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Technics pronounciation

mashaffer said:
One that drove me nuts was a radio commercial for a Porsche dealer in the area where they pronounced it poursh. Gack! Unfit to sell the things if you can't even pronounce it! Herr Dr. Ferdinand must roll over in his grave sometimes.

mike
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Hopefully this rolling is done between bouts of burning in Hell, he was heavily involved in Hitler's war effort.
 
Some of this discussion reminds me of a favorite television commercial. When Isuzu was first being introduced in the US market, the name seemed a bit odd. The commercial consisted of two car salesmen, one obviously Caucasian and the other obviously Japanese. The Caucasian was having terrible problems trying to pronounce Isuzu, and the Japanese salesman consoled him by telling him, "That's all right kid, I can't say chev-o-reh." It is probably not politically correct to use that type of ad now, but the actors seemed to have fun with it.

Regards,

D-Ray

I'm going to buy me a merkree and croooze up and down the road . . .
 
Wow! Wish I got this good a response to all my stupid questions. I'm new to this site and this hobby so I'll have a lot more. Overall I'm pleased with the response; I only got one little John Garfield style backhanded bitch slap for "pronounciation." (I have to admit I missed it and my use of the word "got" above is a matter of folksy style.)

Anyway I agree with Anytune and the other "nicks" advocates. Tom Brennan stated the exact reason I like "nicks." "Neeks" just doesn't feel natural and Technics is about music and music is about feeling (and technique as well I guess). One would also have to ignore English pronunciation rules to get to "neeks." And Bogframe has confirmed "nicks" by going to the source. So I'll stick with "nicks."

Let me change the subject (it won't be as provocative but ...) my latest stupid question has to do with the best way to record from my stereo system into my computer. I want to use my Tech-nicks stereo and turntable to gradually record all my Vietnam war era albums into my computer. I have a thread started on that in the digital music and music server section. Can I get some help on that? Thanks folks.
 
LOL!

Why would you pronounce a word spelled "Technics"........as teck-neeks?

That takes some real creative pronunciation....mis-pronunciation, in truth.

:D
 
Well, I guess it would depend on what word the company derived the name from. Was it from Technical? or Technique? I always believed it was from Technique as in "We have the right technique in designing audio equipment", hence the Techneeks pronunciation. 90% of the people I have heard refer to Technics does pronounce it that way and I have always thought that to be correct, but....
 
I've always pronounced Technics as Sound-Design :D ..... ok I actually refer to it as Tech-nicks..... and in the interest of full disclosure, my current receiver is a Technics.

Another good one is Teac....... I've heard people call it Tech, Teak (like the wood), and I pronounce it Tea-ack. Te sounding like the tea you drink and ack rhyming with rack. I don't hear it pronounced much, but when I called Teac customer service a few years ago (which ended up being wrong), that is the way they pronounced it.

Another is Altec........ I tend to call it Al-tech, but I beleive the correct way should be All-Tech(*). Which if your a non-Midwesterner may not help you figure out what I'm saying. The name "Al" (short for Allen) and "all" (all of us/you/them) sound much different when I say them.

*Altec come from the All Technical Service Co.
 
i cant believe i'm posting a reply.................

I have heard it as "nicks" dozens of times and as "neeks" only once(and that guy was a bit off....).

no way is it neeks......................:drool:


I'm going to go listen to the old "sun-sue-eye" reciever now:D
 
Don't get your nichers in a twist!
So many brand name seem to have some degree of contention concerning pronunciation.
I say Soh-knee, but the Brits say Sonny - like Sonny & Cher.
I say Rev-ox, some say Reeevox.
Thorens confuses EVERYBODY!
And is it Boze, or Bohzay?

If we move to cars... is it Mer-see-deez, or Mer-say-deez?
 
Tom Brennan said:
So Steerpike, is Boer pronounced "bow-er" or "bore"?

I know how to say Zulu.
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Well, neither really! It's very difficult for anyone other than an Afrikaner to pronounce absolutely authentically - even the Dutch add their own flavour.
It almosts rhymes with "poor", with an ever-so-slightly rolled 'r', yet it should be a short word, not dragged out. Like the first syllable of 'lurid'.

Most non-Zulu speakers put too much 'oooh' into 'Zulu'. The first 'u' should rhyme with 'should'.

And for fans of Charlize Theron,Theron is correctly pronounced 'Tah-ronn' :yes:
 
New Class A and SL110, don't care how the first bit is pronounced! lol!

Really appreciating my ancient SU-V303 and SL110 these days.
 
OK....just talked to the Production Rep in Japan who refered me to the Western Hemisphere Distribution Director and he informed me that the correct pronounciation is Tech (as in fetch) neeks which was derived from the name of the head injuneer that spear headed the line, namely, Techiama Neekahora).

I hope this concludes this thread! :nono:
 
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