Has Everyone Been Mispronouncing "Leica" All These Years?

[Out to Lunch]

To close the debate: klugscheisser A person, often intellectual, who consistently corrects other people's mistakes in writing, speaking, et cetera; a wiseass. Also besserwisser.

 

[Calzone]

To close the debate: klugscheisser A person, often intellectual, who consistently corrects other people's mistakes in writing, speaking, et cetera; a wiseass. Also besserwisser.

My slang: WISEASS, A person, often intellectual, who consistently makes mistakes in writing, speaking, et cetera to provoke people to think. LOL. Often a wiseass is annoying. LOL.

Cal

 

[kuuan]

To close the debate: klugscheisser A person, often intellectual, who consistently corrects other people's mistakes in writing, speaking, et cetera; a wiseass. Also besserwisser.

haha, very good one Peter! both talk too much and get on nerves, a klugscheisser usually doesn't know sh*t, a besserwissers might

 

[Jack Sparrow]

"It's pronounced Lee-nux."

 

[btgc]

I've read somewhere it originally comes from Chinese - Lei Tsa, something like "art of taking away all money without offending customer" 😉

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

I've read somewhere it originally comes from Chinese - Lei Tsa, something like "art of taking away all money without offending customer" 😉

Wise, Chinese people... 🙂
Cheers,
Juan

 

[mbisc]

I've heard several people (including one who worked for Nikon in New York) - pronounce Nikon as Nee-kon. Always throws me. Addidas is also pronounced weird (Ah-De-Das).

You always have two choises with names/words that come from other languages: either pronounce it like speakers of the country-of-origin, or butcher it 😀

Leica, Adidas, Nikon, Paris, Zeiss - just to name a few

 

[Platinum RF]

Whatever it is you're smoking, I'd like to try some.

hahahahhahahah😀😀😀😀😀

 

[pete hogan]

Long ago I had a Harley Sportster that was a "leek-ah".

 

[DougFord]

YF -

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: You must be Igor.
[He pronounces it ee-gor]
Igor: No, it's pronounced "eye-gor."
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: But they told me it was "ee-gor."
Igor: Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?

 

[Luddite Frank]

YF -

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: You must be Igor.
[He pronounces it ee-gor]
Igor: No, it's pronounced "eye-gor."
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: But they told me it was "ee-gor."
Igor: Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?

Igor: Do they call you "Froh-derick ?"

😉

 

[zuiko85]

So if my M4-2 developes a light leak is it a Leaka?

 

[sebastel]

You always have two choises with names/words that come from other languages: either pronounce it like speakers of the country-of-origin, or butcher it.😀

you should hear the names of F1 drivers pronounced in chinese TV (cctv5).

aronso?
vahtahr?
hamirtoh?

at least they don't even try to say "raikkonen". he's known as "kimi".

 

[Lauffray]

It's funny because when speaking French it's generally pronounced Ley-ka, but in English I've never heard it different than Lie-ka

 

[Spavinaw]

How about back in 1968 when Subaru ( SU-ba-ru) was pronounced Su-BAR-ru in the USA. Even further out is that Nissan was Datsun. Seems to me that chipotle is pronounced wrong or 99+% of everything else ending in"le" is pronounced wrong.
Have you ever considered that not everything you can say can be written down in a sentence. The problem involves homonyms--words that sound alike but are spelled differently. You can say "There are two ways to spell the word ____". You can say this sentence and insert any homonym in the blank, but you can't write it down. You can't use a phonetic spelling because it's not the words you are referring to. You can't use just one of the words because you are talking about two words. You can't use both words with a slash between them because you only spoke the word once. If anyone knows the answer to this problem, don't hesitate to let us know what it is. I'll readily admit I don't know, and you are not about to hurt my feelings if you do.

 

[snapper78]

There's a very good German swimmer called Deibler who is usually pronounced Diebler by American and British commentators. Riesling is often pronounced Reisling but the pronunciation doesn't affect the taste.

 

[telenous]

...
My ruling?

The correct pronunciation is of Leica is LEEca, not LIE-ca, since it is a concatenation of the first letters of the name "Leitz" - pronounced with a long "e", and the word "camera". You are to effect this change immediately.

Now you tell me? I've been pronouncing it floccinaucinihilipilification. Too late to change, my friends will not understand what I'm talking about.

.

 

[EdwardKaraa]

I've read somewhere it originally comes from Chinese - Lei Tsa, something like "art of taking away all money without offending customer" 😉

It's actually Lei Tao. Tao being the "way" as in "do" in japanese. It is the art that the current management seems to have mastered so well 🙂

 

[mfunnell]

It's actually Lei Tao. Tao being the "way" as in "do" in japanese. It is the art that the current management seems to have mastered so well 🙂

My company has the concept half right - the "taking away all money" part. The "not offending customer" part, not so much. Though somehow I'm not so sure they care.

Full disclosure: I work for a bank.

...Mike

 

[mfunnell]

Also, as of next week, DUDEN will stop making the German letter "b". Better stock up while supply lasts! You heard it here first.

Perhaps the Eurozone crisis is far worse than I thought 😱 Last time something like this happened was in WWII, when the British Empire ran out of 'z's and so had to substitute from their surplus 's' stockpile. Yet to this day, Americans can't see how cruel it is to sympathize.

...Mike