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Two words I've only read and never heard and thus don't really know how
to properly pronounce:

1. Sapelle (SAH-pell? SAH-pell-E <--long E? SAY-pell(-E)? )
2. Gotoh (GO-TOO? GOT-oh? GO-toe?)

Don't want to sound like a doofus when I'm hanging out at the guitar
shop

one for me is

Imbia (Im-bay-ya?)

Oh and

Money (don't got any)

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I have heard Sapele pronounced
Sa Peal lay
and Imbia
Im by ya
but than I hear toe mot toe
and sometimes my wife says I don't hear a darn thing
go figure
john hall

huuuummmm...do you mean imbuyia im-boo-yah?

boo-yah, isn't that a navy seal term for Kick A**?

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"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

I've always gone with Sa-PEH-lee and Go-toe.

I emailed Gotoh's cause I was currious as to how to pronounce it and the emailed me back with Go-toe

[QUOTE]I've always gone with Sa-PEH-lee and Go-toe.[/QUOTE]

Sa-PEH-lee- That's what I've always used, but I wouldn't admit to it in court!

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Sah pi lay and im boo ya! cost some mow nay, Hoosier Dah day?

I think it is sa-Peel-Lay.

How about this one...

Bois d'Rose = Bwa-d-rose

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Hahney, Where's ma oual let ??

Gibson Less Paul or Lezz Paul ???

Dan-gelico or Dee Angelico ???

Sat-tree-annie or Say-tree-aynee - Joe that is.

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How about Bourgeois Guitars? I was on the phone a couple of years back talking to Dave Skowron and pronounced it Borgeous, like Gorgeous with a B! He thought I was talking about Julius Borges and then corrected me with the proper pronunciation of Danas last name "Boosh-waa"

DHO!

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I have no idea how MOST of you guys pronounce your names! You should hear me try to pronounce "Ervin Somogiy"! Arnt38855.3441782407

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Sa-mo-gee

Craig-n-brink

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How about this one. Not guitar related but fun nonetheless.
CWM.It's a Welsh word refering to a flat spot on a mountain. Sentence: the Western Cwm of Everest is where we set up camp 4.

[QUOTE=Pwoolson] How about this one. Not guitar related but fun nonetheless.
CWM.It's a Welsh word refering to a flat spot on a mountain. Sentence: the Western Cwm of Everest is where we set up camp 4.
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Coome

Actually it's a glacial valley, usually like a semi-circle cut out of a mountain. Corrie is another word for it.

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[QUOTE=LanceK] How about Bourgeois Guitars? I was on the phone a couple of years back talking to Dave Skowron and pronounced it Borgeous, like Gorgeous with a B! He thought I was talking about Julius Borges and then corrected me with the proper pronunciation of Danas last name "Boosh-waa"

DHO!
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The real pronounciation is Bour joouah. and his guitars say voulez-vous jouer avec moi?!!!!

What about D'addario, Dad-dario or Dee-addario? This stuff drives me crazy

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Dad hairy oh?

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The real pronounciation is Bour joouah. and his guitars say voulez-vous jouer avec moi?!!!! [/QUOTE]

Serge,- Translation please

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HIS GUITARS SAY: Do you want to play with me?

Ah, at last a thread that I feel I can comment on. Occasionally my degrees in Linguistics come in handy, but only occasionally.

Gotoh -- correct on the 'go toe' pronunciation. Japanese does not have syllabic stress the way English does, however, so both syllables are stressed equally.

Sapelle (more commonly Sapele) -- Since the wood comes from West Africa, I would assume the word does too. When I don't know how a word is pronounced, I always pronounce it using the International Phonetic Alphabet's (IPA) conventions. In this case, I would pronounce it 'sah pel eh' with accent on the second syllable.

And CWM is a good one. Celtic languages are extremely difficult to figure out the pronunciation for because they're spelling conventions are just so, erm, odd. One giveaway, though is the 'W'. Think double-U and you'll get it. I've seen English (maybe Welsh?) surnames with the 'W' used as a substitue for 'U' or 'OO'. Flwte (pronounced "flute" or perhaps "flutie"), for example.

Best,

MichaelMichael McBroom38855.4076273148

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So I'm really Don Ooilliams?


Gee, you'd think being primarily of Welsh heritage, my father would have taught me some of the language...but NO-oooooo!

Of course, he doesn't know it either...so it would have been difficult for him. Don Williams38855.414212963

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Right Serge - the guitars say " Come and play with me" ad if you show up at home with one , the wife says "you cant play with me no more - get out. Maybe you could tranlsate that back into french for us !!!

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