A confusing day at GC

A confusing day at GC

This makes me feel dumb...


Is it "eh-pih-PHONE" or "eh-PIH-pho-nee"?

Is it "EYE-bahn-ez" or "ih-BAHN-ez"?

Is it "DEE-ah-DARE-ee-oh," "duh-DARE-ee-oh," or "ah-DARE-ee-oh?"

Any others that will come up? I swear I heard them all today.

--Cliff (US)

(For your amusement, the Japanese watchmaker Citizen is "she-chi-zen"
when they say it.)

Re: A confusing day at GC

hcbowman wrote:
> This makes me feel dumb...
>
>
> Is it "eh-pih-PHONE" or "eh-PIH-pho-nee"?
>
> Is it "EYE-bahn-ez" or "ih-BAHN-ez"?
>
> Is it "DEE-ah-DARE-ee-oh," "duh-DARE-ee-oh," or "ah-DARE-ee-oh?"
>
> Any others that will come up? I swear I heard them all today.
>
> --Cliff (US)
>
> (For your amusement, the Japanese watchmaker Citizen is "she-chi-zen"
> when they say it.)
>

Yeah, but when they say the cows name, it's "I-Reen" ...

Re: A confusing day at GC

On Sat, 10 May 2008 19:23:50 -0500, BobF <nothanks@spamfree.world> wrote:

>hcbowman wrote:
>> This makes me feel dumb...
>>
>>
>> Is it "eh-pih-PHONE" or "eh-PIH-pho-nee"?
>>
>> Is it "EYE-bahn-ez" or "ih-BAHN-ez"?
>>
>> Is it "DEE-ah-DARE-ee-oh," "duh-DARE-ee-oh," or "ah-DARE-ee-oh?"
>>
>> Any others that will come up? I swear I heard them all today.
>>
>> --Cliff (US)
>>
>> (For your amusement, the Japanese watchmaker Citizen is "she-chi-zen"
>> when they say it.)
>>
>
>Yeah, but when they say the cows name, it's "I-Reen" ...

Are you referring to Air See Borden?

Re: A confusing day at GC

On Sat, 10 May 2008 16:01:33 -0700 (PDT), hcbowman
<hcbowman@gmail . com > wrote:

>This makes me feel dumb...
>
>
>Is it "eh-pih-PHONE" or "eh-PIH-pho-nee"?
>
>Is it "EYE-bahn-ez" or "ih-BAHN-ez"?
>
>Is it "DEE-ah-DARE-ee-oh," "duh-DARE-ee-oh," or "ah-DARE-ee-oh?"
>
>Any others that will come up? I swear I heard them all today.
>
>--Cliff (US)
>
>(For your amusement, the Japanese watchmaker Citizen is "she-chi-zen"
>when they say it.)
>

"tak-a-MEEN-ie"?

"tak-a-MINE"?

Re: A confusing day at GC

On May 12, 12:32 pm, jimmy <bigtoeh...@hotmail . com > wrote:

> "tak-a-MEEN-ie"?
>
> "tak-a-MINE"?

This one I actually know (it's a Japanese company).

"tah-kah-mee-nay"

hardly any accent, and with all syllables roughly the same duration.


Would anyone help with the first three? I really am confused after
hearing all variations at GC...

--Cliff (YEW-ess)

Re: A confusing day at GC

hcbowman wrote:

> Would anyone help with the first three?
> I really am confused after
> hearing all variations at GC...

As a D'Addario dealer, I can testify to...

di-DAH-ree-oh

4 syllables, emphasis on the 2nd. And
the first two syllables are like the
morse code character A... di-dah.

It is definitaly NOT Dee---add-ARE-eee-oh.
They actually make a point of it
in the reseller literature.


Lumpy

In Your Ears for 40 Years
w w w .LumpyMusic . com

Re: A confusing day at GC

Lumpy expounded in news:68rj1mF2uq8aoU1@mid.individual . net :

> hcbowman wrote:
>
>> Would anyone help with the first three?
>> I really am confused after
>> hearing all variations at GC...
>
> As a D'Addario dealer, I can testify to...
>
> di-DAH-ree-oh
>
> Lumpy

I don't know why it is, but I must say
that every time I order those
replacement strings, I end up stuttering:

"D-D-dah-ree-oh 010s please."

If this keeps up, I'm just going to bring
in the last used package:

"More of these please."

Snark.
** Posted from * w w w .teranews . com **

Re: A confusing day at GC

On May 12, 2:41 pm, hcbowman <hcbow...@gmail . com > wrote:

>
> "tah-kah-mee-nay"
>

I showed this to someone in my office, and it sounded awful. This
seemed to be better:

"tah-kah-mee-neh"

--Cliff (US)

Re: A confusing day at GC

Lumpy wrote:

>As a D'Addario dealer, I can testify to...
>di-DAH-ree-oh

>It is definitaly NOT Dee---add-ARE-eee-oh.
>They actually make a point of it
>in the reseller literature.

