Pronunciation

[sxmolloy]

I was chatting with a bloke the other day and VICTORINOX knives came up.

I have always pronounced it VIC TOR IN OX (after reading the "about Victorinox" bit on their site I realised that the name was formed from part of Victoria and Inox), so this to me seemed right. However, he pronounced it as VICTORY NOX. Just wondered how other people who use these knives say it.

Also FALLKNIVEN knives. I have a F1 but don't know (personally) anyone else who has one, and wondered how this was pronounced. I say FALL KNIVE EN (as is knives for the middle bit). Anyone know if this is right, if not please tell, or indeed is there a right way to pronounce it all in English?

Thanks in advance....Stu

 

[jdlenton]

for me i with tha SAKs it "Vic-tor-inox" as inox = stainless didn't know victor was for voctoria who was she?

as for Fallkniven its "fall-kniven" i couldn't pronunce it until i was told correclty by tommy "bummble bee" told me how i should say it as for exact pronucation i dunno

JAmes

 

[sxmolloy]

for me i with tha SAKs it "Vic-tor-inox" as inox = stainless didn't know victor was for voctoria who was she?

as for Fallkniven its "fall-kniven" i couldn't pronunce it until i was told correclty by tommy "bummble bee" told me how i should say it as for exact pronucation i dunno

JAmes

victoria was the founders mother. when she died he named the company, and the products VICTORINOX. see here:

http://www.victorinox.ch/index.cfm?site=victorinox.ch&page=73&lang=E

so fallkniven is pronounced pretty much as it appears?

cheers....stu

 

[Moonraker]

I am pretty sure that the 'k' in Fallkniven is a hard 'k' and is pronounced, not like the silent 'k' in knife as we say in English.

Actually in Swedish it is 'Fällkniven' with an umlauted 'ä' also so:

'ä' is equal to the 'ea' of "Leather," or pronounced 'air'

so pronounced in English phonetically something like:

f'el - k - niven

'fäll' means literally to 'fell' as in to 'fell a tree', but if I remember rightly,
it also refers to a specific type of land, similar to the English 'fell' as in
'The Lake District Fells'. 'kniven' means 'the knife' So a type of general knife used outdoors. I hope that's about right Abe

 

[jdlenton]

as for exact pronucation i dunno

d'oh i meant exact meaning and now it looks like moonraker has told me

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

I just use "sharp pointy thing"

 

[Spacemonkey]

I'll agree with Moonraker. Fell-ke-neeven. Or something like that.