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Guitartim
Username: Guitartim
Registered: 04-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 1:21 pm: | |
OK, this is not earthshaking stuff here, but I'm just curious...
A local TV Sportscaster's last name is 'Ibanez'. That is how he spells it. However, he pronounces it 'Ee-BONN-yez'. It is his surname, so I have to assume he knows how to pronounce it correctly.
So do we play, collect and covet 'Eye-bo-nez' guitars, or 'Ee-BONN-yez' guitars?? |
Michaelkaufman
Username: Michaelkaufman
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 2:45 pm: | |
It certainly would depend on your nationality. The 'Ee-BONN-yez' pronounciation would work for Hispanics. Anyone speak Japanese? |
Acetan
Username: Acetan
Registered: 09-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 4:42 pm: | |
It is pronounced 'Ee-BONN-yez' in Hong Kong, China, Japan, in fact, through out Asia. Same as "Ee-raan", not "I ran"; or "Ee-raaq", not "I-raq".
Ace |
Funkle
Username: Funkle
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 9:17 pm: | |
And they call Detroit "Dey-twah" in France. This thread has come up before. The name has Spanish origins, and I think the correct Spanish pronunciation would be 'Ee-BONN-yez', or perhaps 'EEE-bon-ETH'. Or maybe EEE-bon-ics  But like a lot of surnames, has been Americanized, and 'EYE-bin-ez' is pretty much the accepted pronunciation as far as I'm concerned. |
Mr_roadstar
Username: Mr_roadstar
Registered: 06-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 11:21 pm: | |
Just one more reason go with Fender....
Steve |
Guitartim
Username: Guitartim
Registered: 04-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 10:06 am: | |
Funkle~
EEE-bon-ics?!  |
Petruz
Username: Petruz
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 11:46 am: | |
two pronounces i know:
in brazil: EE-BAA-NESH
in italy: EE-BAA-NETS
any spanish member aboard? |
Sixvsix
Username: Sixvsix
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 4:41 pm: | |
Essex UK -
Eye-B'Nez
I'm a 'Cockney' you see.
six |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 02-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 5:39 pm: | |
Six:
I say Eye-B'Nez
But I'm from Joy-zee. |
Guidothepimp
Username: Guidothepimp
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 5:38 am: | |
hola amigos,
hehehe, for spanish its ee-banyes,petruz, close on that brasil but the pronounciation you have there is for portuguese from portugal, brasilian portuguese doesnt use "sh" much. id know, im from lisbon.
claudio |
Flatbag
Username: Flatbag
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 6:01 am: | |
The lady in Cash Convertors - where I find all my bargains - calls them Eye-banz-er.
But she's an idiot. |
Petruz
Username: Petruz
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 7:45 am: | |
nice to meet you, gajo guido! i'm a carioca from rio, i'm living in rome for the last 17 years though...
i've been in lisbon last september, very nice place indeed. believe me or not, sometimes i did not understand a &%$£ of what you lisboenses said!
missing alfama a lot.
um abraço pedro |
Guidothepimp
Username: Guidothepimp
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 2:43 am: | |
hehe, i believe it petruz,
your accent isnt the easiest to understand either. there is a carioca who is with us for a year and it took me a while to understand everything. aah, grande alfama, bairro alto, santos, maravilha!
prazer em conhecer-te pa
abracao
claudio |
Ibnzplyr
Username: Ibnzplyr
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 9:28 pm: | |
"ee-ban-eez" with no stress on any syllable in Japanese. |
Artvandelay
Username: Artvandelay
Registered: 5-2007
| | Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 10:31 pm: | |
It ain't you say it, it's how you play it. |
Sabeking
Username: Sabeking
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 10:48 pm: | |
I am from North Carolina... I say IIII-ba-neeez...
Stacey |
Gemberbier
Username: Gemberbier
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 3:12 am: | |
Ibañez is originally Spanish, and in Spanish it should be pronounced
[ibanjes]
(that's "eeebanjes" not "I banjos")
Ginger |
Bluesmeister
Username: Bluesmeister
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 5:15 am: | |
Here in Australia we pronounce it "Eye-Bonzer" |
Chazmo
Username: Chazmo
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 9:18 am: | |
No one would ever ask an Austrailian about pronunciation, bluesmeister. ;-) j/k!!!
