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Old 5th June 2008   #1
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How to pronounce Italian bike names

Cho-chuh. Never knew that.

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Old 5th June 2008   #2
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i always pronounced it chee-OCK!
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Old 5th June 2008   #3
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i always pronounced it chee-OCK!
me too (btw, nice one parked outside senate house today)

oh, and the way i got shot down yesterday for pronouncing miche with a che (think gavara) at the end.

then tonight saying fjord, instead of ford. but that is something else.

on the plus side, i know how to pronounce Who Gives A Fuck
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Old 5th June 2008   #4
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i thought it was miche was 'mish', as in mish mash. i wonder to italians pronounce 'dura-ace' though?
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Old 5th June 2008   #5
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i wonder to italians pronounce 'dura-ace' though?
Same as us.

But with lots of waving.
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Old 5th June 2008   #6
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ha! nice... though tbh the dude is saying them in a way most Italians wouldn't in conversation.. this is like Brian Blessed reciting our frames..
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Old 6th June 2008   #7
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Stefano days Miche should sound like 'meekay',
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Old 6th June 2008   #8
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yeah I would presume it was pronounced mi-keh, I lived in Italy for a while and know something of the language. But Jan at BLB corrected me a while back and said it's pronounced "meesh". So he must know I guess..........................................
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Old 6th June 2008   #9
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What do Poles know about Italian???
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Old 6th June 2008   #10
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i thought it was miche was 'mish', as in mish mash. i wonder to italians pronounce 'dura-ace' though?
Would Italians even mention dura-ace, surely it is like swearing to an Italian!
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Old 6th June 2008   #11
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yeah I would presume it was pronounced mi-keh, I lived in Italy for a while and know something of the language. But Jan at BLB corrected me a while back and said it's pronounced "meesh". So he must know I guess..........................................
I always pronounce it "meesh" which I suppose is a French pronunciation.

Anyone know how to pronounce Cerevelo? is it "Curve-ello" or "Seray-vello" or something else?
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Old 6th June 2008   #12
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cher vaylow

I would hazard a guess.

but all these things become bastardized, as ALL things cycling should be pronounced with a french accent if they are other european, or an english accent if they are anything else.
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Old 6th June 2008   #13
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I always pronounce it "meesh" which I suppose is a French pronunciation.

Anyone know how to pronounce Cerevelo? is it "Curve-ello" or "Seray-vello" or something else?
Well you get more of a clue if you spell it right - Cervelo. Pronounced Sur-velo. BTW it's a Canadian, rather than Italian, company.
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Old 6th June 2008   #14
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Bollocks. It's Chee-ock, whatever some bloke off the internet says...
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Old 6th June 2008   #15
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What do Poles know about Italian???
Beats me...
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Old 6th June 2008   #16
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I always pronounce it "meesh" which I suppose is a French pronunciation.

Anyone know how to pronounce Cerevelo? is it "Curve-ello" or "Seray-vello" or something else?
Helps if you spell it right. Cervelo would sound like chair-velo, roughly, in Italian.

edit - Platini got there first. So would it be French or Italian pronunciation, then?
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Old 6th June 2008   #17
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Well you get more of a clue if you spell it right - Cervelo. Pronounced Sur-velo. BTW it's a Canadian, rather than Italian, company.
Is your bra too tight?
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Old 6th June 2008   #18
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Beats me...
Look at the size of the peak on his cycling cap! Is it by Rapha?
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Old 6th June 2008   #19
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@willski: You asked. I answered.
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Old 6th June 2008   #20
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@willski: You asked. I answered.
No I asked, and you made a sniffy remark about spelling, and then made a sniffy remark about Cervelo being Candian and not Italian. I know that, but I inhabit a world were discussions are allowed to evolve.

[I'm off to loosen my bra now]
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Old 6th June 2008   #21
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No I asked, and you made a sniffy remark about spelling, and then made a sniffy remark about Cervelo being Candian and not Italian. I know that, but I inhabit a world were discussions are allowed to evolve.

[I'm off to loosen my bra now]
Canadian.
Sniffy enough for you?
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Old 6th June 2008   #22
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I was gutted when I found out Michele Bartoli wasn't called Michele at all but "Mee ka lay".
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Old 6th June 2008   #23
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Yeah I knew about the Mi-Kay thing but if you say it like that no one knows wtf you are talking about.

"I really love my Mi kay hubs".

See?

Changes a lot of the film puns from the other day.
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Old 6th June 2008   #24
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maybe the Miche thing is actually something inbetween 'Mi kay' and ' meesh' ?

italian can be very soft with the final syllable, so it becomes more of a 'ché'?

so, Mi-ché

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OR, someone phone up the Miche cycling company and se how they answer the phone. let's settle this once and for goddamn all
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Old 6th June 2008   #25
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ch in Italian can be either hard, as in the English k, or soft as in church. If the ch has an e after it then it's soft so Miche should be pronounced 'me-shay'.

I thank you.
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Old 6th June 2008   #26
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ch in Italian can be either hard, as in the English k, or soft as in church. If the ch has an e after it then it's soft so Miche should be pronounced 'me-shay'.

I thank you.
It's the 'kay' and 'chay' though isn't it? Not 'shay'.
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Old 6th June 2008   #27
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Yes. Doh.
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Old 6th June 2008   #28
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Who knows?
http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/in.../t-156234.html
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Old 6th June 2008   #29
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Yeah I knew about the Mi-Kay thing but if you say it like that no one knows wtf you are talking about.

"I really love my Mi kay hubs".

See?

Changes a lot of the film puns from the other day.
Oh Miche you're so fine,
you're so fine,
you blow my mind,
Hey Miche!
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Old 6th June 2008   #30
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OR, someone phone up the Miche cycling company and se how they answer the phone. let's settle this once and for goddamn all
I once spent a Friday afternoon listening to my colleagues discussing at some length how the Siemens office in Staines would answer the phone (they were convinced it would be "Siemens, Staines").

A quick google turned up the number and I dialled it on my speaker phone - "Good afternoon, Siemens UK".

Some people have no sense of humour.
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Old 6th June 2008   #31
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lol what are you talking about? Miche it's pronunced mee-keh in italian. Period.
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Old 6th June 2008   #32
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Drugs are bad Miche.
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Old 6th June 2008   #33
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What happened to Olmo? Waited patiently for it, but the internet man skipped to Pinarello. What a wanker!

So, anyone know how to pronounce Olmo? Hopefully it's how I say it, Hole (with the H silent) Mow.
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Old 6th June 2008   #34
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What happened to Olmo? Waited patiently for it, but the internet man skipped to Pinarello. What a wanker!

So, anyone know how to pronounce Olmo? Hopefully it's how I say it, Hole (with the H silent) Mow.
On a similar note, what about Alan?
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