How do you pronounce "Mamiya"?

[benjiboy]

Don't ask, I'm still struggling with Minolta, and Ricoh .

 

[dmr]

Hmmmm ... maybe I've been pronouncing it wrong for over 30 years. I've always said "ma-MY-ah", and when I got my first one my brother pronounced it "MAM-eee-uh" and I remember correcting him.

 

[Kent10D]

It's probably easiest to simply think of it as "mummy-ya".
There is a slight accent on the first syllable.

But does it really matter? You say "to-mah-to" and I say "to-may-to."

Besides, the English language is routinely massacred here in Japan. No reason why we can't "adapt" their language as well. Whatever works.

 

[Christopher Walrath]

Didn't we have this thread last year? As for me I have used #1 predominantly but occasionally I slip and use #2. I beleive Al Jolson used #3 with great frequency.

 

[Kent10D]

Didn't we have this thread last year? As for me I have used #1 predominantly but occasionally I slip and use #2. I beleive Al Jolson used #3 with great frequency.

Ah yes, the Al Jolson version!

But as I remember his was more of a "Mammy" type thing. Must have been a regional accent.

Hmm ... you know ... we may have discovered where Mamiya got the original idea.
And it's obvious that old Al was a photograper:

"Mammy...
My little Mammy.
The sun shines east-- the sun shines west--
I know where-- the sun shines best!"

Who woulda thunk?

 

[makan]

I have heard it pronounced at least three ways:

1) Muh-MY-uh (rhymes with Papaya)

2) Muh-ME-uh (like the Italian phrase "Momma-miya!" without the middle "ma"

3) MAH-mmy-Uh (like Mammy-uh, with the accent on the first syllable)

I recently got an RB-67, and when I'm out shooting with it, I sometimes get asked what kind of camera it is. I'd like to know how to say it right. I have started just calling it an RB67. :confused:

I remember coming to a Mamiya repair center, asking for a #2 M part only to get corrected with the # 1 pronunciation. What the fuss I thought...

 

[benjiboy]

With difficulty.

 

[Andy K]

Mam-ee-yah

 

[Steve Smith]

The same way as Andy above.


Steve.

 

[IloveTLRs]

3) MAH-mmy-Uh (like Mammy-uh, with the accent on the first syllable)

That's the way everyone over here pronounces it.

On a side note, I've been pronouncing "Rollei" as "ROLL-AY" when it apparently should be "ROLL-EYE" :rolleyes:

 

[Andy K]

I've always pronounced it Rolly to rhyme with golly.

 

[tac]

roe-lee
mah-mee-yah
nie-kon
wut-ever

 

[Steve Smith]

I've always pronounced it Rolly to rhyme with golly.

I have always pronounced it Roe-Lee even though I think your version is correct.


Steve.

 

[Antje]

That's the way everyone over here pronounces it.

On a side note, I've been pronouncing "Rollei" as "ROLL-AY" when it apparently should be "ROLL-EYE" :rolleyes:

Definitely Roll-Eye. Rhymes on Mai-Tai btw

Antje

 

[tomkatf]

My take...

American English-- mah-MEE-a

Japanese-- mah-mee-a w/a slight inflection on first syllable

YMMV!

Best,
Tom

 

[dpurdy]

WHAT?!!! you all are off. the rolleiflex name was because it was a ROLL film REflex camera...
Roll E flex

 

[skahde]

Everyone in in its home-country would pronounce it Roll-eye with a short "o" like in doll.

I leave the case of the Mamiya up to the Japanese and the Hasselblad to the Swedish.

 

[benjiboy]

We haven't even started yet on Minolta or Ricoh !

 

[Steve Smith]

Or Koddache.

 

[MarcoGiardini]

simply Mamiya!

 

[Kent10D]

Or Koddache.

Yes, but is that "cod-ache," or "code-ache"?

 

[Andy K]

Yes, but is that "cod-ache," or "code-ache"?

... or Cod-ash?