How To Pronounce Bon Iver

[serenieee]

To the people who say "bawn-eyever", kill yourselves.

[herpfuckingderp]

boner ver

[Seaction8]

Bonner vare

[MrRaaggeeer]

OH NO! I UPSET THE BALANCE! SOMEBODY FIX IT!

[darthjellybean]

@Ashemarine *insert troll face here

[Ashemarine]

Oh man, this video has the EXACT same number of likes and dislikes!

Don't nobody go upsetting the balance now...

[lkraie]

168 167.....Must....set...the..bal­ance...



[CelebFanatic91]

If I dislike the video, I'll be putting it at 165-165...

Ah fuck it, I'll just like it.

[minnasaur]

bonny bear

[gabylovesdemusic]

wow, i cant believe these people call themselves fans and don't even know hoe to PRONOUNCE THE BAND'S NAME

sorry, i had to.

[kingtotikkis]

This is so wrong that it actually hurts... It's /boʊn iˈvɛər/, think french people!

[thefancyapple]

Whoa. 160 likes, 160 dislikes.

I have never seen this before in my life.

[Tomanistanumerouno]

If that's how it's pronounced then it should be spelled "Boniver"

[LETOitout]

This is false. :/

[G3minee]

I've been going around saying "Bon i-ver" this whole time... Woooowww i feel kinda dumb.

[MelleB90]

it's pronounced exactly the same as the French 'bon hiver' which means good winter.

They left the H out because it made the word look to much like liver.

After having suffered from mononucleosis, he didn't want to be reminded of livers.

[o0mgn]

I KNEW IT!!!! What is it with people telling me wrong when I am always right?

[claireee1231]

Well now I feel like an idiot.

[bnabors27]

I JUST BALANCED THAT FUCKING BAR. DON'T TOUCH IT.

[sakuraness]

as per wikipedia: The name Bon Iver is derived from the French phrase bon hiver (French pronunciation: [bon knee-vher]), meaning "good winter" or "have a good winter".

[emailryan]

IT'S BONNY BEAR! UGH

[finbduggan]

bonny bear

[analynunpingco]

Relevant.

[jmikemiller]

W00t?! I thought it was Bon "Aiver"

Even Google Translate says the way i say

[attapi0]

Bun lover, dumbass.

[foghornblue]

wait, is this the guy that intentionally pronounces words incorrectly?

[jmikemiller]

@foghornblue lol, that's the PronunciationManual channel

[marsipannable]

no no no its bonny bear! lol

[omigoditspatricia]

bonny bear

[killerwill55]

bonnie bear



[MrChrismanning]

@killerwill55 ha! That's what my 2 year old said when she heard them win the Grammy.

[amberlalaful]

Wrong! It's bone- er, boner

[jibster94]

You are wrong this channel is a joke! its actually pernounced bun lover

[AmberCorwin]

fuck you it's bawn aiiverrrrrrrrr not bone avair 

[KellyDawn]

I thought it was "ee-vare" because it's French. Pretty sure the video is wrong. At least it's better than "Bonn Eye-ver" which is how I used to say it when I thought it was a person's name.

[slurpzz1]

bun lovel -- if anyone else has seen the other video of this...

[super999999]

Bin Eye-ver?

[MegaBioGirl]

Bone eh ver

[MermaidGirlMe]

Bun lover

[IamCaptainZissou]

For*

[IamCaptainZissou]

@ModestMousekateer gotcha. Just a student got a semester under my belt, thanks or correction. Still got a lot to learn

[IamCaptainZissou]

In French in this case, the R would be silent

[ModestMousekateer]

@IamCaptainZissou lol no. Iver, which is a bastardization of hiver (winter), isn't a verb. Hiver is pronounced ee-vare. Trust me, French is my first language.

[Wirld]

It's French; Bon Hiver means "good winter". He wrote his first album in his father's cabin during the winter he had mononucleosis.

[superintendanchrlmrs]

i sound like a twat, but I asked them meself and it's more like bonny vare

[Kfcreese1]

i know how the fuck to say it! but this doesnt change my mind on how i will say it. BON EYE VER FOR LIFE.

[PolarSquid]

it's bon-eee-vair, guys. it's french.

[laosh18]

@RawrInYawrHeart and @BenmaVideos ... i think everyone needs to chill. its a pronunciation. people are gonna say it how they want. it might be wrong but its a complete waste of your time to care about it. plus, his music is amazing. thats the important part

[BenmaVideos]

Most people say bon i-ver - as it's derived from the French Bon Hiver and not made up you should really learn to say eevare, not really that hard

[XxEmmabella13xX]

i say bon eye ver

thats the american way to say it nigguhs

[RawrInYawrHeart]

All the people that are against this are just fucking idiots.

