How do you say Nikon

[andrewflo]

The Japanese Nikon is pronounced "Nee-kon"

The Nee is like the word "knee"

the Kon is pronounced not so much like "Kahn" but like "Kohn"

 

[dcm]

Just can't get Paul Simon out of my head since this thread started... And they did take his Kodachrome away.

http://www.paulsimon.com/us/music/paul-simons-concert-park-august-15-1991/kodachrome

 

[mkabi]

I think it's pronounced So-knee-kon.

That's just a guess.

Might as well call it Sony's Con.

 

[gargamel]

There are, at least, two threads on the DPReview forum on this topic, with some quite entertaining posts. See:

How do you pronounce Nikon?
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/39524940

There is only one correct way of pronouncing. not several...
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/26898358

How do you pronounce Nikon?
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/39514660

Correct pronunciation of Nikon
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/19773877

 

[Richard8971]

Hmm, never really thought about this.

I would just say that the general accepted pronunciation is "Ni-kon" just like the vast majority of Americans say it. Maybe it's changed over the decades but does it really matter?

"Kan-won" has changed also... Nobody seems to mind the way we say it today.

D

 

[eml58]

further doubts?
this is nikon's official 90th anniversary commemorative video:

6 minutes 20 seconds of absolute agony listening to that music, I now better understand the phrase "music to commit suicide by", definite category winner.

But at least now I also have a better understanding of how to say "Nikon", rather than how I used to say it "Nikon", which is basically just pronouncing the word the way it's spelt, as in "Nikon", appreciated, I just wasted 10 minutes of my life .

 

[AcutancePhotography]

The bottomline is that whether you say "ni-kon" or "ne-kon", people will understand.

 

[Chapman Baxter]

I'm just glad that George Dubya Bush is no longer continuing America's war on "tourism". I feel safer as a tourist in America now.

Anyway, IMHO Nikon is as much "Nye-kon" as Canon is "Cay-non".