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[ClivePwned]

Was about to say this. I'm from Australia too, and I don't think I've ever heard it said as anything other than "See-gah".

That being said, I've heard about a million variations online and on actual Sega title screens in-game. "Say-gah" and "Segg-ah" most commonly.

No, I live in Australia so I hear it quite often. Grinds my gears every time.

I've never heard anyone pronounce it like this, that is pretty funny though. Do you live in North America?

I say this every mispronunciation thread.
If you're calling SEGA, "See-ga" then you're wrong. There's no debate about it, stop being arrogant.

Sega's distributors pronounced as See-ga on their Australian TV ads in the 80s and 90s. Mystery solved, kids.

Also, it rhymes with Australian pronunciation of beta, and the cheese brand Bega.

 

[Loofy]

Progrum.

 

[Rhaknar]

not sure if anyone said it but

VirtuaL Fighter or VirtuaL Racing. its VirtuA, theres no L

 

[DECK'ARD]

not sure if anyone said it but

VirtuaL Fighter or VirtuaL Racing. its VirtuA, theres no L

And conversely Virtua-On.

 

[pants]

whooping becoming ghwooping or some other ass pronounced thing. it annoys me cause it's entirely forced

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Sega's distributors pronounced as See-ga on their Australian TV ads in the 80s and 90s. Mystery solved, kids.

Also, it rhymes with Australian pronunciation of beta, and the cheese brand Bega.

Sounds more like the Aussie accent makes it sound like they say see-ga but they're saying sayga. If that makes any sense.

 

[Grandi]

Sauna.

It's not saw-nuh.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/audio.php?file=sauna001&word=sauna&text=

 

[megarockexe]

Noh-keea in Europe and Nokia in U.S.?

 

[Fou-Lu]

Any time someone makes a word or name pluralized that shouldn't be.

 

[H2Yo]

Also, it rhymes with Australian pronunciation of beta, and the cheese brand Bega.

That's generalising, I'm Australian and would NEVER pronounce Beta and BEETAH!
It's BAY-TA only... [shudder]

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Noh-keea in Europe and Nokia in U.S.?

Its no-key-a in North America and Knock-ia in at least two places in Europe that I'm aware of.

 

[BurnOutBrighter]

"must of"

"should of"

The absolute worst offender.

 

[ClivePwned]

That's generalising, I'm Australian and would NEVER pronounce Beta and BEETAH!
It's BAY-TA only... [shudder]

Yup. Nope. Bee ta. Ask someone in Australia who's not interested in games to pronounce beta and report back to us. Or the UK.
Not everyone grew up listening to US-based podcasts and online videos.

See also Bee-tamax. Bee-tacam.

sega ad

 

[Grandi]

Noh-keea in Europe and Nokia in U.S.?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3ksR8zgXg#t=3
No Elop, stahp.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3ksR8zgXg#t=23
Ballmer says it better.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17804/how_should_we_pronounce_nokia_anyway

 

[DECK'ARD]

"must of"

"should of"

The absolute worst offender.

Absolutely foul, and should result in temporary bans when done on the forum.

 

[Jakabok]

Americans, my name is Craig not 'Creg'!

 

[DECK'ARD]

Americans, my name is Craig not 'Creg'!

Americans can't say Graham either can they?

Why are they so difficult.

 

[Sheroking]

Americans can't say Graham either can they?

Why are they so difficult.

Get back to us when you stop calling flashlights, "torches".

 

[matrix-cat]

Sounds more like the Aussie accent makes it sound like they say see-ga but they're saying sayga. If that makes any sense.

No, we're definitely saying SEE-ga. I'd also play a video game BEE-ta, BAY-duhs are for Americans.

Other Australian-isms:
Data = DAH-ta
Library = LYE-bree (we swallow our 'ary's in British and Australian English, e.g. Military is Mil-uh-tree, Cemetery is Seh-muh-tree, etc)
Aluminium = Al-uh-MIN-yuhm

One thing I always found weird was Americans pronouncing 'hover' to rhyme with 'cover'. It's like 'hotter' with a 'v' to me.

Get back to us when you stop calling flashlights, "torches".

I'll call it a flashlight when I see it flash, mate. I like a torch to provide a constant beam of light

 

[SeanTSC]

Nu-clee-ar is fine. Nu-clear is fine, because it's basically saying Nu-clee-ar fast.

But it's sure as fuck not supposed to be nu-kyu-ler.

This whole conversation just makes me think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfoPfF2u1to

 

[Sakura]

Kind of the opposite but I always pronounce Acai and Quinoa wrong.
When I used to work at Walmart and people would ask me where the ah-sah-ee was I'd just be like, what?

