How do you pronounce Commençal ??

skinnycat
skinnycat Posts: 6
edited September 2009 in MTB general
This may be a stupid question to some, but how do you pronounce Commençal ??

I've only ever seen the brand name in print and have never heard anyone actually say it :D
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  • bomberesque
    bomberesque Posts: 1,701
    I live in a french speaking neighbourhood and pronounce it

    com-on-saal

    and the locals don't laugh at me (any more than they normally do anyway.... :roll: )
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  • Andy B
    Andy B Posts: 8,115
    It's pronounced Commencal :wink:



    or maybe Com-en-saal....
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  • skinnycat
    skinnycat Posts: 6
    So it's com-on-saal or com-en-saal :D thanks !!
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  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    It's Cum-en-charl if you live in the Midlands.
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Commie.
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  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    I think its pronounced common fail

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  • Joe_Pineapples
    Joe_Pineapples Posts: 1,718
    My mate's father in law was looking at his Meta 6 and stated that he'd never heard of 'Eecommenkat'.
    It still cracks me up.
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  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    My mate rented one years back in the alps before he had his own DH bike. He's a big fan, but to this day still calls 'em Commercials.
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  • KonaKurt
    KonaKurt Posts: 720
    I guess it depends on your regional accent.
    Here in Oxfordshire, "Common-saal"
    Down in Cornwall, "Commnn-sAAAAl"
    Up in Scotland, "Cummun-kaal"

    More to the point, what exactly does "Commencal" mean? Is there any meaning, or is it just a random name?
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  • Joe_Pineapples
    Joe_Pineapples Posts: 1,718
    Max Commencal started the company.
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  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    I pronounce it 'Commencal'
  • KonaKurt
    KonaKurt Posts: 720
    OK max.

    You know, it never occured to me that it may be someone's surname!

    (Thank god Dick Van Dyke never manufactured them..!)

    KK.
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    KonaKurt wrote:
    OK max.

    You know, it never occured to me that it may be someone's surname!

    (Thank god Dick Van Dyke never manufactured them..!)

    KK.

    You may well laugh.

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  • KonaKurt
    KonaKurt Posts: 720
    My lips are sealed :o)

    Biting my lip though...

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  • Fridge-Seal
    Fridge-Seal Posts: 105
    DesWeller wrote:
    I have a road frame in my shed made by this guy.

    Trying so desperately hard not to laugh as well. :)
    I always thoght thatit was some variation of

    Com-en-sal :?

    BUt maybe that's 'cso I'm from Australia :)
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  • Dancake
    Dancake Posts: 47
    Doheth...I bought mine recently and was told it was Comm-en-kall

    So thats what I have been telling everyone
  • Fridge-Seal
    Fridge-Seal Posts: 105
    I have some friends who study French at my school-also at the moment we have a French exchange student- so I'll ask them how you would say it tomorrow :)
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  • Ocrider
    Ocrider Posts: 19
    Answer is in the thread title.
    how do you pronounce Commençal

    The ç is an 's' sound, nuff said.
  • bregante
    bregante Posts: 271
    walk into the bike shop and pronouce as follows...............


    SPESH - UL - EYES - D


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  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    That made me :lol:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    How about GT?

    I keep spelling it wrong.
  • Shaggy_Dog
    Shaggy_Dog Posts: 688
    someone came in to my bike shop the other day and noted how lovely the komenkle supreme was. I thought he was taking the piss, isn't French mandatory at schools?
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  • Fridge-Seal
    Fridge-Seal Posts: 105
    I talked to my friends who do French, as well as the French exchange student- and they all said that it was

    com-en-saal

    because the little symbol under the C (Ç) turns it into an 's' sound. :)

    hope that helps.
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  • alomac
    alomac Posts: 189
    What about Deore? I always think of it as "Dee-or", like the perfume guy, but would probably look like a right t!t if I ever actually said that.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I'm surprised this wasn't obvious to a few people.
    I mean, do people say juiky, instead of juicy?
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    I mean, do people say juiky, instead of juicy?

    Do you say "saliper" or "caliper"? :wink: It's french, it's not supposed to be obvious, if it was they'd change it.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    no, I don't say salliper, but I do pronounce cesspit, "sess-pit"

    Have people's language skills really sunk that low?
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    (before I say another word, I am aware that this is a really pointless argument. I'm bored. Forgive me!)

    It's a foreign language that many people don't speak, why are you surprised the pronounciation isn't perfect? In english, "ca" is usually a hard ka sound not sa, whereas ce is usually se not ke. What's the first french word with ca that comes to mind? cafe probably, not probounced sa-fey.

    So it's not surprising that non-french-speaking english-speakers wouldn't known how it's pronounced, and instead apply the english language forms to it.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    bullcrap. There's plenty of English words where the C is a hard "k" sound, and plenty where it's a soft "s" sound - same as there is in French. Neither language is spelt phonetically.
    Did it not occur that the word "commence" is very similar?
  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    I think you will both find its pronounced bike
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