What about ICM?

Manstein's revenge

What about ICM?

Now that funny right there!

I say Italeri....eye-tal-er-ee....I've heard many say...eye-tal-ee-airy, but that's just weird

I'm not sure about the European companies, but I can help with the Japanese.  Tamiya does consist of three distinct syllables.  It's pronounced: Tah me yah.  If it were two syllables as Zeroman suggests, it would be spelled (in English) Tamya.  Aoshima has four syllables.  Ah Oh she mah.  Gunze is two syllables: Goon zee. Hope this helps.

fermis

Manstein's revenge

What about ICM?

Now that funny right there!

 

I say Italeri....eye-tal-er-ee....I've heard many say...eye-tal-ee-airy, but that's just weird

Whatsa matta you?  Shadda uppa you face, eetsa saya lika thees, "Eee-tal-ere-ee"!

When I was a mere lad, living in Geelong. Victoria, Australia, circa '66-'67, the commercial slot cat craze hit big time.  Tamiya was a big player in the 1/24 scale cars.  I had two tracks within 200 yards of my house.  My "home" track was Avus Raceway (yes, owned by expatriate Germans, hence the Avus name).  We had an eight lane, 250 foot track.  Track record was 11.8 seconds, held by a Texas kid from Irving.   We had the speed controller in one hand and a "brake switch" (actually a cut-out button) in the other.  We even hosted a 12 hour endurance race, with three hours running in the dark, with working lights.  Everyone in those halcyon days pronounced it with three syllables ie. Tam-me-ya.  But you know how those Aussies are...

edit to add:  The record was held by the hot combo back then; A Russkit Vac-formed body, full belly-pan chassis and a mid-sized Mabuchi can (26D) that was rewound and balanced.  The most popular body was the Porsche 906.  Much like this:

Texgunner

Everyone in those halcyon days pronounced it with three syllables ie. Tam-me-ya.  But you know how those Aussies are...

Yep, I used to say, Tam my ah.

Zeroman is Japanese, so I figured he'd know. But it's probably a dipthong thing, where one sound slides into another. Tam-yah spoken slowly does sound like tam-ee-yah.

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Slot car track shops, with a track or two in the back, were a big thing in the late-60's around me, too.  I will always remember people talking about "hot Mabuchi rewinds" and wanting to really get into the sport. Alas, it died before I was old enough to get into it.

This topic has piqued my interest.

I've always pronounced Tamiya as: Tah-me-ya

Italeri as: ee-tah-la-ri  

I've heard some real different pronounciations of Italeri too, including the alternative put forward by Fermis, but can't understand how that came about.

Hasegawa as: Has-eh-gah-wah

Here's one - Roden - i'd pronounce it Ro-den.  

However, i've heard people pronounce the artist's name as: Ro-dahn.  Thoughts?

If I recall correctly, there's no hard "A" (Ay) sound in Japanese, nor is there a hard "O" (Oh). "A" always sounds like "ah" and "o" always sounds like "oar". "e" sounds like "eh" and "u" sounds like "ooh"

So:

"Tamiya" - "Tah Me Ah"

"Hasegawa" - "Ha Seh Gah Wah"

"Gunze" - "Goon Zeh"

I think I've mentioned it before, but "Yamato" does not sound like "tomato" - it's closer to "Yah Mah Tor"

I think pronounciation problems prompted the name change from "Italerei" (ee tal er ay)  to "Italeri" (ee tal er ee) some time in the early-ish '80's.

Continuing with the Italian theme, defunct manufacturer Esci is pronounced "Esh ee" not "Esk ee ".

cml

However, i've heard people pronounce the artist's name as: Ro-dahn.  Thoughts?

The artist's name was spelled "Rodin" so "Roh dan" would be more correct.

Hmmm... would Ertl rhyme with "turtle", or is it closer to err-till?

Phil_H

The artist's name was spelled "Rodin" so "Roh dan" would be more correct.

 

Ah - of course.  Good pick up.  Should have checked that before posting

I thought that the "O" in Japanese did have a long "oh" sound, as in Kyoto, Tokyo, ronin or ohayo gazamas....

... or Rodan...

Stik, you may find these examples interesting

http://www.forvo.com/word/tokyo/

http://www.forvo.com/word/kyoto/#ja

I will give you this though: http://www.forvo.com/word/ohayo_gozaimasu/

ISTR reading somewhere years ago when Pavla kits were common, that Pavla is pronounced Paula, as there is no Vee sound. I'm guessing Zvezda is actually pronounced Zwezda.

