How do you pronounce 'roubaix' and 'audax'?

[Maz]

As above.
Thank you.

 

[Arch]

Roo-bay, and Or-dax (to rhyme with axe)

 

[Maz]

Thank you, both.
...and are they more or less the same thing? Sort of a beefed up road bike with mudguards?

 

[Arch]

To me, Roubaix is a place in France, and an Audax is one of these:

Does that help?

 

[Will1985]

And that is not a hard r like "red", but a guttural r...

 

[Cathryn]

A Roubaix (Specialized) is Gods gift to the cycling world, the very epitome of what a road bike should look like, the thing that I spend most of my waking hours lusting after (just before the wife)....

An Audax is some old cranky thing with mudguards that old men with beards dawdle around the countryside on.

OOOOOOH...my bike's an audax and she's beautiful. I'm also not an old man and have no beard. However I do use mudguards and there's a lot of dawdling round the countryside involved in my cycling.

 

[MacB]

I thought they were pronounced poncy and pretentious

 

[gavintc]

It must be an English affectation to keeping shoving 'r' into words without them; eg Barth. I would pronounce Audax as o-dax with the o similar to the o in stop.

 

[Arch]

It must be an English affectation to keeping shoving 'r' into words without them; eg Barth. I would pronounce Audax as o-dax with the o similar to the o in stop.

How would you pronounce audacious, which is from the same root?

 

[gavintc]

How would you pronounce audacious, which is from the same root?

I certainly would not shove an 'r' into it. o - day - shuss

 

[yello]

I have heard audax pronounced ou-dax ('ou' as in 'ouch!').... but usually or-dax.

 

[Will1985]

How would you pronounce audacious, which is from the same root?

Depends - it forms the second part of "bodacious", so you could argue that in some cases gavintc would be right

 

[just jim]

Please do not pronounce the word in question as "ordax." Please?

"AW-DAX", or "OW-DAX" at a push.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

OOOOOOH...my bike's an audax and she's beautiful. I'm also not an old man and have no beard. However I do use mudguards and there's a lot of dawdling round the countryside involved in my cycling.

Could we be founder members of the Dawdlers' CC? Dawdling is my favourite passtime.

 

[Tony]

Actually, Roubaix is closer to Roo-Beh than Roo-bay. For full authenticity, gargle a bucket of phlegm before the initial "R".
As for Audax, "ow" if doing it Latin-stylee, "oh" if French. The "aw" bit is an Engliah affectation, a bit like pronouncing "Braun" as "Brawn" instead of "Brown".