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Old 01-08-2003, 02:09 PM
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Got this off Atomica
Al�cy�o�ne
1. Greek Mythology. The daughter of Aeolus who, in grief over the death of her husband Ceyx, threw herself into the sea and was changed into a kingfisher.
2. Greek Mythology. A nymph, one of the Pleiades.
3. Astronomy. The brightest star in the Pleiades, in the constellation Taurus.
I think the standard Subaru badge is supposed to represent the Pleiades, so I guess 3 pertains to us.

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heh...it rhymes with the girl in the Harry potter books..."Hermione"
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Old 01-08-2003, 06:28 PM
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Can we get someone at Subaru in Japan to make a wav file? I can just think that THEY would find this thread hilarious.
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Old 01-08-2003, 06:36 PM
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We need to get a designate Subaru Japan employee on this Network. I think that would be fun.
Oh, perhaps we should ask for an individual who is at least bi-ligual, you know, English/Japanese.

I'm sure we must have at least one member who works for Subaru of America???
Anyone???
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Oh, perhaps we should ask for an individual who is at least bi-ligual, you know, English/Japanese.
Here in Japan it is pronounced (and written) as A-RU-SHE-OH-NAY.

There is no 'L' or 'C sound in Japanese so 'RU' and 'SHE' are used as they are the closest sounding.

A better English pronunciation would be AL-SEE-OH-NAY.
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heh...it rhymes with the girl in the Harry potter books..."Hermione"

I have a friend who just CAN'T stop saying "Hermione". I like "Antigone". Somewhere, long ago, when Subaru first became known in this country, one of the auto publications printed the pronunciation as "su-BAR-oo". I wonder who's got it right. Us? Them? Or Them trying to imitate Us, or vice versa.

Ron (twisting tongue).
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"su-BAR-oo"

I have heard it pronounced that way by some WRC announcers.

They also pronounce "Hyundai" as "HI-un-dye".

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Old 01-08-2003, 10:08 PM
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paid $500 for a pony, drove it for 2 years, somebody offered me $500 for it, so I said ok. So I got the oild changed for him, for the first time.
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Old 01-08-2003, 10:12 PM
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ALCYONE ????


...........but you can't even pronounce TOMATO correctly



Sure we can..... but looking at the way some of the guys are saying ALCYONE....

TOMATO could be pronouced "Ketchup"
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Old 01-09-2003, 04:50 AM
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Here in Japan it is pronounced (and written) as A-RU-SHE-OH-NAY.

There is no 'L' or 'C sound in Japanese so 'RU' and 'SHE' are used as they are the closest sounding.

A better English pronunciation would be AL-SEE-OH-NAY.
Thank you very much. If you get the urge a wav file would be nice. It would be great to hear it.
You could add in Su-Bar-oo for good measure also.
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Old 01-09-2003, 04:48 PM
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=alcyone

I think this is the majority. (maybe this should have been a poll)
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Old 01-10-2003, 02:59 AM
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Re: Re: Japanese or Italian [Itarion?] sound

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Does this mean the way I've been saying it is correct? It rhymes with "Al Capone".
Close enough, but I suspect Al's Grandad called himself Ca pohn neh, rather than Cap own.

In romance languages, including Latin, I presume, the daddy of them all, the "e" vowel at the end is pronounced eh.

Each vowel will be given the same length, and the eeee sound is reserved for the vowel "i"

This would imply Al sigh ohn eh.

However, if Randy is right, and it's from the Greek, then not sure about the "e" ending, I don't know Greek phonetics.

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Alycone is actually a constellation, i think we are looking too in depth with this. Personally i think subaru was just going with the constellation thing, the subaru symbol is of the seven stars and the brightest being the Alycone. Just my 2cents
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Old 01-10-2003, 09:00 AM
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Re: Re: Re: Japanese or Italian [Itarion?] sound

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In romance languages, including Latin, I presume, the daddy of them all, the "e" vowel at the end is pronounced eh.

Joe
I had an Italian friend named Michael Galione. He would become indignent whenever anyone would put an "eh" on the end of his name. "It's 'Gal-yown'," he would snap. Perhaps it's a northern/southern dialect thing. I had also understood that an "e" at the end of an Italian name was pronounced as "eh." Go figger.

Kinda like the regional pronunciations of the name of the city Lafayette.

Lah-fee-ET, Indiana

Luh-FAY-it, Tennessee

LAFF-eye-et, Louisiana
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Us southern Italian types do pronounc-eh the 'eh' sound at the end of the word. The northern Italian types (Rome, Milan, etc.)think that that pronunciation is too 'low class' and do not say it.


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Us southern Italian types do pronounc-eh the 'eh' sound at the end of the word. The northern Italian types (Rome, Milan, etc.)think that that pronunciation is too 'low class' and do not say it.


Lorenzo uno uno uno
Thank you Lar-eh. I wondered of that might be the cas-eh.
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