The other night on the news, the talking head made a reference to Snopes, the urban legend debunking site. The odd thing was, she pronounced it, “Snow Peas”. I had always imagined it rhymed with “Popes”, though I have only seen it in print and never heard anyone pronounce it before.
What say you; “Snow Peas” or rhymes with “Popes”?
I’ve always said “Snopes” as in “Sneaky Dopes”. Methinks she was just reading off a teleprompt and had a brain fart.
Snopes; like Slopes.
Sounds like she was maybe trying to impose a Spanish pronunciation on it. And a poor one at that.
It is pronounced Shar-Day 
Snopes like “lemon”.
The correct pronounciation is “Throat Warbler Mangrove”.
Snopes is the family name of characters created by William Faulkner.
Yeah? You ever hear Faulkner pronounce it??
I’ve always pronounced it as rhyming with popes. Like “snoops” but without the extra o.
Neither. The way I say it, it rhymes with “ropes”.
It rhymes with ‘heliotropes’.
And Popes doesn’t rhyme with ropes?
I pronounce it as rhyming with Popes, ropes, and dopes.
and Scopes.
Lopes, hopes, copes: Snopes.
Sounds like you’re the victim of a local newscaster who doesn’t bother to study her script beforehand. I used to work with someone who was notorious for mangling names and terms unknown to her. Alas, the only example I can recall at the moment is her take on the name of the computer chain CompUSA [that’s kahmp-yew-es-ay]. She called them Compusa [kahm-'poo-suh].
I had a person do Tucson (Two-saun) into (Tuck-son).
FTR I say Snow-pss
I’ve always pronounced it as if it rhymed with “soaps”.
Why am I suddenly hearing Chy Chy Rodrigueeez?
And I pronounce it to rhyme with copes. As the phonics rules say.
And on that note, the tip of the day is: Don’t eat yellow snow.
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