Pronunciation

Kieran_Burns

Watching the Giro I've realised that I'm probably mispronouncing near every manufacturer's name; and am now wondering how the main manufacturers SHOULD actually be pronounced.

Okay Trek... we'll get that out the way :P

How about Shimano though? It is Shee-mA-no (as in ar... like the Southerners insert r randoml:y grarss, parss, larst etc)

Or is the 'i' short? Like in Shim or Shiv...

Is it a soft 'c' in Colnago? Or a hard one? Soft as in cede, or hard as in crisp?

Or Bianchi? Is it KEY at the end or CHI?

Kuota? Is it Coo-ota?

jonny_trousers

I give you... viewtopic.php?f=40012&t=12779230&hilit=pronunciation

We could do with someone very bored at work going through that thing and making a definitive list.

Kieran_Burns

Damn. :oops:


muttermutter....

jonny_trousers

PS. Sean Kelly has his own, very unique way of pronouncing certain names.

jonginge

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

PS. Sean Kelly has his own, very unique way of pronouncing certain names.

certaintly

redvee

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

PS. Sean Kelly has his own, very unique way of pronouncing certain names.

God forbid if a rider had a lead of 3:33 over the field

rick_chasey

JonGinge wrote:

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

PS. Sean Kelly has his own, very unique way of pronouncing certain names.

certaintly

majorly.

MonkeyMonster

redvee wrote:

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

PS. Sean Kelly has his own, very unique way of pronouncing certain names.

God forbid if a rider had a lead of 3:33 over the field

Wheelspinner

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

PS. Sean Kelly has his own, very unique way of pronouncing certain names.

Yes, he has a special (and general!) classement for a lot of words.

Kieran_Burns

Did anyone else keep hearing this low thudding noise through the mic the whole time he spoke? Once I noticed it, it drove me nuts.

jonginge

No. I don't think so.

mr_ribble

Took me a while before I realised what an eye-tallion was.

In Italian, 'ch' is pronouched hard like "key", so its bee-an-key and not bee-an-ch-ee
A single c is pronoued "ch", as in church. So its chip-o-leany for Cipollini.

Once I got my head round that, made a bit more sense

DrLex

Mr_Ribble wrote:

Took me a while before I realised what an eye-tallion was.

In Italian, 'ch' is pronouched hard like "key", so its bee-an-key and not bee-an-ch-ee
A single c is pronoued "ch", as in church. So its chip-o-leany for Cipollini.

Once I got my head round that, made a bit more sense

<Pedant mode>
actually, the "ch" sound is when* a 'c' is followed by an 'i' or 'e'.

*some exceptions exist
</Pedant mode>

aeon

hence Chinelli but not Cholnago.

veronese68

aeon wrote:

hence Chinelli but not Cholnago.

Exactly. But supposedly it's Servelo as they're not Italian but Canadanadian. However as it's a play on words with the Italian word for brain cervello. So, being Italian I choose to pronounce it Chervelo whatever other people may say.

mr_ribble

DrLex wrote:

Mr_Ribble wrote:

Took me a while before I realised what an eye-tallion was.

In Italian, 'ch' is pronouched hard like "key", so its bee-an-key and not bee-an-ch-ee
A single c is pronoued "ch", as in church. So its chip-o-leany for Cipollini.

Once I got my head round that, made a bit more sense

<Pedant mode>
actually, the "ch" sound is when* a 'c' is followed by an 'i' or 'e'.

*some exceptions exist
</Pedant mode>

Not pedantry at all. I'm a scientist by trade and was never any good an languages

aeon

Veronese68 wrote:

aeon wrote:

hence Chinelli but not Cholnago.

Exactly. But supposedly it's Servelo as they're not Italian but Canadanadian. However as it's a play on words with the Italian word for brain cervello. So, being Italian I choose to pronounce it Chervelo whatever other people may say.

so, i've always wanted to know - where does the acute accent in Cervélo fit in? i thought* in italian they only happened at the end of words. maybe it's because of french-canadia or something.



*ok, wikipedia told me.

veronese68

aeon wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

aeon wrote:

hence Chinelli but not Cholnago.

Exactly. But supposedly it's Servelo as they're not Italian but Canadanadian. However as it's a play on words with the Italian word for brain cervello. So, being Italian I choose to pronounce it Chervelo whatever other people may say.

so, i've always wanted to know - where does the acute accent in Cervélo fit in? i thought* in italian they only happened at the end of words. maybe it's because of french-canadia or something.



*ok, wikipedia told me.

I think that's a French thing. My written Italian is terrible as I didn't go to school there. We left when I was 2 years old, but had many holidays there. So I can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.