How do you pronounce Augustine?

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We have a Korean friend who’s name is Augustine (named after St Augustine) We all pronounce his name AW-gus-TEEN. Notice the emphasis on both the front and the back of his name?
 
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Where on Earth have you learned German? 😉
  1. Correct would be Augustinus as in Latin.
  2. that’s pronounced ow-goos-tee-noos. emphasis on -tee-
    3.The often used short form “Augustin” is pronounced ow-goos-teen
“ow” like in how. “oo” is short like in “foot”.
 
<< @PhilVaz @Brain Where on Earth have you learned German? >>

I was only joking, don’t know German myself. But I was trying to come up with another wrong way to pronounce it.

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Uh-GUS-tin.

There’s a town in Florida (the oldest in the US, I believe, that is called St. Augustine, but I’ve always heard that pronounced “awe-GUS-teen”.
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I live near that town. All here call it Awe-GUS-teen. I’ve always pronounced the saint as Uh-GUS-tin.
 
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<< @PhilVaz @Brain Where on Earth have you learned German? >>

I was only joking, don’t know German myself. But I was trying to come up with another wrong way to pronounce it.

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German pronounciation is much nearer to Latin than American English.
 
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verismo:
The classic is “Uh-GUS-tin”

This is because in Latin, his name is 4 syllables, Aurelius Augustinus, and the stress is always on the second in 4 syllable words. So, the gus part is stressed in Latin, so it became so in the english as well.
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Yes. That is how I always hear it pronounced by a Priest and anyone on EWTN who speaks of St. Augustine. I live near St. Augustine the city and even though it is named after the Saint, people pronounce it St. AW-gus-tine. I get weird looks when I pronounce it St. Uh-GUS-tin:ehh: :confused: and I feel like doing this:p !!😃
 
There seems to still be some confusion as to which way to say it. Can I take it as a case of: Karl has spoken, the matter is settled?
 
Atreyu, here on the mainland - Victoria - 😉 we put the accent on GUS but when I hear people ring Catholic Answers they usually put the accent on the AU. Maybe it is a British/Australian pronunciation vs American pronunciation. Both are correct for the country in which the speaker is living.

A further example. I am originally from Sydney and so of course I say carstle (castle) but Melbournians say castle - short ‘a’ sound. I say pasties - short ‘a’ sound and Melbournians say parsties. I can always tell a native born Melbournian because they say Elbert Street when they mean Albert Street.
 
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A further example. I am originally from Sydney and so of course I say carstle (castle) but Melbournians say castle - short ‘a’ sound. I say pasties - short ‘a’ sound and Melbournians say parsties. I can always tell a native born Melbournian because they say Elbert Street when they mean Albert Street.
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Silly mainlanders… 😛
 
I pronounce it the same way as I do the grass: AWE-gus-teen.

But my practices of pronunciation are my own, and I stand by them. I’m a Texan and I pronounce the name of Jim Bowie, Alamo defender and inventer of the Bowie knife as BEW-eee, while I pronounce the name of singer David Bowie, who took his name after the knife, as BOW-eee (as in 'bow and arrow).

And I have a fit when some newscasters pronounce Qatar as CUTT-er and not cuh-TARR.
 
The length of this thread coupled with the dictionary link above proves it can be either way.
 
I think I’m the only one so far to pronounce it Awe-GUS-tin. How odd.
 
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