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 08/07/2008 02:43:00 PM · #126
Originally posted by heavyj:
I live in Japan and it's pronounced knee-con. Wikipedia has a media file that plays the pronunciation. I would say that since it's a Japanese company, the Japanese pronunciation would be the 'proper' way to say it. But that's not going to stop people from saying it any other way.


Nikon USA pronounces it Nigh-kon...Check out their commercials. If it was a big deal to Nikon that their name be pronounced a certain way, they would have their adverts reflect it.....

Message edited by author 2008-08-07 15:23:41.
 08/07/2008 03:37:39 PM · #127
Holy old-thread rez-ur-eckt-shon!
08/07/2008 09:38:56 PM · #128
Originally posted by bassbone:

Nikon USA pronounces it Nigh-kon...Check out their commercials. If it was a big deal to Nikon that their name be pronounced a certain way, they would have their adverts reflect it.....


To the Japanese, it's not a big deal. So long as they are selling cameras I doubt they could give 2 shits. Japanese do the same with American brand goods and pronounce them by adding a vowel to the end of the words. No American company has ever complained.

The only time I've ever had a 'heated' debate is when someone insisted that the correct pronunciation was Neye-con and that any other way was just wrong.


08/07/2008 11:21:43 PM · #129
curious... do those who say "neye-con" also say "co-neye-car" for koNIca?
08/08/2008 12:54:02 AM · #130
Originally posted by MikeOwens:
Kan-On
or
Kan-an

;-)

Or maybe
No-Kan-on
:-)
 08/08/2008 01:07:10 AM · #131
It is spelled Nikon but pronounced "Great Photography".
 04/22/2009 09:00:50 AM · #132
Guys, NIKON is made in Japan. The Japanese don't have a long "i". You don't say M eye tsubishi but MITsubishi... In like manner, NIKON is pronounced as KNEE kon, not Neyekon
 04/22/2009 09:15:35 AM · #133
Originally posted by crayon:
curious... do those who say "neye-con" also say "co-neye-car" for koNIca?


I worked for them for a few years. con-eh-ca

Not konNEEka
 04/22/2009 09:17:53 AM · #134
Originally posted by reynaldo818:
Guys, NIKON is made in Japan. The Japanese don't have a long "i". You don't say M eye tsubishi but MITsubishi... In like manner, NIKON is pronounced as KNEE kon, not Neyekon


Ill keep this in mind when I write Nikon's advertising firm and US division and let them know that they don't know what they are doing.

The accepted version of the work is Neyekon. If you wanna be the guy that says it the other way, go for it, but expect to have to the that guy who has to give this explanation everytime he says it, and gets a wierd look like he doesn't know what hes talking about haha.
 04/22/2009 10:15:11 AM · #135
We are the knights who say nee! Nee nee nee! //www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e2kaQqxmQ0
 04/22/2009 11:11:59 AM · #136
Kinda reminds me of the long-standing feud between "Por-sha" owners and "Porsh" wannabes. Any true lover of the Porsche marque knows the right way to pronounce it :-)

And don't even get me started on the dummies who think they are driving "volks-wagons", not the actual "volks-vagens" they sit behind the wheels of.

R.
 04/22/2009 11:47:23 AM · #137
And in the UK the accepted pronunciation is Nick-on, as in the male name, and without stress on either of the syllables.
 04/22/2009 12:00:37 PM · #138
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Kinda reminds me of the long-standing feud between "Por-sha" owners and "Porsh" wannabes. Any true lover of the Porsche marque knows the right way to pronounce it :-)

R.


Yup, you pronounce it Volkswagen. That's all yer Porsche is. A hopped up Volkswagen. LOLOLOLOLOLOL
 04/22/2009 12:04:26 PM · #139
Paul knows how to pronounce Nikon.
 04/22/2009 12:52:20 PM · #140
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Kinda reminds me of the long-standing feud between "Por-sha" owners and "Porsh" wannabes. Any true lover of the Porsche marque knows the right way to pronounce it :-)

And don't even get me started on the dummies who think they are driving "volks-wagons", not the actual "volks-vagens" they sit behind the wheels of.

R.


Do you know the difference between a porcupine and a Porsche?

