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Old 3 August 2010, 10:42 PM   #1
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The right pronunciation :) How do u say it??

Hello there...

As you can see I have nothing better to do today but to polish my Rolex vocab...

Over the years and in my travels to different coutries you get to hear the same model names with a different pronunciation specially some models like...

For eg:-

Submariner (Sab--marainer) ; (Sab-mareener) ; (Soob-mareener) etc

Yacht Master (Yau-t Master) ; (Yaakh- Master) ; (Yaach- Master)


Not that it matters to any of us... Just curious...

So how do you say it... Im alrite with my GMT
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Old 3 August 2010, 10:47 PM   #2
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I've heard numerous people pronounce the Sub as Sub-mare-iner; "mare" as a horse, and "iner" as the word in and... er (not a long i).

Yacht sounds like "yaht."

GMT is easiest, isn't it?
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Old 3 August 2010, 10:56 PM   #3
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Old 3 August 2010, 11:10 PM   #4
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My AD pronounce it DG, JMT, MILGOOOSE
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Old 4 August 2010, 02:57 AM   #5
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My AD pronounce it DG, JMT, MILGOOOSE

He's an AD.............what does he know?

Unless you mean Oscar because he talks kinda funny.
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Old 4 August 2010, 03:21 AM   #6
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Old 4 August 2010, 03:34 AM   #7
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He's an AD.............what does he know?

Unless you mean Oscar because he talks kinda funny.
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Old 4 August 2010, 04:48 AM   #8
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My AD pronounce it DG, JMT, MILGOOOSE
MILGOOOSE !
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Old 4 August 2010, 02:24 AM   #9
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lol @ milgoose... hehehe...
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Old 4 August 2010, 02:30 AM   #10
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It cheeses me off when people say Date-ad-just....instead of datejust all one word....I have heard that alot....

I always say them as whole words....like....Datejust....Daydate....

I am not so keen on the plural "Rollies" either...

You are right though...GMT is pretty hard to say wrong!!!

Sub - Mah - Rinner would me the way I would pronounce...well...Submariner...
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Old 4 August 2010, 02:31 AM   #11
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I think different regions say things different depending on the accent.

Here in the U.S. you have different accents depending on whether you live in the North, South, or West.

Id just listen to the other local watch guru's to say it like they do, just so your on the same page. If you flew to the Southern U.S. you would have a funny time conversing with watch enthusiest.

I say (Sub-mare-iner, Yot-master, Mil-gowse, and so on)
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Old 4 August 2010, 03:35 AM   #13
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ju buh lee

oi stur

rowe lexx
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ju buh lee

oi stur

rowe lexx

I guess they talk funny in Ga as well.
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Old 4 August 2010, 04:56 AM   #15
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ju buh lee

oi stur

rowe lexx


With the magnified glass, writing on my Explorer-II should pronounce:

rowe lexx
oi stur pur-peth-too-al Dae !

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For Submariner I use to say Undervattensbåt.
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Old 4 August 2010, 05:26 AM   #18
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Surely JJ pronounces it Rah-Doh!!
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I just say, "Nice watch!"
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Old 4 August 2010, 07:21 AM   #20
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Apart from in French it isn't G. M. T as you would pronounce in English it would be pronounced....... Jay. EM. Tay.

G and J is opposite way around!
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