Mon-o-gram

Air-fix

Lind-berg...

Dra-gon

Aye-eff-vee club...

lol at "aye eff vee club"

it is A, rhyming with Say,,,,,,,not Aye, rhyming with My

and each Japanese set of vowels has a set sound, and some English consonants are just not used attached to some Japanese vowel sets

the sets ending in "e" are pronounced as rhyming with Say

"a" is a rhyme for ahh

so, Kamikaze is pronounced Kah mee kah zay,,,,not kah mee kahh zee,,,,,,mi and ze don't have the same sound in Japanese, the language is cleaner than English

back in the old days, just before Win 95, the Pacific Front paper catalog would come in the mail, and each edition had a few pages on the pronunciation of the ship names from the IJN, including the Kanji and Katakana breakdowns

Here's how you pronounce them...

Tamiya = overpriced

Hasegawa = over-boxed

Eduard = overrated

Dragon = over-Germaned

Monogram = archaic

Revell = elderly

Lindberg = under-researched

....

Aye, Tarnship that's what I get for being a smart@@@  

Funny thing, Rodan in Japanese is actually Radon, with a long "a", not the toxic gas found in basements, althought it might have been the basis for the name.

I see (hear?) a persistent pronounciation of Tamiya as "ta-mai-yah", but it really should be "ta-mee-ya".  (I got marched to J-school for nine years when I was little.  I fought it every inch of the way, but regretted not trying harder when I started picking up Japanese model mags in college - but that's another story!)

I also see Hasegawa frequently spelled as Hasagawa on the forums.

So is ESCI pronounced E-S-C-I, or Eshee?

Not really a pronounciation problem, but the one I like the least is Tamigawa.  Why deride quality?  Who made up this word?  I suspect the British, with their crappy plastic kits and even crappier cottage kits.  Oops, sorry; closing that can of worms right now.

lol, Gamera,,,,,I am really just "picking along with you" not at you

it just struck my funny bone to be thinking that I should have been saying "Ehh, Ehh, Sir" back in the day, instead of "Aye, Aye, Sir"

made me think of the Canadian Marines instead of Uncle Sam's, lol

and peeking into that closed can of worms for a minute, also,,,,,I am not a big fan of the "Tamigawa Shake and Bake" insult,,,,,,the people that say it have obviously Never tried to Shake the 1/72 Hasegawa Tomcat the proper amount,,,,or maybe some have never seen inside those boxes

A,,,,,far more effort is required than the meme's Shake to get a good build,,,,,,and B,,,,,saying FrogMatchFix would start a small war, but Tamigawa is okay?

if anything would be a true shake and bake, it would be the kits with the LOWER parts counts, not the kits with the higher counts

Well, IMO the finish of the kit is the deciding factor between a good build and a GREAT build, so IMO the actual assembly is just a "get-it-outta-the-way" exercise to get to the real challenge of a realistic finish...

Prof, we see it almost always as a companion to the word "justin"

as in "justin other Tamigawa Shake and Bake"

"it's not a Tamigawa, so some modeling skill is required to assemble,,,,,,,,,blah, blah, blah"

they forget that it takes a bit of modeling skill to assemble the Hasegawa Tomcat without making it look like a complete glue bomb of a build

I won't say anymore, because defending the kits I like is always taken as an insult to the kits I don't want to buy anymore of

let's just say that to most people,,,,,,,,the 1/72 Testors Skyray "looks like a Skyray", but, there is not any reason to pay the Tamiya price for the Testors version

I thing this is the correct way to pronounce

sweetpea

I thing this is the correct way to pronounce

Yep, that's about the way I say it too...

SNIGLUPADED (SNIG-loo-pad-ded): Acronymn.= SNIp, GLUe, PAint, DEcal, Display.  The "Monogram Mafia" description of the only skills required to build Tamigawa-type kits..

Hans von Hammer

SNIGLUPADED (SNIG-loo-pad-ded): Acronymn.= SNIp, GLUe, PAint, DEcal, Display.  The "Monogram Mafia" description of the only skills required to build Tamigawa-type kits..

 

Now, now Hans, be nice.  Not everyone has experienced the joys of the Monogram way...

I was bein' nice... In a sotto-voce, semi-threatenin' mafioso-sortta way.. 

Heh, heh, sort of like "I made him an offer he couldn't refuse."