Mivec or My-vec ??

nofearzz · Post by **nofearzz** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:29 pm

Its should be pronounced Me-vec really.
Since when has an I sounded like a Y?

So are we going to start saying "Mytsubishi" ?!?

D-TRAIN · Post by **D-TRAIN** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:01 pm

nofearzz wrote:So are we going to start saying "Mytsubishi" ?!?

Sounds like a Kiwi accent to me!

Slither · Post by **Slither** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:06 pm

nofearzz wrote:Its should be pronounced Me-vec really.
Since when has an I sounded like a Y?

So are we going to start saying "Mytsubishi" ?!?

your forgetting that these are intials, its not really a word so there aint any rules!!

ruchi · Post by **ruchi** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:20 pm

OK, song time...

You say potartoe I say potayto
You say tomayto I say tomarto

"e" sound - Michelle
"y" sound - Michael

Mitsubishi say it's my-vec, so end of story!

Post by **smorison** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:32 pm

ruchi wrote:OK, song time...

You say potartoe I say potayto
You say tomayto I say tomarto

"e" sound - Michelle
"y" sound - Michael

Mitsubishi say it's my-vec, so end of story!

don't tell me you called them and asked them??

ruchi · Post by **ruchi** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:52 pm

LOL!

oh, I'm absolutely pissing myself laughing at that one!

ummm.... no, they say "my-vec" on the TV and radio commercials.

nofearzz · Post by **nofearzz** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:34 pm

Which one sounds better? and which one sounds *~delightful!~*? I think we all know which one sounds cooler Me-vec (Mivec) Leave My-vec to Kings Cross

FTOluv · Post by **FTOluv** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:44 am

Mitsubishi Australia cant even sell a car let alone pronounce Mivec properly!

Its ME VEC!

Teania · Post by **Teania** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:50 pm

gee you gotta love the English Language... but as this is an abbreviation - English language rules dont apply...
My vote however - goes with My-vec
(same as they pronounce it in the latest Mitsi TV Ads)

and FTOluv? what do you mean Mitsi can;t sell cars? I bought my Lancer MR (new) from a dealer?

drove it for a couple of years then traded it on the FTO - for that mYvec sound

Cheers
Tanya

MADFTO · Post by **MADFTO** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:19 pm

Hmmm there is something in Japanese that sounds like my in english.

I only know it because of kendo, but it's romanisation is mai.

I think it means forward (Well the direction in front of you )

So it could be plausible to be My-vec.

Don't want to add fuel to the fire but just wanted to say that as we probably were thinking that that sound doesn't exist in Japanese (And is it plausible to have that twice in a sentence???)

veilside · Post by **veilside** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 4:25 pm

Haha. Until I read this thread, I hadn't even considered it. Always been MyVEC to me... Someone ring Mitsubishi Japan and find out

tommy · Post by **tommy** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:13 pm

ME-vec for sure lol... think of how a japanese man with the fobby accent would pronounce it.. even if the man spoke english he'd still have that asian accent lol

minh · Post by **minh** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:45 pm

I tells ya its MeVec.

I dont hear people saying "Honda Vytech" hehehe

SilentBob · Post by **SilentBob** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:22 pm

minh wrote:I tells ya its MeVec.

I dont hear people saying "Honda Vytech" hehehe

hmm lets look at that shall we

Honda - VTEC YO!!!!!, pronounced as we all know as VeeTeck
now
Mitsu - Mivec.....

lets compare the 2 words, i notice a distinct lack of VOWEL between the V and T in the honda example, but a distinct precence of one in Mitsubishi's incarnation...
one would then insinuate it would be pronounced different...

if we simply sound it out it seems more logical to be
M(ie M sound....)
I(as in the I sound)
then
VEC(as in ....well as in VEC)

so its MyVec if you want the 'monkey phonics' version

and we all know how monkey phonics right
the end

SilentBob

MrFT000 · Post by **MrFT000** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:37 pm

this is a friggin laugh....

now this is no offence to our Kiwi neighbours... but its like this:

Kiwi: Me Vec

Aussie: My Vec

Just like:

Kiwi: Sex

Aussie: Six.

kinetic · Post by **kinetic** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:27 am

MrFT000 wrote:this is a friggin laugh....

now this is no offence to our Kiwi neighbours... but its like this:

Kiwi: Me Vec

Aussie: My Vec

Just like:

Kiwi: Sex

Aussie: Six.

What are you talking about? In any case, considering what it is an acronym for, it could be pronounced either way. Although on the Mitsubishi advertisement they pronounce it "my-vec".

Roridge · Post by **Roridge** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:09 pm

CRAZY

we are having the same argument/discussion on the UK forum... however we pronounce it MIV-EC or MY-VEC

G_A_V · Post by **G_A_V** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:54 pm

i ment to say miv-ec instead of meh-vec. But I didnt want to spell it properly. cause that would prove my point that its MI-VEC !!! MI as in MEH

Roridge · Post by **Roridge** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:36 pm

G_A_V wrote:i ment to say miv-ec instead of meh-vec. But I didnt want to spell it properly. cause that would prove my point that its MI-VEC !!! MI as in MEH

well im certainly with the MIV-EC version... it sounds better to me

Still odd that both our forums were having the exact same dicussion at the exact same time period...

G_A_V · Post by **G_A_V** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:56 am

or maybe someone coppied someone
fto australia: Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:05 pm
uk forum: Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:19 pm
j/k

FTO AUSTRALIA

Mivec or My-vec ??

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