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Eye-banez or Eee-banez?

#41
Too bad Orville Gibson didn't have any Spanish descendants or I would have started saying Geebson :laugh:
Leo is a French name right? Maybe we could start saying FEN-DEY with a silent R as the French pronounce it like in the word Chanter meaning to sing. Or perhaps a dry R would be better. That's when it sounds like your clearing your throat. FEN-DARE(CH)
 
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#42
SturmUndDrang said:
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Leo is a French name right? Maybe we could start saying FEN-DEY with a silent R as the French pronounce it like in the word Chanter meaning to sing. Or perhaps a dry R would be better. That's when it sounds like your clearing your throat. FEN-DARE(CH)
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In French ™Fender" is actually pronounced fenn-DARE, with the 'r' in the back of the throat, but only because it's known to come from English. If it were a French name, it would be more like fon-DAY because of the effect of the 'n' on preceding vowels.
 
#55
If you really want to be technical no matter how anyone says it you have to realize the origin of the name. The brand was bought from a Spanish guitar maker of that last name, Salvador Ibáñez. The "N" is actually a "Ñ" and therefore the pronunciation should actually be "ee bahn yehz".
 
#56
staindbass said:
its eye- banez. I've met the company guys many times and thats how they said it.
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Well that's the thing about names. You can't argue language and etymology and how "everybody" says it etc. They are only determined by how the person with the name SAYS it's pronounced. If they say you pronounce it "jones" then that's what it is.

Of course 'Muricans love to murderlize foreign words because they try to use phonics to figure how to say them. And of course because English sucks in Foreign words at a fantastic rate, this doesn't work at all because in other languages often the same letters have totally different pronunciations. And that creates "ugly Americans" who obviously won't bother to learn the right way to say any foreign words. So if phonics won't work for normal words it certainly won't work for names.
 
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#57
Ibanez is one of those words, names that most everyone pronounces incorrectly (even the owners, apparently), so if one pronounces it correctly, one comes off sounding wrong. Even though I know it's true Spanish pronunciation should be e-ba-NYEZ, I say I-ban-ez. Anyway, it's not so Spanish now. Other terms that mispronunciation is generally the norm are forte (it's fort, not for-TAY), err (er not air) and tofu (doh-fu not TOW-fuu). Sometimes it's better to sound like others expect, lest they judge you.
 
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#60
Related to what Bassbenj said in Post #57, you should hear how ugly Americans butcher Hawaiian place names...even when they've lived here for years. The worst offender is Haliimaile...correctly its five syllables- ha lee ee my lay. It gets butchered to "highly Miley". I'm a white mainland immigrant and I find this extremely offensive.
 

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