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Topic: Bakelite video, apparently, it's pronounced "Bake-uh-lite" |
Rick Barnhart
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 2 May 2015 7:31 am |
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Although there's no reference to early Rickenbachers, here's an interesting video about the manufacture of Bakelite materials and products. Bake-uh-lite...who knew?
http://www.instructables.com/id/Restore-Bakelite-to-Original-Finish/
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Mike Spieth
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Posted 2 May 2015 9:43 am
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| If you're referring to three syllables, as opposed to two, that's the way I always have heard it pronounced. The term was first familiar to me in the camera business, where the material was used for decades. |
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Tony Glassman
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The Great Northwest
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Posted 2 May 2015 10:03 am
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| Just like prounouncing Rick-uhn-bocker, Emm-uns or Mish-i-gun |
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Rick Barnhart
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 2 May 2015 10:54 am
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Correct, Mike. I was referencing the number of syllables. I've only heard the word pronounced with two. This video is the first time I've heard the "e" in bake pronounced like an extra "a" sound, as it would sound if in a German word. ie., the word Porsche, or danke.
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Jeff Garden
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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 2 May 2015 10:54 am
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| Bakelite: what you switch on in the oven to make sure you don't burn the cookies...in Italy |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Peter Funk
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Germany
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Posted 2 May 2015 12:54 pm
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... in german it's pronounced "buck-a-leet"  |
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Mike Spieth
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Posted 2 May 2015 1:15 pm
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| Related: how to pronounce Weissenborn.....The German name is properly pronounced like "ice," but most folks I have heard say it like "eyes." |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 2 May 2015 1:45 pm Re: Bakelite video, apparently, it's pronounced
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| always been bake uh lite to me. |
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Peter Harris
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South Australia, Australia
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Posted 3 May 2015 12:42 am Re: Bakelite video, apparently, it's pronounced
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| chris ivey wrote: |
| always been bake uh lite to me. |
...and me.. 
..which I think is the standard Oz pronunciation..and derives from the English one..
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Chris Lucker
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Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 3 May 2015 9:14 am
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Isn't it a man's last name that is applied to the material?
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Chris Lucker
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 3 May 2015 9:32 am
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is that pronounced bake-uh-land ?  |
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Robert Allen
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 3 May 2015 11:33 am
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| When I worked in Mexico, they pronounced it bock-eh-leet-ah |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 4 May 2015 8:13 pm
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| The guitars seem to sound the same, no matter how it's pronounced.. |
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When I say bake-uh-lite to someone, I get a funny look, like I'm stupid or something... 