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04-05-2010, 07:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Newfoundland, Canada. | | | How do you pronounce "Piezo"?
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I've always said it as pie-zo (like, the delicious food, then zo),
but on a youtube video I say a guy saying it like pye-ay-zo (delicious food, pirate for "yes", and then zo).
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04-05-2010, 07:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | it's Pie - Zoh.
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04-05-2010, 07:56 PM
|  | Me? Solecistic? That's unpossible! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada eh? | | it's pee-zo ... like the liquid 
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04-05-2010, 07:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | Pee-a-zo (where "a" is pronounced like the letter) |
04-05-2010, 07:58 PM
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04-05-2010, 07:58 PM
| | Me? Solecistic? That's unpossible! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada eh? | | | I guess we seem to have a difference of opinions here. I am getting my pronunciation initially from college where I took Electronics Engineering Technology. Piezoelectric devices, like crystals, were always pronounced to us as pee-zo and everyone in the industry that I have ever talked to pronounces it the same way.
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04-05-2010, 08:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | It's Greek apparently.
Do we have any Greeks in the house? |
04-05-2010, 08:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by elgecko  Pee-a-zo (where "a" is pronounced like the letter) | +1 That's how the factory Piezo reps I used to work with pronounced it. They had nothing to do with pickups but it's the same thang |
04-05-2010, 08:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Mexico City | | | Couldn't be like... pee-eh-zo (piezo)? That's how I would pronounce it in the spanish way...
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04-05-2010, 08:30 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | I've always said Pee-Zo. |
04-05-2010, 08:31 PM
|  | Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Austin TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by elgecko Pee-a-zo (where "a" is pronounced like the letter) | This.
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04-05-2010, 08:32 PM
|  | Fan Fret Fan and Builder | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Anytown USA | | Sorry always pronounced it Pea Zoh.
Then again I also pronounce the wood as When Gee.
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04-05-2010, 08:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | Pee-a-zo.
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04-05-2010, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Dirk Diggler Sorry always pronounced it Pea Zoh.
Then again I also pronounce the wood as When Gee.
Dirk | Same here. I was led to believe that was in fact the correct pronunciation of "wenge," although the first time I encountered the word I pronounced it "winj."
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04-05-2010, 09:15 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Pee-zee-oh! |
04-05-2010, 09:15 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | Toe-may-toe?
Toe-mah-toe? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/piezo- : piezo- [paɪˈiːzəʊ- piːˈeɪzəʊ- ˈpiːtsəʊ-] http://www.yourdictionary.com/piezo-prefix : piezo- (pī ē′zō′, pē ā′-)
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04-05-2010, 09:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Newfoundland, Canada. | | | Well played, pilgrim, well played.
I think all possible options have been covered, here... |
04-05-2010, 09:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | Okay, I think we've got all possible permutations of the pronunciation of "piezo".
Greeks! Paging all Greeks! |
04-05-2010, 09:24 PM
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04-05-2010, 09:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Montreal, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by elgecko Okay, I think we've got all possible permutations of the pronunciation of "piezo".
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pee-e(as in end)-zo
the word as I know it means "to apply pressure, to lean on, etc"
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