How do you say Nikon

[zim]

Paatayyytoe....... I like potatoes

 

[DominoDude]

I say Nikk-on. I believe that I tend to stay rather close to Japanese pronunciation after spending many years in dojos. But I couldn't draw/type Nikon in hiragana or katakana even if I had a gun to my head.

 

[StudentOfLight]

It is a Japanese name so I go with the Japanese Pronunciation: "Knee+Con"

 

[madmailman]

Those damn Yanks have broken our language.

There is no winning this argument just like how to pronounce the element with the atomic number 13 in my own household. The missus with her Phd in material science tries to pull rank and say it's Aluminum and I try to correct her saying it's Aluminium because what the hell does a Yank know. And yes I sleep quite comfortably on the sofa, thanks.

Actually it's either a Canon or it's the one with the sh#@y lenses (i.e. Sony, Nikon, Samsung etc etc).

 

[Loswr]

You have to really elongate the 'i' and the 'o' is shortened... "Niiiiiiiiiii-cone."

Of course, that pronunciation only applies if you're singing about a popular brand of color reversal film that makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah.

;D

 

[Old Sarge]

You have to really elongate the 'i' and the 'o' is shortened... "Niiiiiiiiiii-cone."

Of course, that pronunciation only applies if you're singing about a popular brand of color reversal film that makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah.

;D

But they took it away....after I asked them politely not to...

 

[sagittariansrock]

I used to pronounce it "Knick-on" back when I was using the delightful FM-10, the first SLR I used. Coming to US has made me change to "Ny-kon" which sounds less pleasant IMO.

 

[sagittariansrock]

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You don't 8)

LOL! That made my morning!

You're welcome!
Sorry that you have such an uneventful morning that rolling eyes at just one thing makes it worthwhile...

 

[justawriter]

We Americans tend to pronounce the foreign words based on what we think sounds right without being too bothered by how they are pronounced in the native language. So we say it as in icon. It makes it sound more American English, which is smoother and more relaxing than any other English in the world. No offense to our UK or Aussie friends here. Totally personal opinion.

It's true. There is a fairly large group in my area descended from the Metis and they have anglicized most of the names so you run into a lot of Doo-boys (Dubois), Bow-CHAMP (Beauchamp) and Bushies (Boucher).

 

[distant.star]

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Pronunciation, so fraught with danger, especially when gender politics are involved.

Many years ago I was on a date. In the Italian restaurant, she asked me how to correctly say "minestrone." I don't recall that night having a happy ending.

 

[joejohnbear]

It's "Knee" and a short "kon." Just pronounce it right. Some people like to put their own name on things like "Cathay" or "China," referring to porcelain gained through trade on the silk road, instead of addressing the native word "zhong guo" or translated meaning "Middle Kingdom/Central State." It's kind of insensitive and ethnocentric as compared to how some other languages directly import cognates, etc, such as Japan's use of "doitsujin" for German peoples. I used to pronounce it Naaaaaiiiiiy-kOHn like good southerner until I roomed with Taiwanese and Japanese student in college.

 

[unfocused]

The company can't seem to decide on what to call itself either.

Depending on where you are located, looks like it can be Nike-on, Knee-con, or Knick-on. They are all simultaneously correct and incorrect, just depending on where you happen to be at the time.

Google their commercials and you'll hear it pronounced all three ways depending on the market.

 

[ULFULFSEN]

for me it counts how the japanese say it.

who cares how americans pronounce "münchen" or "köln".. i have yet to know one that can pronoune it correct. ;D

 

[lo lite]

Many years ago I was on a date. In the Italian restaurant, she asked me how to correctly say "minestrone." I don't recall that night having a happy ending.

Since I am german and not american I don't get that joke. How did you pronounce it?

 

[9VIII]

Many years ago I was on a date. In the Italian restaurant, she asked me how to correctly say "minestrone." I don't recall that night having a happy ending.

Since I am german and not american I don't get that joke. How did you pronounce it?

I think the punchline is that all women are "experts" on grammar and it doesn't matter what you say, you're probably wrong.
In other words... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA
That's my guess.

 

[ifp]

I would guess to a Japanese ear, no matter how we pronounce it, we are butchering it.

 

[AcutancePhotography]

Many years ago I was on a date. In the Italian restaurant, she asked me how to correctly say "minestrone." I don't recall that night having a happy ending.

Since I am german and not american I don't get that joke. How did you pronounce it?

It has to do with that pesky last letter "e". A lot of people don't know what to do with a word that ends in a vowel, especially an E.

Is it a silent E?
Or do you pronounce the E?
If you do pronounce the E, how do you pronounce the E; hard or soft?

Is the soup Min-is-tron
or is it Min-is-tron-ee
or is it Min-is-tron-a (soft e)

We here in 'merca don't like them "foureign" words much

How do we pronounce Ministrone in 'merican?

"Vegetable soup with them noodles in it". LoL

 

[Click]

How do we pronounce Ministrone in 'merican?

"Vegetable soup with them noodles in it". LoL

;D

 

[Don Haines]

We pronounce it the same way people in "Dog River" pronounce "Wollerton"...

(A reference that only Canadians will get )

 

[blackcat]

In Australia it is pronounced "Nick-on" instead of "Ny-Kon."