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The fact that Nike was a unknown name for most of the English speakers could explain the duplicity in pronunciations: some dialects treated it as other names and words ending in -ike and some other dialects as other Greek names ending in -e.Lumia
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Pronunciation of Nike in English  ·  Lumia  ·  3/31/2008, 8:44 AM
Re: Pronunciation of Nike in English  ·  acquamarina  ·  4/1/2008, 1:24 PM
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Re: Pronunciation of Nike in English  ·  Cleveland Kent Evans  ·  3/31/2008, 5:21 PM
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Re: Pronunciation of Nike in English  ·  Profe Esteban  ·  3/31/2008, 9:25 AM
Re: Pronunciation of Nike in English  ·  RomildaVane  ·  4/5/2008, 9:42 PM