All I can say is that in the US (east coast) it's been eye-buh-nez all my life (no stress on any syllable).
Hey, Ginger, doesn't the sedilla over the "n" make it a "nyuh" sound rather than "nj" (or is that what you meant)? As in, ee-bahn-yez... |
Michaelkaufman
Username: Michaelkaufman
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 10:50 am: | |
My guitar teacher says eeee bon yez... ('bon' as in bonfire).
mk |
Petruz
Username: Petruz
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 10:55 am: | |
i think in spanish the word is "ibáñez", pronounced ee-bahn-yez (emphasis on the "a") as chazmo says. the word "ibanez" does not exist in the spanish dictionary. |
Michaelkaufman
Username: Michaelkaufman
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 11:45 am: | |
Wasn't it a Spaniards name???
mk |
Gemberbier
Username: Gemberbier
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 9:25 pm: | |
Yez, EE-BAN-YEZ
SALVADOR EE-BAN-YEZ
There are several messages of people who asked questions about very old guitars (around 1880) that carried that full name.
Ginger |
Ibanezfreak1960
Username: Ibanezfreak1960
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 10:11 pm: | |
i go with Johns. Everyone else from HUSA calls it the same. I alaways pronounced it as such. But to each his own. My last name got pronounced different once it reached America from Hungary when my grand parents moved here. |
Bluesmeister
Username: Bluesmeister
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 2:00 am: | |
Chazmo, my post was made very much tongue in cheek. I'm sure Flatbag, The Cappy, Spiro (where's he these days?) Munch and Six would appreciate the joke. |
Chazmo
Username: Chazmo
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 9:33 am: | |
^ Blues... I was just giving you grief for being an Aussie, though I love the way you guys speak down under. I was just jiving; pay no attention to me!
You're right, whatever an eye-bonzer is, I'm not in the know. |
Bluesmeister
Username: Bluesmeister
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 1:53 am: | |
Hey Chazmo, I knew you were pulling my leg, no offence was taken.
Bonzer is an archaic Australian term meaning 'very good'. It's lapsed into non-usage now, but I'm sure Crocodile Dundee would have used the word.
"Gooday Mick, how's it goin'?"
"Bonzer, mate..."
And for the record we pronounce Ibanez "Eye-buh-nez". |
Jchester
Username: Jchester
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 8:47 am: | |
I still hear 'Bonzer' used alot from the Aussie surfing community. There was even a surfboard design called 'The Bonzer'. |
Chipsotoole
Username: Chipsotoole
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 4:29 am: | |
em fae Scotland...whaur ah comfy weeze ca' it;
Eye-ban-ez.
Naebdays tae make rash comments oan ma aksent right? Coz ah ken peepul so ah do....... |
Lofapco
Username: Lofapco
Registered: 7-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 8:51 am: | |
Here in Minnesota... we pronounce it Eye Ba Nez Ay
The closer you get to Canada the more you add "Ay" to the end of everything... Ay |
Fendouglas
Username: Fendouglas
Registered: 7-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 3:13 am: | |
Hey Chips! Having a keen 'eye' for accents I would say that your a "weegie" rather than a "Furry boot" or from "Embra"! |
Ubetcha
Username: Ubetcha
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 6:06 pm: | |
Eye-Buhh-Nezz. California straight & somebody says different, you know they're from somewhere else. Bonzer is a nick here sometimes, I've known two...both were insane. |
Blondax
Username: Blondax
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 11:37 pm: | |
i'm a sucker for linguistic threads, in fact anytyhing italian...
but in a strange smelling little guitar shop in bombay i saw - and i swear to god i am not making this up - an 'ebanez' guitar. there were racks of these things, right next to - i'm telling the truth - a rack of 'givson' and also 'hobner' guitars. all were knock offs, all were grotesque, and they were clearly all birthed by the same sadistic man. you should have heard him pronounce 'ebonez.' the only stranger sound in the shop was when you strummed the bugger - the guitar not the little man - cheeze. and rotten at that. cheers all. |