Pronunciation of Bianchi?

[Christopher Chin]

Is the 'chi' pronounced as 'cheat' or 'key'?

The guy at my local bike store pronounced it bee-on-key.

[Eric P. Salathe, Jr.]

gwo...@prysm.com (J Woods) wrote:
>In article <45v48q$h...@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>,
> ch...@hops.cs.jhu.edu (Christopher Chin) wrote:
>-->Is the 'chi' pronounced as 'cheat' or 'key'?
>-->
>-->The guy at my local bike store pronounced it bee-on-key.
>
> That's the only way I've ever heard it pronounced, even in Europe.
> I assume "key" is correct.

To get closer, try to do it in two sylables, byahn'-kee.

Chee-ow,
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Eric P Salathe, Jr sal...@atmos.washington.edu
Seattle, Washington http://atmos.washington.edu/~salathe

[ALT1001]

To get even closer, try "bee-YAHNG-kee".
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[Jobst Brandt]

Christopher Chin wrote:

> Is the 'chi' pronounced as 'cheat' or 'key'?

The "ch" is a "k" in Italian, and a "gi" or "ge" is an English "j" and
a "gn", is an "ny" as in Campagnolo. This in contrast to a "ce" or "ci"
that is an English "ch" sound. Chianti wine and voce the voice.

Jobst Brandt <jbr...@hpl.hp.com>

[jim_tonak]

Or, for the occaisional cracker that wanders in your store, BY - AYN - CHY.

Jim

[Jobst Brandt]

David Tan writes:

> Why is Celeste blue a very pale green color?? I understand Bianchi's
> Celeste _was_ originally sky-blue, but somehow transmogrified to a
> washed-out green. Anyone know why?

Celeste was once a yellowish pale green but when Piaggio bought
Bianchi they came out with a big advertising campaign stating "We'll
never change Celeste"... which was true in a way, because they changed
it the day they took over, making it a turquoise green. There are
enough antique Bianchis around to verify this. Today's Bianchi is not
the original Celeste and it was changed... before they said they
wouldn't change it.

Jobst Brandt <jbr...@hpl.hp.com>

[Ken Ferschweiler]

Jobst Brandt (jbr...@hpl.hp.com) wrote:
: David Tan writes:

When was that? I remember sometime in about the mid-80s (I think -
Celeste was the same turquoise green that it is today), Bianchi ran an
ad campaign admitting that Celeste was ugly and holding some sort of
contest to determine what their new color would be - but at the end of
the contest they announced that the overwhelming majority wanted them
to keep the old Celeste.

: Jobst Brandt <jbr...@hpl.hp.com>

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Oregon State University