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How do you pronounce Nokia?
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Jun 8, 2003, 07:13 PM
 
Just curious. I think its Knock-ia because on the TV ads they say it like that, at least where I live.
     
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Jun 8, 2003, 07:18 PM
 
BTW is it true that Americans think Nokia is a japanese company?
     
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Jun 8, 2003, 07:29 PM
 
It's pronounced
"no-ki-a", emphasis on the first syllable.

A town in Finland before a famous rubber company before a mobile phone company
     
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Jun 8, 2003, 07:30 PM
 
Originally posted by macintologist:
BTW is it true that Americans think Nokia is a japanese company?
by and large, yes
     
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Jun 8, 2003, 07:31 PM
 
Originally posted by macintologist:
BTW is it true that Americans think Nokia is a japanese company?
Someone got in argument on the train the other day over this.... I think it was a guy and his girlfriend... it was a big loud argument over this very thing! She insisted it was Japaneese, and her best friends father worked in Japan overseas for them....

(little does she know her friends father left his wife for an Asian Mistress).

It's so ironic you mention this.
     
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Jun 8, 2003, 07:43 PM
 
It's interesting that is 50/50! I voted for Noe-kia! I also thought that it was a Japanese company!

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Jun 8, 2003, 07:53 PM
 
Originally posted by macvillage.net:
Someone got in argument on the train the other day over this.... I think it was a guy and his girlfriend... it was a big loud argument over this very thing! She insisted it was Japaneese, and her best friends father worked in Japan overseas for them....

(little does she know her friends father left his wife for an Asian Mistress).

It's so ironic you mention this.
No it isn't ironic, it's coincidental. Anyway, who pronounces it 'know-kia'? What is the norm in the USA?
     
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Jun 8, 2003, 07:56 PM
 
I've never heard it pronounced any way other than "know kia".
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Jun 8, 2003, 08:23 PM
 
It's pronounced no-ki-a and an American would probably write the pronounciation no-kee-uhh (?).
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Jun 8, 2003, 09:46 PM
 
Everyone over here says 'Nok-ia' as in 'Knock-ee-a'. This is how it is pronounced in advertising and mobile phone shops too. (over here)
     
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Jun 8, 2003, 10:03 PM
 
This is a difficult question. I never think about these things. I guess Nok -i -a is more natural for me.
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Jun 8, 2003, 10:18 PM
 
I pronounce it NO-kee-uh

Emphasis on "No".

I think I've heard it said this way on commercials.
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Jun 8, 2003, 10:20 PM
 
Originally posted by Timo:
It's pronounced
"no-ki-a", emphasis on the first syllable.

A town in Finland before a famous rubber company before a mobile phone company
I had Nokia rubber boots when I was a kid. Pretty good.
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Jun 8, 2003, 10:22 PM
 
Oh and it is a Finnish company and it is pronounced NO-kee-aa.
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Jun 8, 2003, 10:49 PM
 
Originally posted by Developer:
It's pronounced no-ki-a and an American would probably write the pronounciation no-kee-uhh (?).
Those stupid Americans and their fancy phonetics.

I've also never heard it any other way than NO�ki�a or no�KI�a. Knock-ya? You thilly Aussies.
     
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Jun 8, 2003, 11:04 PM
 
I usually say it this way:

no-KEY-a

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Jun 8, 2003, 11:12 PM
 
Originally posted by voodoo:
Oh and it is a Finnish company and it is pronounced NO-kee-aa.
finnish? are you sure? i thought it was a swedish company. someone confirm this?
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 02:14 AM
 
It's a Finnish company. You're thinking of Ericsson.

Nokia actually started out as a papermill in the 19th century. They became a huge industrial conglomerate during the 1960's producing everything from TVs to rubber boots for Vodoo. They decided that their future was in electronics sometime during the late 80s and the rest is history.
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 02:22 AM
 
Originally posted by Timo:
It's pronounced
"no-ki-a", emphasis on the first syllable.

A town in Finland before a famous rubber company before a mobile phone company
I thought they made telegraph poles? Meh.

Knockia.
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 03:46 AM
 
Knock-ia, if you want to do it the native way and emphasis on first syllable, as already pointed out. No stretching of 'ia', thanks

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Jun 9, 2003, 05:13 AM
 
Originally posted by 7Macfreak:
finnish? are you sure? i thought it was a swedish company. someone confirm this?
No thats Ericson.

