Proper watch brand name pronunciation

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What do you believe is the proper watch brand pronunciation? Please select one for each brand

Poll ended at Sun May 02, 2021 2:22 pm

Zenith ( ZEN-ITH)
30
33%
Zenith ( ZEE- NITH)
1
1%
Bremont (BREM-ONT)
25
27%
Bremont (BRIE-MONT)
5
5%
Brietling (BRIGHT-LING)
29
32%
Brietling (BREET-LING)
2
2%
 
Total votes: 92

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Re: Proper watch brand name pronunciation

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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:16 pm
cincfleet wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:06 pm One of my problems is "Ulysse Nardin"? I get the "Nardin" its just that first bit, is it 'You-le-see' or 'You'll-see' or 'You'll ease' or something compleely different? :lol: :wave:
The nearest you will get to it with an English transcription is something like: “You lease” but you have to try to drop the Y sound at the beginning, because it’s not a diphthong. The sound is the same as the German Ü.

The best way to make this sound is to put your mouth in the position to say “Ooh”, but then without moving your tongue, teeth or lips try to say “Eee”.

The problem being that French vowel sounds tend to be much purer than English ones, which are often made up of two or three individual sounds. Someone like the Queen, for example, trying to say “oh” back in the 1950s would have sounded like a cat in distress. “Ay-ow”. Her accent has become much flatter as she has got older.

When I taught French, I always used to tell the kids that the best way to sound authentic when reading French was to pronounce it as if you were on the program “Allô Allô”.
Steve, many thanks for that, I struggle with my English as it is! LOL, but this one has bugged me no end LOL :thumbup:
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Interesting that the majority thus far have gone for BREM-ONT - which is actually wrong!
The Company's name originates from the name of a French farmer that rescued/helped Nick and Giles father when he crashed landed in a field.
Therefore, it would be pronounced in French such that the E would, strictly speaking, have a accent over it and you wouldn't pronounce the T, so something like BREY-MON
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I think the brothers pronounce it Brem-ont, but, rightly or wrongly. I pronounce it Bray-mont. I pronounce the T because I'm hopelessly anglophone (and us North Americans are terribly uncouth).
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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:16 pm
When I taught French, I always used to tell the kids that the best way to sound authentic when reading French was to pronounce it as if you were on the program “Allô Allô”.
That must have been a long time ago if the kids had heard of Allo, Allo. (I hope you told them to listen carefully as you were only going to say it once :) )
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StrapMeister wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 9:51 pm Interesting that the majority thus far have gone for BREM-ONT - which is actually wrong!
The Company's name originates from the name of a French farmer that rescued/helped Nick and Giles father when he crashed landed in a field.
Therefore, it would be pronounced in French such that the E would, strictly speaking, have a accent over it and you wouldn't pronounce the T, so something like BREY-MON
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I would have voted for Bray-mon/Brey-mon had it been on option as the French pronunciation is the one the English brothers use.
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Re: Proper watch brand name pronunciation

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^^^ The point being that in a closed pole, you can only vote on the options you are given.
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Re: Proper watch brand name pronunciation

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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:27 pm
JAFO wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:18 pm Omega. I think it's omm ig uh"
Some say "om ee ga"
They’re all wrong. It’s o-MAY-ga.
I think I'm getting them all wrong, Steve.
Google seems to think it's
Uh-mei-guh, which definitely agrees with you. :D

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Re: Proper watch brand name pronunciation

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^^^Doesn't surprise me. French and English speakers are among the world's worst and laziest linguists.

All I know is that Omega is a Greek letter, and that's how the Greeks pronounce it. Seems a bit disrespectful not to follow their lead.
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Re: Proper watch brand name pronunciation

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I genuinely thought the stress was on the first syllable. Clearly it's not.
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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote:
JAFO wrote:Omega. I think it's omm ig uh"
Some say "om ee ga"
They’re all wrong. It’s o-MAY-ga.
I freely use both O-mee-ga and O-may-ga interchangeably and frequently within the same sentence. I probably use O-mee-ga 75-80% of the time, O-may-ga the rest of the time. Don’t thing I’ve ever used the OMM-ig-a pronunciation ever, except perhaps by mistake or in parody... Image
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