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[Opinions] Re: Nike
by Tisiphone
12/4/2016, 10:22 AM
in reply to a message by Akua Topaz
I think it's lovely and wouldn't let the fact that it's a brand put me off using it. As I name I pronounce it NEE keh anywayhttp://www.behindthename.com/pnl/167578
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- Kaesy
12/4/2016, 8:57 PM
That might be how you'd pronounce it, but that's not how anyone else (or the vast majority, at least) would pronounce it if they met a Nike. She'd be left either constantly correcting the pronunciation of her name or just accepting an alternate one, and people would always associate her with shoes no matter how she said it.
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- Akua Topaz   +2
12/4/2016, 11:29 AM
Interesting, where are you getting that pronunciation from?
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- Tisiphone
12/4/2016, 4:47 PM
It's how you would pronounce it as an English speaker reading Classical Greek. I think a modern Greek speaker would say it more like 'Nee kee'
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- KittyLove301 (BuckeyedPeach86)
12/4/2016, 11:36 AM
I wanna say Germany or somewhere? In German, they usually prn. the ending E like UH, as in "latke".ETA: nvm...she's from London lol

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