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How do you pronounce "Technics"?

How do you pronounce "Technics"?

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stragulus said:
You mean Coke? :D

Camp Tek NIX here. But I grew in Europe where we pronounce SCSI as scoozy, mobile as mobyle, foyer as fwa-yay, coupé as coo-pay. Yeah, all things I got "corrected" for after moving state side :p

Edit: Oh oh oh, and sauder vs sol-der of course! To make it at least somewhat relevant to this forum.
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And I thought us New Englanders talked funny. :) It's all good, brother! :thumbsup:
 
Is this another Sony Question? How many ways can you pronounce "o". Same goes for Technics. I heard Tek-neeks so many times that other ways maybe be right but I am to old to change now.
 
My first stereo in 1977 was a Technics amp and cassette. Everyone I knew said "Tekneeks" at that time, at least in the midwest. Dealers, owners, etc all said it as "eeks"

I didn't see this pronunciation in the poll, so didn't vote...
 
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Late Boomer said:
/tɛkˈniːks/ — stress on the second syllable, the "i" is long.
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OP's description "the i is long" is quite misleading because "long i" in English is is pronounced like "eye", written "aɪ" ("ai") in the IPA system that OP is using. (IPA is an international system, and the vowel "i" is in fact pronouced in many languages like "ee" is pronounced in English.)

For confirmation, you can look here where it explains IPA as applied to American English. In particular, see this entry in the table of vowels,
iː FLEECE, pedigree, idea
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Seems like pronounciation of the choices in the poll is at least as confusing as is the pronouciation of that well-known brand name. From reading through the comments, a number of "neeks" folks declined to vote, as you did.
 
audiotemp said:
OP's description "the i is long" is quite misleading because "long i" in English is is pronounced like "eye", written "aɪ" ("ai") in the IPA system that OP is using. (IPA is an international system, and the vowel "i" is in fact pronouced in many languages like "ee" is pronounced in English.)

For confirmation, you can look here where it explains IPA as applied to American English. In particular, see this entry in the table of vowels,
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Your first paragraph disagrees with the second, does not it?

This is exactly what I meant: /iː/ is the sound that you hear in FLEECE, pedigree, idea.

Maybe I should not be calling it "long i", because you are trying pronouncing it as an alphabet letter, which is indeed, /aɪ/, and is not long, while I meant it be pronounced as a sound in words like "sit", "pit", "kill", only longer. Now I see that it is not exactly longer, but also different. You know how Eastern Europeans often have issues with "sheet" and "****"? They pronounce it almost the same, only slightly longer in "sheet".

Anyway, sorry for confusion.

I will consider the voting invalid because of incorrect ballot :-)
 
onwardjames said:
But, wouldn't that be spelled out "Techniques" ??

I've always heard Tech - niks.

Tomato/potato.

EDIT - I like Heather's spelling better if we're talking phonetically. Tech-NIX
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It's simply a play on the word "technique" According to an old magazine add, Technics said it's pronounced "Tekneeks".
 
onwardjames said:
But, wouldn't that be spelled out "Techniques" ??

I've always heard Tech - niks.

Tomato/potato.

EDIT - I like Heather's spelling better if we're talking phonetically. Tech-NIX
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How many names are pronounced like they're spelled? Would some pronounce Doug, Doughug?
 
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