# How do you pronounce "coupon"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 3, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557 "2012-10-03T05:51:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/1 "2012-10-03T05:51:04Z")
For the last time, how do you pronounce “coupon”?! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/2 "2012-10-03T06:51:07Z")
Coo-pon… Never use the darn things… ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/3 "2012-10-03T06:58:21Z")
^ What \*\*Trinopus \*\*said! ---
**Author:** ![core\_dump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@core\_dump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/core_dump)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/4 "2012-10-03T07:02:16Z")
Dreadfully tinny word. But I pronounce it Coooo-pon. Think I’ll have a bath. ---
**Author:** ![NIKI50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/958977/32.png) [@NIKI50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NIKI50)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/5 "2012-10-03T07:02:46Z")
I don’t use them either, but I pronounce it the way I was taught to, Cue-pon. Maybe it comes from my weird mix of yooperisms in my speech. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/6 "2012-10-03T07:04:09Z")
Coo pn ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/7 "2012-10-03T07:57:36Z")
Que pahn is how I learned to say it, but I hear coo pahn so much now that I think I say it that way sometimes. It’s actually a weird obsession of mine to listen to how people say it. It fascinates me. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/8 "2012-10-03T12:01:25Z")
This was one of the three big pronunciation differences I had from my mom, and she would always wince when I said it around her. COO-pon vs. KYU-pon. The other two? Envelope and Nazi. My pronunciations: AHN-vuh-lope, NAH-tzee. Hers: IN-vul-ope, NAH-ksi. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/9 "2012-10-03T12:22:31Z")
Under normal conditions, “COO-pon.” When I want to amuse myself, I use the Ron White pronunciation: “COO-pn.” ([Explanatory YouTube link; SFW](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRRMvDUPPLI)) ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/10 "2012-10-03T12:34:28Z")
I pronounced “que-pon” in my head as if it was Spanish and my immediate reaction was “that’s a thing? Damn Americans destroying our language blah blah blah”. Apologies all round. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/11 "2012-10-03T12:56:44Z")
I was raised to say it with /kju:/ but I decided I didn’t want to any more, so now I say it with /ku:/. Yod-dropping American. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/12 "2012-10-03T13:00:02Z")
cue-pon. Born and raised in southeastern Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/13 "2012-10-03T13:15:23Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > cue-pon. Born and raised in southeastern Ohio. And I was going to say that a lot of Yankees voted in this poll… 🙂 Oh, yeah, the OP. cue pon ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/14 "2012-10-03T13:15:26Z")
“Coo-pon.” But I would pronounce “que-pon” as “kwe-pon,” because “qu” has a “kw” sound. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/15 "2012-10-03T13:26:50Z")
I say “kyoo-pon,” but I voted “some other weird way” because I thought the same thing as **amanset** : “Who the hell says _capon_ for _coupon_”? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/16 "2012-10-03T13:45:49Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > And I was going to say that a lot of Yankees voted in this poll… Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, where the normal pronunciation had /kju:/, but I decided I wasn’t bound by that. I admit I often have a weakness for spelling pronunciations (but that does not extend to _often_, where the t is not pronounced!) and was influenced by the spelling, which does not actually lend itself to /kju:/. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > “Coo-pon.” > > But I would pronounce “que-pon” as “kwe-pon,” because “qu” has a “kw” sound. That’s why many of us use IPA. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/17 "2012-10-03T14:01:16Z")
Cue-pon. Born and raised in SE MI. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/18 "2012-10-03T14:08:50Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > For the last time, how do you pronounce “coupon”?! [Did that one a mere 5 months ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=608329) ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/19 "2012-10-03T14:15:51Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > [Did that one a mere 5 months ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=608329) The intervening months have done nothing to make cue-pon woody and, therefore, acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557/20 "2012-10-03T14:50:30Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > [Did that one a mere 5 months ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=608329) …in 2011? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-coupon/636557.md?page=2)