 

[SeanTSC]

I stare daggers at my parents when they mispronounce Caramel.

There's two fucking A's and three syllables, mom.

 

[MilkBeard]

As someone said before, it's bothersome when people pronounce niche as 'nitch.'

Also, I've heard countless people mispronounce Sudoku. Honestly, how hard could it be to pronounce this word correctly?

 

[Aaron Strife]

my real name is "Bryn"

fuck everyone who mispronounces it by adding letters this has traumatized me for 22 years

 

[sploatee]

Mine would have to be ect.

It is et cetera. Hence etc.

 

[elektrixx]

It ain't "Westfields".

 

[MomoPufflet]

I stare daggers at my parents when they mispronounce Caramel.

There's two fucking A's and three syllables, mom.

Oh god, everyone in the midwest says CAR-MULL and it's so gross.

 

[demon]

The reverse is what fucking irritates me. Whenever I hear someone say math instead of maths I cringe inside. Thats only when I hear americans use it on tv though. In real life people say maths. The full word is mathematics. Plural, implying theres more than one.

As opposed to the singular, 'mathematic'? Which word follows 'mathematics', 'are' or 'is'? Math is a shortening of the word mathematics, it's pretty simple-- drop the last seven letters, you get 'math'.

 

[MIMIC]

I stare daggers at my parents when they mispronounce Caramel.

There's two fucking A's and three syllables, mom.

Oh god, everyone in the midwest says CAR-MULL and it's so gross.

uh oh....

 

[TONX]

It's ChipotLe not ChipolTe.

Jesus Christ.

 

[Steamlord]

ITT super anal people (including myself)

 

[tokyostomp]

Herb as Urb

I don't believe in a silent H

 

[SeanTSC]

uh oh....

The dictionary can kiss my lily-white Irish-Scottish-Cornish-Welsh American-Canadian ass.

 

[H2Yo]

The dictionary can kiss my lily-white Irish-Scottish-Cornish-Welsh American-Canadian ass.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/caramel?q=caramel

 

[SeanTSC]

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/caramel?q=caramel

I only see the three-syllable pronunciation on that site unless I'm blind. The other one had the horribly dumb two-syllable karmel version in addition to three one.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Ha-ceinda...

H is silent Hombres.

 

[MomoPufflet]

uh oh....

I reject your reality and substitute my own

 

[sploatee]

ITT super anal people (including myself)

I believe your use of 'myself' is incorrect.

 

[Steamlord]

I believe your use of 'myself' is incorrect.

I am including myself. I omitted the subject for brevity's sake.

 

[Dorsal Axe]

Medieval.

Also, not a mispronunciation but I twitch when people use "stood" or "sat" in place of "standing" or "sitting".

British people putting R at the end of words that end in A.

Adver-tis-ment and not ad-ver-tise-ment.

basically British English for me. Why are you guys so weird?!

Had this argument with my friend the other day.

"We're going to the cine-mar"
"It's cine-ma"
"Cine-mar"
etc.

 

[neorej]

I work in IT and people consistently tell me about a "rooter". I politely explain them that Rooter is a character from a popular sci-fi book and has nothing to do with the LAN you're trying to access.

 

[Calvero]

It drives me up the wall whenever someone takes 'supposedly' and pukes it out as 'supposebly.'

this one. for some reason it's one that annoys me a lot.

 

[Dead Man]

I work in IT and people consistently tell me about a "rooter". I politely explain them that Rooter is a character from a popular sci-fi book and has nothing to do with the LAN you're trying to access.

You would be wrong, friend.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/router#router-2

Both are acceptable regional variations. Unless you mean the power tool, then you are correct.

 

[Zeus Molecules]

The word hyperbole

 

[SecretMoblin]

I don't believe in a silent H

oh really

 

[H2Yo]

I only see the three-syllable pronunciation

The correct one.

 

[tokyostomp]

oh really

When it come to Herb

aMerica! The A is silent

What HOWer is it, I don't have a watch?

 

[SeanTSC]

The correct one.

Sadly I'm the only American I've ever heard on the west coast ever say it with all three syllables.

 

[Zoopa]

I hate when people write "defiantly" instead of "definitely". It's a totally different word. I don't really know how those people pronounce "definitely", but apparently they can't write it

 

[Dice]

It's motherfucking COU-pon not Q-pon! Do you drive a quepe? Do you fear a government queue? NO, IT IS A COUPE, AND A COUP

Spoiler

and don't pronounce that p

, AND IT IS A COUPON.

Ill-i-noise (Illinois)...As if there is more than one state in question...

To have fun with people like that, correct them, except act like it is pronounced "nuah" at the end, like it's french.