How do you pronounce...?

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slondon

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Maybe others have pronunciation questions like I do. Some industry terms are pronounced more than one way. Others I read but never hear, so I don't know if I have it right.

Anyway, I can't remember them all at the moment but I'll try a few and I hope others will list terms they are unsure about and others will help us all out with the correct way of saying things.

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Lavalier or lav. Is it "lah" as in law or "la" as in lab?

Arri. Is it "air - e" like we breath or "are - e" like the word are?

Manfrotto. for the first o is it "frah toe" like the o in froth or "fro toe" like the o in throw?

Is diffusion gel or crap on the lens "smutz" like putz or "schmutz" like schmuck (also spelled shmuck)?


Okay, this is a little start. Everyone welcome.
 
Manfrotto should be pronounced exactly as written according to Italian rules - MAN like "mon" in "monitor", FROT like "boat", TO like "toe". But I've often heard a good ol' Americna "man- fro-do".

The crap on the lens is schmutz, and it rhymes with "foots" (NOT with putz or schmuck).

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I'm not sure what people in the industry say for sure... but "lav" like "lab" seems most common in the U.S.

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Arri? ARRIn't ya glad I didn't say banana?
 
My favorite is FRESNEL lens.

It's named after the dude that discovered the properties, a French guy named Augustin-Jean Fresnel - pronounced fray-NELL.

But thankfully it is also accepted to say "FREZ-null"

I dont want to say anything French unless absolutely necessary.


(Audio pronunciations from Merriam-Webster.)
 
Is Brevis with a strong e (kinda like Beavis), or a softer sound (Breh-vis)
What about Letus? Leet-us, or Let-us (like the veggie)

It's weird ... I never heard any of these pronounced, I only read them.
 
I dont know for sure about the above two, but I say BREE-viss and LET-us. With their product, the Letus Flip, I say "let us flip". And people look at me like I'm crazy.


Like Zaphod Beeblebrox. Everyone looked at me nuts when I always said ZAY-fodd and they said "ZAH-fidd". Pishhhaw! I had the last laugh. "ZAH-fidd".... please.
 
NY-con..... NIH-core

Although I have heard that in Japan it is KNEE-con.


And, of course, I still say "NY-core" even though I know better.

I also say "Ver-SAYCE", but that's just because I'm an Elizabeth Berkely fan.
 
NI-con (strong i) ... I just said "Nikkor" out loud. I don't think that's a good brand name. Racist company if you ask me.
 
its hard as i live in Japan but i grew up listening to Paul Simon... Kodachrome anyone? For Nikon i'll accept both :D
but Japanese people will have no clue what you're talking about if you say "NAI-CON" instead of "KNEE-CON".
 
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