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Since we've suffered through 8 pages already.... how do you say DECAL.

Most everyone I know says DEE-CAL

One clown we know says Deh-CAL (and he'll correct everyone he can on the spot! Needs a good whack!)

and we've head that some Canadians call them deckels (as in Heckel and Jeckel)

Let the games begin... :lol:

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Deh-cal seems to be an Australian thing.

I used to work with a guy who would argue all day long that Porche was pronounced porsh and he was a Car and Driver reading, pipe smoking euro car snob. You'd think he would have known better.

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Which reminds me of the little Italian pizzeria / restaurant I worked in when I was 18. The two owners were insistent on the pronunciation of Italian food words.. my mother was Italian so I was good, but the two brothers schooled everyone else in the proper way to say things like "manicotti" and "parmesan", and they wouldn't even serve it to customers who said it wrong. So if someone was in the dining room and tried to order man-a-cotti, he'd just shake his head and tell them that they didn't have that. And there were the folks who wanted par-mes-ian cheese... nope, we didn't have that either. And you could see Joey's face turn red when someone asked for "sprinkle cheese". :D

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I don't get overly exercised about stuff like this, but it seems to me if you want to have a little expertise in a subject of great interest to you, you should know how to pronounce it properly. But that's minor. One of the more interesting revelations and corrections of the past couple of years was this:

On accepting an achievement award for the invention of the .gif, the first thing its elderly creator said upon taking the podium was: "And it's pronounced Jif, not giff [with a hard g]." Even some Interweb pros I know don't know that.

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  On 5/18/2014 at 9:32 PM, Agent G said:

The preceding eight pages are proof positive why aliens fly right by us and make no attempt to communicate.

G

You my friend win the internet for a day

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It's no wonder that we can't agree on the correct pronunciation of a Japanese name... we can't even agree on the pronunciation of an American name!

Willys.

It's pronounced "willis," as in "whatchoo talkin 'bout, Willis?"

Not "willeez."

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  On 5/19/2014 at 12:14 AM, Harry P. said:

It's no wonder that we can't agree on the correct pronunciation of a Japanese name... we can't even agree on the pronunciation of an American name!

Willys.

It's pronounced "willis," as in "whatchoo talkin 'bout, Willis?"

Not "willeez."

I see your post , and raise you a "Murica"
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If you listen carefully to the Japanese pronunciations, you'll pretty much get it right if you pronounce the following without any inflection or emphasis:

"TAHM-YAH." The "Y" will take care of the "i" sound.

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You say "Tameeya," I say 'tomato.'

Let's call the whole thing off. :P

Edited by Danno
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Mehr-koor. Poo-zhoh. Ow-dee (rhymes with "howdy," not "naughty").

But what drives me crazy is the car ads where the British voiceover guy smugly says "Jag-yooo-ah." :rolleyes:

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  On 2/16/2012 at 3:52 PM, Scale-Master said:

Actually... And this is from one of the Mr. Tamiyas...

Ta-me-a

No emphasis on any syllable. It is Japanese, not English so the rules are a little bit different..

Yep.

Edited by Tonioseven
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Japanese pronunciation is very simple compared to English. There's only 5 vowel sounds in Japanese, it's not like English with its "long" and "short" vowels, dipthongs, schwas, etc.. I think there are something like 17 different vowel sounds in English.

"i" always makes an "ee" sound. Everybody knows how to say "sushi" properly, and it's not "sue-shy"!

To me, native Japanese speakers sound like they're saying "Tommy-uh" when saying Tamiya.

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