How do you pronounce teac?

[Anonymous]

[quote user="Clare Newsome"]
[quote user="Andrew Everard"]

Carmina, Burana, Burana, Carmina, Let's call the whole thing Orff

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No one's mentioned the wonderfully named T+A yet.

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funny you should mention them clare... i am actually lucky enough to own a pair of T+A speakers but when it comes to pronouncing their name i always say 'T and A' for some reason. maybe that would explain all the blank looks i get when i mention their name (incorrectly?). i think if i said 'well my speakers are made by a german company called Theory and Application in Electroacustics.... nope that doesnt help either does it :-/

 

[Andrew Everard]

Oh, and NyeAm, that's another one we hear a lot. Must cause shudders in Salisbury...

Then there's 'Cirrus', 'Bosey' and the wonderful example of the man who came up to me at a Bristol show and asked my opinion of the Marantz KI Signature products, "because I was just talking to Mr Irishwater, but I wanted to know what you thought of them"

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="Andrew Everard"]amazed how many people we speak to at shows who tell us they have an 'Acram' system [/quote]

......Wasim Arcam?

also.........is it Dally or Dar-ley (Dali).........

 

[John Duncan]

[quote user="Andrew Everard"]'Cirrus'[/quote]

Yes, and?

 

[gpi]

[quote user="Andrew Everard"]
Is that promounced GeePeeAye, or Guppy?

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To you it's pronounced Sir! ;o)

You've just given me an idea for an avatar.

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="JohnDuncan"][quote user="Andrew Everard"]'Cirrus'[/quote]

Yes, and?[/quote]

oh dear john. it seems you and i might both be guilty of this one. im going to guess that andrew will now inform us its pronounced sigh-russ

 

[Andrew Everard]

[quote user="ifitsoundsgoodlistentoit"]im going to guess that andrew will now inform us its pronounced sigh-russ[/quote]

Yes, after an ancient king of Persia.

And yes Dah-li, as in 'Hello...'

Now, Yarmo, Yaymo, Jarmo or Jaymo - class discuss...

 

[John Duncan]

Well I'm taking Geddy Lee's lead on this one............or is that 'Cygnus'?

 

[John Duncan]

OK, having investigated, I am now prepared to accept that Cyrus is pronounced "Sigh, Russ" (topical). But being as this now suggests an association with Billy Ray and his demon offspring Hannah Montana, this is perhaps not such a good thing.

And it's definitely Jay-Mo. Now what about Primare?

 

[Andrew Everard]

"Pri" as in "-vate eye", "mare" as in "covered"

 

[Andrew Everard]

More mispronunciations and misunderstandings while we're on the topic:

The bloke who was asking where the B&W room was at a show some years back, then returned 10 mins later complaining there weren't any cars in there

The man who asked where the REM room was

And the one who said "I really wanted to speak to Andy Clugg"

 

[John Duncan]

[quote user="Andrew Everard"]
"Pri" as in "-vate eye", "mare" as in "covered"

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"mare" as in "covered"?! Non sequitur! Non sequitur!

Anyway, it's Pr'm-ahhhhhh-ray.

 

[John Duncan]

[quote user="JohnDuncan"]"mare" as in "covered"?! Non sequitur! Non sequitur![/quote]

Ah, I looked it up and it's not a non sequitur. Though I wish it was.

 

[Andrew Everard]

What, as in "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's Primare"?

Never could get the hang of the Swedish accent...

 

[Andrew Everard]

[quote user="JohnDuncan"]it's not a non sequitur[/quote]

So it's just a sequitur, then?

 

[John Duncan]

[quote user="Andrew Everard"]
What, as in "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's Primare"?[/quote]

Exactly like that. I was trying to think of a word to rhyme, but couldn't. Maybe I'm deliberately superimposing a continental etymology on it so that it doesn't sound like I have a Primark Stereo.

Although of course my Scottish sister calls it Preeeemark.

 

[Andrew Everard]

And no doubt your Irish cousin calls it Penneys.

 

[John Duncan]

Not the Belfast cousins, no. And don't get me started on Lidl.

 

[John Duncan]

Note to Electrocompaniet owners - you're on your own with this one.

 

[John Duncan]

[quote user="Andrew Everard"]
[quote user="JohnDuncan"]it's not a non sequitur[/quote]

So it's just a sequitur, then?
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[Anonymous]

'Nike' as in bike, or Nik-ee?

 

[John Duncan]

[quote user="Hughes123"]'Nike' as in bike, or Nik-ee?[/quote]

Nike-ay

 

[Anonymous]

great so that means its Porsch-ah? while we are off the topic, i must insist that Impreza is pronounced without jamming a 't' into it - ie. it is not pronounced Impretza (im not sure if this fad is restricted to my part of this country or the country as a whole)

 

[John Duncan]

Oh, there's definitely a 't' in Impreza (in the UK, if not Australia).

http://www.iwoc.co.uk/impfaq.html

 

[Clare Newsome]

Maybe we should ask the BBC - as you'll see here, they have a dedicated Pronunciation Research Department.