Lee-bruh or Lee-bray?

[Northerner]

Go on, how do you pronounce it? I ask because the Abbott rep yesterday called it a Lee-bray, whereas I have always called it a Lee-bruh 🙂 There is no acute accent on the final 'e'.

 

[Robin]

I’ve always called it the Lee-bruh, but I think the official pronunciation is Libr-ay. As you say, an accent would have given us a clue!

 

[Kaylz]

I've always called it lee-bray xx

 

[SB2015]

Lee-bruh.
No accent

 

[eggyg]

Lee- bruh.

 

[khskel]

Lee bray, because My Spanish is better than my French

 

[mikeyB]

I’m a Lee-bruh, as has been said, there’s no acute accent. Everyone appears to understand that.

 

[Lisa66]

I always called it a lee-bruh, for reasons already mentioned....(although did french and Spanish at school)...noted that nurses all say lee-bray. So I use both pronounciations depending who I’m talking too. 🙂

 

[Andy HB]

Lee breh! Just to be different. 😉

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I’m a Lee-bruh, as has been said, there’s no acute accent. Everyone appears to understand that.

Also, I seem to remember seeing some evidence that it was once called "Libra".

 

[trophywench]

Libre is Latin not English French or Spanish.

It means 'pounds' LOL

 

[silentsquirrel]

Libre is Latin not English French or Spanish.

It means 'pounds' LOL

Hence lb as the abbreviation for pounds (weight). But Latin for free is liber, and the vocative is libre!

I suspect Abbott or whoever named it had the freedom meaning in mind rather than pounds!

I'm a bruh as well (and probably wouldn't change in the company of someone who went for bray, I can't be as kind as some of you!) I once took a very basic computer class, the lecturer set my teeth on edge every time she said integer (stress on 1st syllable, soft g) as inteeger (stress on middle syllable, hard g).

 

[merrymunky]

I’ve seen people on YouTube doing demos referring to it as a lee-bray. Americans mostly

 

[silentsquirrel]

Americans mostly

Nuff said!

 

[Flower]

I'm a lee-bruh kind of girl. As it's full name is Freestyle Libre with a butterfly flying above I'd go for the free meaning rather than weight! 🙂

 

[Matt Cycle]

Lee-bruh for me. It makes sense what Bruce said about it being called Libra. The zodiac sign is scales - and balance is what it's all about in diabetes. Hence Balance magazine for the BDA. However, the Abbott rep on my DAFNE course 2 years ago pronounced it Lee-bray. Having said all that it's an American company and they can't spell.

 

[KookyCat]

Lee-bruh for me too, I do remember wondering when it launched if it might be Lee-bray though because I assumed it was American and American English tends to be more phonetic in nature. Either way it’s lee-bruh to me now, and so it shall remain, it’s particularly delightful with my flat vowel inflection even if I say so myself 😉

 

[Flutterby]

I started off as Lee-bruh but everyone around me said Lee-bray so I thought I was wrong and changed. No idea what the correct way is.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Official Abbott-speak is Lee-bray, but most UK folks seem to opt for ‘bruh’ initially.

And yes, it’s the Spanish version. I guess California is quite close to Mexico

 

[mikeyB]

Lee-bruh for me too, I do remember wondering when it launched if it might be Lee-bray though because I assumed it was American and American English tends to be more phonetic in nature. Either way it’s lee-bruh to me now, and so it shall remain, it’s particularly delightful with my flat vowel inflection even if I say so myself 😉

In parts of Lancashire, particularly in Burnley and down Rossendale Valley, and round Chorley and Wigan way, the letter R is heavily emphasised, so the final E in Libre gets lost in that, so it’s not so much flat vowels, more elided vowels, almost unvoiced. Where do you fit in?

I can still tell which town folk come from in Lancashire from their accent. Professor Brian Cox has a barely tamed Oldham accent, if you listen carefully. He uses the glottal stop instead of t even before a word starting with a vowel when talking casually.