Is it "NoTRE" or "NotER" Dame?

[Downinthebend]

In my experience it is pretty much 100% interchangeable.

 

[RallySonsOfND]

TRE

 

[HereComeTheIrish]

In my experience it is pretty much 100% interchangeable.

 

[BobD]

?

 

[MaynardVideo]

I don't think it should make you any less of a fan, either way. If it really matters to someone, they need to check their priorities. New here, by the way

GO IRISH!

 

[mick2]

I say noder! i dont care if its wrong.

 

[phillyirish]

If your talking about pronunciation then technically, its pronounced "Noh-Truh Dahm". But almost universally spoken as "Noh-ter Deym"

If you are insisting on the spelling, then you may be borderline mentally deficient.

 

[Downinthebend]

Here are the words of Brian Kelly

Theres the head football coach, and then theres the football coach of NotER Dame, because nobody does it like NotRE Dame.
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[Dizzyphil]

Its Our Lady in English.

Its noh-truh deym in French.



GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!

Diz

 

[Rack Em]

Ellen: What are you looking at?
Clark: Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn... the clean, cool chill of the holiday air... an ******* in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer...

 

[HereComeTheIrish]

Here are the words of Brian Kelly

Theres the head football coach, and then theres the football coach of NotER Dame, because nobody does it like NotRE Dame.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VKjmO-u0a_I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

That's because he's from Baahs-ton

 

[A Pac]

Quick French question. I know that it's French name is l'universite de Notre Dame Du Lac (University of Our Lady of the Lake) but how do you pronounce the l'universite part? Is it just "le uni verse it eh" or something different? Thanks in advance.

 

[Rack Em]

Quick French question. I know that it's French name is l'universite de Notre Dame Du Lac (University of Our Lady of the Lake) but how do you pronounce the l'universite part? Is it just "le uni verse it eh" or something different? Thanks in advance.

Put an 8 inch stick in your *** and say it. That's the way the French pronounce it.

 

[A Pac]

Put an 8 inch stick in your *** and say it. That's the way the French pronounce it.

That was the first thing I tried. Turns out it was WAY too comfortable up there. Please don't tell my wife.

 

[clashmore_jon]

townies in south bend all say Noder Dame. We would know. I've always felt like you can tell someone who has spent time at ND because they tend to say Noder. Or, maybe more reliably, tell someone who has not.

 

[mgriff]

Kelly has changed his pronunciation since he first got the job. Initially, he accentuated the end forming, and now he just says Noder Dame. I'm assuming he was corrected after the opening presser.

 

[IHateMarkMay]

Its Our Lady in English.

Its noh-truh deym in French.



GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!

Diz

noh-truh dahm, as in madame.

Quick French question. I know that it's French name is l'universite de Notre Dame Du Lac (University of Our Lady of the Lake) but how do you pronounce the l'universite part? Is it just "le uni verse it eh" or something different? Thanks in advance.

loo nee ver see tay

Sorry, french minor. Finally came in use!

 

[polishjuice4]

NVM someone beat me to it.

 

[A Pac]

noh-truh dahm, as in madame.



loo nee ver see tay

Sorry, french minor. Finally came in use!

Thanks.

 

[Downinthebend]

I always use NODER DAME.

 

[ShamrockOnHelmet]

I don't know the right way to say it, but I grew up and lived my first 25 years in South Bend (and spent plenty of time on campus), and we only ever said Noder Dame.

 

[brandonnash]

Even though its not an american English spelling how is theatre pronounced? Same usage. There's your answer.

 

[chubler]

Basically everyone outside of administrators at the university and stuck up french majors across the world say Noder Dame.

 

[DSully1995]

Its. litteraly. No-tre (soft on this part, english people have itoo much intensity on the tre)- da (kinda like ta-da!) me


Boom.

 

[aubeirish]

Basically everyone outside of administrators at the university and stuck up french majors across the world say Noder Dame.

Heck, I speak french everyday and I say Noder Dame. The french version does not sounds right to me.

 

[DSully1995]

Heck, I speak french everyday and I say Noder Dame. The french version does not sounds right to me.

Same, I could put the effort in and say it in french but **** it, everyone else just goes noder so i roll with it.

 

[We_Are_ND]

I also always wondered why some of my old clothes, officially licensed Notre Dame shirts and stuff would say "Fightin' Irish." Which left me confused as a little boy whether it was "Fightin'" or "Fighting."

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I interact with fans and alumni of many different stripes, and I've yet to find a situation where one wouldn't sound like a pedant for pronouncing it in proper French.

Stick with the Anglicized NO-der DAY-m.

 

[NDTH91]

I also always wondered why some of my old clothes, officially licensed Notre Dame shirts and stuff would say "Fightin' Irish." Which left me confused as a little boy whether it was "Fightin'" or "Fighting."

This. I still think about this all the time. I assume it's officially "Fighting" though?

 

[aubeirish]

noh-truh dahm, as in madame.



loo nee ver see tay

Sorry, french minor. Finally came in use!

Everything sounds right, but that l'u is hard to translate in english. It doen't quite sound like loo. That u is one of those letters where you really got to use your nose.