pronunciation...

[bmc]

Take a crack at Nady.

 

[kaboom133]

Nad-ie? (the nad as in bad)

 

[l0calh05t]

I've wondered this for a while, how do you pronounce some of those company names?
Names like:Rickenbacker
Ibanez
Aguilar
Schecter
Gallien Krueger


I'm sure There's more, but I can't think of them now.

Ricken-bahck-er
Ee-bahn-ez
A-gee-lahr
Sheck-ter
Gahllien Krüger (dunno if there is any way to describe the "ü" sound correctly in english, which is most certainly not pronunced "ew")

 

[DWBass]

I say Pie-zo, and I'll never change hahahahahahahahaha!

+1

I've been pronouncing it Pie[Pi]-zo since I was a kid and I ain't changing now!

Here's a few more.....

Surine
Kubicki
Atelier Z
Skjold

 

[karrot-x]

I say Kubicki as, Q-bick-e

 

[bmc]

The correct pronunciation for "Nady" is "Nudge". I was stunned when I first learned it. I doubt the company uses that pronunciation and probably goes with Naddy, or rhymes-with-lady.

bmc

 

[SubEndSorcerer]

kruger with the umlaut is pronounced kh-roy-guh in german.

 

[SubEndSorcerer]

are you serious bmc? lol, lord I'm glad I don't have that name, lol. geez. if I did I would just tell everyone Nay-dee. eek

 

[l0calh05t]

kruger with the umlaut is pronounced kh-roy-guh in german.

Not really... actually... not at all

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

The correct pronunciation for "Nady" is "Nudge". I was stunned when I first learned it. I doubt the company uses that pronunciation and probably goes with Naddy, or rhymes-with-lady.

bmc

You're right, bmc. Just because this sounded very weird to me, I called Nady Systems and here's what I found.

 

[bmc]

You're right, bmc. Just because this sounded very weird to me, I called Nady Systems and here's what I found.

Thanks for that. It doesn't surprise me. There are plenty of words that are pronounced differently based on local habit. Iraq is pronounced ir-rack by the locals, and is often pronounced Eye-rack in the USA.

I'm sure the Nady name has been pronounced Naydy for a couple of generations in the States. My friend's family still holds to the original pronunciation.

 

[squierplayer120]

I thought it was 'squi-ar'.....uh oh


I'm still stumped on Aguilar...is it Ag-whi-lar? or something entirely differen't.


I've heard some people really butch May-sa Boogie.....crazy they are


EDIT: For the post above a little, it's pronounced War-wick

thanks a bunch

 

[Sonorous]

What about Sadowsky? Or Drozd?

 

[Cerb]

Drozd is the only one that's ever stumped me. Anyone care to take a wack at it?

 

[geshel]

Drozd is the only one that's ever stumped me. Anyone care to take a wack at it?

Droazhd

roll the r, o is like "oh", z is between a z and an sh. I think?

I'm really surprised by the Rickenbacker, I always said rick-n-bock-ur.

 

[Limo]

Drozd is The-ros-th

 

[Funky Doctor]

We have a town in Australia called Warwick. It's pronounced War-rick. I have a friebd who's last name is Warwick. Guess what... it's pronounced the same way.

 

[Peter Squire]

it is most definitely pronounced "warrick".

i think the german pronounciation of kruger with umlaut is closer to krerr-ger.

i always say Sadowsky as sad-OF-skee, but always wondering.....

 

[geshel]

Well - don't take this the wrong way, but both of you are Australian. The "warrick" pronunciation has a very English feel to me, in the same vein as "leicester" being pronounced "lester".

Then again, there's this:

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=warwick

Which purports that the English pronunciation is actually "war-wick".

 

[Peter Squire]

fair call, geshel. in fact, i posted a similar thread a while ago about how parts of the instrument are called different things in different parts of the world - ie: scratchplate/pickguard, tuning pegs/machine heads etc.

i guess you pronounce names depending on how everyone around you pronounces them. i was even going to point out that particularly english trait of names like Gloucestershire (Glostersha) or Worchester (Wooshter)