Correct pronunciation

[plastic penguin]

Teac
Focal
Nad
Bowers and Wilkins

A few to get the ball rolling.

 

[bigfish786]

I’m never going to call my speakers Tree-ongle! That is for sure.

 

[jetblack9090]

Are you asking whether or not how to pronounce them correctly? Or are you simply making a list describing your assumed pronunciation.

The following are pronounced phonetically as described:

Tea-Ack
Fo-cal
Nad, as in i hurt me nad's
And of course the last one should be pretty self-explanatory.

 

[plastic penguin]

Are you asking whether or not how to pronounce them correctly? Or are you simply making a list describing your assumed pronunciation.

The following are pronounced phonetically as described:

Tea-Ack
Fo-cal
Nad, as in i hurt me nad's
And of course the last one should be pretty self-explanatory.

Why the last one self-explanatory?

It could be:

En Ay Dee

 

[plastic penguin]

I’m never going to call my speakers Tree-ongle! That is for sure.

Like I will never call my speakers Daily.

 

[jetblack9090]

Why the last one self-explanatory?

It could be:

En Ay Dee

I was talking about Bowers and Wilkins being self-explanatory

 

[plastic penguin]

Why the last one self-explanatory?

It could be:

En Ay Dee

Bowers and Wilkins. Okay the 'Wilkins' is self-explanatory but Bowers is that Bow as in bow and arrow or as in Bowie?

 

[WayneKerr]

Bowers and Wilkins. Okay the 'Wilkins' is self-explanatory but Bowers is that Bow as in bow and arrow or as in Bowie?

More like bow as in bow of a boat/ship.

 

[jetblack9090]

Bowers and Wilkins. Okay the 'Wilkins' is self-explanatory but Bowers is that Bow as in bow and arrow or as in Bowie?

Considering we're both apparently native English speakers I was under the assumption that the latter of your options is the appropriate one

 

[WayneKerr]

Considering we're both apparently native English speakers I was under the assumption that the latter of your options is the appropriate one

Only problem with using David is that it can be pronounced two different ways and often is

 

[jetblack9090]

Only problem with using David is that it can be pronounced two different ways and often is

How do you mean David?, Where was that mentioned in the conversation?

As a name I've heard it pronounced Da-veed, however that seems to be rather the exception as opposed to the rule

 

[WayneKerr]

How do you mean David?, Where was that mentioned in the conversation?

As a name I've heard it pronounced Da-veed, however that seems to be rather the exception as opposed to the rule

Err, David Bowie...

 

[jetblack9090]

Bowers and Wilkins. Okay the 'Wilkins' is self-explanatory but Bowers is that Bow as in bow and arrow or as in Bowie?

You know the more I think about using the pronunciation Bow-ers it puts me in the mind of a great marketing campaign by the company, of a series of archers, vis-à-vis Bow-ers during the 100 years war. Their regiment proceeded in the battle by a squadron of men carrying large loudspeakers so as to announce the Bow-ers arrival on the battlefield.

 

[WayneKerr]

You know the more I think about using the pronunciation Bow-ers it puts me in the mind of a great marketing campaign by the company, of a series of archers, vis-à-vis Bow-ers during the 100 years war. Their regiment proceeded in the battle by a squadron of men carrying large loudspeakers so as to announce the Bow-ers arrival on the battlefield.

That's veryinteresting
Regional dialects can also cause havoc with pronunciation

 

[Friesiansam]

That's veryinteresting
Regional dialects can also cause havoc with pronunciation

Wot be 'ee zayin' 'bout dialects, loike mine from Zummerzet?

 

[plastic penguin]

More like bow as in bow of a boat/ship.

As in Bow ie?

 

[Horowitz]

Bowers and Wilkins. Okay the 'Wilkins' is self-explanatory but Bowers is that Bow as in bow and arrow or as in Bowie?

And loads of so-called broadcasters get David Bowie wrong anyway! That is surely Bowie as in bow & arrow! But Fo-cal? Do you mean 'Fo-carl' PP? That's how the manufacturers pronounce it, isn't it?

 

[WayneKerr]

As in Bow ie?

Depends on how you are saying bow.
Could've picked an easier topic to discuss PP, this one's a ruddy nightmare trying describe the spoken word without being able to actually hear it, it's almost impossible

 

[jetblack9090]

Depends on how you are saying bow.
Could've picked an easier topic to discuss PP, this one's a ruddy nightmare trying describe the spoken word without being able to actually hear it, it's almost impossible

 

[jetblack9090]

Depends on how you are saying bow.
Could've picked an easier topic to discuss PP, this one's a ruddy nightmare trying describe the spoken word without being able to actually hear it, it's almost impossible

Well as we all understand his real name of course was David William Allen Bartholomew Jernigan Esquire Jr MD

 

[WayneKerr]

Wot be 'ee zayin' 'bout dialects, loike mine from Zummerzet?

Definitely need a smiley button

 

[plastic penguin]

Depends on how you are saying bow.
Could've picked an easier topic to discuss PP, this one's a ruddy nightmare trying describe the spoken word without being able to actually hear it, it's almost impossible

I'll try harder next time 😋

 

[plastic penguin]

Wot be 'ee zayin' 'bout dialects, loike mine from Zummerzet?

 

[JDL]

Only problem with using David is that it can be pronounced two different ways and often is

David is English, Daffyd is Welsh.

 

[Al ears]

Like I will never call my speakers Daily.

That's 'cos it's Darli init?