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[Days like these...]

This was my first console a few later I got an NES for Christmas and I think I've pronounced it wrong my whole life.

 

[trikster40]

So, how have you been pronouncing it?

 

[Chuck Berry]

Days like these I just pronounce shit plain wrong

 

[Guardian Monkey]

Well yeah it’s

Colecovision​

 

[cormack12]

So, how have you been pronouncing it?

 

[Hudo]

Wait, did you pronounce it "Cole co vision"? That's just linguistic terrorism.

 

[Days like these...]

Wait, did you pronounce it "Cole co vision"? That's just linguistic terrorism.

I pronounced it phonetically Spanish being my first language. Co leh co vision

 

[Quasicat]

I always pronounced it based on the commercials from my childhood.

 

[Days like these...]

I always pronounced it based on the commercials from my childhood.

I never saw a commercial. How is it Co lee co vision? There is no double e in the word

 

[Sintoid]

I always pronounced it "I wish I could have it"

 

[T4keD0wN]

You must be about as young as Topher to have found yourself in situations where youd have an opportunity to pronounce that word.

 

[Quasicat]

I never saw a commercial. How is it Co lee co vision? There is no double e in the word

I was probably 3 or 4 when it was on because it was always playing through reruns of Happy Days and Mork & Mindy.

 

[KuraiShidosha]

I never saw a commercial. How is it Co lee co vision? There is no double e in the word

I was born in 1987 and I am digging deep here in my 2nd or 3rd grade English class memories here, but I believe if you go vowel - consonant vowel, that first vowel gets exaggerated in a similar manner to if it is a double vowel.

 

[loktaiextatus]

Yeah... because I only ever got exposure to it actually LATER on like in my teens ( and I had NEVER heard of it before since my friends all had Atari and Nintendo machines) the first time I heard it was word of mouth and it was "Co-lee-co" - and I never really thought about how it could be any other way but probably if I had seen the text I would think its "coLEHco" sounding like "Collect" kind of ... The first console which was 100% mine was a sega master system in my defense. Before that it was all Ataris and the NES at my friends place. And I think some generic storebrand PONG thing we never touched but once just to try which was apparently so mundane I had to strain to remember it.

 

[Humdinger]

Coh-LEE-coh vision, right?

 

[nkarafo]

I never saw a commercial. How is it Co lee co vision? There is no double e in the word

Just another instance of English being random and all over the place.

 

[Esppiral]

I find funny this threads and how native English speakers struggle with this kind of things

 

[Days like these...]

I was born in 1987 and I am digging deep here in my 2nd or 3rd grade English class memories here, but I believe if you go vowel - consonant vowel, that first vowel gets exaggerated in a similar manner to if it is a double vowel.

We making shit up now? So in your world elephant is eelephant or eleephant? That's wild

 

[Big Baller]

 

[Mikado]

I never saw a commercial. How is it Co lee co vision? There is no double e in the word

"Welcome to English!"

 

[Insane Metal]

I always pronounced it based on the commercials from my childhood.

Unbelievable to think that games looked like that in the past. Damn

 

[fart town usa]

Meanwhile in Japan

 

[Days like these...]

"Welcome to English!"

He said urf and can't no one tell me otherwise. In other news that guy that plowed his wife is apparently gay or bi. I bet jayden got it.

 

[Mikado]

He said urf and can't no one tell me otherwise.

That's one the benefits of English at least:

Unlike some language, English can suffer pretty impressive bouts of structural damage and still be totally comprehensible. At least until you get to "behuhuhu the rub hive" levels of carnage.

 

[Quasicat]

Unbelievable to think that games looked like that in the past. Damn

Yep. As my kids often times like to remind me…I’m old.

 

[Big Baller]

Meanwhile in Japan

 

[SF Kosmo]

I pronounced it phonetically Spanish being my first language. Co leh co vision

Since it's short for Connecticut Leather Company, I could see that argument. But having lived through that era I always just took its pronunciation for granted, because there were commercials and people just knew how to say it.

 

[Topher]

You must be about as young as Topher to have found yourself in situations where youd have an opportunity to pronounce that word.

 

[Kataploom]

I find funny this threads and how native English speakers struggle with this kind of things

Right? But this guy native language is spanish tho... It will never be not funny see native english speakers struggle with "Shin Megami Tensei" or other japanese names lol

 

[SF Kosmo]

Right? But this guy native language is spanish tho... It will never be not funny see native english speakers struggle with "Shin Megami Tensei" or other japanese names lol

Ninja "Gayden" was the one I always found funny growing up.

