Pronunciation in cycling

CiB

I asked for an Ultegra chain recently, as 'uhltigg-rah', only to be quietly corrected the sales chap who pointed out to his oppo where they are saying ' there look - the Ull-tEg-ruh hanging there.'

I'm not convinced - middle syllable stress is ok but is it uhltigg-rah or uhl-tegg-ruh? I'll stick with 'uhltigg-rah' thanks.

veronese68

CiB wrote:

I asked for an Ultegra chain recently, as 'uhltigg-rah', only to be quietly corrected the sales chap who pointed out to his oppo where they are saying ' there look - the Ull-tEg-ruh hanging there.'

I'm not convinced - middle syllable stress is ok but is it uhltigg-rah or uhl-tegg-ruh? I'll stick with 'uhltigg-rah' thanks.

Buy KMC

Gizmo_

You know, I have no problem whatsoever with any of the French, Spanish, or Italian pronunciation.

But is it "TEE-agra" or "TY-agra"?

veronese68

Gizmo_ wrote:

You know, I have no problem whatsoever with any of the French, Spanish, or Italian pronunciation.

But is it "TEE-agra" or "TY-agra"?

Upgrade to 105. Problem solved.

Gizmo_

Veronese68 wrote:

Gizmo_ wrote:

You know, I have no problem whatsoever with any of the French, Spanish, or Italian pronunciation.

But is it "TEE-agra" or "TY-agra"?

Upgrade to 105. Problem solved.

One-oh-five? Ten-five? Hundred-five?

May have to go SRAM Red.

BelgianBeerGeek

There is another one creeping in on the ITV4 TdF coverage. Is it:

Ass-ta-nar or As-tah-na?

Seems to me they've only recently started doing this. Not all of them are changing the way it was, but for some reason I do find it really annoying. Which is correct?

stuaff

SecretSam wrote:

PS LIT: Is it Vine-Err or Veen-err (as in Veen-oh, the Italian for wine)? And Wilier, still not clear on that one.

Come on, chop chop

As I posted above, Viner is pronounced Veen-err.

jonny_trousers

One thing I've learnt since starting this thread is that you can pronounce any word or name relating to cycling any way you want, as not only do those who work within the industry clearly have no idea about correct pronunciation themselves, but you can research it as much as you like, study exact inflection, say the name clearly and confidently within the bike shop, and you will still be shot a withering look of pity before having it repeated to you entirely differently.

SimonAH

Although my sig is spelled as SimonAH it is pronounced "Fat Freddy's Cat" following the great dope famine of '73.

rjsterry

SimonAH wrote:

Although my sig is spelled as SimonAH it is pronounced "Fat Freddy's Cat" following the great dope famine of '73.

Is this the time to mention Raymond Luxury-Yacht, pronounced Throatwobbler-Mangrove

Greg T

London_Falcon wrote:

And talking of wine reminded me of this little nugget. Officially you do pronounce the "t" in Moet champagne - rhymes with poet apparently. Something to do with it being a Dutch name....

German...

There's an umlaut on the o.

Makes the o a slight ow noise - mow-et.

roger_merriman

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

One thing I've learnt since starting this thread is that you can pronounce any word or name relating to cycling any way you want, as not only do those who work within the industry clearly have no idea about correct pronunciation themselves, but you can research it as much as you like, study exact inflection, say the name clearly and confidently within the bike shop, and you will still be shot a withering look of pity before having it repeated to you entirely differently.

sure, what with the dragon ride and other sportives, i've heard some serious butchering of hill/town names.

though to be fair most have variation locally as well, always amusing when tourists ask for directions as often you first have to play charades, working out which/town-village they are looking for.

London_Falcon

Greg T wrote:

London_Falcon wrote:

And talking of wine reminded me of this little nugget. Officially you do pronounce the "t" in Moet champagne - rhymes with poet apparently. Something to do with it being a Dutch name....

German...

There's an umlaut on the o.

Makes the o a slight ow noise - mow-et.

Umlauts on the E not the O

Still think it's a Dutch name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mo%C3%ABt

SimonAH

roger merriman said "sure, what with the dragon ride and other sportives, i've heard some serious butchering of hill/town names"

I think I've mentioned this before, but I used to live just off the Rhigos mountain (which is on the Dragon I think?) which is pronounced Rickoss, and the town at the foot of it on the other side (Hirwaun) should be pronounced something like Hearrr-wine but is pronounced 'Er-win by the residents (or inmates).