Pronunciation?

[lapis]

Can I still use it a lot if I don't pronouce it correctly?

 

Mike :hmm1:

You're just lucky if you have someone to speak to about ink. It never comes up in spoken conversation for many of us.

Right on, I mean I don' give a heck how it's pronounced, I just order, fill and write the stuff.

 

Mike

[mandarintje]

Air-bah = Herbin

 

Moh-bloh = Montblanc

 

Basically kiss goodbye to consonants =) hehe

but don't replace with glottal stops.

[fabrimedeiros]

It's so sad that many of us don't have any live conversation about our hobby, but internet. 99,9% of my FP chat is internet. There are no FP Clubs in my city. Nobody of my family likes FP, and at work I have just one friend to whom I can talk about it, since he's FP enthusiast too, but novice.

[sallywally]

In my head I've been saying DI a meen. Hmm....

 

:embarrassed_smile:

 

I am trying edit here, but may be replying...

[lapis]

... Nobody of my family likes FP....

Me too, but I guess I'm still good enough for them that they know who to ask if they can borrow something nice to write with for a special greeting card.

 

Whew

[aawhite]

lol. I've been saying die-AM-een. Like two amines.

 

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+1

[Ernst Bitterman]

Air-bah = Herbin

 

Moh-bloh = Montblanc

 

Basically kiss goodbye to consonants =) hehe

but don't replace with glottal stops.

 

During the last discussion of Herbin, I was reminded that one does not hit the R as hard as we like to in English, so one might transcribe it as Heir-ban. That N does produce some kind of sound, but certainly not what we anglophones expect.

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Air-bah = Herbin

 

Moh-bloh = Montblanc

 

Basically kiss goodbye to consonants =) hehe

but don't replace with glottal stops.

And of course, if one renders the name of a certain French composer remembered mainly for his organ works (and particularly so for a certain sparkly toccata) into English orthography, one ends up with "Sharl Marie Veedor." (And speaking of which, who can forget the fun Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Ogden Nash had with the name of another French composer. Or as Steve Martin put it, "Those French have a different word for EVERYTHING!") Edited August 27, 2010 by hbquikcomjamesl

[medlib]

I've always thought of it as DIE-a-MINE. I must have been truly destined to love this ink since it has obviously has been whispering it's true name to me. In fact, I've ordered ten bottles a few days ago that should be winging their way across the Atlantic to me as I type. Ah, the anticipation!

[mandarintje]

I've lived on the Continent too long, I thought of it as dee-uh-meen without even thinking =)

[coconutman]

So this this has been worked around quite a bit. dye-a-myne? dye-a-meen, dye-a-min, dee-uh-min/meen/what?

[LisaN]

Maybe, just like element number 13, how you pronounce it depends on where you live.

 

Once I got in an argument defending the right of people from the UK to spell number 16 with a "ph".

Turned out IUPAC had settled on the American spelling a few years ago. :embarrassed_smile:

I always thought the British should have dibs on that.

[Northwoods]

It's spelled Diamine, but it's pronounced Throatwobber Mangrove.

[AlanE]

It is.

 

Dye uh meanie, that how they pronounce it at the factory.

 

Alan

[Felix1]

I've been paying close attention to how Brian Goulet pronounces the ones I don't know during his weekly Write Time videos. Right or wrong, he sounds like he knows the correct pronunciations...especially the French items...which shouldn't be surprising since he has a French heritage.

[GouletPens]

It's spelled Diamine, but it's pronounced Throatwobber Mangrove.

 

HAHA! I would type lol except that would be a lie...I'm up late and don't want to wake the little one, so I'm laughing inside

 

I've been paying close attention to how Brian Goulet pronounces the ones I don't know during his weekly Write Time videos. Right or wrong, he sounds like he knows the correct pronunciations...especially the French items...which shouldn't be surprising since he has a French heritage.

 

I do have French heritage, and I did take 3 years of French in high school! I remember about .005% percent of it, unfortunately! I wasn't really aware of different pronunciations of Diamine.....die-uh-meen....that's how I say it, and so does everyone I'm involved with! J. Herbin is a little trickier, I hear every pronunciation under the sun! I just spent the last 5 minutes trying to phonetically spell the French way to say it, but I couldn't even figure out how! I did find a nifty little tool though that's pretty useful in this case! Check this out: you type in 'J. Herbin', select your voice of choice (French- Alice is probably the best one for this), and it'll pronounce it for you! No affil, I just googled it and found this tool...hopefully it helps!

[penspouse]

I emailed Christine Hesketh at Diamine and asked. The following is her reply.

 

The correct pronunciation is as follows ...

 

Di (As in hair DYE) - A - Mine (as in coal Mine) = DI - A - MINE

 

This is how we say it anyway !!!

 

Kind Regards

 

Christine

 

I am awaiting a response from J. Herbin.

[AlanE]

Ha ! so even Diamine itself has different views. I vote we rename it ! any offers ?

 

Alan

[GouletPens]

Ha ! so even Diamine itself has different views. I vote we rename it ! any offers ?

 

Alan

 

Throatwobber Mangrove gets my vote

[geoduc]

It's spelled Diamine, but it's pronounced Throatwobber Mangrove.

 

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