[hovering88]

LOL

[ApplePickingAaron]

I'm going to keep say BAWN EYE-vur

[Fred6191]

i heard boner

[joshbaezmusic]

Boner.

[5Corundum5]

I'm all for it being the Americanized pronunciation. Those dicks already ruined the spelling.

[xdiesease]

Has anybody else been saying "Bawn-Eyever".

[taedwards2010]

@xdiesease for the longest i have

[mhazani]

@xdiesease Yes, Justin Vernon:) - see watch?v=nWdk42msbws&feature=re­lated (add to youtube . com/)

[neon471]

@xdiesease I said it like that for the longest time, but then I watched this video. Man it sucks to be wrong.

[SkickPank]

@xdiesease I say Bun Luvul like PronunciationManual taught me. It is the proper way.

[ILikeSparkles1]

Justin Vernon, the creator of Bon Iver, pronounces it as if it was the the french saying "bon hiver" (bon eevher) so i think we should all trust his pronunciation

[Kailstar2point0]

@JacquelineOwns You are absolutely wrong.  You never say BONE in french, you say bonne (bun) or bon (don't pronounce the N). If it sounds like bone to you that's because they carry the n to the vowel and slur (for lack of a better word) their words a bit. I speak french and live in a very french city, and I've had this conversation with my francophone friends.

[JacolynOWNS]

It's Bohneehvehr

It's french, you can't say "no fuck you" because it's a fucking language you ass fucks.

[julieannaClark]

I pronounce it Bon Eye-vor. lol

[JacolynOWNS]

@julieannaClark well you would be incorrect haha

[julieannaClark]

@JacolynOWNS Obviously. I was just stating how I've always said it. I didn't know it was French until now. I know how to pronounce French words.

[versusthemayor]

Bitches, it's based off of French. Don't argue it. >_>

[Kailstar2point0]

Bon Hiver. Bonne He-vay. Bonne Eevay. Definitely not Bone If-vair

[JacolynOWNS]

@Kailstar2point0 it's bohn eehvehr, if my phonetic spelling makes any sense. If you've ever heard a french person speak, that's how you say it. The "Bon" is in fact said like bone, and in the iver it is ee-vehr. It sounds pretentious as fuck, but hey this is hipster music we're talking about.

[MrTom5921]

boner hair?

[PepFol]

I just say FAGS.

[PWinzy44]

NO. ITS BON AYVUR GODDAMMIT.

[Scatchamagowza14]

BON LOVEL!

[AbbySk8s4life]

its obviously pronounced "bun lover"

[Tundraboy05]

@AbbySk8s4life it's an i, dumbass.

[AbbySk8s4life]

@Tundraboy05 you're dumb

[Tundraboy05]

@AbbySk8s4life how am I dumb when you obviously pronounced it incorrectly?

oh, thank you for proving my point.

[AbbySk8s4life]

@Tundraboy05 because you obiously havent seen pronunciationManual's version

[Tundraboy05]

@AbbySk8s4life the whole "I've seen PronunciationManual's videos so this one is wrong" thing is old; yet you're still doing it

[AbbySk8s4life]

@Tundraboy05 thats not even what i said i was making a joke about pronunciationmanual's version 

[Tundraboy05]

@AbbySk8s4life I didn't say you said that, it's the fabricated idea I perceived because everyone else is doing the same thing; watching Manual's videos and then coming to book's videos saying it's not how you pronounce it, but it's [insert false pronunciation here.]

[AbbySk8s4life]

@Tundraboy05 lololol ok 

[ohyouannabelle]

@Astrobasego91 Actually since the h in hiver is silent (especially since they intentionally spelled it without the h) the n is pronounced normally. However, if we were pronouncing Bon Iver the same way as "bon hiver" would be pronounced, then "iver" would not be pronounced "eye-ver," but instead "ee-ver." But this video pronunciation is considered to be an "American English" version, and this is pretty much how an American would pronounce Bon Iver upon reading it.

[SchmuckoftheIrish]

Bahn Eev-air

[KittyandPuppy77]

bun lova

[qtip4ever]

How do you pronounce Bon Iver? I believe it's pronounce ep-ick (EPIC), or perhaps A- may- zing. You get the idea.

[eja144]

BAHN EYE-VER!!!

[m7908v]

all you americans need to learn how to pronounce an "r" in the back of ur throat if u ever wanna get anywhere close to the actual french pronounciation of bon iver. that's how it's pronounced in french for christ's sake, there's no "ar" in the french language.

