Pronounciation

[snousle]

I get a good number of readers wondering how to pronounce my user name. Hard to know, since it is a word that was made up by Carl Sandburg for the poem "Galoots", and apparently it was never used again anywhere in English literature. I thought it was a remarkable find, like discovering a hundred-dollar bill lying on a busy sidewalk.

In the context of the poem, one might conclude that it was inspired by a combination of "snout" and "gristle", and should therefore use the sounds from those words.

Comments

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Sorry, not snooty enough. I prefer the Classical French pronunciation, [snul].

[bix02138.livejournal.com]

or snout + sizzle.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

That's what I figured.

[snousle.livejournal.com]

More like "grizzle" perhaps ;-)

[lupinebear.livejournal.com]

Yay, I guessed correctly!

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[h0gwash.livejournal.com]

For the curious-
http://www.blackcatpoems.com/s/galoots.html

[men-in-full.livejournal.com]

I thought it was pronounced "snoo-sul."

[snousle.livejournal.com]

That's the Canadian pronunciation. ;-)

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

Since you're from Canada, I just have fun watching you try to pronounce the word: "About."

[barbarian-rat.livejournal.com]

I always pronounced it "s-now-zile"

[come-to-think.livejournal.com]

Mention of grizzle recalls http://www.bbc.co.uk/robertburns/works/grim_grizzle/