 

[KuraiShidosha]

We making shit up now? So in your world elephant is eelephant or eleephant? That's wild

Take it up with the authorities lol https://www.firststepreading.com/free-video-lesson/long-vowel-a-vowel-consonant-vowel/

 

[Sooner]

I always just considered it an Xbox.

 

[LRKD]

I never thought of the possibility of pronouncing it as like three separate words, the Cole co. Vision. It's so stupid i love it.

 

[ReyBrujo]

I never saw a commercial. How is it Co lee co vision? There is no double e in the word

Because it's English, and English does not make sense.

 

[Days like these...]

Take it up with the authorities lol https://www.firststepreading.com/free-video-lesson/long-vowel-a-vowel-consonant-vowel/

"An example of this letter pattern with Long Vowel A is the word “Ate.” The A makes the sound of its Letter Name “A,” the T makes the sound “t,” and the E does not make any sound." where did u find this website on Temu?

So the e is silent? Cole co vision? Ok or does the rule only apply to words with the vowel A and not other vowels? Colecovision has no A so we are back to square 1

 

[ReyBrujo]

I pronounced it phonetically Spanish being my first language. Co leh co vision

Actually, in Spanish you would pronounce it as coleco-vishon. So you have erred but not for the reason you thought.



If you really want to go in-depth with English disastrous pronunciations google "great vowel shift". It's the time when big fat people thought it would be cool for vowels to sound like the immediately following one and Gutenberg in the middle of that change invented the printing press and people started printing books with a mixture of old and new syntax depending on whether the shift had reached them or not.

 

[intbal]

Awesome console. Top 3, easily.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Since it's short for Connecticut Leather Company, I could see that argument. But having lived through that era I always just took its pronunciation for granted, because there were commercials and people just knew how to say it.

Connecticut Leather Company? None of this makes any sense.

 

[Days like these...]

Awesome console. Top 3, easily.

Look, I loved venture and mousetrap as much as the next guy but you've lost your goddamned mind.

 

[Mikado]

"An example of this letter pattern with Long Vowel A is the word “Ate.” The A makes the sound of its Letter Name “A,” the T makes the sound “t,” and the E does not make any sound." where did u find this website on Temu?

So the e is silent? Cole co vision? Ok or does the rule only apply to words with the vowel A and not other vowels? Colecovision has no A so we are back to square 1

"When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking" is a rule they teach kids.

Except, you know, when it's not true. Like "Friend", "Noise", "Bear", amusingly "Earth" and probably hundreds of other examples.

But that aside, proper names (like Coleco) are a whole other mess and letters can pretty much identify as whatever they like. Esp. when Irish names are involved (Siobhan and Eithne say hi).

 

[SHA]

I always pronounced it based on the commercials from my childhood.

English isn't my first language but that's how it popped in my head, I've never heard it before.

 

[KuraiShidosha]

"An example of this letter pattern with Long Vowel A is the word “Ate.” The A makes the sound of its Letter Name “A,” the T makes the sound “t,” and the E does not make any sound." where did u find this website on Temu?

So the e is silent? Cole co vision? Ok or does the rule only apply to words with the vowel A and not other vowels? Colecovision has no A so we are back to square 1

It probably only applies to the letter A lol bro I said in my post I'm digging through memories from 30 years ago that's probably longer than you've been alive give me a break I got it half right lmao

 

[Closer]

I was born in 1987 and I am digging deep here in my 2nd or 3rd grade English class memories here, but I believe if you go vowel - consonant vowel, that first vowel gets exaggerated in a similar manner to if it is a double vowel.

Cholesterol. Coleco. That's how I read.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

You must be about as young as Topher to have found yourself in situations where youd have an opportunity to pronounce that word.

Topher sure catches a lot of shit about being so old around all us young gamers

 

[kevboard]

I pronounced it phonetically Spanish being my first language. Co leh co vision

I feel like that's acceptable.

I don't say eX Box for example, I say icks Box, as that's how you say the letter X in german.
same with PS5, I'm not saying Pee Es Five, I say Peh Ess Fünf.

 

[RoboFu]

Not as bad as people who say SNEZ instead of S.N.E.S.

 

[rm082e]

Not as bad as people who say SNEZ instead of S.N.E.S.

Okay, I've never heard someone put a Z on the end of that. I feel like I would lose my shit on them, even if they're trollin'.

 

[onQ123]

I never said the word out loud but in my head it's always been

Co-lec-o-vision

Co Leak O Vision

 

[RoboFu]

Okay, I've never heard someone put a Z on the end of that. I feel like I would lose my shit on them, even if they're trollin'.

mainly the uneducated barbarians in the UK.

 

[Soodanim]

Not as bad as people who say SNEZ instead of S.N.E.S.

That's the best way

You lot can spend a week spelling it out every time, we're too making tea and crumpets for that.