How do you pronounce teac?

[Joe Cox]

No mention of Loewe yet...? Or should I say, Mr. Loewe Loewe?

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="JohnDuncan"]Oh, there's definitely a 't' in Impreza (in the UK, if not Australia).

http://www.iwoc.co.uk/impfaq.html[/quote]

ah, you see, now there's my problem - i was raised in australia. no wonder my pronunciation is upside-down :-/

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="Joe Cox"]No mention of Loewe yet...? Or should I say, Mr. Loewe Loewe?[/quote]

yeah now that you mention it i am surprised no-one has mentioned Loewe... so should i be the first to embarrass myself with an attempt? what they hey: is it a)low-ee?, b) loa-ee? or c) none of the above?

 

[Andrew Everard]

'Impreza' upside down would make it an iwdlezg which is a bad hand even in the Polish version of Scrabble

 

[Andrew Everard]

[quote user="ifitsoundsgoodlistentoit"]is it a)low-ee?, b) loa-ee? or c) none of the above?[/quote]

c).

It's 'lerva'

 

[Clare Newsome]

Indeed - hence Mr Cox's witty song reference above.

 

[Andrew Everard]

[quote user="Clare Newsome"]Indeed - hence Mr Cox's witty song reference above
[/quote]

Oh these young people - I struggle to keep up with them sometimes...

 

[Alec]

[quote user="ifitsoundsgoodlistentoit"][quote user="Joe Cox"]No mention of Loewe yet...? Or should I say, Mr. Loewe Loewe?[/quote]

yeah now that you mention it i am surprised no-one has mentioned Loewe... so should i be the first to embarrass myself with an attempt? what they hey: is it a)low-ee?, b) loa-ee? or c) none of the above?[/quote]

ive wondered that ever since i bought some Eau de toilet from them. it was horrible. so its lucky ill never need to pronounce it again.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Huh? Probably eau de toilette, anyway...

 

[iRog]

[quote user="Andrew Everard"]
Now, Yarmo, Yaymo, Jarmo or Jaymo - class discuss...
[/quote]

Jamo is named after two Danes Jacobsen and Mortensen, so I figure it's yarmo...

But what about Toshiba? Does Mrs E insist on 'Tosh-ba'?

 

[Alec]

Thats debatable, but a take your point, Mr E.

 

[Andrew Everard]

[quote user="iRog"]amo is named after two Danes Jacobsen and Mortensen, so I figure it's yarmo...[/quote]

Would Jacobsen be pronounced Yarcobsen? More likely Yakobsen or Yaycobsen, so surely Yaymo or Yammo

[quote user="iRog"]But what about Toshiba? Does Mrs E insist on 'Tosh-ba'?[/quote]

Toh-shibba, apparently, with a slight stress on the first syllable

 

[Simon Lucas]

I used to get asked for Maxwell tapes and MiniDiscs all the time when I worked in the hi-fi shop. They were free to anyone who could find the 'w' in the name.

'Acram' was pretty common too. We stocked Paradigm speakers for a while but most people were too confused by the name to bother with them.

 

[Anonymous]

How do you pronounce Sade?

How about Slade?

 

[Andrew Everard]

Oh I was a great fan of Schlarday - Mama Weer All Crazee Now was a particular favourite

 

[Simon Lucas]

Slade had the right idea - no danger of mispronouncing Skweeze Me Pleeze Me.

 

[Andrew Everard]

...And I always thought it was pronounced Thighman until Simon put me right

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="Andrew Everard"]
[quote user="ifitsoundsgoodlistentoit"]is it a)low-ee?, b) loa-ee? or c) none of the above?[/quote]

c).

It's 'lerva'
[/quote]Loe-ve

 

[Tesler]

Here's another one for the pot, years ago I used to work for a company that sold PAL/SECAM TVs by "Nordmende" try that one after a few beers! I don't think even the sales reps knew how to pronounce it properly, none of us could.

 

[John Duncan]

[quote user="Andrew Everard"]
...And I always thought it was pronounced Thighman until Simon put me right
[/quote]

http://whathifi.com/forums/p/9916/61381.aspx#61381

 

[Andrew Everard]

Yes, keep that one at arm's length - which in your case at the moment is quite a distance I should imagine

 

[John Duncan]

 

[Jonathan Evans]

It's all right for you lot. I've always wondered about 'the'.

Is it 'thuh' or 'thee'? It seems to vary for me:

'Thuh Sky at Night', but 'Thee Eagle has Landed'.

And, of course, 'I Vow To Thuh My Country' ;o)

 

[fatboyslimfast]

erm... isn't it thuh when followed by a consonant, and thee when followed by a vowel?

 

[John Duncan]

It's thuh, unless you are emphasising that the thing you are talking about is the only or preeminent of its kind.

Unless you're from where I'm from, where it is 'ee', as in:

"ee fills ee shotgun cartridges wi' ee carraway seed, puts ee cheese on ee back step and gie's it baith barrels o' ee twel' bore. Not only does 'is gie us ee even distribution o' ee carraway seed through ee cheese, it also has ee advantage o gettin rid o' all ee magguts"