How to pronounce Italian bike names

Cho-chuh. Never knew that.

http://www.mappel.de/sound/bike_brands.mp3

i always pronounced it chee-OCK!

i always pronounced it chee-OCK!

me too (btw, nice one parked outside senate house today)

oh, and the way i got shot down yesterday for pronouncing miche with a che (think gavara) at the end.

then tonight saying fjord, instead of ford. but that is something else.

on the plus side, i know how to pronounce Who Gives A Fuck

i thought it was miche was 'mish', as in mish mash. i wonder to italians pronounce 'dura-ace' though?

i wonder to italians pronounce 'dura-ace' though?

Same as us.

But with lots of waving.

ha! nice... though tbh the dude is saying them in a way most Italians wouldn't in conversation.. this is like Brian Blessed reciting our frames..

Stefano days Miche should sound like 'meekay',

yeah I would presume it was pronounced mi-keh, I lived in Italy for a while and know something of the language. But Jan at BLB corrected me a while back and said it's pronounced "meesh". So he must know I guess..........................................

What do Poles know about Italian???

i thought it was miche was 'mish', as in mish mash. i wonder to italians pronounce 'dura-ace' though?

Would Italians even mention dura-ace, surely it is like swearing to an Italian!

yeah I would presume it was pronounced mi-keh, I lived in Italy for a while and know something of the language. But Jan at BLB corrected me a while back and said it's pronounced "meesh". So he must know I guess..........................................

I always pronounce it "meesh" which I suppose is a French pronunciation.

Anyone know how to pronounce Cerevelo? is it "Curve-ello" or "Seray-vello" or something else?

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I would hazard a guess.

but all these things become bastardized, as ALL things cycling should be pronounced with a french accent if they are other european, or an english accent if they are anything else.

I always pronounce it "meesh" which I suppose is a French pronunciation.

Anyone know how to pronounce Cerevelo? is it "Curve-ello" or "Seray-vello" or something else?

Well you get more of a clue if you spell it right - Cervelo. Pronounced Sur-velo. BTW it's a Canadian, rather than Italian, company.

Cho-chuh. Never knew that.

http://www.mappel.de/sound/bike_brands.mp3

Bollocks. It's Chee-ock, whatever some bloke off the internet says...

What do Poles know about Italian???

Beats me...

I always pronounce it "meesh" which I suppose is a French pronunciation.

Anyone know how to pronounce Cerevelo? is it "Curve-ello" or "Seray-vello" or something else?

Helps if you spell it right. Cervelo would sound like chair-velo, roughly, in Italian.

edit - Platini got there first. So would it be French or Italian pronunciation, then?

Well you get more of a clue if you spell it right - Cervelo. Pronounced Sur-velo. BTW it's a Canadian, rather than Italian, company.

Is your bra too tight?

Beats me...

Look at the size of the peak on his cycling cap! Is it by Rapha?

@willski: You asked. I answered.

@willski: You asked. I answered.

No I asked, and you made a sniffy remark about spelling, and then made a sniffy remark about Cervelo being Candian and not Italian. I know that, but I inhabit a world were discussions are allowed to evolve.

[I'm off to loosen my bra now]

No I asked, and you made a sniffy remark about spelling, and then made a sniffy remark about Cervelo being Candian and not Italian. I know that, but I inhabit a world were discussions are allowed to evolve.

[I'm off to loosen my bra now]

Canadian.
Sniffy enough for you?

I was gutted when I found out Michele Bartoli wasn't called Michele at all but "Mee ka lay".

Yeah I knew about the Mi-Kay thing but if you say it like that no one knows wtf you are talking about.

"I really love my Mi kay hubs".

See?

Changes a lot of the film puns from the other day.

maybe the Miche thing is actually something inbetween 'Mi kay' and ' meesh' ?

italian can be very soft with the final syllable, so it becomes more of a 'ché'?

so, Mi-ché

?

OR, someone phone up the Miche cycling company and se how they answer the phone. let's settle this once and for goddamn all

ch in Italian can be either hard, as in the English k, or soft as in church. If the ch has an e after it then it's soft so Miche should be pronounced 'me-shay'.

I thank you.