Hi guys,
I’d love to try some of these paints out but whenever I go to a hobby shop, I never quite know how to ask for them. Do you pronounce it “Va-YEH-ho”? “Va-Leh-ho”? Help!
Thanks!
Eric
If you are a Spanish speaker, the correct pronunciation is vaw-YEAH-ho.
If you visit the town of that name in the Bay Area, most folks, except those mentioned above, would say vuh-LAY-oh.
If you were a crew member on SSBN-658, you’d call her the “Valley-Jo”.
Ha-ha-ha! That’s just it. My mom is from Bolivia so my first inclination is to pronounce it “va-YEH-ho”. However, I don’t know if that’s how it is pronounced in the industry.
I live in the small town of Green Bay, WI so we’re quite a ways away from any form of Hispanic influences. I went into an out-of-the-way gaming store and asked if they carried “va-YEH-ho” paints. The girl behind the counter looked at me as if I were some sort of alien with a monkey on my head. I thought for sure I must have been pronouncing it incorrectly.
Eric
Exactly how everyone else said. If you speak Spanish its pronounced vah-Yeh-ho. But otherwise its pronounced vah-Lay-ho. I actually live close to Vallejo hear in the bay area CA. If you go to a hobby shop just say vah-Lay-ho or they might look at you funny or say they dont have it (even tho they do but they think your asking for a new brand or something)
Spanish speaker or not, the correct pronunciation is "Vah-YEH-hoh.
Gracias to everyone! This is right up there with the way to pronounce “Tamiya”. I say “ta-MY-uh” but I have heard others pronounce it “ta-MEE-uh”.
Eric
geez, a Cheesehead that can pronounce Lac De Flambou and Lac Buttes Des Morts without making people giggle, and can’t pronounce a Spanish word? (Boo Deh More)
lol, just teasing,I grew up near the Roche-cri river in Adams County,until I was about 8 years old, I thought it was the Russia Creek River. (we started before daylight when driving to our seats at Lambeau)
and the Japanese words are easier to pronounce than just about any other language,there is a set sound for each “sound group” , unlike English’s 23 ways to say any sound depending on context.
Ta and Ya are both always part of the “ah sounding group”, and Mi is part of the "Mee sounding group,so it is Tah Mee Yah (Pacific Front’s old pre-internet paper catalog had a section on Kanji, Katakana and pronounciation in it, for the Japanese ship kits)
Rex
Some times we learn new things by letting others ask questions about what we didn’t know…I just did
So how about Hos-A- gow-wa or Has E gowa?
Revell , I’m pretty confident about, thou it took awhile for ROG to become comfortable.
But Zvezda is a real stickler for me
You say ‘tom-mat-toe’ I say ‘tom-mah-toe’
You say ‘pot-tae-toe’ I say ‘pot-tah-toe’
Hasegawa is easy
Hah Say Gah Wah,the Ha Ga Wa are in the same ah group at the Tah and Yah in Tah Mee Yah,the Se is part of the Kay, Say, etc group
another Japanese word that gets butchered pretty badly in America is Kamikaze,I’ve heard Cam ee Kah Zee much more often than the correct Kah Mee Kah Zay
a=ah,as in yah
e=ay,as in say
i=ee,as in tea
o=oh,as in toe
u=oo,as in boo
yu,I can’t say that sound myself
lol, Blacksheep,in Japanese there is no “interpretive” pronounciations,they don’t have a “Potato-Potato” situation
Ditto Finnish. No accent on syllables.
Since we are talking about pronunciation how do you pronounce:
Revell
Re—vell rhymes with bell (my vote)
or
Rev—ell the “L” sound, kinda sounds like rebel.
Eric,
From what I have observed, people respond to anything if they can figure out the English letters behind the sounds you are pronouncing. It seems to me the pronunciation must work with the native language so the hearer can understand. So, for example, we wouldn’t say “volksvagen” in the US. Most of the time I have heard the two terms you mention pronounced:
və-lāy-hō
tə-mē-yə
with the “ə” pronounced like the “a” in the first and last syllables of ba-na-na.
There’s been a lot of debate about the correct pronunciation of Tamiya. Likely, there will be with Vallejo, as well.
No there’s only one correct pronunciation, and that’s the version, or versions, used in the language of origin. I apologize if I’ve misunderstood your comment.
Other pronunciations are perhaps more understandable, or commonly used in different locations, but that doesn’t make them correct.
I can’t imagine how many ways Vallejo is pronounced in Spanish, but there must be a few, and I don’t know anyone with that name to ask them.
I would guess that the most success in finding the stuff, outside of a LHS in Mexico, would be to say Vuh- LAY- Ho.
What a wonderful, curious but interesting thread. A spanish (and other) speaking friend of mine told me vallejo is pronounced vuh-yay-hoe. Dunno but I know what I mean when I want to order it. And further, before I retired I frequented Japan and my ‘mentor’ there told me the problem we Americans had with Japanese was not realizing that in Japanese no syllables in any groups are accented vis ‘a’ vis Hiroshima - you often hear Hero-She-ma but should hear Here-osh-im-a. Not much of a contribution but I’ve enjoyed the thread.
Bick, in Japanese, there also are no sounds that have a consonant at the end or in the middle
so, no “hero” part in that word Hiroshima,it can all be done with a chart or table,Hee Roh Shee Mah
and yes, as you say, there is no emphasis on a syllable
Japanese pronunciation is like math, there is no opinions involved in either,there is only the right way and the wrong answer
I’ll throw in Gunze. Goon za(y), Not Gun zee.[:)]
And for the photographers among us: Nikon = nee con not nigh con but I’m guilty of using the latter.
All the comments have been great! Phil, I didn’t even know I’ve been pronouncing Gunze wrong all these years. I’ve never spoken it in conversation but, in my head, I’ve always pronounced it as “guns”. Oops! But now I know. :o)
As for pronouncing kit manufacturers in general, this is why I primarily build Monogram. LOL!
And in case anyone is wondering, last night I had po-TAY-toes.
Heh - I’ve been pronouncing Gunze as “gunz” too!