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bluish green colour, greenish blue or turquoise? What do you call this colour? Do you use the adjective "turquoise" for it? The Wikipedia gives two ways of its pronunciation.How do you pronounce it?
27 apr 2014 18:44
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We just painted my daughter's room turquoise :) I'm from the mid-Atlantic region of the US and I pronounce it /ˈtɜrˌkwɔɪz/ . http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/pronunciation/american/turquoise
27 aprile 2014
The ladies already gave you great answers. I wanted to point that it's clearly pronounced like this in the States and we're not sure about the UK. The word is obviously French, they pronounce it "terk-waz" and that means "Turkish". I just happen to know that the color is named after a mineral (or whatever it is) of the same color, which you can commonly see as a gem used in handmade jewerly.
27 aprile 2014
Personally I would probably describe turquoise as bluish green. I think that opinion can change based on a persons experience. Someone who has studied art or fashion may be more exact in determining which color is which. I am from mid-North America and I pronounce it "tur-koi-ss". koi like koi fish.
27 aprile 2014
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