awander
Stainless
- Joined
- Jun 11, 2012
- Location
- Eastern PA
Does it rhyme with "hinge", or with "ping"?
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Does it rhyme with "hinge", or with "ping"?
Does it rhyme with "hinge", or with "ping"?
Hinge
Whinge
Binge
Singe
Impinge
Ping
Fling
Wing
Cling
Exasperating
Seems pretty obvious to me.
Yes, obvious to us because we've heard it for 30 or more years. Hard to know sometimes when you've only read it.
Take Fanuc, for instance.
Funny you should mention it-that's the other one I wanted to ask about. I've heard "Fe-NOOK", and also 'FAN-ook".
This reminds me of Jay Leno pronouncing
The Great “Cummins” diesel engine as
“Cummings”.
My wife's English father was looking at my small lathes and we got talking about U.S. makes and I mentioned Derbyshire and he raised an eyebrow and corrected me darbishure.
I and everyone I know stateside says Hardinj.
Derbyshire's only USA competition in expensive small precision lathes is Levin, once called Louis Levin & Son. I once talked to a guy who had met the son and he corrected my pronunciation. He said it is leh-VIN.
Larry
I would say Leh-Vin naturally. You would say Lee-Vin?
I had been putting the accent on the first syllable: LEH-vin. There is a person who supports some PBS TV shows and gets the name announced in that way at the beginning of programs. I do not recall ever hearing a different pronunciation until the guy who had met the lathe maker corrected me.
Larry
And "Faa-Nook" and "Fan-Nick".Funny you should mention it-that's the other one I wanted to ask about. I've heard "Fe-NOOK", and also 'FAN-ook".
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