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Pronunciations?

Lionclaw

Lionclaw

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My wife and I spent more than a year saying "clecko" (just like "gecko") until we starting meeting other airplane builders who called them "cleekos". I don't like sounding like a dork!

"clecko" or "cleeko"?

"sik-a-flex" or "seek-a-flex"?

"long-er-on" or "lon-ger-on"?

Any help? Anyone have any other common pet peeve mis-pronunciations?
 
Lionclaw said:
My wife and I spent more than a year saying "clecko" (just like "gecko") until we starting meeting other airplane builders who called them "cleekos". I don't like sounding like a dork!
"clecko" or "cleeko"?
"sik-a-flex" or "seek-a-flex"?
"long-er-on" or "lon-ger-on"?
Any help? Anyone have any other common pet peeve mis-pronunciations?
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It's "cleeko" and "lon-ger-on"

I don't know nuthin' about the "sticky stuff".
 
Lionclaw said:
My wife and I spent more than a year saying "clecko" (just like "gecko") until we starting meeting other airplane builders who called them "cleekos". I don't like sounding like a dork!

"clecko" or "cleeko"?

"sik-a-flex" or "seek-a-flex"?

"long-er-on" or "lon-ger-on"?

Any help? Anyone have any other common pet peeve mis-pronunciations?
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Cleco and Sikaflex are brand names so in my very brief search online I could not find any pronunciations for them but my experience has always been that Cleco is pronounced klee-ko. Sikaflex is Sik-a-flex.

Here is a link to a Merriam Webster site where you can actually hear the pronunciation of the word "longeron".
http://mw3.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longeron
 
"Aluminum" in American English it's pretty simple. The British add another vowel and syllabal. al-loo-min-ee-um? What are they thinking? I am willing to return to the commonwealth, if they'll stop saying that.
 
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monocoque

I've never know the correct pronunciation of "monocoque" as in semi-monocoque construction.

I've always said "mono-Q".
 
I have a Catto prop and have always pronounced it Kay-tow. Someone tried to tell me it is Cat-oh. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Plenum is pronounced "plen-um." At least here at my house. I've got a dictionary that says it could be either way, that or "pleen-um." So to settle the matter, I went to the huge Webster's New International Dictionary, the second edition, an old library-style book, just massive, and they prefer the second version.

Huh!
 
Kato, Cato, Caddo, Catto

Mel said:
Kay-tow is correct.
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Well, there's two Kay-tow's. One, spelled Kato, was the side-kick (literally) of the Green Hornet. One, spelled Cato, was the house servant of Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther.

There is a swamp creature in Texas mythology, called the Caddo Critter. Pronounced "Cad-doh". There's even a town near Dallas with a well-known gliderport called Caddo Mills.

So I'm glad to be corrected on the pronunciation of Mr. Catto's name, I have been saying "Cat-toh".
 
There's also a town here south of Dallas called Way-ko.
It is not pronounced like the whaa-ko biplane.
Even though they are both spelled Waco.
 
Mel said:
There's also a town here south of Dallas called Way-ko.
It is not pronounced like the whaa-ko biplane.
Even though they are both spelled Waco.
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Did you hear about the patient who escaped from the Texas State Home in New Braunfels? He made it to the airport where he stole a biplane and was last seen headed north up I-35. The police put out an APB for folks to be on the lookout for a "Wacko in a Waco headed for Waco!":D;)
 
David Paule said:
Plenum is pronounced "plen-um." At least here at my house. I've got a dictionary that says it could be either way, that or "pleen-um." So to settle the matter, I went to the huge Webster's New International Dictionary, the second edition, an old library-style book, just massive, and they prefer the second version.

Huh!
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Interesting. For what it's worth, I'm an engineer that has worked with lots of things that have some sort of plenum. Plenum basically refers to any large chamber in an air/liquid circuit. I have always heard it pronounced 'plen-um' and never anything else.
 
