wilier or vilier how should it be said?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Scrumple wrote:
    People with genuinely low standards don't have paid foods advisers.

    Keep up!

    Aaaah. Right. Lost on me. I paid (not a lot) for a one off consultation...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    NapoleonD wrote:
    I pronounce it willy-air. I don't give two hoots how it's supposed to be pronounced.
    .

    Good work.

    In Pro riding I wilfully (or is that Vilfully) mispronounce Cunego, Nibali and Hushovd, and maybe more.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Oh FFS

    Here's their number +39 0424 540442

    Ring them up, listen to what they say when they answer the phone, hang up

    Simples - (Until someone tries this and tells us its pronounced "buon giorno")
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Weejie54
    Weejie54 Posts: 750
    Ring them up, listen to what they say when they answer the phone, hang up

    Simples - (Until someone tries this and tells us its pronounced "buon giorno")

    It seems to be "vaffanculo"
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Weejie54 wrote:
    Ring them up, listen to what they say when they answer the phone, hang up

    Simples - (Until someone tries this and tells us its pronounced "buon giorno")

    It seems to be "vaffanculo"

    Oi! - wash your keyboard out with soap.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • alex16zx
    alex16zx Posts: 153
    I pronounce it Why-lee-er and I don't care 8)
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I'll ask my friend

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    Viley Coyote
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    I seem to recall reading somewhere a while back it's pronounced Vee Lee Air.

    EDIT: found it.
    From Roadbike Review:
    So, how is Wilier Triestina pronounced, and what do the words mean? Both names were born out of Italian patriotism following the World Wars. Wilier is an acronym pronounced Vee’-lee-air. Italians use ‘W’ as an abbreviation for the word “Viva”, which means “Long live”. For example, Italian cycling fans will often hold up signs at the Giro that read “W l’Italia”, “W il Giro” or show their support of a specific rider with signs like “W Ballan” or “W Cunego”. The patriotic phrase, “W l’Italia liberata e redenta” (Long live Italy, liberated and redeemed) gave birth to Wilier.Triestina is pronounced Tree-es-tee’-na, and is the Italian equivalent of our English word triestine, which implies anything having to do with the Italian city of Trieste on the Adriatic Sea, including a resident. Following World War II, Trieste and its surrounding coastal area remained part of an occupied free territory. Meanwhile, triestine cycling great and three-time winner of the Giro, Giordano Cottur, was holding his own against contemporaries Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali. Inspired by Cottur and Trieste’s plight, Dal Molin put together a team with Cottur as leader, calling it Wilier Triestina.

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