All right, I’ve had enough. I know that Americans routinely mispronounce all sorts of stuff, even supposedly educated folks, like news anchors (“e_K_cetera”, really?). But how to speak of ESU decoders? Is it "Lock"Sound or "Loke"Sound (with a long “o”, as in “spoke”)? I’m guessing the former but most of the guys in the Club do the latter. Having never spoken to an ESU rep, I’m still on the fence. Perhaps Ulrich will settle the issue with the way Germans say it.
Of couse, someone here will also bring up Kato (long or short “a”?) and probably something else, as well . . .
In German, “Lok” is the abbreviated form for “Lokomotive” and is indeed pronounced “lock”, and this is how I, as a German, would pronounce it in LokSound.
Interestingly, in “Lokomotive” the o sound is longer, but not quite like “loke”, more like the Mexican “loco” (= crazy).
The German “Lok” is pronounced “lock”, just like JW wrote. As for he company name ESU, which stands for ESU electronic solutions ulm GmbH & Co. KG, the English pronunciation is just fine!
Just a hint - when there is a letter “e” at the end of a German word, it is not a silent vowel. I find it rather irritating when people talk about a “Porsh”, when they mean a Porsche, which should be pronounced “porsh-ay”
Hey, I’ve only recently found out I’ve been mispronunciating Kato incorrectly.
I always thought it was Kay’-toe, emphasis on the Kay syllable; as in Kato the Green Hornet’s sidekick, Bruce Lee. But it isn’t. It’s Kaah-toe’, emphasis on the toe syllable.
My favorite mispronunciation is when people say “youze” as the plural for “you”. Happens a lot here in Canada. You can tell they never made it past 5th grade.[(-D]
I have always pronounced Loksound as ‘locksound’. So what? It’s my accent eh!
Please, Paul, don’t get me going on “nucular”. That’s right up there in commonality with “ekcetera”. And there’s another half dozen that are frequent enough that I just rool my eyes (or ears?) and move on.
It is pronouned Kah-to. And the word you want is “latter” rather than “later”…and not to be confused with the similar sounding word “ladder”. Aren’t languages fun? [swg]
They are, indeed! I remember attending an international conference in Japan, where each participant was asked to give a short introduction of himself, the business he worked for and his job. The common languang was English, but with a great number of accents. When the only native speaker, an Englishman from Manchester, finished his intro, a friendly little chap from Malaysia stood up and asked him to repeat what was just said, as he was unable to comprehend even a single word. Accents and dialects add a lot spice to life!
Yes that is exactly how I pronounce it! It’s just VERY hard to get the spoken stuff in writing! And yes I also ment latter! It’s funny how much people mess up spellings in forums posts! I have honestly stopped caring if I have one or two errors!
Speaking of errors you did spell my name wrong, I spell it Isaac. No problem really, half the time people spell my name they do it that way! [:D]
I’m from the suburban Fuladelpya area, where once we had two brothers as quarterbacks for dem Iggles. Coy Detler and Ty Ditweiler. We never quite got there names right.