Need some help from some linguistic forumite as to how do you pronounce the new premier of Qld surname.
I cannot accept that it is spoken as we hear it on tv as Palashay.
The name is spelled palasczuk which to me it should be to be said as,
Palachook, or palazuk but never as Palashay.
Can someone tell because it is driving around the twist.
Algreco

http://www.forvo.com/word/palaszczuk/

She says Palash-tuk

Thank you so much Scott21 now I can calm down and how about the media researching before guessing people's names.
As of today it is pala tuk
Algreco

Palash-tuk or pala-shtook

But you should just ask other people how they pronounce it. So you dont sound like a douche.

Im sure the polish and australian versions are pronounced differently.

What did she say I took?

Just give er a radish. That usually keeps them happy.
Polish Polish Polish, Im surrounded by Polish. I have about 40 Polish at my job. On the underground all you hear is Polish. My brother is together with a Pol. Im actually going around to my friends apartment soon.... Polish.

You're lucky. Polish chicks, man. Funny, I've never seen as many Gypsies anywhere in Europe than Stockholm, so they stuck out the most for me. Ireland has lots of Polish, they're great.

I was living in Dublin when the recession hit, and despite my TV contacts I could only find work as a builder's labourer, working with a bunch of Polish guys. Winter was just starting and there was a pall of misery over the city as everyone knew bad times were ahead; the GFC hit Ireland particularly hard. Coincidentally I took a cheap Ryanair flight to Warsaw because a buddy from Australia was visiting family there, and I distinctly felt a very unstereotypically Polish air of optimism around the place: new malls being built, ads for English and German classes everywhere. Poland was the only EU country that didn't recede in the recession. Went to Krakow in summertime a year or so later and it's stunningly beautiful. That and Copernicus, Curie, and Chopin. They do alright.

So does this thread have a point, or?

Pa-la-shay.

-PB

My cleaning lady is polish #truestory

It's definitely meant to be Pala-schtook regardless of if you say it in Polish, English, French or Mongolian but this is Queensland we're talking about. They are never going to vote in someone with a wog sounding name.

I wonder if the entire population of many other countries are unable to pronounce or spell the name of their own highest mountain?

Edited by paladisious: 14/2/2015 04:44:21 PM

whats that icelandic volcano? Now imagine the qld populace trying to say that or better yet jan vengollor of hasselbaink

Not just unable to pronounce, it's nowhere even close to correct! It amazes me how people are able to get Kozzee-Osko ffs