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%
 
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Proper watch brand name pronunciation

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There are a few brands that I hear two pronunciations, so I am curious....which way do you pronounce each brand?

Please select one pronunciation for each brand and let's run the poll for 7 Days and see what is the result !

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Flat vowels are the default setting in this 'ouse!
C60 MKI, MKII, MKIII: "some",
C6 & C60 Kingfishers,
C600 Tritechs,
C63 "some",
C65 "some",
C4, C40, C8, C9, C3, C5, C20 & 23FLE
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I don't think brietling is the correct spelling.
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The one that stuffs most people is Jaeger LeCoultre.

Understandably, English speakers tend to want to pronounce the first word “YAY-gur”, like the clothing brand and the drink Jägermeister. It is after all the German word for Hunter.

Wrong, however. The co-founder of the company was one Edmond Jaeger, a Francophone, and the company name is resolutely French. Within the Grande Maison, it is invariably pronounced “Zhé-ZHAIR”. Think Zsa-Zsa Gabor and you won’t be too far wrong.
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I’ve always wondered about Squale.

Is it Squale? As in helium voiced comedian Joe Pa-Squale?

Or is it Squale? As in Squale like a pig?
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iain wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:11 pm I’ve always wondered about Squale.

Is it Squale? As in helium voiced comedian Joe Pa-Squale?

Or is it Squale? As in Squale like a pig?
SKWAH-lay.

IMHO, It should sound Italian.
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Seiko should really be psycho from the little I understand of japanese spelling and pronunciation??
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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:18 pm SKWAH-lay.

IMHO, It should sound Italian.
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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote:
iain wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:11 pm I’ve always wondered about Squale.

Is it Squale? As in helium voiced comedian Joe Pa-Squale?

Or is it Squale? As in Squale like a pig?
SKWAH-lay.

IMHO, It should sound Italian.
That's the pronunciation Jonathan @ Page & Cooper, who was an AD for Sqalue, would use.

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Omega. I think it's omm ig uh"
Some say "om ee ga"
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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.
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tikkathree wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 2:28 pm Flat vowels are the default setting in this 'ouse!
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iain wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:11 pm I’ve always wondered about Squale.

Is it Squale? As in helium voiced comedian Joe Pa-Squale?

Or is it Squale? As in Squale like a pig?
:lol: These replies are just getting funnier as I scroll through :lol: :lol:
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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:
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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”.
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