How do you pronounce 'Marin'?!

reptile smile

Mair-in? Ma-rin? Mahr-rin?

Just wondering...

supersonic

Ma - rin!

Steve88

what supersonic said :P

supersonic

It is only 'mahr - in' if you have a posh and distinctive Bostonian accent. Think Lloyd Grosssssssssssman.

'I was orn my mahhhhhhhhhhhrin todoy'.

reptile smile

Kinda like 'Darren' but with an M, huh? Thanks chaps

Lenny Griffin

If you go to www.marinbikes.com (US site) and watch the video about the company (which is pretty entertaining also) you can hear it straight from the horse's mouth, as it were...

dirtbiker100

ma-rin

.blitz

reptile smile wrote:

Mair-in? Ma-rin? Mahr-rin?

Mahr-rin ? Are these the same people that say 'Sonn-ee' and 'Di-an-easy'

supersonic

How do you pronounce Deore??!

grumsta

ma-rin

dee-or

synchronicity

I prounced it "Dee-awe". It's not spelled deoré.

supersonic

Dee or for me too.

I hear some people say day-or-i

TheRevOlutionary

You say Potaato, I say Potayto...

Ma-rin
Dee-ore

passout

Mar-Rin as in Bar-Kin

gthang

Deore as in Eeyore

David Lund

Heres a daft one or is it just me......Bicycling
Everyone says it differently is it?
Bi - cycling
bicycle - ing
Who knows :?

nicklouse

supersonic wrote:

How do you pronounce Deore??!

Sram.

BlackSpur

One guy came into the shop the other week to look at "Ma-vich" wheels.

sparrowlegs78

M'rin
Dee-or

synchronicity

David Lund wrote:

Heres a daft one or is it just me......Bicycling
Everyone says it differently is it?
Bi - cycling
bicycle - ing
Who knows :?

Well I think this sort of crowd would use the term bi-cycling. :P

reptile smile

BlackSpur wrote:

One guy came into the shop the other week to look at "Ma-vich" wheels.

Well, it's definately an Eastern European spelling, so that's how I'd have assumed it was pronounced.

I've always said De-orr, but having said that, it looks unmistakeably Italian, so should be De-ORR-ay.

NICKLOUSE wrote:

Sram

LOL!

stubs

I was in San Francisco about 10 years ago and the pronunciation I heard was like saying Marine but with a U instead of the A as in murine

Just wish I had been into MTBs then we had a weeks shore leave while the boat was in dry dock and all I did was drink shag and sleep what a waste

The original deore had a stags head as a logo so I always assumed it was a japanese attempt to spell Deer so thats how I say it and no ones ever pulled me up about it

Just like the old Colt Starion sports car was an attempt to spell stallion

passout

An American once asked me directions to Mori-Cam-Bee (Morecambe) when I was on my bike in Lancaster! Does that count?

BlackSpur

reptile smile wrote:

BlackSpur wrote:

One guy came into the shop the other week to look at "Ma-vich" wheels.

Well, it's definately an Eastern European spelling, so that's how I'd have assumed it was pronounced.

I've always said De-orr, but having said that, it looks unmistakeably Italian, so should be De-ORR-ay.

NICKLOUSE wrote:

Sram

LOL!

Should have made it clearer - he was looking for Mavic wheels! Took me a few moments to work out what he wanted.

Father Faff

And then there was some French guys we was talking too in a parking lot (while coincidentally listening to a French band called "Parking") who said they liked the british band Damn Ned.....

singlespeedexplosif

'May-rhine' ;-)

I've always said De-orr, but having said that, it looks unmistakeably Italian, so should be De-ORR-ay.

well, it's Japanese (for 'deer') rather than Italian, but I'm not 100% sure about the correct pronounciation.

supersonic

Probably 'dinner' then.

nicklouse

supersonic wrote:

Probably 'dinner' then.

So you mean
"wit chips"

reptile smile

BlackSpur wrote:

Should have made it clearer - he was looking for Mavic wheels! Took me a few moments to work out what he wanted.

No - that's what I mean. Mavic is clearly Eastern European and should therefore be pronounced "Ma-vich"...