Progue Logue

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Gah. It comes from Programme. I bet you prounounce pish "pis-hi", like a drunk Italian.

[Matt Timson]

Gah. It comes from Programme. I bet you prounounce pish "pis-hi", like a drunk Italian.

Sadly, your logic is faulty.  Bro, for example, is short for brother, so it doesn't automatically follow that prog should be pronounced progue.  Progressive rock is also shortened to prog (like frog) rock.  In fact, wasn't there a strip in 2000ad called prog rock (an obvious play on the word prog), written by Pat Mills, creator of 2000ad?

Case closed.

Aren't you from Scotland, by the way?  Surely that makes it, 'pesh'?
 

[Satanist]

Its Progue and I dont care how Tharg says it. My mind will never be changed on this matter.

Prog Rocks great and well overdue for a comeback Shirley?

[Matt Timson]

Aren't you also from Scotland?  That's you, Trouty and Dr X, all with the same delusion.  Hmmm... I'm seeing a pattern forming here...

Just out of curiosity then- would you call progressive rock, progue rock as well?

[Satanist]

I wouldn't pronounce prog rock as progue rock,  but that's because I've heard "Prog Rock" discussed on TV whereas I have never heard the 2000AD "prog/progue" spoken aloud and as a kid my brain always read it as progue. Dunno if that makes any sense or not?  

[Dark Jimbo]

Timson is correct - Prog to rhyme with log, frog, dog, like in Prog Rock and the Prog Slog website.

So there.

[Wils]

Gah! Not this again. Anyone who doesn't pronounce Prog the same as dog is just wrongwrongwrong. Saying it out loud is the real test. "Progg" sounds fine, whereas "Progue" would make you sound like a Pimms drinker as well as wrong.

[House of Usher]

Anyone who pronounces Prog like 'Progue' is as wrong as anyone who pronounces 'pizen' as 'pizzen' to rhyme with risen, when it's so obviously pizen to rhyme with 'rising'.

If pizen were pizzen it would have two zeds in it. It didn't in Fink or Destiny's Angels.

They'll be pronouncing Rogue Trooper as Rouge Trooper next!

[Matt Timson]

I used to read the word 'hyperbole' as 'hyper-bowl'.  Thankfully, I never found a reason to say the word aloud in company before hearing how it's supposed to be pronounced- saving myself a massive amount of embarrassment!

My brain still wants me to to say hyper-bowl, of course.  But I don't.  Because it's the wrong way to say it.

Tsk, honestly... 'progue'...  

[I, Cosh]

HoU, I've been trying for the last five minutes, but I really can't see how it's possible to rhyme 'pizen' with 'rising' unless you drop the 'g.' I've always pronounced it as pee'zin, which half-rhymes with 'risen.'

And South.Er. Nothing like southern.

[Matt Timson]

Pie-zen

[Bouwel]

Mmm...pie: Zen.

-Bouwel-

[House of Usher]

HoU, I've been trying for the last five minutes, but I really can't see how it's possible to rhyme 'pizen' with 'rising' unless you drop the 'g.'

Yep, that's the ticket. Sorry, it comes from having to teach poetry - imperfect rhymes all over the place.
It's pie-zen, like the man says.

And South.Er. Nothing like southern.

And yes: South-er, rhyming with mouth-er, not 'mother'. No-one would pronounce it 'suther', unless they were 10!

[Peter Wolf]

Its prog as in dog or log or bog .

End of story.

[TordelBack]

I used to pronounce 'chaos' as 'chah-oss'.  Doesn't make it right.  I blame Steve Jackson.

Prog.  Pie-zen.  South-er.  Slain.