Sansui pronuciation?

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Tony M
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Just read this. Is this true?

here's some trivia. Sansui is not pronounced San Sue We. It's two syllables, sawn swee. Ain't that a kick?
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 4,720
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    Sound sweet?
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  • treitz3
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    Only one problem with that...

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    Of course, this post may have been written by Thomas Jefferson. It is the internet, after all.

    Tom
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  • Gardenstater
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    S Ants You Eye ;)
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  • mhardy6647
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    I've always said San-souwee. I think it's close enough.
    Better than the way most of us Amurricans (including Paul Simon, of course, and me :blush:) pronounce Nikon -- with a long "i". It should be more like Kneeko(n) -- short i and kind of swallowing the n. ;)
    At any rate, of course Sansui is French: Sans UI.
    Without 'user interface'
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  • txcoastal1
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    I thought it was a rednek thang

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  • Emlyn
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    In 1978 it was pronounced Sansui. Maybe this'll help. Just ask Stanley the audiophile. :smile:

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    Is that Wally from Leave It To Beaver ?
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  • Nightfall
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    Emlyn wrote: »
    In 1978 it was pronounced Sansui. Maybe this'll help.

    This is how I have always pronounced it as well. I don't really care if it's incorrect, my American eyes read it send it to my American brain which then pronounces it with my American tongue.

    America.
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    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • bcwsrt
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    It could be like Technics. We say “Teckneeks” and other parts of the world say “Tecknicks.”

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  • txcoastal1
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    Emlyn wrote: »
    In 1978 it was pronounced Sansui. Maybe this'll help.

    This is how I have always pronounced it as well. I don't really care if it's incorrect, my American eyes read it send it to my American brain which then pronounces it with my American tongue.

    America.

    Like Porsche or Porsch-"a"-
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  • treitz3
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    Hehehe....my son got a Porsche for Christmas one year and after he unwrapped it, we asked him what he got. His response?

    With a big smile on his face, he said..."I got a Pour-schaay!"

    In his defense, he was only about 4 and had never heard the word pronounced before. Gotta love the innocence of children...

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    Neech-chee or Neech-cha?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,071
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    The German stuff is all very easy to pronounce; Germans gots rules.
    Nietzsche, Porsche -- easy, peasy. that sche is kind of a -schuh sound; the e more like a schwa than a long e (or even a short e). The old mnemonic of pronouncing Porsche like Shakespeare's Portia will get you close enough for Government work. :)
    The one German name I struggle with to this day, though, is Goethe.
    Mind you, I minored in German in college and was (technically, still am) a member of two German honor fraternities... but there's just a little too much goin' on in too few letters in Goethe.
    My solution? I just try not to talk about him. B)

    PS I've always said "Teck-nicks" -- Philistine that I am. Based on the wee bit I know about Japanese pronunciation, my SWAG is that it would best be said "Tek-oh-neeks", with that middle syllable sort of glossed over on the way from the beginning to the end.

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  • xschop
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    My Nakamichi knocks in my Mitsubishi.
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    I saw a Honda Passport the other day that was turned into an "A S S PORT." 😳😂

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  • xschop
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    Translated 3 Diamonds. A Japanese colleague at my university said he'd never own one again. Shift mechanism stranded him in the middle of the highway doing a U-turn.
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  • HzTweaker
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    treitz3 wrote: »
    Hehehe....my son got a Porsche for Christmas one year and after he unwrapped it, we asked him what he got. His response?

    With a big smile on his face, he said..."I got a Pour-schaay!"

    In his defense, he was only about 4 and had never heard the word pronounced before. Gotta love the innocence of children...

    Tom

    "Pour-schaay" That's great!
    bcwsrt wrote: »
    It could be like Technics. We say “Teckneeks” and other parts of the world say “Tecknicks.”

    I also really like "Tecknicks"!

    Me personally Being a "Porschephile" I'll stick to the German pronunciation and as an American "Teckneeks".

    I am Dyslexic on the other hand so words have a funny way of not being spoken correctly occasionally? :D


    Sort of off topic but I naturally pronounce documentary "Doc u men tear ie"?? I'm not even sure that is correct! :D
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  • SCompRacer
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    Tony M wrote: »
    Just read this. Is this true?

    here's some trivia. Sansui is not pronounced San Sue We. It's two syllables, sawn swee. Ain't that a kick?

    About the ten second mark is her way. If it says so in a video it has to be right, right? :D

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  • SCompRacer
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    treitz3 wrote: »
    Only one problem with that...





    Tom

    I like the British accent one.

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    SCompRacer wrote: »
    I like the British accent one.

    *In my best British accent*

    Oh, Blaught-dhy hell...

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  • OleBoot
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    SCompRacer wrote: »
    treitz3 wrote: »
    Only one problem with that...





    Tom

    I like the British accent one.

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    The British accent one seems to have equal emphasis on the first two syllables, while the American has the emphasis on the second. As a Brit, I have always pronounced it in what they are calling the American pronunciation and can't remember anyone British pronouncing it like they say. However, it has been 35 years.................
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  • jdjohn
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    Speaking of British, how about the pronunciation of 'Garrard'? I pronounce that 'g' as a 'j', myself.
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  • tonyp063
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    Does that mean, if someone took this away from me, I'd be....

    Sans Shushi ?

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  • bcwsrt
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    I can't believe no one's asked how you pronounce "pronuciation" yet.

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  • mhardy6647
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    I'm more into amateurnunciation, personally -- although I do aspire to pro status.
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