With a porcupine, the pricks are on the outside.
 04/23/2009 12:30:20 PM · #141
Originally posted by ajdelaware:
[quote=reynaldo818]
The accepted version of the work is Neyekon. If you wanna be the guy that says it the other way, go for it, but expect to have to the that guy who has to give this explanation everytime he says it, and gets a wierd look like he doesn't know what hes talking about haha.


When I lived in the UK it was 'Nick-on'. Now I'm in North America it's 'N-eye-con'. Tomayto, Tomarto, Shhedule, Skedule. It's different and each is accepted in it's own place.
 04/23/2009 12:37:20 PM · #142
Originally posted by ajdelaware:
The accepted version of the work is Neyekon. If you wanna be the guy that says it the other way, go for it, but expect to have to the that guy who has to give this explanation everytime he says it, and gets a wierd look like he doesn't know what hes talking about haha.


Originally posted by cmcphee:
When I lived in the UK it was 'Nick-on'. Now I'm in North America it's 'N-eye-con'. Tomayto, Tomarto, Shhedule, Skedule. It's different and each is accepted in it's own place.

You know what?

It's my camera, I paid for it.....I'll call it whatever I want...oh, wait!!!

I do....I call it The Brick 'cause it weighs a ton and hangs perfectly in my hand.


04/23/2009 05:41:44 PM · #143
I was in SanFrancisco last weekend and checked out about a dozen camera stores that seem to flood the Fishermans Wharf area as well as China Town. WOW lots of Camera stores, One every block in the Wharf some blocks have 2. Anyway one of the guys I talked to pronounced Nikon NyCan and he some how managed to spit every time he said it. lol
 04/23/2009 06:51:50 PM · #144
Originally posted by 4ROGGYCHEF:
is it knee con --- or -- N eye con??
myself and a teacher were discussing this and she said in the english language it would be Neyecon and I said but the camera is probably foreign made -- asia probably and that might be KneeCon????????? Help???


I'm having trouble understanding why anyone saying "myself and a teacher" would even care.
 04/23/2009 06:57:19 PM · #145
I asked the most powerful supercomputer in the universe how to pronounce "Nikon" and it just told me "42" or forty-two... DUH

Message edited by author 2009-04-23 18:57:33.
 04/23/2009 07:08:28 PM · #146
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Message edited by author 2009-04-23 19:39:09.
 04/23/2009 07:13:15 PM · #147
If you vacation in Paree Fraans and Firenzie Itaalia, then you took your shots with your nee-kon.

If your pictures when you came home were of Paris and Florence, they you took them with you Nigh-kon.
 04/23/2009 07:14:16 PM · #148
Originally posted by David Ey:
Originally posted by 4ROGGYCHEF:
is it knee con --- or -- N eye con??
myself and a teacher were discussing this and she said in the english language it would be Neyecon and I said but the camera is probably foreign made -- asia probably and that might be KneeCon????????? Help???


I'm having trouble understanding why anyone saying "myself and a teacher" would even care.


hahaha
 04/23/2009 07:19:55 PM · #149
Ok take a look at the origin of the name
The company started as Nippon Kogaku, K.K., or Japan Optical Co.
They made lens for cannon under the name formed from this and called it "Nikkor"

The company was renamed in 1988 to Nikon formed from the above names

Now unless you pronounce the japanese word for Japan Neyepon I think you will find that that Nikon is prounounced

Nickon

As a point of interest several names were considered for the company name before Nikon was decided upon for the company name.
These included BENTAX, PENTAX, PANNET, NICCA, NIKKA, NIKORET, NIKO and NIKKORETTE

Message edited by author 2009-04-23 19:36:30.
 04/23/2009 09:03:02 PM · #150
Originally posted by reynaldo818:
Guys, NIKON is made in Japan. The Japanese don't have a long "i". You don't say M eye tsubishi but MITsubishi... In like manner, NIKON is pronounced as KNEE kon, not Neyekon


Actually, there's a real reason behind the different pronunciation of the I's in those words, and it's not because Americans are stupid. It's because the rules of (American) English say so.

vowel-consonant-vowel makes the first vowel long (i=aye)
vowel-consonant-consonant makes the vowel short (i=ih/ee)
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