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  • Don_alForno@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    5 months ago

    Thankfully wiktionary only has a single IPA pronunciation for both the shoe and the brand and they’re the same. ˈnaɪkiː.

    In English. It’s not even an english word though.

    My point, which you seem to not understand, is that the company doesn’t define how the name is pronounced (especially if they would go “like the godess”). It was a word before they used it. And “gif” is an acronym first, regardless of what the creator of the image format might think.


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    5 months ago

    and the company “Nike” is yelling “no it’s Nike! Like the god!”

    So in this example, are they yelling it like their namesake is actually pronounced ( [niː́kɛː] , the i like in “flee”, the e like in “bad”), or in the english pronounciation (i like in “die”, e like in “flee”)?