How to pronounce EIKI

[Chip Gelmini]

Which would be correct. I've heard it both ways and It's the first one for me (*)....

1. "Eye-key". *

2. "Eck-key"

curious to read replies on this

[Dave Bickford]

Good question! Perhaps even "ee-kee".

[Winbert Hutahaean]

As this a Japanese name so you must pronounce it as a Japanese.

"Eye-kee" is American way
"Ee-kee" is English way

As an Asian, I would pronounce "EI" as you prounounce "A" in English alphabet. And "KI" as you prounounce "Key" in English.

cheers,
Winbert

[Graham Sinden]

I've always prounced it as "E Ki"

[Ken Finch]

I pronounce it as eyekey. Ken Finch.😊

[Russ Green]

I pronounce it Eyekey too Ken,but if in doubt there's always Elf.

[Chip Gelmini]

This is starting to get S I L L Y

[Douglas Meltzer]

Or See-lly.

[Steve Klare]

What goes around comes around!

We investigated this with our Man in Japan years ago:

https://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-b...=003568#000016

He said "Achy"

[Winbert Hutahaean]

As Jason Smith lives in Japan, we trully believe him how in pronouncing EIKI. And I guess what I said before is correct. Even Jason used the same paralelism.

[Steve Klare]

Jason is a language teacher: English, actually. -but to do that there he needs to be fluent in Japanese!

I have a lot of respect for this: I'm a foreign language student myself, but one of my hard limits is learning a new alphabet! German grammatical cases still may give me a stroke someday, but at least the alphabet is basically the same!

[Clive Carmock]

This is starting to get S I L L Y

I had the same question about Eumig.

I had always pronounced it you-mig but now know it it oy-mig

[Steve Klare]

Well, let's be honest about it. We have different languages and different pronunciations of the same sets of vowels and consonants, so different pronunciations of the same names in different countries is perfectly natural. (Everybody has an accent!)

I speak both English and German and if I said "Eumig" at home it would be "Youmig", but if I said it over in Germany, it would be "Oymikh" for sure!

(I said "Shtutgart" in a meeting at work once: the whole room took notice! Sometimes you need to remember to shift gears...)

-as far as "Eiki" goes, to me "Achy" just feels natural so I go with that anyway.

[Dominique De Bast]

You'll hear "Eiki" several times in that Eiki presentation : (2) Eiki 16mm Projector Sales Reel (1983) - YouTube

[Kim Trampus]

I got this from Eiki at Infocom in Las Vegas a number of years ago. I used to pronounce it I-Key but they were having some fun that year by settling the age old argument once and for all!