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Can someone please settle an argument; how do you pronounce Nikon? Is it 'Nickon', or 'Nykon'? "Oi, Mills, get a life", you might say, and correctly so, but please put my mind at rest.  
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Fen
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Nick-con
The yankiedoodles say Nigh-Kon
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Fen
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There was a bit of video (if memory serves me right) that ad one of the CEO's of Nikon saying how it was pronounced and that the other way was just wrong
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mark_jacobs
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Barney Britton says...
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Guitarist
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Many thanks all. I thought so - after all the name derives from Nippon Kogaku, does it not?
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Rhys
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Many thanks all. I thought so - after all the name derives from Nippon Kogaku, does it not?
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sillyconguru
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how do you pronounce Nikon? Is it 'Nickon', or 'Nykon'?
It is actually 'NeeKon' (the way the Japanese pronounce it) but the generally accepted UK way is 'Nickon', our USA cousins say 'Nykon'.
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hech54
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Paul Simon says "Nykon"....so it's Nykon.
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Barney
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Paul Simon says "Nykon"....so it's Nykon.
Yeah, well I call him Paul See-mon to get my own back.
I wonder whether the Americans get as wound up about the general UK mispronounciation of Nike as we do about their inability to say Nikon correctly?
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Paddysnapper
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So "Let's call the whole thing off" 
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Benchista
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Paul Simon says "Nykon"....so it's Nykon.
Yeah, well he's doubly out of luck today.
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Barney
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Paul Simon says "Nykon"....so it's Nykon.
Yeah, well he's doubly out of luck today.
Indeed.
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Zou
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Given that Nikon is written in its native Japanese in a phonetic script, it's quite interesting how much variety in pronunciation there is.
It's quite simple really, much easier than getting Voigtlander spot on. 
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Bettina
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It's quite simple really, much easier than getting Voigtlander spot on.
Voigtländer
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Learning
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It's quite simple really, much easier than getting Voigtlander spot on.
Voigtländer
Even the first letter is a problem. Is it a V or is it a F or is it somewhere in between.
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Bettina
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Let's take the German racing driver Vettel. Such an easy name. The Germans pronounce it Fáttl.
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FujiSigmaNolta
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Isn't it a contraction of Nihon (Japan in Japanese)and Kogaku where it was born? Or something of the like?
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Steve_F
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I believe it is an amalgamation of NI(ppon) KO(gaku) (Japan Optical). Although I'm curious that the final 'N" makes it sound like 'Eye-Kon' as in Zeiss-Ikon.
Still being British, 'Nickon' sounds best to me.
Just like I mow the Grass, not the Grarss, and stop film dev in a Stop-Bath not Stop-Barth.
Excuse me whilst I look in my American dictionary for
Eye-raq,
Eye-ran
and finally
Eye-taly, no thats not right is it.........I mean
i-taly
Steve.
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hech54
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1) What do some UK-ers pronounce a name or thing that has an "A" or A sound at the end as if it were an "er" sound?
IE.....the Obamer Administration.
2) Even though you spell it "colour"....we don't pronounce
it as ca-lour(as in "our language is strange")...we say it the same as you.
Now we are even.....or does that mean we are one up on you?
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ermintrude
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1) What do some UK-ers pronounce a name or thing that has an "A" or A sound at the end as if it were an "er" sound?
IE.....the Obamer Administration.
2) Even though you spell it "colour"....we don't pronounce
it as ca-lour(as in "our language is strange")...we say it the same as you.
Now we are even.....or does that mean we are one up on you?
Errrrr...que?
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