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How do you pronounce "kibosh"?

Started by Sir GuitarCozmo, January 24, 2017, 05:38:38 AM

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How do you pronounce "kibosh"?

KY-bosh
16 (55.2%)
ka-BOSH
12 (41.4%)
Kevin Moore put the kibosh on being open
1 (3.4%)

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Sir GuitarCozmo

January 24, 2017, 05:38:38 AM
I've heard this said both ways.  The "ka" in option 2 is pronounced like "kazoo".

Stadler

#1
January 24, 2017, 05:47:55 AM
I think it's sort of the second version, but more like ki-BOSH.   I usually pronounce it exaggeratedly, like in the cartoons "KEE-bosh") but I don't put that out as the best official pronunciation. 

Elite

#2
January 24, 2017, 06:03:53 AM
Learnt a new word. Thank you!
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hefdaddy42

#3
January 24, 2017, 06:08:05 AM
I have always pronounced it KY-bosh, but I have no idea if that is correct.
Quote from: BlobVanDam on December 11, 2014, 08:19:46 PMHef is right on all things. Except for when I disagree with him. In which case he's probably still right.

King Postwhore

#4
January 24, 2017, 06:14:51 AM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on January 24, 2017, 06:08:05 AM
I have always pronounced it KY-bosh, but I have no idea if that is correct.

Ditto.
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'." - Bon Newhart.

Bolsters

#5
January 24, 2017, 06:15:35 AM
I don't think I've heard it pronounced any other way but the first.
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BlobVanDam

#6
January 24, 2017, 06:34:18 AM
I don't pronounce it either way, because it's not a word I have ever used or would ever use. I think I've maybe heard it more often the first way, but it's not a word I've heard often enough to care either way how someone pronounces it.

black_biff_stadler

#7
January 24, 2017, 07:52:27 AM
I've literally only heard ka-BOSH until reading this thread. Chris Bosh would also be acceptable.

bosk1

#8
January 24, 2017, 08:16:54 AM
ka-BOSK!!!

PowerSlave

#9
January 24, 2017, 08:23:58 AM
Quote from: Stadler on January 24, 2017, 05:47:55 AM
I think it's sort of the second version, but more like ki-BOSH.

This.

Hyperplex

#11
January 24, 2017, 11:06:59 AM
I've heard both. For some reason i like KY-bosh more, but I have no reason for that. I know Al Michaels says ki-BOSH on some of the Sunday Night Football telecasts, but an old boss I had said KY-bosh. I honeslty haven't a clue because I don't really use it much myself.

jasc15

#12
January 24, 2017, 11:20:37 AM
Even though Seinfeld says otherwise, I say it ka-bosh.

T-ski

#13
January 24, 2017, 11:45:32 AM
kew-pon or koo-pon?

Hyperplex

#14
January 24, 2017, 11:46:27 AM
kyoo-pon

hefdaddy42

#15
January 24, 2017, 12:28:12 PM
koo-pon
Quote from: BlobVanDam on December 11, 2014, 08:19:46 PMHef is right on all things. Except for when I disagree with him. In which case he's probably still right.

Stadler

#16
January 24, 2017, 12:36:00 PM

King Postwhore

#17
January 24, 2017, 12:45:51 PM
And you guys make fun of the Boston accent. :lol

Wickid Pissa!
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'." - Bon Newhart.

Samsara

#18
January 24, 2017, 02:01:50 PM
Quote from: bosk1 on January 24, 2017, 08:16:54 AM
ka-BOSK!!!

Really?  :lol

Im putting the ka-bosk on all that cold medicine you are likely taking...

TAC

#19
January 24, 2017, 02:03:56 PM
I'm pretty sure I've never actually said this word.
Quote from: wkiml on June 08, 2012, 09:06:35 AMwould have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Quote from: DTwwbwMP on October 10, 2024, 11:26:46 AMDISAPPOINTED.. I hoped for something more along the lines of ADTOE.

hefdaddy42

#20
January 25, 2017, 06:23:44 AM
Quote from: BlobVanDam on December 11, 2014, 08:19:46 PMHef is right on all things. Except for when I disagree with him. In which case he's probably still right.

Kotowboy

#21
January 25, 2017, 10:54:05 AM
Kye Bosh.

Never once heard it said any other way.

rumborak

#22
January 25, 2017, 11:59:51 AM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on January 24, 2017, 12:28:12 PM
koo-pon

Short of the French pronunciation of the word (since that's the origin), that's the closest approximation.

XJDenton

#23
January 27, 2017, 04:58:52 AM
I don't.
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splent

#24
January 27, 2017, 02:53:12 PM
The 2nd option. Kih-BOSH

splent

#25
January 27, 2017, 02:53:51 PM

DebraKadabra

#26
January 27, 2017, 06:21:37 PM
KY-boche

Architeuthis

#27
February 08, 2017, 05:08:03 AM
I always thought it was Kai-bosh...
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