Pronounce "Maemo"?
 

How does one pronounce "Maemo"?

Thank you.

DG

MAY mow? That is my guess.

I've always thought "MY mow". I've no authority for that though.

If we're trying to establish what the inventors of the name had in mind, I guess it depends how "ae" is pronounced in Finnish.

- Neil

because ae stands for the german letter ä, i pronounce it mämo :D

memo would be an englisch word which sounds similar.

Do the easy fonetic way: ma-e-mo ("ma" like "madam", "e" like "bed", "mo" like "modify"), accent on "e" or in "ma", as you want (I prefer on "e").

is it so difficult to guess !? :)

I'm with Thoughtfix,

MAY mow

I pronounce it "maemo" So just like anything else new in technology the first time you actually say it in public to someone that has really heard the correct pronunciation, you sound like a goof.

I've always pronounced it in the same way that it would be pronounced in Spanish: mah-EH-mow. That's probably wrong, but it's too late for me to try to change now. :)

Finnish is pronounced as it's written with the stress on the first syllable. The average Finn would pronounce Maemo as the Spanish mentioned earlier, MAH-eh-mo.
However, I don't think the origin of this name is Finnish.

I usually pronounce it "Oh wow!".