How is "IKEA" pronounced in Sweden?
Mark
"IKEA" sounds like...
eye-KEY-uh
...where "eye" is the word for
the organ of sight, and "key" is
what you use to open a door, and
"uh" is the vowel sound in "nut."
(The stress is on "key.")
But I doubt that this is how Swedes
pronounce it. So, how is IKEA
pronounced in Sweden?
Thanks in advance.
Mark
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Jonas Wallander
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> In the USA, the standard pronunciation of
> "IKEA" sounds like...
>
> eye-KEY-uh
>
> ...where "eye" is the word for
> the organ of sight, and "key" is
> what you use to open a door, and
> "uh" is the vowel sound in "nut."
> (The stress is on "key.")
Your pronunciation is not so far off but the i should be as in inner and
the ke should be as in kelp.
/Jonas
Dubb
> In the USA, the standard pronunciation of
> "IKEA" sounds like...
>
> eye-KEY-uh
>
> ...where "eye" is the word for
> the organ of sight, and "key" is
> what you use to open a door, and
> "uh" is the vowel sound in "nut."
> (The stress is on "key.")
>
> But I doubt that this is how Swedes
> pronounce it. So, how is IKEA
> pronounced in Sweden?
well... I'll give it a try... Take the short "i" sound of "internet", the
"ck" of "fuck", and then add a short version of the "wrong answer" buzzer
sound (in game shows, "eeaah!") and then finally the "u" of "fuck". Hope
that makes any sense to you.
Dubb
Dubb
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...hope you don't take me too seriously though... Jonas posted a much better
suggestion even before me.
Dubb
Pieter Kuiper
> "Mark" <nano...@yahoo.com> skrev:
> > In the USA, the standard pronunciation of
> > "IKEA" sounds like...
> >
> > eye-KEY-uh
>
> Your pronunciation is not so far off but the i should be as in inner and
> the ke should be as in kelp.
It is an acronym anyway, for Ingvar Kamprad (the founder), Elmtaryd (a
farm), Agunnaryd (a village).
Dag Stenberg
> In the USA, the standard pronunciation of
> "IKEA" sounds like...
> eye-KEY-uh
>
> pronounce it. So, how is IKEA
> pronounced in Sweden?
ee-KAY-uh
-- Dag Stenberg
Jana
I'd say the above aproximates the scanian pronunciation.
Try "icky-er" for standard Swedish. Retain your stress of the second
syllable.
*¨* kent *¨*
>In the USA, the standard pronunciation of
>"IKEA" sounds like...
>
> eye-KEY-uh
>
>...where "eye" is the word for
>the organ of sight, and "key" is
>what you use to open a door, and
>"uh" is the vowel sound in "nut."
>(The stress is on "key.")
>
>But I doubt that this is how Swedes
>pronounce it. So, how is IKEA
>pronounced in Sweden?
ee-khe-ah
Fredrik Roubert
> Swedes pronounce it. So, how is IKEA pronounced in Sweden?
Listen to this MP3 sound clip:
http://www.chico.at/schmidt/mp3_files/schmidteinanderikea.mp3
The guy speaks German, but he pronounces IKEA just like anyone in Sweden
would do it.
Hälsningar // Fredrik Roubert
--
Möllevångsvägen 6c | +46 46 188127
SE-222 40 Lund | http://www.df.lth.se/~roubert/
Jan Böhme
>On 4 Mar 2003 12:42:09 -0800, Mark wrote:
>
>> Swedes pronounce it. So, how is IKEA pronounced in Sweden?
>
>Listen to this MP3 sound clip:
>
>http://www.chico.at/schmidt/mp3_files/schmidteinanderikea.mp3
>
>The guy speaks German, but he pronounces IKEA just like anyone in Sweden
>would do it.
Minus the Swedish musical accent, of course, but to get that past an
anglophone is a surefire impossibility anyway.
--
Jan Böhme
Korrekta personuppgifter är att betrakta som journalistik.
Felaktigheter utgör naturligtvis skönlitteratur.
Dag Stenberg
> Minus the Swedish musical accent, of course, but to get that past an
> anglophone is a surefire impossibility anyway.
Who needs the "Swedish musical accent" anyway? We have those of our own
in the Swedish-speaking areas in Finland, and they are good enough for
us.
Dag Stenberg
Amanda
IKEA is pronounced I-KEA the beginning I to rhyme with HIT. The I is a hard
sound.
har det bra
Amanda
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