I feel like hardly anyone in Germany knows how to pronounce Azure (myself included for the longest time). There are no other common words like it, and what feels like the most obvious pronunciation is far from the correct one.
Here in Australia it's typical to say Ah-zure (Ah as in Aha) where as Americans typically say Ay-zure (Ay as in the name Jay).
There are many differences in pronunciation between English from various countries. E.g. in Australia we say Mo-bile were "bile" rhymes with "vile" whereas Americans typically pronounce it as Mo-bol.
It gets worse in the US. There's Mobil (the oil company - pronounced MO-bƏl), mobile (as it capable of movement - pronounced either MOE-bile or MO-bƏl) or Mobile (a city in the state of Alabama - pronounced (AFAIK) mo-BEEL).
You can mispronounce all sorts of things in the US and no one will blink an eye, but you mispronounce a town name, prepare to be dogpiled. Especially if you're in Palestine, Texas (Pal-es-teen NOT Pal-es-tine).
> mobile (as it capable of movement - pronounced either MOE-bile or MO-bƏl) or Mobile (a city in the state of Alabama - pronounced (AFAIK) mo-BEEL).
The way I learned it (US), "mo-bile" is the adjective for something that can move, "mo-beel" is a noun for the thing that you hang over a baby's cradle.
>Here in Australia it's typical to say Ah-zure (Ah as in Aha) where as Americans typically say Ay-zure (Ay as in the name Jay).
There are dozens of dialects/pronunciation styles in the US. What you may have heard from some US folks isn't what you'll hear from others.
As an American who lives in the US, I have never heard anyone say 'Ay-zure', WRT to either the color or the "someone else's server' offering from Microsoft.
As for Mobile, there are multiple pronunciations in various places around the US. Anything from 'mo-b-aye-l' (as you Aussies say) to 'mob-ill' (as in mafia) to 'Moe-bill' (as in one of the Three Stooges) to 'Mo-beel'.
Then again, I live on the east coast and those west coast weirdos sure do talk funny.
Edit: Clarified "pronunciation" of Mobile (with long 'o' and 'i' and silent 'e').
