How the heck do you pronounce it?

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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited February 2008
    unc2701 wrote: »
    Focal... Same as focal length of a lens? Or Fo-cal like california?

    Every audio store I've been to says Fo-cal...
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited February 2008
    Sign language cures all of these problems.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited February 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I'm from Boston, what do we know about pronouncing things?

    What about Bar-ston Acoustics? :confused::D
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  • jmwest1970
    jmwest1970 Posts: 846
    edited February 2008
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    What about Bar-ston Acoustics? :confused::D

    Wouldn't that be Bah-stun Acoustics:confused:
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited February 2008
    I've heard Fo-Cal. And I don't live in Wahr-shing-ton...
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited February 2008
    And I thought people from lawn guy land spoke funny.
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  • read-alot
    read-alot Posts: 812
    edited February 2008
    I flew out of Concord, North Carolina where it's pronounced Con-cord

    landed in Concord, New Hampshire where they pronounced it Can-cud
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  • Lowell_M
    Lowell_M Posts: 1,660
    edited February 2008
    appadv wrote: »
    Audio related words...how the heck do you pronounce them?

    So is it...

    Yamaha (ya-maa-ha) or (ya-maha)

    Timbre, as in timbre matching (tam-ber) or (tim-ber)

    Sony Wega, line of TV's (vega) or (way-gah)

    Denon (den-nen) or (den-ahn)

    Mitsubishi (mit-soo-bee-she) or (mitsu-bish-e)

    Bravia (bra-vee-ya) or (bra-vii-a)

    I'm sure there are others but why the heck do these have to be so hard to pronounce?


    Depends on what cables you're using. They sound different.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,714
    edited February 2008
    I don't f#$king care what the dictionary says. I will never pronounce timbre as "tam-ber". There isn't one romance language out there that pronounces 'I' with an 'a' sound. BS!
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited February 2008
    billbillw wrote: »
    I don't f#$king care what the dictionary says. I will never pronounce timbre as "tam-ber". There isn't one romance language out there that pronounces 'I' with an 'a' sound. BS!

    Same here.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited February 2008
    a_mattison wrote: »
    Depends on what cables you're using. They sound different.

    You made my morning with this comment... :)
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited February 2008
    I have a serious one here

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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited February 2008
    Worcestershire
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,982
    edited February 2008
    ^^^good one^^^

    Even harder when you've had a few......
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited February 2008
    read-alot wrote: »
    I flew out of Concord, North Carolina where it's pronounced Con-cord

    landed in Concord, New Hampshire where they pronounced it Can-cud

    There is Newark, New Jersey and then there is Newark, Delaware

    Newark, New Jersey is pronounced (new irk)

    Newark, Delaware is pronounced (new ark)
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  • wizzy
    wizzy Posts: 867
    edited February 2008
    unc2701 wrote: »
    Focal... Same as focal length of a lens? Or Fo-cal like california?

    I always say ****-All
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited February 2008
    There's plenty of towns around here that most people would have a hard time pronouncing.

    Worcester (Wuh-ster)
    Leicester (Lester)
    Leominster (Leh-min-ster)
    Gloucester (Gloh-ster)

    And that's not even counting the ones that just sound funny with accents. :)
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited February 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    There's plenty of towns around here that most people would have a hard time pronouncing.

    Worcester (Wuh-ster)
    Leicester (Lester)
    Leominster (Leh-min-ster)
    Gloucester (Gloh-ster)

    And that's not even counting the ones that just sound funny with accents. :)

    Dude, you live in Derry.

    Hey, do they call the air there Derry air?



    We have a town in NJ named Ong's Hat.
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