I presume they're now safely locked up in an appropriate institution?;)
Marco.
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I presume they're now safely locked up in an appropriate institution?;)
Marco.
'Leak' as 'Lee-ack'. Heard that a few times. And 'Sony' pronounced as 'Son-ee'
All the misprononuciaters I encountered lived in Manchester - perhaps they still do (though I do not).
Devialet has been a recent fun one.
Oh, nearly forgot B&W as BMW and I encountered a couple of people who thought the ‘black ash’ was an actual species of tree.
My step-dad always used to buy Sony.
He'd been in the merchant navy and worked in Kuwait for 8 years and travelled the world before settling down and had a portable Sony reel-to-reel that he gave to me when I was about 10 with stereo speakers on top that made it into a kind of suitcase device. It was so cool. It had a mic hidden in a compartment and I used it a lot, just for mucking about, really.
He passed away in 2008 and weirdly his last TV - a really heavy 32" Sony flat-screen that I'd been using as a monitor for my desktop - just died on me last week. He'd had it a while so I reckon it must've been at least fifteen, almost twenty years old. Great unit.
Anyway .. rambling aside, he ALWAYS pronounced the company name "Sonn-Ee", with the first part rhyming with "Don" and the second like the "y" in "Happy".
Mind you, he also pronounced concrete "Kon-Krate" .. I never did ask him why, I was usually laughing too much.