How do you pronounce....

[JeffVans]

So... How do YOU (personally) pronounce YAMAHA?
DISCLAIMER: I know this post is juvenile and in no possible way a technical to help anybody, but lets have some fun...
My wife LOVES to make fun of me for pronouncing Yamaha as "YAH-MAH-HAUL", instead of how its spelled (YAH-MAH-HAAA). I don't know why I personally do it (blame Ohio [GO BUCKEYES!!!]) but I tell her its because they YA-MA-HAUL-ASS!!!! hahaha.... either way, just a fun unofficial poll to see if I'm alone in this fight, or if I can prove that I'm correct!!! lol

 

[seanmclean]

Where'd you find an L? LOL

 

[JeffVans]

Where'd you find an L? LOL

No Idea, lol thats just how I've always said it since our first little 80cc trail bike back in about 1995.

 

[Beachbummer]

When the first Yamaha outboard appeared in my house, We lived in another country...In spanish it's pronounce ya-MA-hah (all As as in Apple, not airplane) (Emphasis on the middle sentence) Turns out in English we say YA-Mah-Hao(soft o) or similar... I wonder how the Japanese say it...

 

[Julian]

I've been told I pronounce it strangely. I blame it on being born in England, lived in NE, Midwest, Spain and now SE....mix all those accents together and you get "YAM- A- HA"

 

[Bilmon]

Man, warm weather can't get here fast enough

 

[Scuba_ref]

In Japanese each syllable gets the same amount of time on stage. Ya-ma-ha

 

[Neutron]

Just think of JFK giving a speach...

I paak my yamihaa in the yaaad

Thats how i sound

 

[Sbrown]

Yama-ha here.

Although my wife says werter, as in "We're taking our Yama-ha out on the werter".
I say wahter and so do my daughters.

 

[Hawksr30]

Yah-Ma-Haw!

P.S. I blame everything on Ohio. Go Blue!

 

[buckbuck]

I've been told I pronounce it strangely.

Yeah Julian, there is no doubt you have a strange twist on the word. I have heard it in person.

 

[Betik]

Yamahopoulos

 

[Betik]

Yeah Julian, there is no doubt you have a strange twist on the word. I have heard it in person.

And he tends to call "rope" a "line" !!!!

 

[Sbrown]

And he tends to call "rope" a "line" !!!!

He may not be wrong. My grandfather was career Navy. Started on PT Boats in WW2 and ended up in the Pentagon. He taught me most of what I know about boating. He always said "it's rope when it doesn't have a purpose, as soon as it has a job to do, it becomes a line"

 

[JeffVans]

And he tends to call "rope" a "line" !!!!

hahaha yes, as far as the USN is concerned... "ropes" are called lines. Call a line a rope in front of a Boatswains Mate and you're liable to get smacked. lol

 

[Betik]

He may not be wrong. My grandfather was career Navy. Started on PT Boats in WW2 and ended up in the Pentagon. He taught me most of what I know about boating. He always said "it's rope when it doesn't have a purpose, as soon as it has a job to do, it becomes a line"

At least you get use for your grandpa's words. My WWII grandfather taught me things that I cannot use in the 21st century. No wonder my wife things I live in a parallel universe.

 

[adrianp89]

I'm in line with mostly everyone else here. Ya-mah-haw

 

[Peelz]

USA(and me): Yaw-muh-haw -always been this way since my first moped the "yamahopper" 50cc.

Canuck(or far north): Yeah-muh-ha -(last A as in apple)

This is used to bother me to no end, when I would watch the television show "dirt trax" In my Raptor riding days.

Nowadays see it in some Yamaha Canada boat and PWC vids too. still cant handle it. LOL


on this note, old boss when I worked a car dealer called toyota "tie-yoda" and Nissan "NISS-ann" drove me up the wall!

 

[Peelz]

Yama-ha here.

Although my wife says werter, as in "We're taking our Yama-ha out on the werter".
I say wahter and so do my daughters.

Oh man... that would bug me.... Curious. do they say PILL-ow or PELL-ow when they lay down to sleep?

this is one of my favorite topics...

I still remember the only time my childhood life, I ever misspelled a word on a spelling test. I was in second grade, It was president's day. My teacher, was of Norwegian descent, first generation. She Pronounced "Washington" 'WARSH-ington" I asked her to say it again. same thing. I spelled it that way 9/10. I argued, and lost.

mom goes to visit her friend in Texas, comes home saying "y'all"

I have two good friends from Minnesota i see occasionally. They sound toally fine to me on their own. But if i'm with the two of them together-it becomes a Strange Brew casting call.

 

[JeffVans]

I have two good friends from Minnesota i see occasionally. They sound toally fine to me on their own. But if i'm with the two of them together-it becomes a Strange Brew casting call.

Minn-a-soooota? lol