, 09:29:45 AM
Digression alert!
You can't be truly Nebraskan unless you can correctly give the idiomatic regional pronunciation for the following Nebraska locales:  Hooper, Schuyler, Norfolk, Kearney, Beatrice.
Don't overdo green beverages today.
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: scottg on March 17, 2014, 12:42:53 PM
 Not going with correct pronunciation anything.
 In America, if you are guessing, you go by the old schoolyard..........
 slap-you-silly-if-you-insist-on-a-squirrely sounding name for generations. 

Tree-mont or Tree-mo will both get you by at fourth grade recess anywhere in the USA.
  Sounds like a funny tree maybe, but its a stretch to make much fun of it. 

 Trem (bly) O
 or
 Try (harder)-mo  would both get you smacked around like a rag doll.
 
 
   My family name on my mother side was originally Fellowes, back before the revolution.
Could maybe get away with that prissy in Connecticut/Maine or somesuch,
       but take it down south for a couple generations??    Yeah, right !

  It turned into Fellers, as in ..........
 "Them Fellers down on the corner."

      This is how my uncles and cousins sign their name to this day.

 yours Scott
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: Bus on March 17, 2014, 01:07:47 PM
I have always said Try-mo and nobody has slapped be so far.
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: scottg on March 17, 2014, 01:16:20 PM
I have always said Try-mo and nobody has slapped be so far.

 Ahhh, but send little Johnny Try-(and try and try) mo out on a St Louis 5th grade playground....
 when the teacher ain't watching??
   You'd have to get real tough real fast.
Haven't we all been there?   
      yours Scott
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: oldgoaly on March 17, 2014, 04:30:03 PM
 Ahhh, but send little Johnny Try-(and try and try) mo out on a St Louis 5th grade playground....
 when the teacher ain't watching??
   here on the east side, Mrs. Moore caught everyone! she just retired a couple of years ago. still remembers "the bunch"  that I was part of. that would have been 1965 or 66.

I've heard "Tree mo" Ferguson spoken by a upstate New Yarker Albany area and southern gentleman near Huntsville, Alabama. maybe it's a east of the Mississippi thing? or autobody tool thing?
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: mvwcnews on March 17, 2014, 05:38:02 PM
.....
  It turned into Fellers, as in ..........
 "Them Fellers down on the corner."
   ....
My wife's family name is Loschen ( originally an umlauted "o" in German, and from the northwest low country region of Germany.  Those who don't know German come up with "sounds like lotion?"  as opposed to "sounds like lush-en?" )
So my brother in law's first name is Jurgen  (another perfectly good low country first name ) and he darned well stands by the correct pronunciation of his surname.
Anyone know a  proper Bostonian  to consult about this TRIMO / TRIMONT pronunciation?
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: rusty on March 17, 2014, 07:46:26 PM
I'm only a half hour away ;P

To speak Bostonian, drop all the r's, and pronounce every vowel as 'ah'....
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: Bill Houghton on March 17, 2014, 07:55:45 PM
I'm only a half hour away ;P

To speak Bostonian, drop all the r's, and pronounce every vowel as 'ah'....
So there was this problem on a Massachusetts highway: way too many crows flying in front of vehicles and causing damage and even the occasional accident.  The state police hired a forensics expert, who determined from paint analysis that the majority of the vehicles hitting the crows were trucks, even though the cars on the road outnumbered the trucks about three to one; but she was mystified as to why this should be so.  She consulted with one of the biology faculty at the university, who spent a day observing the crows before pointing out that, when a flock of crows was in the vicinity of the highway, there was always one sitting in a nearby tree, watching the road closely.  He commented that crows can't pronounce the word "truck," and went back to his lab.
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: turnnut on March 17, 2014, 08:17:21 PM
and in Boston, the crows knew that automobiles were CAW, CAWS, so they would get out of the way when they heard caw,caw,caw.

86 miles from Boston, and we can hear them clearly.
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: Plyerman on March 18, 2014, 08:08:16 AM
Ugh. I'm groaning and laughing at the same time...
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: keykeeper on March 18, 2014, 10:40:32 AM
"pock the caw in the yod" (Park the car in the yard).

My best friend is from Basston (Boston), originally. We just recently convinced him to refer to the local grocery store as "store" for short, instead of the "Mocket". LOL
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: HeelSpur on March 18, 2014, 12:59:10 PM
"pock the caw in the yod" (Park the car in the yard).

My best friend is from Basston (Boston), originally. We just recently convinced him to refer to the local grocery store as "store" for short, instead of the "Mocket". LOL
Back in the 80's I lived in Peabody Mass. for 6 months, worst drivers in the world up there.
And (polite) is not in their dictionary. And they talk funny as hell, like being in a foreign country.
Be-ah = beer, lol.
Title: Re: Pronounce this
Post by: Branson on March 19, 2014, 07:51:42 AM
"pock the caw in the yod" (Park the car in the yard).

My best friend is from Basston (Boston), originally. We just recently convinced him to refer to the local grocery store as "store" for short, instead of the "Mocket". LOL

Connecticut isn't any better.  A co-worker from that state was talking for quite a while about a pah cur before any of us realized she was talking about a parka.