Pronounciation?
 

"ooooo-ZIT" or "use-IT"?

I cannot for the life of me call it "use-it". Im guessing thats the correct pronounciation though isnt it?

Pronounced: USE-it

Spelled: Pronunciation:)

Im such a loser.:(

Not at all. I'm a spelling fanatic; and regarding the brand, the company wanted the public to "Use it", to buy and use their tobacco.

Please try. When I heard your T206 back presentation the pronunciation was like fingernails on a chalkboard. :cool:

BTW it was a very nice video.

How do you pronunciate . .
 

El Principe de Gales: "Ha-les", ¿si, no?
Alan & Gintner? Gintner or Jintner?
Minnie Miñoso, how 'bout that?
Ki Ki Cuyler: Kee Kee or Kye Kye?
Eevers or Evers, Ha-nus or Ho-nus, LAJ-a-way or 'Nuf Ced?

Kawika (Kaveeka)

Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie [la-ZHWAH, or often la-ZHWAY, per the Canadian French pronunciation; or, as he himself usually pronounced it, LAJ-a-way[1]] (September 5, 1874 – February 7, 1959), also known as Larry Lajoie.

Do you know how many people don't even know the translation of El Principe de Gales?

Yep barry,
the prince of wales;)

Thank you Larry...you would be surprised how many T206 collectors don't even know that.

Definitely "Kye Kye"...he was a stutterer and if he said his last name it sounded like "kye kye Cuyler."

We used to play a game in college to see who could be the "King of Whales" for the evening.
ROugh game, had to go to the clinic once.
Bob

El Rey de Gales
 

was very amused at this entry from the mile high auction catalog, 1/22/2010 (borrowed without permission)...

pronunciation
 

Nap's last name still blows me away.
Barry S., i don't know how many people don't even know the translation of
EPDG!! :)

best,
barry

Kevorka = keh-VOR-kah
 

What is the correct pronunciation of Chris Van der Ahe?

(I've got the "Chris" part.)

First you need the correct spelling- it's "Von"

Then I would pronounce it VON-der-aye

Subconscious typo on my part. :D I'm know a few people that were named Vander Ark, Vanderkellen, etc. I've heard some people turn the Ahe in Von der Ahe into a two-syllable word but that never seemed right to me.

I've always pronounced it Von der ah.

Well I was just guessing. VON-der-ah is a little harder to say.

Never knew that about Ki Ki Cuyler. All things considered it was probably an improvement over his given name, Hazen Shirley Cuyler.

When Ward Cleaver showed June the autographed baseball he got as a child (the one that Beaver and Larry Mondello accidentally destroyed), she thought Ki Ki Cuyler sounded like a fan dancer. I thought that was funny.