"jubilee" wrongly stressed

[gurnemanz]

An annoying advert on the TV stresses the word "jubilee" on the final syllable. In a year where this word will be unavoidable, who has decided that this pronunciation is acceptable?

[teamsaint]

FWIW, I think people always refer to the jubiLEE line.

The whole unpleasant business of celebrating (another) 50 years of hereditary privilege is best avoided really.

[MrGongGong]

I'm quite fond of Derek Jarman's films
and Toyah Wilcox is great in this one

[Serial_Apologist]

An annoying advert on the TV stresses the word "jubilee" on the final syllable. In a year where this word will be unavoidable, who has decided that this pronunciation is acceptable?

Would jubilee vit??

[Lateralthinking1]

Lovely jubbly.

[John Skelton]

I'm quite fond of Derek Jarman's films
and Toyah Wilcox is great in this one

I think she's good in his version of The Tempest, too (wonderful film, IMO).

A London boy asks - how is one meant to pronounce "jubilee"?

[teamsaint]

I think she's good in his version of The Tempest, too (wonderful film, IMO).

A London boy asks - how is one meant to pronounce "jubilee"?

It does have to said though, she made some of the worst, most annoying, most bombastic music of the 70's and 80's.

No offence, obviously !

[gurnemanz]

Point taken on Jubilee Line. Maybe you can say either jubilee or jubilee. Or is it eether?

[VodkaDilc]

Point taken on Jubilee Line. Maybe you can say either jubilee or jubilee. Or is it eether?

Familiar phrases like that seem to affect the stresses used by the public at large.In this case I wonder if they are thinking of "jamboree" as a comparable word.

Similar wrong emphases seem to come from songs. All my non-musical contemporaries (who lived through the 60s as young people) refer to BeetHOVen, doubtless from too much 'rolling over' in their youth.

[John Skelton]

It does have to said though, she made some of the worst, most annoying, most bombastic music of the 70's and 80's.

She certainly did. The memory still makes me shudder, like. Good in Jarman's The Tempest, though.

[teamsaint]

She certainly did. The memory still makes me shudder, like. Good in Jarman's The Tempest, though.

For some unclear reason, Wickham festival (folk /folk rock type stuff) decided to book her last year.

however, fortune was smiling, as they put her on about tea time on the Sunday, providing a perfect opportunity for a beer, and to pack the tent away. Still sounded bloody terrible from the next field.

[umslopogaas]

Juby Lee, the lass with the wrong consonant. Lovely girl was Judy, but it was never going to last, her spelling drove me up the wall.

[Flosshilde]

She certainly did. The memory still makes me shudder, like. Good in Jarman's The Tempest, though.

But completely upstaged at the end by Elisabeth Welch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=857Ste6wylM

[MrGongGong]

She certainly did. The memory still makes me shudder, like. Good in Jarman's The Tempest, though.

and she is Mrs Fripp
bizzarre indeed

[Pabmusic]

A London boy asks - how is one meant to pronounce "jubilee"?

The OED gives jub-i-lee, which seems to be the standard. I wonder if the jub-i-lee pronunciation has been influenced by the Jubilee Line, since I suspect the alliterative Jub-i-lee Line trips off the tongue so easily.