# How do you pronounce "Snopes"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 23, 2006, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834 "2006-09-23T09:48:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/21 "2006-09-24T06:49:12Z")
I disagree with all the suggestions thus far. I say it rhymes with “gropes.” ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/22 "2006-09-24T08:09:30Z")
[QUOTE=BJMoose] 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]. [/QUOTE] At least twice I’ve heard national newscasters refer to Jupiter’s moon, Ten. That would be Io. You can say EYE-oh, or you can say EE-oh, but even if it’s written in all caps on the TelePrompTer, you can’t say Ten. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/23 "2006-09-24T12:17:11Z")
Perhaps the newscaster was trying to panache (a new verb!) the pronunciation, like everyone does with Target (Tar-zhay). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/24 "2006-09-24T13:42:03Z")
I believe it is “Rio” by Duran Duran… 😃 PS: Oscillo-snopes… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/25 "2006-09-24T14:02:06Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Perhaps the newscaster was trying to panache (a new verb!) the pronunciation, like everyone does with Target (Tar-zhay). [/QUOTE] I have a friend who thought that Roget’s thesaurus was pronounced Rog-it (where the ROG rhymes with HOG). I was very entertained. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/26 "2006-09-24T21:01:49Z")
[QUOTE=flodnak] At least twice I’ve heard national newscasters refer to Jupiter’s moon, Ten. That would be Io. You can say EYE-oh, or you can say EE-oh, but even if it’s written in all caps on the TelePrompTer, you can’t say Ten. [/QUOTE] Which leads me to wonder if all of those jokes about “Malcom the Tenth” (for Malcom X) were really jokes. . . . Oh. And I prefer one syllable, long o, for Snopes. Just had a thought: could we really blame someone who pronounced it “Snoops”?? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Pageant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Silver\_Pageant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Pageant)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/27 "2006-09-24T21:24:33Z")
Yes. We could. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/28 "2006-09-24T21:35:00Z")
[total hijack] We have a small town nearby with the name of Dykesville, pronounced, dikes-ville, like hikes-ville, long “I” for the first one. The legend goes that onceuponatime a salesman notfromaroundhere was coming to town to propose the installation of something and wanted to have a town meeting to explain his plan to the citizens. One of the local town supervisors took him aside just before the meeting and warned him that the correct pronunciation of the town was dick-ees-ville. Since he didn’t want to appear to to be an outsider, the salesman was quite grateful for the advice. It was a long time later when he found out why he didn’t get the contract and why the audience snickered whenever he said the town’s name. [/total hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/29 "2006-09-24T22:27:22Z")
[QUOTE=BJMoose] Which leads me to wonder if all of those jokes about “Malcom the Tenth” (for Malcom X) were really jokes. . . . [/QUOTE] I really tried not to howl in derisive laughter when the clerk at Blockbuster rang up my DVD of _Henry the Fifth_ – “_Henry Vee?_ What’s that about, dude?” Really I did. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/30 "2006-09-25T10:04:38Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] It is pronounced _Shar-Day_🙂 [/QUOTE] Snort! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/31 "2006-09-25T10:14:56Z")
Back in the days before Google, my dad’s American colleague was talking this new search engine, “Ask Jay-ayves”. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/32 "2006-09-25T13:07:06Z")
Ah, the old "Newscaster doesn’t know how to pronounce ‘Snopes’ " [story](http://www.snopes.com/story/newscaster). That’s been around a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/33 "2006-09-25T13:11:34Z")
Remember folks, as with “popes”, “ropes” _and_ “gropes”, the silent “q” in “Snopes” is usually ommited (similar to “fox”). ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/34 "2006-09-25T14:46:10Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Ah, the old "Newscaster doesn’t know how to pronounce ‘Snopes’ " [story](http://www.snopes.com/story/newscaster). That’s been around a few times. [/QUOTE] Linky no work. Is that the point? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834/35 "2006-09-25T15:02:07Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] Linky no work. Is that the point? [/QUOTE] **Malacandra** was making a very clever joke. The important part was that you saw the URL in your status bar, not that the page actually worked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-snopes/373834.md?page=1)