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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3379887" data-attributes="member: 109211">Its a great one Jerry.I have mostly heard this pronounced with a short i but only a couple of weeks ago a guy from the Meopta agent pronounced it N eye kon, just like you posted above. No idea which is correct.And in the UK market manufacturers will sometimes change the way their name is pronounced to make it easier for us poor English to get our heads round. So for years Braun was pronounced as Brorn in UK tv commercials despite it being German. Trouble is it should be pronounced Brown and no doubt at the time Braun was worried about folks going into shops and asking for a Brown razor only to be told 'sorry we've only got black ones' etc etc. So you can't even rely on how the name is spoken in commercials or videos.And you can't rely on how retail outlets pronounce names either. Go into any Skoda car dealership and the model name Fabia will be pronounced either Fab-ia (with a short flat a) or Faybia. The Octavia might be either Octarvia or Octayvia.Lee</blockquote>