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New Poll - IKEA
This week's poll was suggested by saraneon and Afiaki. This is not sponsored, although IKEA actually is on my mind since I'm moving soon...

You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you donate anything?
Choices:
I donate nothing - votes: 754 (31.9%)
I volunteer mostly - votes: 138 (5.8%)
I donate old belongings sometimes - votes: 575 (24.3%)
I donate small amounts of money sometimes - votes: 652 (27.6%)
I regularly give a set amount - votes: 216 (9.1%)
I contribute most of my available resources to charity - votes: 27 (1.1%)
There were 2362 total votes.
The poll ended: October 22nd, 2022 11:33am PDT

Hopefully all of us will eventually be in a financial position where we are fortunate enough to give to others
Posted by lambchopsil on 
October 22nd 11:35am
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» residentgrigo on October 22nd, 2022, 12:03pm

Eee-kay-yah here in Germany.

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» Dumber on October 22nd, 2022, 12:57pm

I KE A

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» kurotaito on October 22nd, 2022, 1:34pm

Ai-kee-yah

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» Unknown on October 22nd, 2022, 3:54pm

The only correct pronuncation isn‘t even an option, lol. In the english pronuncation of letters, it‘s E-KA-YA.
That‘s how it is pronounced in Sweden and also in Germany. Which means the user residentgrigo is wrong, the middle is certainly not pronounced „kay“.

Everyone who pronounces the „I“ like „eye“ should be whipped, tbh.

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» Unknown on October 22nd, 2022, 3:54pm

The only correct pronuncation isn‘t even an option, lol. In the english pronuncation of letters, it‘s E-KA-YA.
That‘s how it is pronounced in Sweden and also in Germany. Which means the user residentgrigo is wrong, the middle is certainly not pronounced „kay“.

Everyone who pronounces the „I“ like „eye“ should be whipped, tbh.

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» Afiaki on October 22nd, 2022, 6:25pm

5/7 troll Lemon Ice. Ruined it with a double-post.

I was amazed at first that we are actually polling this, but it's actually quite interesting to see.
Almost all monolingual English speakers will choose an "Ai" (as in "eye" ) pronunciation, but likely everyone else will choose an "Ee" (as in "eh", "e" ) pronunciation.

There are a hundred different colloquial variations with each language; some segments are changed or accented to be easier to pronounce, but only really in English is the "I" accented.

English examples:
https://www.youtube.com/user/IKEA/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC6WiOmcPSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkfq__rdoD0&t=7

German examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_43dHWjblK4&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfPMQKM7Os

Japanese examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pISul048gKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5IYinwxoE8

Korean examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGhG03NFMt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGsAWg8K-c&t=18s

Mandarin examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYlintRAXAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guCCNM3VpR4&t=3s

Portuguese examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEIkobLmhmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyZDX4SDmpU&t=26s

Spanish examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqHGEaAk8M0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5hLPSTYvJA

Swedish examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLdci4XR9g4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvD1QJhc06U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXglfAW-t1c

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» Unknown on October 22nd, 2022, 6:39pm

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» VawX on October 22nd, 2022, 10:48pm

I guess Eee-kay-yah mmm...~?

That's how the people here pronounced it and based on the videos above that's the closest pronunciation to how Swedish people say it mmm...

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» calstine on October 23rd, 2022, 6:05am

Ai-kee-ah.

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» mrs_choco on October 23rd, 2022, 1:46pm

ee-kay-ah would be the closest option.

ee for I as pronounced in most languages but English;
kay for KE as in Kevin;
ah for A as pronounced in most languages but English again.

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» hkanz on October 23rd, 2022, 8:40pm

Ai-kee-ah.

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» BelYaun on October 23rd, 2022, 11:54pm

Is this from Kaela's stream?

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» zarlan on October 24th, 2022, 2:10pm

Some other pronunciation
…as none of the options include the actual, proper (Swedish), pronunciation.
The Japanese get it pretty much right.

…though, of course, you typically pronounce acronyms, according to the language you're speaking, rather than the pronunciation in the original language, so the typical "Ai-kee-ah" is actually perfectly valid. (however weird/wrong it sounds)

Ee-ke-ah, maybe? (English "phonetic spelling", is a bit weird and inconsistent)

The I ([iː]) is pronounced like the 'ee' in 'free'. Or the "name" of the letter 'e'.
The K is… well it's a k.
The E e is pronounced as… as 'え', more or less. Failing that, I suppose the 'e' in let', is about as close as you'd get? (mrs_choco's suggestion of 'ke' as in 'kevin', is okay I suppose)
The A ([ä] which is a very annoying transcription, given the letter is most often used for a completely different sound) as… as あ, essentially. The "ah"-sound, using "English phonetic spelling", is close enough, I suppose.

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» YuriM on October 25th, 2022, 9:16am

as [ikea]

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» blackluna on October 26th, 2022, 11:11pm

In my area I've always heard (and used) "Ai-kee-yah"

Of course, this might have to do with how different people distinguish sounds. (Even two individuals speaking the same form of their language may do this differently; individual variation isn't limited to biology.)

And none of these are the proper Swedish pronunciation, but unless you actually know something of the language, how many people actually bother with that? Much less, while speaking a language other than Swedish?

(From what I do know of Germanic languages other than English, when written with the Roman alphabet, that "e" is pronounced roughly the way it is in Romaji, or like "é" in French and in English — e.g. "café." I'm not sure which "a" sound is intended, however —is it more like apple or acorn? It's almost certainly not one of English's many schwas, although that's what most English-speakers tend to use. I'm even more clueless about the "I." According to Wikipedia, the proper pronounciation is [ɪˈkêːa], but I can't read IPA.)

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» flowinmyboat on October 27th, 2022, 8:18pm

Fun poll. I'm pretty sure the way it's supposed to be pronounced eh-keh-ah.

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