What is the pronunciation for Amiga?

[colinstu]

I think you pronunce it: Am-ee-ga, but once in a while I will say A-meg-a.

Am i correct? How do you do it?

[Amigaz]

I pronounce it like: Ah-mi-ghaah!!!

 :lol:  :lol:

Sorry, couldn't resist

Since the Amiga was invented in USA it should be pronounced with an Amnerican accent  :roll:

[Steady]

The first way is right.

[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.

[PMC]

According to the PMC dictionary of East Anglian dialect English, we pronounce Amiga as Ah-mee-gah.

I don't recall ever having heard it pronounced any other way...  Unlike Commodore:

Cohm-mod-door (American)
Com-mad-dore (British)

[amigagr]

but it's a spain word quite the same as the italian (amica)
so it's pronounced as it writes, A mi ga

[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

[andy82i]

No no no no no

Amazing is pronounced Am Ay Zing

Just as Amiga is pronounced Am Ee Ga

I hate dentists! & I thought it was Doctors that make you stick your tongue out?

Uh is more of a groaning sound

[PMC]

leirbag28 wrote:

Ahhh mi gah is not an english pronunciation

Depends on where you come from, not every English dialect is phonetically identical...

Tell you what, why doesn't someone type "Amiga" into "Say" to find out how your Amiga pronounces it's own name?

[ameegah]

Ameegah.  Thats how it's pronounced.

[steve30]

I say AM EE GA

[mr_a500]

Ahhhhhh! no no

its Uhhhh meee--guhhh Not Ahhhh Miii gaahhh

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!")

Hey leirbag, you're in New York - do you say "hot dog" like "hawght dawg"? ;-) (...or is that only in parts of the Bronx?)

[Kaminari]

The correct way to pronounce it is "Amigo", just switch the "O" with an "A".

[beller]

And for the truly trivial...

Amiga translates from spanish as: female friend.

So...if your wife says you've got another woman in your life...she could be right!

Bob

[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 :-)