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Is it pronounced Sram or S-ram?

23 posts & 18 voices | Started 1 year ago by namastebuzz | Latest reply from Alejandro

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namastebuzz - Member

Not that important I know (though that's never stopped anyone on here) but how do you pronounce SRAM?

Some people say it in one syllable and some say "ess-ram".

Does anyone know which it is?

Does anyone care?

Posted 1 year ago #
wwaswas - Member

'Shram' I thouht - they were Polish?

Posted 1 year ago #
nobtwidler - Member

shram - AFAIK

Posted 1 year ago #
namastebuzz - Member

From Wiki

SRAM Corporation is a privately held bicycle component manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1987.[1] SRAM is an acronym comprising the names of its founders, Scott, Ray, and Sam,

Disproves the Polish angle.

Posted 1 year ago #
Jim bob - Member

ScRAm it is then

Posted 1 year ago #
leggyblonde - Member

gripshift

Posted 1 year ago #
cookeaa - Member

Pretty sure this one was posted up a month or so ago...

Posted 1 year ago #
soma_rich - Member

She marn owe

Posted 1 year ago #
Junkyard - Member

and the answer was...

I go for S-RAM surely give the IT bods here the only way?

Posted 1 year ago #
mcmoonter - Member

Sh*tshift accordinding to Andy Schleck

Posted 1 year ago #
cookeaa - Member

The answer was....

Posted 1 year ago #
kimbers - Member

its sram according to a video i saw of the guys at the factory

ill try and find it

Posted 1 year ago #
kimbers - Member

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5XhKsif52w

and from the sram website

Q: What does SRAM mean?

R: SRAM is the conglomeration of our founder's [sic] names, Scott, Ray and sAM. The initials provided a simple way to come up with a corporate name that could be trademarked and directly translated into languages other than English. It is not pronounced S-RAM, SchRAM, or SkRAM. Just SRAM.

http://www.sram.com/en/service/sram/faq.php?faqID=d3d9446802a44259755d38e6d163e820

Posted 1 year ago #
namastebuzz - Member

Found the video it's sram, not shram or essram.

VIDEO

You have to sit through a trailer for the A-Team first.

(is it aye-team?)

Posted 1 year ago #
namastebuzz - Member

Cheers Kimbers - beat me to it.

Posted 1 year ago #
molgrips - Member

No, it's attEEm.

Posted 1 year ago #
peath - Member

SRAM definitely isn't Polish... I believe the Polish translation is:

'To do a number two...' or similar

So I wonder if they sell much in Poland?!

Posted 1 year ago #
Trimix - Member

Its MARS backwards.

Posted 1 year ago #
lazlo53 - Member

Everybody needs to get a life.

Posted 1 year ago #
tony_m - Member

lazlo53 - Member
Everybody needs to get a life.

And just to prove that I definitely need to...

Have a listen to yer man on this here SRAM Tech video.

Posted 1 year ago #
sillyoldman - Member

All wrong.

It's pronounced S-H-I-T-E.

Posted 1 year ago #
oliverd1981 - Member

Schram

Posted 1 year ago #
Alejandro - Member

SRAM definitely isn't Polish... I believe the Polish translation is:

'To do a number two...' or similar

So I wonder if they sell much in Poland?!

Yeah it means 'I sh*t'. Always has been a source of amusement to me.

Posted 1 year ago #