[blahness013]

@m7908v Is the back-of-the-throat "r" at all similar to how "r" is pronounced in Spanish? I know some Spanish but no French so I'm just wondering. I love pronouncing things correctly. :) Right now I say (approximately) BONE ee-VAIR.

[JacolynOWNS]

@m7908v EXACTLY! Thank you! We american's definitely have a disgusting problem with R's. We make them so ugly...

[LukeRobinson10]

well that is how justin says it

[drooliaa]

No matter what it is, pronounce it like this or the french way. Just pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase never say bon eye-ver. Now that drives me crazy.

[m7908v]

@drooliaa well if u really speak french fluently, then u should know that its not pronounced like "bone" it's bon. that "ou" sound that "bone" has in it is just an americanized pronounciation that doesnt even exist in actual french. I mean ur right, the "n" is pronounced since the french tend to connect the words, but its more like sayin "on" with a "b" in front of it, not like bone.

[CptnMoosingle]

Shit! Wrong link!

[MasterMorty]

Pronunciation book, FUCK YOU!

[whoarethebrainpigs]

how to pronounce Bon Iver ...SssHhh,,Iiiiiii,,,Ttttt.

[Hegerridadorno]

this isn't right. the n sound is part of the second syllable, not the first (that's how liaison works), and the first syllable isn't quite pronounced like that. (i'm assuming this band name is supposed to be pronounced the same way as the french bon hiver)

[fightsorflies]

thank you jesus, dumb people can quit sounded like retards thinking they listen to cool hipster music.

[antuonchris]

My god, watch "Justin vernon interview" at 8:37. He says the name himself.

[IroneGuy]

boner

[ChingstahJJ]

He said in an interview that he thought this phrase was some saying that was not related to the french language. When he found out that it was french for good winter, and that he had spelt it wrong in letters to a friend, he just kept that misspelling and eventually chose to work under the name. He says that since this name has been created through a misperception, both "bon eyever" and "bown eeverre" are fine, and that he himself doesnt really care.

[jwhensiek]

...... wrong.

[IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlII]

Bawn Liver.

[dodo2000107]

@IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlII What a username.

[bella3458]

Saying it like Bon Eyever just sounds better to me.

Whenever I say Bon Eyever, people know what I'm talking about. But saying it like this, people look at me weirdly.

I'll stick to Bon Eyever.

[banaaleshooter]

Ow sorry didn't notice that xxconnykingxx already said it.

[MROTEK123]

justin vernon once said in an interview that he doesn't care how people pronounce it. it's the fact that his music gets out there. arguing about it makes you look like more of an ass than just saying it however the hell you want to.

[ConvenientGods]

Fuck. I'm going to keep pronouncing it wrong and saying Bon Eyever because this just sounds way too pretentious.

[xPo1S0nXs0DaX]

BonerVer?

[UmAwkwardMeg]

i always thought it was "bon EYEver." awkward..

[Eldest9292]

Bone-a-bear

[maddiimooo]

If you want to pronounce it correctly, the "n" is semi-silent. trolololol

[andresperez8989]

That awkward moment when you realize you've been mispronouncing the name of your "favorite" band for years now.

[MitchellCave2]

no. fuck you.

[cavetz21]

BUN LUVAL..... BUN.....LUVAL

[Kimber2011]

Aw man I thought I was still watching pronunciationGUIDE and I was waiting for a boner joke.

[DpbProductionz]

boney where

[OhhCathy]

come on skinny love just last the year

[GregorC93]

The awkward moment when you switch from PronunciationManual to PronunciationBook.

[funny9guy]

boner

[Astrocytosis]

BONE IVR!

[Fnidner]

Sorry, but this is wrong. Either pronounce it in french, or pronounce it in English. You can't just invent some intermediate stage

[thestarsnatcher]

no no, not bone uh-vare. bone ee-vare.

[Jamieos1990]

WRONG. Sucker. Bon Eever. The letter I is read as ee in French. And besides, pronunciation manual told me it was Bun Lvrrrr

[hellocamillemari]

SO many people say B-ah-n Eye-ver and I'm just like

No.

[BrettMatthewsMusic]

LOOOL

[lilypad797]

how to you pranounce aspergers

[TheMiz00]

This is how I've been saying it forever, and everyone tried to correct me, saying the correct way was 'B-ah-n Eye-ver'. To those people, I say blow me.

[MrWowyourcooll]

BOM LOVL

[ObbsAndLala]

Why don't you all just go watch an interview with Justin Vernon? He pronounces it the way it should be pronounced.

