[rollei_list] Re: Pronunciation
- From: Emilio Perea <eperea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:05:13 -0500
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:41:35PM -0400, Michael Eric Berube wrote:
>
> FRANK DERNIE wrote:
>> I have only heard it pronounced phonetically "nikon",
>> with a short i like in "pill" in the UK, as in Japan,
>> same in France and everywhere else I have been except
>> the US. Nyecon seems uniquely American.
>>
>
> Yep. We use our Nyecons to shoot soccer...the rest of the world uses
> their Nikons to photograph football.
I have assumed that in the US Nikkor was pronounced just like Nikor (the
developing equipment maker) and so Nikon was pronounced like Nikkor.
How is the Ikon in Zeiss Ikon usually pronounced in the US?
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