How are you pronouncing the "i" in Nikon?

1 year 4 months ago #746079 by Pete Franko
Our photo meet yesterday had covered this topic and now I want to hear from you all.  

How are you saying the "i" in Nikon? 

"i" or "eee"?


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1 year 4 months ago #746087 by Shadowfixer1
Depends on where you live. U.S is "Neyecon". Some other countries use "Nick on" and some use "Knee con"
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1 year 4 months ago #746089 by CharleyL
For me, who once owned Nikon Cameras, I have always pronounced it "I", as in the name of the letter "I". The stable is now full of Canon cameras.

Charley


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1 year 4 months ago - 1 year 4 months ago #746104 by TCav
I once took my Nikon S2 to a camera shop in Yokosuka. There was a significant language barrier, but it was clear that he wanted to buy my camera while I was there to buy lenses.

What was clear was his pronunciation: Neee-ko.

See upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Ja-Nikon.oga


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1 year 4 months ago #746105 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day Pete

This word -along with many others- as spoken around the world will change its phonetic emphasis along with regional differences in pronunciation

In Downunder-land the camera name is mostly said as "Nik-on" whereas in many U-tube videos from the US I hear it pronounced as "N-eye-kon" - so when locals hear that we roll our eyes and mutter under our breath about 'bluddy-foreigners' :p

Phil

Phil from the great land Downunder
www.flickr.com/photos/ozzie_traveller/sets/

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1 year 4 months ago #746106 by Carter Gledhill
N-eye-kon


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1 year 4 months ago #746163 by Rick Larin
+1 for N-eye-con


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1 year 4 months ago #746267 by Happy Hour
N (eye) con is how I say it.


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1 year 4 months ago #746355 by Garbo
Everyone in the USA that I know says "eye" people in Europe and every place else says "Nick-on".  

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1 year 3 months ago #746358 by TCav

Garbo wrote: Everyone in the USA that I know says "eye" people in Europe and every place else says "Nick-on".  


Except in Japan (and possibly elsewhere in Asia) where they say Neee-ko.


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1 year 3 months ago #746432 by Colorado Mike
N (eye) kon


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1 year 3 months ago #746492 by Robert Hardy
N/EYE/CON


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1 year 3 months ago #746543 by Fitch
+1 same here.  The "i" is said as "eye".  


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1 year 3 months ago #746560 by JessieJim
I pronounce "i" like "eee"


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1 year 3 months ago #746586 by TCav
I went to high school with a guy whose last name was 14 letters long and only had one vowel. During the first day of classes, the teacher was taking attendance by reading each student's name on his list, when each of us simply replied "Here" or "Present" or some other smart-assed remark as high school boys are want to do. When he got to this boy's name he just stared at the list for a moment, when this boy shouted "Here." The teacher looked up from his list at the boy, and asked "How do you pronounce that?", to which the boy replied "Smith".
It turns out that his grandfather had a boatload of money, and would disinherit any of his offspring who changed their name. So they didn't change their names, just how it was pronounced. (In actuality, their name meant "Smith" in some distant eastern European country, so it wasn't exactly incorrect to pronounce it that way.)
So it was his name, and he could pronounce it anyway he wanted.

The Japanese pronounce it Neee-ko. It's their name, they can pronounce it anyway they want, and the rest of us are wrong.

But if we want to be understood within our community, we need to mispronounce it in accordance with the local lexicon.


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