Trying to fill the unforgiving minute: Leave That Off My Plate

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Leave That Off My Plate

For years I thought Nokia was pronounced "no-KEY-ah," but it is not. According to the radio stations here it is pronounced "NO-kya." That sounds like a vegetable you wouldn't like as in, "I'll have the chef's special, but I'll take a side salad instead of the nokia."

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Huh, I thought it was no-key-ah, too. How weird.; August 15, 2007 2:06 AM
ticknart said...: It's like Teva sandals. I always thought it was pronounced tee-va, but I called their customer support line and was told it was těv-a. I still can't say it that way, though.; August 15, 2007 10:26 AM
geewits said...: J,
One of the music venues here is the Nokia Theater and that's the way the deejay's pronounce it.

ticknart,
Ha ha ha ha. You called customer support for sandals. That made my day.; August 15, 2007 10:40 AM
Jo said...: That's like when my daughter and I were in New York, and we asked the ticket agent at Grand Central Station for two train tickets for Mama-RON-eck. She didn't know where we wanted to go. Finally she told us we wanted to go to Ma-MAR-on-eck.; August 15, 2007 4:38 PM
Tai said...: I thought it was no-KEE-ah.
Pronunciations'll get ya every time!; August 15, 2007 7:40 PM
JR's Thumbprints said...: I'd say No-yka Thank You to that beach house. Too small for my style. And I too, though it was no-KEE-ah.; August 15, 2007 11:30 PM
geewits said...: Josie,
I've never heard of EITHER of those places! :)

Tai,
Maybe all the deejays are wrong.

JR,
They liked being mobile and took that thing all across the west. I'm hoping if they decide to settle they will get something bigger.; August 16, 2007 12:50 AM
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