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dannywhiteley

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How do you say?
« on: February 04, 2010, 11:26 PM »
That Crupi stem I sold tonight got me thinking... I dont mix in big BMX circles so dont often speak (as in talk) to BMX'y people very often.  As a result, I sometimes find ive spent my life pronouncing some of the names of bikes and parts wrong.

For instance, is Crupi pronounced 'Croopi' - how I'd say it or is it a shorter u like 'krupi'?

What about decal?  For some reason I always used to say 'deecal' but more recently have starting using 'dekal'.

And is Haro pronounced 'Harrow', 'High-ro' or 'Hair-o'

And one that always gets me is A'me.  Is it said like the girls name 'Amy' or some other wierd pronunciation?


Theres loads more, but that'll do for starters. Feels free to add you own and we can all have a bit of fun and get on the same wavelength for a change...lol
« Last Edit: February 04, 2010, 11:33 PM by dannywhiteley »

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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2010, 11:48 PM »
 ;D fook knows danny, the ones you have mentioned i say the same as you bud except i say deecal :daumenhoch: i also say nike not nikey and porsh not porsch e

had been havin a real problem with nos. i kept saying new old school  :idiot2: i now just say nos :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2010, 11:56 PM »
tange. in holland they call it tan-g as in the g from girl. first time somebody said tange as in flange it sounded so wrong.

i've heard decal pronounced both ways.
read this for more info, according to wiki it's only a decal if it's a transfer :shocked: anything else is a sticker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decal

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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2010, 11:59 PM »
tange. in holland they call it tan-g as in the g from girl. first time somebody said tange as in flange it sounded so wrong.

i've heard decal pronounced both ways.
read this for more info, according to wiki it's only a decal if it's a transfer :shocked: anything else is a sticker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decal



delstickers dont have the same ring to it somehow ;D

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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2010, 04:44 AM »
Decal   dee-cal (although we use the word where i work and it's always been deck-all)

crupi    crew-pea

Haro  Har-row

A'me   Aim-ee or Amy



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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2010, 06:28 AM »

it does not matter how you say crupi , all that matters is that it is mine now  :yahoo_silent: :daumenhoch:

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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2010, 07:23 AM »
thats amazing!!!!   i have a form of torrets when trying to pronounce burner, and a outburst of 'POS' comes out.... ???











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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2010, 07:51 AM »
The Haro ones a good one, the first time I saw a haro bike was on the the cover of a BMX mag when I was about 7 but the angle of the picture was taken at was obscured and made the O look like a D. It spent the next few years thinking they were Hard bikes!  :-[ (what a fooktard!)



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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2010, 08:05 AM »
Had a friend like you BITD, XGoose  :D I spent weeks to explain him  :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2010, 08:11 AM »
I've always pronounced UKAI as UK  ???

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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2010, 08:44 AM »
Politician

Never sure if it was polly-ti-shone

or po-lit-tission

then it found out ...its pronounced LIAR

and BANKER as well

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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2010, 10:11 AM »
I've always pronounced UKAI as UK  ???

I always say 'oo-kigh (as in high), and what about 'a-ray-a'

Tange rhymes with flange and always will in my book. :D

I'll have to get used to Har-row as ive always said it more like 'Higher-O' or something like that  ???

snav69

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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2010, 10:15 AM »
Think the Americans say - argh ro  :D

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« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2010, 10:23 AM »
I've always pronounce Haro as Harow and still have difficulty pronouncing it properly (Har-row).

I pronounce UKAI as you-kigh, but the hardest one for me is Suzue. Since a nipper I've called them sooz, but I think it should be soo-zoo??

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« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2010, 10:23 AM »
Joining the bmx scene few years ago like you the poster of this thread doesnt hang around in the bmx scene to get to speak bmx anyway you know the words Mk1 and Mk2 BURNERS right well  :-[ :-[ i call them by the name of saying EM KAY ONE burners or EM KAY TWO burners INSTEAD of saying Mark 1 or Mark 2 god am fooking cringing right here. My cousin whos in his late 30s caught me out when i mentioned here you know M K 1 blahh he pi ssed himself laughing ever since  :-[ so i have trained myself and it was hard getting into the habit of saying MARK 1 or MARK 2........

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« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2010, 11:05 AM »
i thought for years that diamond back was diamond black....   and tbh i think diamond black sounds better... ???
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« Reply #16 on: February 05, 2010, 11:17 AM »
OK, now I'd like to hear your thoughts on Maillard, Motobecane or Michelin  ;)

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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2010, 11:22 AM »
Maillard - Male Hard  :D
Motobecane - Motor b cane  ???
Michelin - Mitch hell in  ;D

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Re: How do you say?
« Reply #18 on: February 05, 2010, 11:44 AM »
I've always pronounced UKAI as UK  ???
me too  ???
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« Reply #20 on: February 05, 2010, 11:59 AM »
he's my take on them... wrong or right,... who knows!

UKAI - you-kigh (as in "are you high?")  :laugh:
SUZUE - soo zoo
HARO - Harrow (as in wheel barrow)
CRUPI - Crew-pea
DECAL - deck-al
A'ME - amy
TANGE - as its spelt (as in Flange)
BURNER - BURN' EM

is DIA COMPE - dye a comp or dye a compei (as in pompei)?
and is Weinman - wine man or ween man?


Oh and BITD I used to call Kuwahara -Koo hara, missing out an "a" completely and like Sam I also thought Diamond Back was Diamond Black until i got myself a Silver Streak!
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« Reply #21 on: February 05, 2010, 12:04 PM »
so i wasnt the only stupid person....    :LolLolLolLol:


love the burner pronounciation del,  i'm going to use that for ever more..... ;D ;D
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« Reply #22 on: February 05, 2010, 12:58 PM »

is DIA COMPE - dye a comp or dye a compei (as in pompei)?
and is Weinman - wine man or ween man?

Oh and BITD I used to call Kuwahara -Koo hara, missing out an "a" completely and like Sam I also thought Diamond Back was Diamond Black until i got myself a Silver Streak!

would say Pompei like for dia compe and "wine man"
"Koo hara" sounds about right to me..

As for the french stuff, maillard is "my are"

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« Reply #23 on: February 05, 2010, 01:16 PM »
mongs.

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« Reply #24 on: February 05, 2010, 01:19 PM »
Mon-gs

I also like the use of the word Fooktard in this thread, fook-tard

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