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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 🙄
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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!
[i]So how would you pronounce Moet? Not mow-ay I hope.[/i] 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 Mo[b]ë[/b]t 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 [i]that[/i] 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.
[i]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]
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!
****ty-niner
How do you pronounce pedantic ?
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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.
[url=Enting, Carolyn (2002), "Moët for Linguists", Lucire Living Magazine, http://www.lucire.com/2002/0530ll0.shtml ][/url]
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.
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Paul, the missus says "dra åt helvete jävla cepe" 😉
I ride a titanium frame and regularly get asked "is that a tee-eye frame?" 😆
Bone-O or Bonn O? Bowie or Baowee?
I suppose pronouncing everything wrong makes you sound bit thick, but caring too much about it makes you a ****er, basically.
Surely derailleur is pronounced "mech"? Non?
what a load of bolocks
Hei hei det fisketryne!
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a funny one - a friend of mine was caught out bragging to everyone about his new "scottoosha" bike that he had ordered, much to everyones bemusement. turned out it was a "scott usa", but he'd thought it was all one word.
I beleive it was on srams website at one point (and may still be) that the correct pronounciation is "sram" and not "ess-ram" or "shram". apparently they get quite ratty about people mis-pronouncing it. they go on to explain it is the first letter of the first name of the four founders of the company or something like that.
i dislike the american pronounciation of truvativ as "troo-vay-tiv" instead of my method of "troo-va-tiv" but maybe i'm wrong?
i've heard commencal pronounced "ko-men-kal" and "commercial" (as in the word, commercial). and "giant" spelt "jee-ont"
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PRONOUNCE SHCWALBE!!!!!
i dont think i can even spell it.
How is commencal pronounced? Commen[i]sal[/i]?
It's funny how some people on here think that if you comment about something you actually care much about it. One is allowed to have random musings and wonderings about what's 'right' without it really mattering to you, or is that wrong?
i always presumed it was "commen-sal" but again, maybe i'm wrong? it's the way everyone at the commencal dealer in town pronounces it.
There's a cidilla under the second c - that makes it an s sound. Did you people learn nothing at school?