[sexyashellification]

@ObbsAndLala i tried to find one but i cuoldnt got any suggestions?

[tomhanko1]

@BIN3RY it is correct. I should know. I live in eau Claire Wisconsin( which is the city they came from and are legends in)

[PeaceLoveTofu88]

@tomhanko1 Or... You can just have a chat with him while he is on tour like I did :] (Still... This is correct... TeeHee)

[sexyashellification]

@tomhanko1

so its supposed to be pronnounced the french way?

[gabriellassh]

Well... i've been pronuncing this Bon Aiver my whole entire life... great

[Seeeeaaaannn]

thats not right is it? D:

[Umard0520]

Boner?

[Astrobasego91]

Really? because i know for a fact that it's french for "good winter", except they intentionally spelled the word for winter in french wrong, spelling it "iver", instead of "hiver". Regardless, that would mean that the correct pronunciation would be Bo(n) the N having a Nasal sound, kind of mixed with the sound of Bow (sort of silent N, hard to explain), then you would pronounce iver like eevare.

Bon Iver.

That's how i do it. And i have trouble thinking that it's wrong.

[natalieesmith1]

@Astrobasego91 Well, in french pronunciation, there would be a liaison between the "n" from "Bon" and the "I" from "Iver", because the next word begins with a vowel. Basically, you would pronounce the "n" at the end. But your pronunciation of "Iver" would be correct.

[mrmartyo]

@Astrobasego91 See you would be correct, but in French, when there is a word ending in a consonant followed by a word beginning with a vowel (such as "bon hiver"), you make what is called "liaison" between the "n" and the start of the next word.

Because of this, you do pronounce the "n" in bon, however if the word "bon" were to be pronounced by itself, you would be correct that the "n" is silent.

French is all about the flow and in "Bon Iver," the "n" is most definitely pronounced.

[hojoslugger301]

@Astrobasego91 actually the liaison would have you pronounce the n in Bon. if you really want to get technical with it. perhaps that's what you mean by "sort of silent".

[XxConnyKingxX]

@Astrobasego91 Youre quite right about your assumption and its said slightly wrong in the video as you pointed out. However, it is also common in France that when the "silent/nasal" "n" at the end of a word comes before a word starting with a vowel (as in (h)iver), people tend to connect the "n" to the "i", therewhile actually pronouncing the "n". So kind of like: "Bon n´iver".

[banaaleshooter]

@Astrobasego91

Your right about that.

But the frenc do not pronounce the letter h.

So hiver starts with a vowel, and the french never have 2 vowel sounds in a row.

Than you have to pronounce bon as bonne.

Not with the nasal sound.

I hope you can understand my english.

[sporkbinder2]

@Astrobasego91 First off, if there's a vowel sound following a nasal sound in French, it is made into a stop. So the N is pronounced.

And secondly, it actually doesn't even matter what the real French pronunciation is because the band members decide how to pronounce their own band name.

[fukarier]

@Astrobasego91 Bon remains Bon because Iver/Hiver starts with a vowel. Moreover there is basically no pause between Bon and Iver. For Americans: Bonnyvare. Blame my former (Thank God!) french teachers if I'm wrong. Best regards from Germany.

[DragonSchmitt]

its bone eh-var

[BIN3RY]

your wrong BON IVER! not OF AIRE!

[narcomanel]

bone if there XD

[blues970123]

BONER FAIR. 

[Steinunnmusiclover]

i thought it was pronounhed like bon eye-ver

[Alois76]

In french, Bon Iver means "Good Winter"

[MyChubbyChecker]

@Alois76 it's Bon Hiver, though

[Alois76]

@MyChubbyChecker Touché ! But when just heard, Bon Iver sounds like Bon Hiver anyway :)

[shelledmule]

I JUST BALANCED THE LIKE AND DISLIKE BAR :O

[alasdairduncan3]

Thats wrong its "Bon" not Bone and "EEver" like hiver (good winter in french)

[amypotts1]

Boner there ?

[DN311]

Bun lover

[YouAssassinTube]

(BONE-EE-VAIR) 

[camouflagecamaro99]

BONER.

[mydogisindouche]

Bon hiver !

[hobofurio101]

I dont care.....it will forever be Bon Eye-ver to me.....

[Hariettluff]

BON EYVER ! :(

[kesia96]

@Hariettluff I KNOW! :(

[kissthecurb]

aw man, i really like it better as bon eye-ver. i think of ivy. and the woods. and peaceful nature things

[kesia96]

@kissthecurb me tooo