Hi! >>> I just couldn't bring myself to say "Nyyy-kon" >>> So I bought the Canon ;-) ;-)
>>Well in the UK we pronounce it nih-kon (short i), which rather >>conveniently allows us to say their lenese are knickers :-) Oh, I've just >>had a sick thought - you North Americans don't pronounce it Cay-non do >>you??? >>Chris wb> Me - a North American?!!!! You couldn't have insulted me more if you'd called me a Brummie (sorry guys.... but..). Ruddy Yorkshire folk. No tact ;-) ;-) wb> Actually, I would prefer to pronounce it Nih-kon (as in "the knights who say"...) wb> ahll sithee fer now, chuck wb> Wendy :-) wb> wendy beard wb> ottawa, canada wb> http://www.beard-redfern.com Sorry, I missed the original post. I would definitely pronounce that as Neekon or Neakon or Niekon... But then of course I would mis-pronounce many other words... You see, Nykon is well too close to my ear to Nike which is not a good thing, I say... <VBG> Boris P.S. Is Nike pronounced as Mike or as Nikee?
