How would you pronounce this? Am I going mental?

Chatting to a dude, he rides a Giant Defy, but he doesn’t tell me this as apparently it’s a Giant ‘Deffy’ like you might call your hearing impaired friend behind his back.

It’s not Deffy is it? It’s Defy like when you pick up from the free drop-off-only area at the airport.

Defynately not.

I’d call my hearing impaired friend that from the front too, but just not move my mouth properly.

I have always pronounced it as a deffy. I know its wrong, just sounds right to me.

Apparently many people think the Specialized Allez is pronounced ‘A Les’, as in a Les Battersby and not ‘A Lay’ as it should be called.

Defy, it’s an actual word.

I’ve got an Allez, I call it Alice. It doesn’t even rhyme.

Dee fi where “fi” rhymes with “pie”

Would you say “He’s going to deffy his boss”?

“like when you pick up from the free drop-off-only area at the airport. ” ??? What ???

“like when you pick up from the free drop-off-only area at the airport. ” ??? What ???

I know. That defies all logic 🙂

/Johan

Dee fi

wierdo.

Its: Duh Fi

It is ‘dee fi’ OP. You are right. The bloke is stooped.

like when you pick up from the free drop-off-only area at the airport.

I’m sorry, but I really need that explained.

like when you pick up from the free drop-off-only area at the airport.
I’m sorry, but I really need that explained.

And I thought I was the only one who didn’t get this

I had one and always pronounced it Defy, like what its spelt.

Following on from the Allez/A Les comment above, I had a mate once that always pronouced Gibson Les Paul as Gibson Lay Paul thinking it was French. And he also thought Billericay was Bill-air-ih-cay.

I say “deh-fi”

Dee-Fye…………as in disobey or not follow orders.

Allez. From the French term of encouragement, often used towards bike racers. Definitely ‘Al-lay’.

Here’s another………..Les Gets…..popular mountain bike and ski resort. Guess?

amirite?

like when you pick up from the free drop-off-only area at the airport.
I’m sorry, but I really need that explained.

And I thought I was the only one who didn’t get this

2 zones, one for dropping off passengers only and one for picking up passengers only. You are defying orders by picking someone up from the drop off zone. Simple.

Easy! – lay dzhay (dzh is like the ‘j’ in jour)

Ah, lol get it now – I think a clearer example could have been given though :p

Definitely as in defiant, deffy is just silly.

unless they’re from Glasgow / WofS and then defaynately becomes accepted form..

Here’s another that folk get wrong: “clique”. it’s “cleek” not “click”

I agree with wrecker. I deh-fi you to disagree with me. I don’t dee-fi you or even deffy you. Fools.

Les Gets

Luh zhay (as above, like ‘jour’)

Defy

What you do to orders. Anyone who says anything else (including a chap I work with) is a muppet.

lay dzhay

If someone actually pronounced it like this to me, I wouldn’t know what the **** they were talking about, which defeats the point of language as a form of communication. I have only ever heard it pronounced “le jay” (or even as njee puts it above) or perhaps “Les Gets” from those not wanting to wrestle with frenchish.

Apparently many people think the Specialized Allez is pronounced ‘A Les’, as in a Les Battersby and not ‘A Lay’ as it should be called.

Riiiiiiiiiiight

I used to sell these and it made all the shop staff want to murder people when they said Deffy. Giant call it the defy.

Etape bothers me, ehtap not eeetap.

Not very interesting I do actually have a hearing impaired friend. I don’t call him Deffy but Deafo due to there being an otherwise confusing number of Seans in our group. He wasn’t too taken with That so it evolved into Daniel, named after the handsome young actor in Harry Potter.

Les Gets……………what you’ve said.

Would it surprise you if yesterday I heard it pronounced ‘Lezgitts’?

I eventually figured out where they were talking about.

wierdo.
Its: Duh Fi

Yeh, see, they even named an enduro race after it

Lots of French words here and they should be pronounced using French pronunciation.

Did you know the French don’t even have a word for Entrepreneur??!!

I suspect that Giant called it the defy, not because they thought of dropping off people at airports in defiance of orders, but as a typical piece of oriental language mangling from the French word “defi”*, meaning challenge.

* pron. deff ee.

dyfi innit (dove-eee)

d?-f? apparently.

The girlfriend refers to my Defy as ‘too many,’ whatever that means.

The girlfriend refers to my Defy as ‘too many,’ whatever that means.

Must be some weird foreign phrase 😛