I guess the easy answer would be to call them up and see how they pronounce it... — user316911 hours ago
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でもさーオーストラリア英語だと・・・
「ホームステイ」が「ホームスタイ」になるから、
電話して聞いたら「ヘイグズ」が「ハイグズ」って聞こえたりして・・・
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I looked up how the FACE vowel is pronounced in Australian English, and I found [ʌɪ], [ɛe], [ɛɪ], [ɐ̟ɪ], [æe], and [æɪ]. Now I have no idea how to pronounce it.
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Any Japanese who knows Austria and Australia are different countries wouldn't confuse them. We pronounce Austria as オーストリア, オーストリヤ, or オーストリー (elder genaration tends to call this way. Conversly younger generation calls Italy as イタリー、while elder genaration tends to call it イタリヤ), and Australia as ...
FWIW, I've always pronounced Haigh's without the "g", even though I've been to their stores reasonably frequently...
I guess I've never heard any ads on radio/tv for Haigh's to be able to hear it pronounced, and I suppose the shop attendants haven't had a reason to say their own shop's name when I've talked to them
@snailboat this is just my opinion, but [ʌɪ] sounds like Lebanese, Greek or maybe other ethnic Australian accents (ethnic Australian accent is the term I've seen used in textbooks, but I think there's actually so many "ethnic" accents that it's hard to put them under a single banner...)
[ɛe] sounds like what it might sound like in fast speech for most Australians, [ɛɪ] might be when pronouncing carefully
[ɐ̟ɪ] sounds like the cultivated Australian variety, which has some prestige but also considered a bit posh by some people
[æe] sounds like the way Julia Gillard might pronounce it I think, I have no idea what it's called but this pronunciation is very distinctive, even for an Australian
the first two ([ɛe] and [ɛɪ]) are general Australian, which is the accent used by a vast majority of Australians I think
well this is my feeling for the dipthong in "face" anyway, that doesn't mean that this will be the pronunciation of the dipthong in "Haigh's" - it might vary from speaker to speaker