Pronounce Aguilar for me ....

[pedroims]

it's a spanish surname that's related to the word for "Eagle"

pronounced "AH-gee-lar"

that's a hard "g" by the way

that is Correct. Is a common surname in Mexico, never heard it in South America, probably is common in Spain too

A ( as apple ) GUI ( as guitar) LAR , ( as large)

A pple GUI tar LAR ge

 

[Relic]

Yup... yes it does.

If their voicemail system says Ag-You-Lar I'll assume that's correct. I was close with Ag-Yuh-Lar at least.


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but are you pressing 1 for English or 2 for Spanish??

 

[Revmizery]

Either Ag-u-lar or ag-wih-lar randomly so who really knows but that's why I took mine out and put in a audere which another company I'm probably saying wrong.

 

[Valerus]

Not sure if it's correct, but I've always pronounced it "AG-U-LAR"

Same here

 

[jsingles]

they answer the phone as AG-YOU-LAR.

this is how i always pronounce it... good enough for me.

 

[ashtray]

What about Epifani? Ep-e-fon-nee? E-pif-a-nee?

That one always confused me...

 

[stflbn]

And... regardless of what may be 'right' as far as spanish, or whatever other language, the pronunciation depends entirely on how they prefer. There's many family names and such that are not pronounced 'correct' by any means.


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[John Bigboote]

AG-yih-lahr

-jb

 

[JmJ]

What about Epifani? Ep-e-fon-nee? E-pif-a-nee?

That one always confused me...

Ep- iff- on- knee (the K is silent)

 

[jsingles]

And... regardless of what may be 'right' as far as spanish, or whatever other language, the pronunciation depends entirely on how they prefer. There's many family names and such that are not pronounced 'correct' by any means.


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+1

lakland sure isnt pronounced as it "should" be grammatically either. (Lake Land, as opposed to lack land)

and its ep ih fah nee

 

[John Bigboote]

What about Epifani? Ep-e-fon-nee? E-pif-a-nee?

That one always confused me...

Eh-pih-FAH-nee. Dude's name. Not like "epiphany."

-jb

 

[basss]

hoo-ka-r-z

 

[PaleMelanesian]

+1

lakland sure isnt pronounced as it "should" be grammatically either. (Lake Land, as opposed to lack land)

and its ep ih fah nee

Q. How do you pronounce Lakland? Lake-land or Lackland?

A. Lakland is pronounced Lake-land with a long first A (note the symbol over the A in our logo). The name comes from a combination of Dan Lakin and original partner Hugh McFarland. LAKin plus mcfarLAND equals Lakland.

Like this:

 

[John Bigboote]

Shoulda called it McFakin!

-jb

 

[NJL]

Yup... yes it does.

If their voicemail system says Ag-You-Lar I'll assume that's correct. I was close with Ag-Yuh-Lar at least.


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obviously whoever did their vmail:

1) doesn't speak Spanish

2) does speak Spanish and mispronounced it due to non-Spanish people not able to SIMPLY pronounce it correctly

3) does speak Spanish but is so horribly assimilated they don't even try to pronounce Spanish words correctly - ex. my own brothers

 

[NJL]

and yes i love Aguilar gear, i have two cabs

 

[NJL]

that is Correct. Is a common surname in Mexico, never heard it in South America, probably is common in Spain too

A ( as apple ) GUI ( as guitar) LAR , ( as large)

A pple GUI tar LAR ge

It's very common down here in the southwest of the US as well.

 

[joelb79]

Ok.. now Audere? Is that Oh-Dear or Au-dear.

 

[Chad Michael]

Ok.. now Audere? Is that Oh-Dear or Au-dear.

No, its 'audrey' as in 'Hepburn'

Re Aguilar....

Southern USA pronunciation is "AGG-ler"

"Shoot, my AGG-ler sounds bigger'n Texas."

Actually, I don't have a clue, but even my 6 y.o. son can pronounce SWR .

 

[ashtray]

hoo-ka-r-z

HAhaha - nice.

There was an episode of American Idol last week where this poor girl was saying all these "big" words about the human anatomy, but she had only read them and never heard how they were pronounced. She came off looking like the biggest idiot. (ok, she looked like an idiot for other reasons too, but...)

When you go to talk to someone in person, and you don't pronounce the stuff right that you're talking about, you come off looking like an idiot - even if you're fully versed on all the specs of the model.

"Neodynium" and "Piezo" are two more words that have similar responses - trying to figure out what word they are trying to say...