Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 So I have always pronounced it "mar-kwis", but listening to The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde on Radio 4 (Saturday drama), they pronounce it "mar-kess". It sounds so odd. Is this a correct pronunciation? Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 I thought it was pronounced mar-kee. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 Mar-kess or mar-key never mar-kwis Vote up! 0 Vote down! 2 I would also say marquis but I can only think of de Sade as an example of one Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 *markee Vote up! 0 Vote down! 2 I thought mar-kess was female and mar-kwis was male? Mar-kee being French... Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 More mahkee Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 markey is French Marchioness is female Marquis of Bath of the murals and lions Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 Ok kwis then Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 I would say markee de sade cos it's foreign it was always the marqwis of Worcester when I lived in forelock tugging parts Vote up! 0 Vote down! 3 I say markess but it was part of the name of a pub next to my old office and that's what everyone else said. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021lnyx Radio 4 programme Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 hmmmm this seems to agree with me: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/marquis Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 Paging Clubbers Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 If a non historical figure they can have Mr, Ms or Dr and like it. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 Mar-kwis in English, as in the Marquess of Queensberry No idea what forrins do Vote up! 0 Vote down! 2 To be honest, I’m taking my ‘knowledge’ from the pub The Marquis of Granby. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 aaahhh but Dux, in that radio programme, it was the M of Queensberry to whom they referred as Markess Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 I think I say more markwess. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 2 I suspect the narrator was either a Septic or a continental of some sort. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 Then they are ignorant Markess of Bath? TrafulGAR ? Roeboe ? etc etc Scion catches the unwary tho. Probably because normal people never hear it pronounced Vote up! 0 Vote down! 2 Mar-kwiss. Or Mar-Kee if the person is forrin. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 Marquess - an English title for noblemen ranking below a Duke and above an Earl and pronounced Markwess Marchioness - the English title for the wife or widow of a Marquess, pronounced Mar-chee-onn-ess Marquis - a French title for noblemen of similar rank to an English Marquess, pronounced Markee Marquise - a French title for the wife or widow of a Marquis, pronounced Markeese Markgraf - a German title for noblemen who own three pigs or more Margravine - a German title for the wife or widow of a pig farmer Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 Judy, do you also say 'choritzo'? Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 who gives a flying fook? Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 I thought a ”markee” was a tent and a “markwis” was a fella with a title spelled “marquis”. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 No, Supes, I say choreetho. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 I've always pronounced it "Raymond Luxury-Yacht" Refresh Back to board Join the discussion Login Register
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 2 I would also say marquis but I can only think of de Sade as an example of one
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 markey is French Marchioness is female Marquis of Bath of the murals and lions
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 I would say markee de sade cos it's foreign it was always the marqwis of Worcester when I lived in forelock tugging parts
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 3 I say markess but it was part of the name of a pub next to my old office and that's what everyone else said.
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 hmmmm this seems to agree with me: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/marquis
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 Mar-kwis in English, as in the Marquess of Queensberry No idea what forrins do
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 aaahhh but Dux, in that radio programme, it was the M of Queensberry to whom they referred as Markess
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 Then they are ignorant Markess of Bath? TrafulGAR ? Roeboe ? etc etc Scion catches the unwary tho. Probably because normal people never hear it pronounced
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 0 Marquess - an English title for noblemen ranking below a Duke and above an Earl and pronounced Markwess Marchioness - the English title for the wife or widow of a Marquess, pronounced Mar-chee-onn-ess Marquis - a French title for noblemen of similar rank to an English Marquess, pronounced Markee Marquise - a French title for the wife or widow of a Marquis, pronounced Markeese Markgraf - a German title for noblemen who own three pigs or more Margravine - a German title for the wife or widow of a pig farmer
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 1 I thought a ”markee” was a tent and a “markwis” was a fella with a title spelled “marquis”.
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I thought it was pronounced mar-kee.
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Mar-kess or mar-key
never mar-kwis
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I would also say marquis but I can only think of de Sade as an example of one
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*markee
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I thought mar-kess was female and mar-kwis was male?
Mar-kee being French...
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More mahkee
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markey is French
Marchioness is female
Marquis of Bath of the murals and lions
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Ok kwis then
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I would say markee de sade cos it's foreign
it was always the marqwis of Worcester when I lived in forelock tugging parts
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I say markess but it was part of the name of a pub next to my old office and that's what everyone else said.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021lnyx
Radio 4 programme
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hmmmm this seems to agree with me: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/marquis
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Paging Clubbers
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If a non historical figure they can have Mr, Ms or Dr and like it.
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Mar-kwis in English, as in the Marquess of Queensberry
No idea what forrins do
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To be honest, I’m taking my ‘knowledge’ from the pub The Marquis of Granby.
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aaahhh but Dux, in that radio programme, it was the M of Queensberry to whom they referred as Markess
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I think I say more markwess.
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I suspect the narrator was either a Septic or a continental of some sort.
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Then they are ignorant
Markess of Bath?
TrafulGAR ?
Roeboe ?
etc etc
Scion catches the unwary tho. Probably because normal people never hear it pronounced
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Mar-kwiss. Or Mar-Kee if the person is forrin.
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Marquess - an English title for noblemen ranking below a Duke and above an Earl and pronounced Markwess
Marchioness - the English title for the wife or widow of a Marquess, pronounced Mar-chee-onn-ess
Marquis - a French title for noblemen of similar rank to an English Marquess, pronounced Markee
Marquise - a French title for the wife or widow of a Marquis, pronounced Markeese
Markgraf - a German title for noblemen who own three pigs or more
Margravine - a German title for the wife or widow of a pig farmer
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Judy, do you also say 'choritzo'?
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who gives a flying fook?
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I thought a ”markee” was a tent and a “markwis” was a fella with a title spelled “marquis”.
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No, Supes, I say choreetho.
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I've always pronounced it "Raymond Luxury-Yacht"
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