What is the pronunciation for Amiga?

[leirbag28]

is is definitely    "Uh-meee-guh"

Uh - Mee - Guh = Amiga

it just occured to me over the past few months that that means that All applications that start with "Ami" should be correctly pronounced to sound like Uh-Mee-Guh  (the "uh and Guh" in the beginning and end should sound the same)

So AmIRC = Um - Eye -Are - See  or Umee- Are-See

AmigAIM = Uh-meeg-Aye-Eye-Em  or Uh-mee-Game

AmiComSys = Umee - Com -sis


you get the idea

in spanish it is  Ahhh-miii-gah

Amiga is Spanish for female friend.

[leirbag28]

Nope
its dfefinitely:

Uh mee Guh

Ahhh mi gah is not an english pronunciation

Ahhh is what you do when you go to the dentist.


The "A" in "Amiga" is the same sound as the "A" in "Amazing"

Notice its pronounced "Uh may zeeng"   Not "Ahhh may zeeng"

that Ahhh is too much like the Sound you make at a dentist when he asks that you stick out your tongue.

Ahhhhhh!  no no

its Uhhhh meee--guhhh    Not Ahhhh Miii gaahhh

[leirbag28]

@PMC

Haha, I just typed it into SAY..............it says just like I spelled it:  Uh mee Guh

which is correct.....at least in American English

@mr-a500

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As long as you're not over-exaggerating, there is very little difference in pronunciation between "uh mee guh" and "ah mee gah" and both are basically correct. I don't think anybody says the "ah" part like the "say ahhh" in the dentist. (it's more like the sound some girls make when having sex - "ah ah ah ah ah mee ga!")
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Thats funny.........but the problem with the way you spelled it is that that sound can only spell the sound you make at a dentist,  or the sound you make when you juet realised something  "ahhhh"

the only way to spell the way it sounds is with a letter "U"  
hence Uh meeguh....test it in Your Say program  it prounces it like that.............although the Phoneme window says:  AHMIY3GAH


Yes I am in New York............but I do NOT say Hawght Dawg"  lol :-)

Thats usually the way Italian Americans or Brooklynites
and some Puerto Ricans and Jews pronounce the words.


EDIT:  Oh...and in the Bronx too :-)   but not every Italian American or Puerto Rican or Jewish necessarily speak this way...I have heard Chinese Americans speak like that too..........real funny :-)

[leirbag28]

@foleyjo

Nope...haha..even that commercial says it wrong.......the second time it said it was a little better.   Diferent Amiga commercial have said it different.some wrong, some right.

This commercial says the word as it sounds in Spanish:
Ahhh me gah

But as we see here from a number of posts from Dictionaries.....the correct is:  Uh mee guh.


Want final proof?  this settles it:

Open Workbench/Utilites/Say

Type Amiga!  surprise!  it actually says it correct! if one wants to get technical then...Ahhh mee gahhh is the original word

......but originally most people didnt think where the name came from........and if I recall....Jay Miner says:  Uh mee guh.....So there ya have it!