Chamonix...is it Shame-on-ix, or Shame-on-a?
Sinar....is it Sigh-nar, or See-nar?
just curious.
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Chamonix...is it Shame-on-ix, or Shame-on-a?
Sinar....is it Sigh-nar, or See-nar?
just curious.
Retina: Rhet-teen-ah; Rhet-tine-ah; or Ret-in-a?
Can't help you with Chamonix, but Dean Collins always pronounced it See'-nar in his videos.
My questions is this. Is it reh-buhl ex-tee or peace uv krap?
Americans usually say SIGH-nar, but I suspect in French it's see-NAR, and in German SEE-nar.
Brits tend to say Ni-kon (short "i" as in sit) N. Americans tend to say Niikon (long "i" as in eye)
Interesting thread, I was wondering about two myself: (being that most of what i learn is either read, or figured out myself and rarely ever spoken to in person or on the phone)
Linhof: is Lin pronounced LINE? or LIN with a short i? (like lint) is hof pronounced OFF or HOFF with the H, or OF like the word of?
Tachihara: is it Tak-eh-hara? Is the CH pronounced as K or as CH or SH? I assume the I isn't pronounced EYE, but rather as a soft i?
I believe that it's Sham o nee.
What is your mother language? It makes a big difference in how it is pronounced.
Take Gepe. Gepe is the name that is formed when the founder's first and last initials are joined together into a word. His initials are G.P.
Depending on your mother language this results in many different pronunciations. He is Swedish.
Being a French name, Chamonix would be pronounced "shah mo ni" as mentioned in the previous post (just confirming, I studied quite a bit of French language in high school :)).
The "ch" in Tachihara would be hard, as in "chi." Japanese is relatively easy to Romanize because it's phonetic to begin with, so there is a character for "shi" and a different character for "chi."
According to my native German-speaking neighbor, Sinar is pronounced see-nar.
Zeiss is pronounced like tseiss.
Jena is pronounced Yay-na.
So Carl Zeiss Jena is more like Car-el Tseiss Yay-na.
At fault here is the English language, which has a random assortment of spelling "rules".
Give me Sanskrit any day. A Aa E Ee U Uu...