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Topic: How do you pronounce "Teisco" and "Guyatone"? |
Charlie McDonald
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Posted 9 Apr 2017 5:35 am |
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| Oui. Pretty goyish. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Jim Cohen
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Posted 9 Apr 2017 5:42 am
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| So you're saying there is no person named "Jay Turser", it's just a fictitious corporate name? |
That's been going on for years. For example, there was no Betty Crocker. That's a fictitious character dreamed up by an ad agency. |
This I can handle. Just don't tell me anything about Aunt Jemima...
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Doug Beaumier
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 9 Apr 2017 5:59 am
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| I grew up with reality syndrome. |
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Terry Barnett
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Posted 10 Apr 2017 4:09 am
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| Hey Doug...where I come from your name would be pronounced Bo-me-eh, eh. Could be worse...Sean Bean always gets me going. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Larry Carlson
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Posted 10 Apr 2017 6:52 am
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I call them 'guitars'.
Gi-tahrs............
But it's probably Gu-tahrs so that's wrong too.
I'm lonely, can you tell?..... 
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Doug Beaumier
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Steve Pawlak
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 10 Apr 2017 7:19 am
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| I always called them junk |
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Rick Barnhart
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 10 Apr 2017 9:07 am
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I was surprised to hear the correct pronunciation of "Bakelite." I always assumed it was simply pronuonced like the common words, bake & light.
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Doug Beaumier
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Jim Newberry
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Posted 10 Apr 2017 11:22 am
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I told a Japanese friend that I'd restored a "Tie Sko" amp and he looked very puzzled. Then he said: In Japan, we say "Tess Ko". So that's my reference. As far as them Gill-O-Teens... I don't know...
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George Piburn
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 10 Apr 2017 11:42 am
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| Jim Newberry wrote: |
| In Japan, we say "Tess Ko". |
I'll buy that. Tess Ko matches
| David M Brown wrote: |
| Te - Su - Ko |
to me. Seems Japanese pronunciations have an extra syllable attached to 's's.' and Teisco would be a phonetic abbreviation.
So much for a global theory on dipthongs.
I wonder how many Asian guitar names we pronounce wrong, like Alvarez. Or Tulsa. |
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Larry Carlson
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Posted 10 Apr 2017 1:28 pm
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| Charlie McDonald wrote: |
So much for a global theory on dipthongs.
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Well.......I've been called worse......
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Doug Beaumier
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Paul Honeycutt
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2017 8:07 pm
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When I worked at a music store in Tucson, the Mexican guys would ask for "Eye-bon-yez" guitars.
I'm going to stick with what I've used all these years. Why should I let the facts get in the way of a good story? |
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Peter Lindelauf
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Posted 18 Apr 2017 11:21 am
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My son is fluent in Japanese, Doug, and advises teh-su-ko or as above a truncated tess-ko ['teh' E as in 'ten']and goo-ya-tone is what a JAPANESE person would say. No real stresses on the syllables. In related news, it's tah-kah-mee-nay for the guitars. Not tacka-mine. The first two instrument names have no particular meaning -- just anglicized syllables -- but Takamine means "high mountain." Partial to their guitars so thought I'd slip that in.
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Doug Beaumier
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Peter Lindelauf
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Posted 18 Apr 2017 1:03 pm
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I don't think too many Americans worry about that, Doug. No disrespect here. My wife is Californian. And the ex. But I do laugh when I hear something like 'knitch' instead of 'neesh' for the French word 'niche'. Another Americanism that cracks me up is going from the French boo-tahn-ee-ay to boot-in-ear -- as in a lapel boo-kay being a bucket. Foy-ay to foy-er. ("There's a far [fire] in the foyer" would get you an "eh?" in Canada.)
Much of the English world refers to the artist, Van Gogh, as Vin-sint (easy enough) Van Go. Being of Dutch descent, trust me, it's more like fan-sahn fan hoch (gutteral -ch like hawk). So, often it's a question of wanting to sound sophisticated while coming off as a rube. Ha. Not to mention regional dialects across Canada or the US.
All the same, about half the time I say Weissenborn and the other half, Vise-in-born. Still good to make an effort -- as you have -- to say it 'right' or as a native speaker would. Leads to interesting linguistic discussions...
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 19 Apr 2017 4:55 am
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"Ah, Bach."--Radar O'Reilly.
Very interesting. All of a sudden, Gu-ya-tone looks right.
Who knows, they could have been going for Goya.
Tho not a steel (altho why not?) here's my favorite Teisco, the Del Rey, another possible attempt at Spanish.
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David M Brown
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Posted 19 Apr 2017 1:16 pm
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| Peter Lindelauf wrote: |
| My son is fluent in Japanese, Doug, and advises teh-su-ko or as above a truncated tess-ko ['teh' E as in 'ten']and goo-ya-tone is what a JAPANESE person would say. No real stresses on the syllables. . |
Exactly!
It's not a trick - nor a guess. This is how the Japanese write it phonetically.
Teisco (テスコ)
The three kana characters are:
" teh-su-ko or as above a truncated tess-ko "
"su" is often devoiced and thus "tess-ko" |
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Same thing with Goy' a tone and Tee' sko