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name is pretty self explainatory. is it "dee oh see" or "DOK"
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name is pretty self explainatory. is it "dee oh see" or "DOK"
thanks. I have been saying the first for years, I seem to remember that was the way it was prononced. there is a resteraunt near our house called "DOC" run by an italian, last night an aquantaince said he was going there and prononced it "DOK". he said taht he had lived in italy for 3 years and that was the italian way of prononcing it, and I wasn't in the mood to argue. just checking.
I believe that DOC (the restaurant) is owned by the folks who own Pizza DOC in Lincoln Square (Lawrence Avenue, near Lincoln Avenue).
name is pretty self explainatory. is it "dee oh see" or "DOK"
It's like DOK as the C in doc is a "hard" C in Italian
It's D.O.C. as it means "Denominazione di Origine Controllata" (like D.O.C.G.) but no one does pronounce it that way, it's pronounced as it was a single DOC word.
It's D.O.C. as it means "Denominazione di Origine Controllata" (like D.O.C.G.) but no one does pronounce it that way, it's pronounced as it was a single DOC word.
It's like DOK as the C in doc is a "hard" C in Italian
It doesn't have anything to do with the pronunciation of the terminal consonant, though. Some Italians use it as an intensive adjective ('Sei giocatore doc!') equivalent to our 'true' like in 'true hero' but it's pronounced with the long round 'o' like in the English 'oak'. DOCG is sometimes pronounced 'dohc-gi' (IPA: something like doʊk'-dʒə), but in my somewhat inbred experience the letters are always pronounced individually. There really isn't a true 'Italian' way to say some words, especially recent introductions and loanwords since a lot of the language is very dialectical and some of the really old Italians speak very differently from the younger ones in the cities (and they let them know it).