I can attest to this also. One of their factory guys came to Jazz
Camp last summer and did a demo.

He made the same emphasis. Guess they are tired of people butchering
their name all these years.

Re: A confusing day at GC

hcbowman wrote:
> On May 12, 2:41 pm, hcbowman <hcbow...@gmail . com > wrote:
>
>> "tah-kah-mee-nay"
>>
>
> I showed this to someone in my office, and it sounded awful. This
> seemed to be better:
>
> "tah-kah-mee-neh"
>
> --Cliff (US)

It was "tack a meany" when I bought mine.

Now just as often you hear "tack o' mine".



--
Stephen
Ballina, Australia

Re: A confusing day at GC

On Mon, 12 May 2008 21:38:09 GMT, Stephen Calder <calder9@in . com .au>
wrote:

>hcbowman wrote:
>> On May 12, 2:41 pm, hcbowman <hcbow...@gmail . com > wrote:
>>
>>> "tah-kah-mee-nay"
>>>
>>
>> I showed this to someone in my office, and it sounded awful. This
>> seemed to be better:
>>
>> "tah-kah-mee-neh"
>>
>> --Cliff (US)
>
>It was "tack a meany" when I bought mine.
>

That's how I've heard it...and I'm pretty sure it was from the company
themselves.

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Re: A confusing day at GC

On May 18, 1:42 pm, jtees4 <jte...@hotmail . com > wrote:

> >It was "tack a meany" when I bought mine.
>
> That's how I've heard it...and I'm pretty sure it was from the company
> themselves.


Down below, Nil provides confirmation -- from the US distributor.
It's not the way the Japanese surname is pronounced, but that's ok.
Takamine corporate probably doesn't give a hoot as long as we like
their guitars well enough to buy them. =)

When I was a kid, the Carnegie Corporation didn't seem to mind people
Americanizing the name. It seems like it's only been in the past
couple of years they've really made the effort to correct it.

--Cliff (US)

Re: A confusing day at GC

hcbowman wrote:

> Down below, Nil provides confirmation -- from the US distributor.
> It's not the way the Japanese surname is pronounced, but that's ok.
> Takamine corporate probably doesn't give a hoot as long as we like
> their guitars well enough to buy them. =)
>
> When I was a kid, the Carnegie Corporation didn't seem to mind people
> Americanizing the name. It seems like it's only been in the past
> couple of years they've really made the effort to correct it.

So what's up with Haley's comet?
All my life we pronounced it HAIL-eeze.
Then suddenly it's HAL-eeze.

Lumpy

In Your Ears for 40 Years
w w w .LumpyMusic . com

Re: A confusing day at GC


"Lumpy" <lumpy@digitalcartography . com > wrote in message
news:69c31mF31gg13U1@mid.individual . net ...
> hcbowman wrote:
>
>> Down below, Nil provides confirmation -- from the US distributor.
>> It's not the way the Japanese surname is pronounced, but that's ok.
>> Takamine corporate probably doesn't give a hoot as long as we like
>> their guitars well enough to buy them. =)
>>
>> When I was a kid, the Carnegie Corporation didn't seem to mind people
>> Americanizing the name. It seems like it's only been in the past
>> couple of years they've really made the effort to correct it.
>
> So what's up with Haley's comet?
> All my life we pronounced it HAIL-eeze.
> Then suddenly it's HAL-eeze.
>
> Lumpy

it's Halley's comet.
gregg

Re: A confusing day at GC

Lumpy wrote:
> hcbowman wrote:
>
>> Down below, Nil provides confirmation -- from the US distributor.
>> It's not the way the Japanese surname is pronounced, but that's ok.
>> Takamine corporate probably doesn't give a hoot as long as we like
>> their guitars well enough to buy them. =)
>>
>> When I was a kid, the Carnegie Corporation didn't seem to mind
>> people Americanizing the name. It seems like it's only been in the
>> past couple of years they've really made the effort to correct it.
>
> So what's up with Haley's comet? All my life we pronounced it
> HAIL-eeze. Then suddenly it's HAL-eeze.
>
> Lumpy
>
> In Your Ears for 40 Years w w w .LumpyMusic . com
>
>
>


They also changed the pronunciation of Uranus. It used to be your-anus.
Now it's your-uh-nus. BTW, just saw Garth playing a Takamine on the
Country Music Awards show. I've always wondered if they paid money to
the producers for that. ("if" = "how much")

Ed Maier