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How do you pronounce AKG?

post #1 of 44
1/31/02 at 12:23am
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Is it AKG? OR A-K-G? Or Aw Kah Jay? Help me with this people, it's been bothering me for years.
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post #2 of 44
1/31/02 at 12:57am
I've always just pronounced the letters - A-K-G.
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post #3 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:06am
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Aw Kah Jay?
It takes a Canadian to mangle a simple three-letter-acronym into something like this. J/K!!!

AKG is an acronym for the German words translated directly to have the words (going by fading memory) "Audio Video ...something else..." I dunno, I think Gradoistcool did the translation on HeadWize a while ago.

EDIT 1: Ok, well here's what Altavista's translator had to say about "Akustische und Kinogeräte GesmbH":

Acoustic one and cinema devices Gesmbh

EDIT 2: Found that HeadWize thread. Quoting Gradoistcool directly:

"and for anybody that does not know what AKG stands for it stands for Akustische und Kino Geräte, which means simply acoustic and cinematic equipment :-)"

(hmm, he has a slightly different interpretation of AKG, even though I got the the German words represented by AKG directly from the German AKG website)
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post #4 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:07am
i think it's actually pronounced "nougat"
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post #5 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:07am
Same here, A-K-G. I didn't know exactly how to pronounce Sennheiser until I asked a fellow boarder who happened to be german how to say it.

Grado gave my trouble, still does. I say gra (as in grass) dough, aparently it is supposed to be gray-dough.
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post #6 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:22am
How do you pronounce sennheiser? I always say Sen-Hi-Sir
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post #7 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:25am
Yeah I used think Grado was pronounced "Gr-ah-dough"...

Also, Beyerdynamic is pronounced "Buy-er-dynamic"... I thought it was "bay-er-dynamic"...

And Sennheiser I believe is "Zen-high-zer"

And Etymotic is "Et-e-mow-tick"

I'm sure Sony has some Japanese pronounciation or something... maybe "saw-nee"?
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post #8 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:30am
Grado = Gra-oh

It's Italian, but you say it the same way in spanish. Romance languages are cool that way
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post #9 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:30am
I think Neruda would pronounce it as something like 'hic'
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post #10 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:31am
AKG = AKG

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post #11 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:51am
We're in quite the sarcastic mood tonight, aren't we Beagle?
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post #12 of 44
1/31/02 at 1:53am
AKG= P-H-O-L-L........
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post #13 of 44
1/31/02 at 5:29am
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Originally posted by Possum


It takes a Canadian to mangle a simple three-letter-acronym into something like this. J/K!!!
In Canada, they pronounce it "eh K G", actually.

Kelly
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post #14 of 44
1/31/02 at 5:47am
It's spelled AKG, but it's pronounced throat warbler mangrove.

I like nougat. It's often better than the 'serious' part of the candy bar.
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post #15 of 44
1/31/02 at 5:52am
"Ah-Kee-Geege"

"Ack-Ghee"

"Aka-Guh"

Ehm, I have no idea.
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