Its a good idea to make a point of learning the difference between,

Sweeden
Switzerland
Norway
Finland
Iceland

People get very pissed of when you get them confused.

Like asking a Kiwi if they are from Australia- I love doing that.
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 05:14 AM
 
Originally posted by Mastrap:
It's a Finnish company. You're thinking of Ericsson.

Nokia actually started out as a papermill in the 19th century. They became a huge industrial conglomerate during the 1960's producing everything from TVs to rubber boots for Vodoo. They decided that their future was in electronics sometime during the late 80s and the rest is history.
I suppose you will tell me next that Nintendo made playing cards.
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 05:19 AM
 
I pronounce it, the way it's supposed to be pronounced.
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 06:43 AM
 
Funny story, my profession was the Head of Marketing US for them in the early 90s through t he mid 90s. Just as they were starting out in America.

Anyways, one of the first things he proposeled was to change the name. . . . So he went to Finland and what not, met with the board.

And they were like umm. . . . Yeah, I don't think so. You aren't going to change the name, there is too much history with the town, with the river, and what not.

By the way, he pronouces it No-Kee-ah.

I say No-kia.
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 07:13 AM
 
Originally posted by moonmonkey:
No thats Ericson.

Its a good idea to make a point of learning the difference between,

Sweeden
Switzerland
Norway
Finland
Iceland

People get very pissed of when you get them confused.

Like asking a Kiwi if they are from Australia- I love doing that.
You got that the wrong way around. An Australian would be pissed off if you suggested that they were a Kiwi, but a Kiwi would be flattered if you thought they were Australian.
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 02:24 PM
 
I say NO-kee-ahh.

The box for my 3650 is sitting on my desk and it says "Phone Made in Finland." I thought it was a Japanese company until a while ago, but that's probably because many of the major US-bound electronics brands are Japanese.

Oh, and I also say "OW-dee", not "AH-dee".
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 03:40 PM
 
Originally posted by moonmonkey:
I suppose you will tell me next that Nintendo made playing cards.
he he, Hanafuda you mean?

1889 - Mr. Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai and began manufacturing "Hanafuda," Japanese playing cards in Kyoto.

[...]

1963 - Changed company name to Nintendo Co. Ltd. and started manufacturing games in addition to playing cards.

And the rest is history
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 04:15 PM
 
Variation on a Theme � how do you pronounce Konica?
     
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Jun 9, 2003, 04:22 PM
 
Originally posted by 3gg3:
Variation on a Theme ? how do you pronounce Konica?
CONEicka

kinda sorta like that.
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Jun 9, 2003, 07:04 PM
 
Europeans in general will say Noh-KIA (emphasis on 2nd syllable), Americans always tend to emphasis the first syllable, so they will say NO-kia. For some strange reason, the example that I always think of is that British people say "Robin HOOD", whereas Americans say "ROBIN Hood", if that makes any sense whatsoever.
     
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Originally posted by angelmb:
he he, Hanafuda you mean?

1889 - Mr. Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai and began manufacturing "Hanafuda," Japanese playing cards in Kyoto.

[...]

1963 - Changed company name to Nintendo Co. Ltd. and started manufacturing games in addition to playing cards.

And the rest is history
Fun facts�.

And aren't Nin, ten, and do separater words that roughly translate into "leave it to heaven" (correct me if I'm worng)? I always thought was a cool fun fact�
     
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Originally posted by talisker:
Europeans in general will say Noh-KIA (emphasis on 2nd syllable), Americans always tend to emphasis the first syllable, so they will say NO-kia. For some strange reason, the example that I always think of is that British people say "Robin HOOD", whereas Americans say "ROBIN Hood", if that makes any sense whatsoever.
Yeah I've noticed this tendancy! Icelanders fall strictly in the American group, while Norwegians are typical Europeans.

Fascinating.
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Originally posted by MindFad:
Fun facts�.

