According to an ancient thread from 2003 , on a forum I've already forgotten , Wilier is supposed to sound like this : Wilier = VILify +YAY (accent the YAY - family name from the part of Italy near Slovenia - also a non-Italian regional dialect).
Although I still wonder . There are only twenty one letters in the Italian alphabet and 'W' isn't one of them . The 'I' vowels I would have thought would have been pronounced 'ee' , regardless , and , er ,...what's left ? Vee - Lee - Yay ?
Yes , I was guessing .
Yes , I'd be interested to know too .
"I'll have one of them, oh and stick those wheels on it".
And this same problem is, of course, why Lagavulin outsells its local rivals Bunnahabhain and Caol Ila. Most malt whisky drinkers are not Gaelic speakers, Islay-dwellers nor even Scots and they have far too much self-respect to try and order a Bunnahabhain, even when sober!
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i ride with an italian who says well-yer ? but then again he's lived in good old lancashire for't last 15 year so who knows? i've just bought a cervelo which he informs me is italian for brains ????
And this same problem is, of course, why Lagavulin outsells its local rivals Bunnahabhain and Caol Ila. Most malt whisky drinkers are not Gaelic speakers, Islay-dwellers nor even Scots and they have far too much self-respect to try and order a Bunnahabhain, even when sober!
Sainsburys sells Caol Ila, tells you how to pronounce it on the box, thankfully :oops:
I was just speaking to an italian friend of mine, and asked her how to pronounce it, and she said it wasn't an italian word as they don't have w in their language. I was suprised she hadn't heard of Wilier either.
According to an ancient thread from 2003 , on a forum I've already forgotten , Wilier is supposed to sound like this : Wilier = VILify +YAY (accent the YAY - family name from the part of Italy near Slovenia - also a non-Italian regional dialect).
To quote the Life of Brian "He making it up as he goes along"
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I was also corrected when I pronounced Bianchi for the first time as Bee-an-chee :oops: :oops:
It is Bee-an-kee apparently.
Gary.
Unfortunately it doesn't have Wilier (unless it's very wierd!). Sorry.
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The factory is not far from Sud Tyrol in Dolomites which I have visited and hardly anyone speaks Itallian there even though it's in Italy.
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100m Yeah right.
In the big latin unis in the uk (Oxbridge), they pronounce the W.
In other latin unis, it is a V.
this is true for Veni, Vidi, Vici (Weni, Widi, Wici) and most other V and W.
italians would probably eat the letter :shock: (much like spanish) and it would sound somewhere in between a V, a W and a B
H.G. Wells.
Aye-zord?
Iz-ord?
Iz-ward?
Maybe the owners manual comes with a guide. I can't keep calling it the mountainy one that isn't the Mortirolo.
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pronounced 'Escape' I presume
Big fan even if it is their lowliest model.
The lampre coloured Escape looks class.
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PB's
10m 20:21 2014
25m 53:18 20:13
50m 1:57:12 2013
100m Yeah right.
"I'll have one of them, oh and stick those wheels on it".
Maybe I should just buy a Tarmac Pro instead.
2008 Wilier Izoard
Although I still wonder . There are only twenty one letters in the Italian alphabet and 'W' isn't one of them . The 'I' vowels I would have thought would have been pronounced 'ee' , regardless , and , er ,...what's left ? Vee - Lee - Yay ?
Yes , I was guessing .
Yes , I'd be interested to know too .
And this same problem is, of course, why Lagavulin outsells its local rivals Bunnahabhain and Caol Ila. Most malt whisky drinkers are not Gaelic speakers, Islay-dwellers nor even Scots and they have far too much self-respect to try and order a Bunnahabhain, even when sober!
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Eddingtons: 80 (Metric); 60 (Imperial)
Haven't had the latter but Bunnahabhain is a lovely drink.
2008 Wilier Izoard
Sainsburys sells Caol Ila, tells you how to pronounce it on the box, thankfully :oops:
I think you might be right
I was just speaking to an italian friend of mine, and asked her how to pronounce it, and she said it wasn't an italian word as they don't have w in their language. I was suprised she hadn't heard of Wilier either.
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V-e-l-e-E-r
with E as in "egg".
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To quote the Life of Brian "He making it up as he goes along"