But there isn’t an English translation for Lyon. So using the proper pronunciation would be the right thing to do.

Cinelli, chin or sin?
Cioc, church?
Thomson not ThomPson.

And just coz it tickles me Hope, I like to say Hope-ay as in Hope-ay ***** ***** shamone.

Not cycling but a friends mother asked for a box of “Titless” golf balls in a sports shop 😆

(She was looking for Titleist for the non-golfers)

Well Lyon and grenoble are up to local dialecte (like jumps when rudboy peter or WCA pronounce it…)
If you want a neutral French you should not pronouce the X in chamonix.

As for deus it’s from the latin so Déous like in Wolfgang Amdeus Mozart.
Marzocchi is a tricky one. CCHI is pronounced chi like the greek letter chi. The Z is more like tss. So you should say Martssocchi, with a very faint spit on the ts.

In chinelli the ch is like in sh but a bit more like the CH in chamonix.

Hope it helps

hanglebars
saggle
pegal

So pronouncing the X would be regional? To that region (Savoie) or another region? Is it the same for the X in Aix Les Bains?

So many questions!

CCHI is pronounced chi like the greek letter chi

Oh well that helps a lot. Cos we’re all fluent in Greek 🙄

😉

yikes, bored light hearted adfternoon humour thread turns all wierd. I’m sorry if i offended you Gary-M.

I probably should have started with my own, errr, variations:
Bontrager as ‘bontrajjay’
madone as ‘Ma-doe-nay’

and i perfer to say sram without the ‘sch’ or else it sounds like the eastern european slang for ‘todger’.

I’m not offended, I was just pointing out that you appear to be a pompous smart arse.

So how would you pronounce Moet? Not mow-ay I hope.

Marin, pronounce merr-rinn is correct, not marin as in maa-rinn

Don’t be silly

It’s

Moe-ett
Mar-in
Tule-eh
ess-ram
ass-hat
no-life

So how would you pronounce Moet? Not mow-ay I hope

Gosh that would be soooooooooooooo gauche.

marin should be muh-rin rather than mah-rin.

but i like the second one; up yours yankee!

So how would you pronounce Moet? Not mow-ay I hope. And risk being laughed out of the local wine bar, not a chance.

lol at blingbling

Pronouncing Marin as “Meh-rin” is just copying a californian accent, the pronunciation is Ma-rin.

Well the spelling of Moët should help the pronunciation.
The O is slightly longer than usual.
Jo the x might be a local as the radio france version would be without the x.

Gary, original post:

I had a chuckle at the cittick/coat-ick thread below. And i am a bit bored.

it was quite funny. Particluarly the bit where someone pointed out the cotic owners pointing out to the on-one man the ‘error’ of his ways.

oh and there was no smiley if any sort. I tend to avoid them if there seems a risk of them being misinterpreted. Just that word ‘chuckle’.

If that says ‘pompous smart arse’ to you then you probably ought to avoid any thread on here concerning singlespeeds, chris bling, alfine or rohloff hubs and for goodness’ sake stay away from that one about the new shedfire frame.

That’s the last time I try and start a comedy thread on an unseasonably warm sunny afternoon. *slouches off removing sweater which had been serving as a goalpost*

a mate of mine used to pronounce Kysrium – KAR-O-SI-RIUM, whats all that about???

marzocchi should be marz-oc-chi surely, or mar-zoc-chi at least if my gcse in italian hasn’t failed me. two consonants together are said separately in italian.

If that says ‘pompous smart arse’ to you then you probably ought to avoid any thread on here concerning singlespeeds, chris bling, alfine or rohloff hubs and for goodness’ sake stay away from that one about the new shedfire frame.

I wear rapha, I can take it.

So pronouncing the X would be regional? To that region (Savoie) or another region? Is it the same for the X in Aix Les Bains?

The locals seem to pronounce the X in Aix-en-Provence.

The locals seem to pronounce the X in Aix-en-Provence.

Isn’t that because the next letter(e of en)is a vowel ?

Possibly. If it was Aixe you would pronounce the the x but I’m not sure about Aix-en……..
Juan?

Aix en provence you need the x

bling bling

your the 1st person i know who knows the correct way to pronounce Thule

yes most people say th-ule but its not it is pronounced to-lay

dont ask me why but the rep had a go at me for selling some thule roof bars over the phone once!!

Bow-Tran-Ger

I have a really good mate who hates to be corrected on anything, but every single time he makes a reference to Bow-Tran-Ger it just makes me want to scream!

Twatty-niner

How do you pronounce pedantic ?

🙄

never mind all this pettiness, anyone want a go at “scone” (the food, not the place in the colonies)

Ma-goo-ra or Mag-you-ra?

It’s not a mispronunciation as such, but when I used to work in an outdoor shop people referring to Lowe Alpine as “Alpine Lowe” (or “Alpine Low-ee”) used to irk me a bit.

“Campagnolo” is the one that gets me, when people really want to say ” I’m considerably more into biking than you and have more disposable income, I don’t know how you can use that Japanese rubbish, it’s got no heritage, and certainly no place on a bike manufactured in Europe, and in addition, Shimano is used on Mountain Bikes which is so beyond the pale that I shall not speak with you anymore”.

A minor irritation, but still…. 😀

oneoneoneone the missus is Swedish so I got the lowdown mate 😉

We’re in the right place for some asshat to try and tell us that it’s wrong mind.

TJ is normally good value for that type of thing

Jo has a sexy accent?

Moet should be said like ‘Mow-it’, if anyone ever challenges you just tell them to take a closer look at the word on the label, it has umlarts (sp?) over the e as it’s a germanic word/name (Dutch possibly), most people pronounce it like it’s french. The french don’t use umlarts in their language. I work in the wine trade and most customers pronounce it as you would expect and I don’t care really, but it’s an interesting bit of trivia.

Mo-wett et Chandon is how the French would pronounce as they do not have the word ‘and’ in their lexicon, this link should give some idea.

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Thats why I order Taittinger so much easier to pronounce.
Anyway how do you pronounce Cipollini as in ‘Mario Cipollini’

BlingBling; Thule is pronounced Tool-ah mate. Just so you can let the Mrs know.
😉

Paul, the missus says “dra åt helvete jävla cepe” 😉