And aren't Nin, ten, and do separater words that roughly translate into "leave it to heaven" (correct me if I'm worng)? I always thought was a cool fun fact�
Yes, they are kanji characteres, nin-ten-do, and you can understood as you post "leave luck to heaven" or "Deep in the mind we have to do whatever we have to do", so the most common reading is "Work hard, but in the end it is in heaven's hands"
     
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Jun 10, 2003, 08:04 AM
 
Originally posted by Timo:
It's pronounced
"no-ki-a", emphasis on the first syllable.
It is my understanding that the Fins only use two sylables:

"nok-ya" with emphasis on the first syllable.

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Jun 10, 2003, 09:35 AM
 
Originally posted by talisker:
Europeans in general will say Noh-KIA (emphasis on 2nd syllable), Americans always tend to emphasis the first syllable, so they will say NO-kia.
Here in the South-East of England everyone I know says "Knock-ee-ah" (quickly), with a slight bit of emphasis on the first syllable.

I don't know anyone who says NOKE-ee-ah, or emphasises the second or third syllables.

I also don't know anyone who doesn't know they're Finnish... that should please the Finns

Nice place, Finland!
     
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Jun 10, 2003, 09:54 AM
 
This is all well and good but how on earth does one pronounce Massasuchets without tying one's tongue into knots? Thats what I want to know.
     
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Jun 10, 2003, 11:41 AM
 
It's actually pronounced:

Phu-glee-Fones-Dat-***-Free-WiTH-UR-Pai-AnD-Go-Pak-AGE


Hark, I hear a robin sig'ing in the trees!
Nae, there is no sog to be sug,
or am I wrog? Why can't I sig?
     
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Jun 10, 2003, 11:43 AM
 
Originally posted by Dogma:
It's actually pronounced:

Phu-glee-Fones-Dat-***-Free-WiTH-UR-Pai-AnD-Go-Pak-AGE


I can't believe that AUTOCENSOR? took out "c u m" - it's one of those words that people use, even when it isn't about prawn. (Slade anyone? "*** on feel tha noize")
Hark, I hear a robin sig'ing in the trees!
Nae, there is no sog to be sug,
or am I wrog? Why can't I sig?
     
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Jun 10, 2003, 12:21 PM
 
Originally posted by voodoo:
CONEicka

kinda sorta like that.
Hmmmm. So not kinda sorta like formica, eh? Anyone else, maybe in the camera trade?
     
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Originally posted by 3gg3:
Hmmmm. So not kinda sorta like formica, eh? Anyone else, maybe in the camera trade?
Well, the Japanese say Koh-ni-cah.

But the Japanese are crazy.
     
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Well, the Japanese say Koh-ni-cah.

But the Japanese are crazy.
Funny, it just occurred to me last night � I'll bet Slick Willie says Kah-nick-uh.
     
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Jun 11, 2003, 01:38 PM
 
Originally posted by talisker:
Europeans in general will say Noh-KIA (emphasis on 2nd syllable), Americans always tend to emphasis the first syllable, so they will say NO-kia.
Strangely, the Finnish language doesn't have much in common with any other world language than Estonian, so we emphasize the first.

Here's a detailed pronounciation guide:

kno (as in knock) key (but shorter) ah, with each part equally long, emphasis on the first, then falling for the rest. For musicians, a triplet, that is.

Have a listen to some Finnish language, try how much you can make sense from some of todays news.

Warning: english, swedish, russian, polish or, umm, most anything else will not help you...

http://ra.yle.fi/ramgen/radiouutiset/1600.rm

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Nov 12, 2012, 03:06 PM
 
NOT.

We are NEVER flattered when someone mistakes us for an Australian. NEVER. EVER. EVER. :-)

And it's No-ki-a from Finland. Nokia is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
     
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Originally Posted by Dogma View Post

I can't believe that AUTOCENSOR? took out "c u m" - it's one of those words that people use, even when it isn't about prawn. (Slade anyone? "*** on feel tha noize")
Can you still not say cum?


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Nov 13, 2012, 09:22 AM
 
What's funny is that when this thread was created, Nokia was a major industry mover and shaker.

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Nov 13, 2012, 10:28 AM
 
or as in gnocchi (the potato dumplings) ah

gnocchi-ah

Does this help?

On the side note, I always say CON-ick-a with emphasis on the first but said fairly quickly.
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Knock Ear

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Nov 15, 2012, 06:45 AM
 
I pronounce it by using my brooklyn heritage: "No kia, I wanna caddy instead."
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Holy mother of all zombie threads.

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