How to pronounce Kermode?

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Pronunciation of Kermode in Ohio, but I've lived in California and now in Connecticut.

Kermode is pronounced as

K ER - m oh d

k sounds like the 'k' in 'key'
er sounds like the 'ur' in 'hurt'
m sounds like the 'm' in 'me'
oh sounds like the 'o' in 'so'
d sounds like the 'd' in 'do'


Kermode is pronounced as: Phonetic Spelling:[ K ER - m oh d ]

K ER - m oh d
key hurt   me so do

Type of Name:

Frank Kermode

Language:

Manx

Gender:

Male

Additional Information:

The literary critic and scholar Frank Kermode came up in conversation with a scholar who said the name was Irish and is probably pronounced something like Carmody. I've always heard it pronounced kurMODE, long o in the second stressed syllable, silent e; but the linguistic plausibility of Carmody has me now in doubt, especially since mine could be a spelling pronunciation. Help! RW


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Pronunciation of Kermode

Kermode is pronounced as

kArmodee


Kermode is pronounced as: Phonetic Spelling:[ kArmodee ]

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Pronunciation of Kermode

carmody


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