Ironflight said:
Did you hear about the patient who escaped from the Texas State Home in New Braunfels? He made it to the airport where he stole a biplane and was last seen headed north up I-35. The police put out an APB for folks to be on the lookout for a "Wacko in a Waco headed for Waco!":D;)
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:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
While we're at it

While at Osh, I purchased a pilot's watch I had been viewing on the net..Love the watch..It's a Torgoen T1...Had a devil of a time trying to find the correct pronunciation....My research indicates that it is pronounced "tore-goin"..(the end rhymes with "coin").....Is this correct??? By the way...after avionics purchases last year, I could not afford a "Bright-ling"!!!!!
 
Ironflight said:
Did you hear about the patient who escaped from the Texas State Home in New Braunfels? He made it to the airport where he stole a biplane and was last seen headed north up I-35. The police put out an APB for folks to be on the lookout for a "Wacko in a Waco headed for Waco!":D;)
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OK, that's gotta be at least a 15-yard penalty and loss of down! :p
 
ericwolf said:
Interesting. For what it's worth, I'm an engineer that has worked with lots of things that have some sort of plenum. Plenum basically refers to any large chamber in an air/liquid circuit. I have always heard it pronounced 'plen-um' and never anything else.
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Engineer here, and I agree that the accepted pronunciation (in the aerospace and automotive industries anyway) is plen-uhm. I've never heard it pronounced "pleen-uhm.

Skylor
RV-8 N808Sj
 
Aluminum" in American English it's pretty simple. The British add another vowel and syllabal. al-loo-min-ee-um? What are they thinking? I am willing to return to the commonwealth, if they'll stop saying that.
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If you keep changing our language, we don't want you back!!
When on earth did the word route get replaced with "rout" It must have been fairly recently cos I can't remember Nat King Cole singing "Get Your Kicks on ROUT 66!

Keep 'em coming:)
 
Don't we Brits actually say "al - you - MIN - ee - Um"??

I do struggle with "In ROUT" for "en route" - which like so many aviation expressions and words is French in origin. Fuselage, aileron, longeron (agree with the J in there!). empenn - AH - je or em - PANN - ige? I prefer tail!

What about what boats tie up to? "Boy" or "boo - uoy" (that's about as close as I can get it).

Anyway, who decides what is "right" and what is "wrong" pronunciation? I like knowing I'm in another country. Sometimes I even try to speak the local language.

Chris
 
Ok , I'll add one that's always driven me nuts .

Turbine as in jet engine . I often hear it pronounced tur-bin . I always thought that's what some people from South East Asia wear on their heads .

Do farmers harvest their crops with a com-bin ?

Just sayin.....

Marc
 
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777drvr said:
Ok , I'll add one that's always driven me nuts .

Turbine as in jet engine . I often hear it pronounved tur-bin . I always thought that's what some people from South East Asia wear on their heads .

Do farmers harvest their crops with a com-bin ?

Just sayin.....

Marc
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Now that is funny! :D

It reminds me of the Ron White bit when he tells the story of floating down a river (in Minnesota if I remember) with a group of locals who were telling him about the coupons (Q-pons) they had for getting more beer. They were pronouncing the word as "ku-pins".

"So I've got some ku-pins to get some beer. I am going to drive my com-bin down the road to the store. You want to go with?" :p

Oh, by the way, shouldn't that jet engine then be pronounced in-jine?
 
How about Sensenich propellers, I assumed it was pronounced sen-sin-itch, but when I made a phone call to the factory, they pronounced it sen-sin-ick.
 
mike newall said:
On a more serious note however,

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

You see - your pesky man Noah Webster has so much to answer for, messing around with our fine language.

I think it was a means of saving ink by removing letters... :D

Anyhow, we have now decided on the coloUr scheme of our aEroplane which is made from aluminIum !
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On another note, take the words of the famous song that we all know and give the text to somebody who has never heard it and what do we get?

Rubbish:

You say either and I say either,
You say neither and I say neither;
Either, either, neither, neither,
Let's call the whole thing off!

You like potato and I like potato,
You like tomato and I like tomato;
Potato, potato, tomato, tomato!
Let's call the whole thing off!

You say laughter and I say laughter,
You say after and I say after;
Laughter, laughter, after, after,
Let's call the whole thing off!

Tomaato Tomarto.

I will get me coat!
 
On the flight from Oshkosh to Vero Beach, FL, I spoke with Looville Center, Lanna Center, and Jax Approach. I can't find those places on any map.
 
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