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I thought this would be interesting, since a lot of us interact only via text communication... There are some words that I've heard pronounced in a couple of different ways; I'm interested to know what YOU do.

Fillet: Fill-it or Fill-ay?
Estes: Est-ease or Est-iss?
Binder Designs: Named after a thing that holds paper (bine-der, rhymes with wine-purr) or someone called Binder with a short I (rhymes with "tinder")?
LOC Precision: L-O-C, "lock", or "loke"?

There are probably some others.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go swaddle myself in Nomex before this thread becomes contentious....
(seriously I hope it doesn't - I'm just curious about how people say these things)
 
Fill-eht; fill-ay is for fish and gumbo
Est-ease; I think I'm technically wrong but it was 30 years before anyone offered the alternative.
Binder like the clips
Lock because that's the only way I've ever heard it. Or just say the letters.

Nike as in Smoke: Naik, Nye-key (or nee-kay if you are an ancient Greek)
 
rstaff3 said:
Fill-eht; fill-ay is for fish and gumbo
Est-ease; I think I'm technically wrong but it was 30 years before anyone offered the alternative.
Binder like the clips
Lock because that's the only way I've ever heard it. Or just say the letters.

Nike as in Smoke: Naik, Nye-key (or nee-kay if you are an ancient Greek)
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Ooh, Nike is an interesting one. I always say "Nye-kee" but I've known a few people who say it so that it rhymes with "bike".

I always say "fill-ay", but I think I'm in a minority.

As for est-ease, I *think* that's what they say if you call them, so if *they* say it that way.... ;)
 
Fill it
Est iz
Bin der (tinder)
Lock

I'm probably wrong; that's what I get for reading a bunch before knowing many in the hobby 😂
 
ActingLikeAKid said:
Not on your fillets, I hope!
Or your filet, either. Just salt and pepper and a good sear on a cast-iron skillet, maybe some butter melted over it.....
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I like the way you think! Naw I use it on burgers.

And I say fill-it for rocketry. not sure why.
 
I agree with Dick except for Estes. I used to say Estees also.
Fill-ay is the pronunciation for the word spelled "filet", not fillet.
According to the Estes company and those who know Vern, it's Estes, with the accent on the first syllable and an upside down 'e' (as in the word the) as the pronunciation symbol in the second syllable.
 
Said Ess' tease" for decades until I was formally corrected. It's "Ess' Tiss"
Fillet is "Fill' It" Accents on the first syllable.

Here's a new one for me. NSL 2016. The LCO used the term "uh pah' jee" for apogee. Accent on the 2nd syllable. I think most people say. "Ap'-uh-jee" Accent on the 1st syllable.

I always said Binder was "Bine' der"
LOC was Lock

Motors VS engines....doesn't really matter to me. I know what you mean. And please, don't anyone restart that debate. It's pointless.
 
Gary Byrum said:
Said Ess' tease" for decades until I was formally corrected. It's "Ess' Tiss"
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I said "estease" but the more rocket stuff I did, the more "es-tiss" I heard, so I've changed.

Gary Byrum said:
Fillet is "Fill' It" Accents on the first syllable.
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That seems to be the standard with rocketeers, but it feels discordant coming out of my mouth. I know that's how the Brits pronounce it ...


Gary Byrum said:
Here's a new one for me. NSL 2016. The LCO used the term "uh pah' jee" for apogee. Accent on the 2nd syllable. I think most people say. "Ap'-uh-jee" Accent on the 1st syllable.
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Almost like "Apache"? Yeah, that's a new one.

Gary Byrum said:
Motors VS engines....doesn't really matter to me. I know what you mean. And please, don't anyone restart that debate. It's pointless.
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I use the two pretty interchangeably in rocketry.
 
Vern Estes says EST-iss. It's his name, so he can't be wrong.

Fillet, according to the dictionary, is only pronounced fill-AY when it is used for a cut of meat. Otherwise it is always FILL-it.

Someone should ask the owners of LOC and Binder how they are pronounced. Personally, I will say lock and BINN-der until I am corrected by someone whop actually knows.

Not sure why people say Nike like "bike." How do they pronounce the brand name of the shoes?
 
rstaff3 said:
Fill-eht; fill-ay is for fish and gumbo
Est-ease; I think I'm technically wrong but it was 30 years before anyone offered the alternative.
Binder like the clips
Lock because that's the only way I've ever heard it. Or just say the letters.

Nike as in Smoke: Naik, Nye-key (or nee-kay if you are an ancient Greek)
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He got it right. :)
 
Bine - der
like that thing in school, in which you put your loose-leaf papers. Like what you do to join something with string, or how you assemble a book: Bind (b-eye-nd)

fill-et, but you fill-ay a fish..

Nike like bike, how we said when them shoes were popular.. Nike, bike, kite, bile, mile, smile, ...

What about lieutenant? Loo-teh-nant? or lef-teh-nant? :D

Encyclopedia: En-cy-cloe-pee-dia or en-cy-cluh-pee-dia or pee-dee-eh
 
Nike, the shoe company, is named after the Greek goddess of victory, so the name is pronounced Nye-key. The same is true for the rocket.
 
Re: "fillet"

ActingLikeAKid said:
That seems to be the standard with rocketeers, but it feels discordant coming out of my mouth. I know that's how the Brits pronounce it ....
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Wait, the Brits pronounce it how?

In any case, it's not a standard with rocketeers so much as it is how the word is pronounced. Although we use the term in rockets, we certainly don't own it; it's used in other disciplines as well (particularly CAD). You can say "fill-AY" but don't be surprised if people look at you funny, or ask you what's for lunch. :)

Changing the way you pronounce a word is always an interesting challenge, but it's worth effort. After a while it will seem natural. I have done so countless times in my life as I discover things that I've gotten wrong.

Next on my list is to change EST-eez (what is how I've said it since I was a kid, and never knew it was wrong) to EST-iss, which as noted above would certainly seem to be the officially correct pronunciation, although I expect most people (other than perhaps Vern and Gleda) consider them interchangeable. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Vern and Gleda have heard enough people say Est-eez over the years that even they don't care anymore. But it is *always* an appropriate courtesy to give best effort to pronouncing (and spelling!) people's names correctly.

Pronouncing apogee as "uh PAH jee" is just downright weird. :) That does not conform to any official pronunciation I've ever seen. For someone acting as LCO to do it that way is weird^2.
 
I guess that just proves that you don't have to own a dictionary to qualify as an LCO. :wink:
 
was watching a vid last night...a couple of Brits had a (new to me) way of saying epoxy. they were doing a short e at the beginning, I have always heard it pronounced with a long E...
Rex
 
Here's another good one. How do you say, "perchlorate" per·chlo·rate (p&#601;r-klôr'&#257;t') <~~~~from the dictionary. I've always said it that way. Accent on the 2nd syllable. I've heard per' cler it/ate. I suppose some words are just pronounced different in other regions. Prolly based on accents.
 
Gary Byrum said:
Here's another good one. How do you say, "perchlorate" per·chlo·rate (p&#601;r-klôr'&#257;t') <~~~~from the dictionary. I've always said it that way. Accent on the 2nd syllable. I've heard per' cler it/ate. I suppose some words are just pronounced different in other regions. Prolly based on accents.
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Some people don't read the correct pronunciation in the dictionary. I say it the way you do.
 
neil_w said:
Re: "fillet"

Wait, the Brits pronounce it how?
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fish, meat, or epoxy, they pronounce it "FILL-it"

(WARNING: Contains Gordon Ramsay bad language)
[video=youtube;3FH7tqdlHFY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FH7tqdlHFY[/video]
 

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