Thread: Pronunciation of Nokia
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2007-11-20 , 00:24
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Originally Posted by lardman View Post
Ah, so is the medium length "o" pronounced: No-kia (as in "open", so the "No" sounds like the opposite of "yes"), or as I would say n-o-kia (as in the o from "odd" - the "n-o" sounding a bit like the start of the French "non", the opposite of "oui").

I actually gave an example in the original post.

The "o" in Nokia is pronounced exactly like the "o" in Golf (more examples: Box, Mock, Sock etc.)

A lot of people mistakenly seem to stretch the "no" bit of Nokia, but you shouldn't, just like you shouldn't stretch the "go" bit of Golf.


Anyway, in business calls with Finnish Nokia employees, they always pronounce it "knock'ya" to my ears, with that delicate consonant pronunciation that Swedes and Finns bring to speech.
Yes, that's it! A much better way of writing it... thank you.

Nokia is correctly pronounced "knock'ya".

Another important issue dealt with.


What does it matter as long as we buy the product?
Doesn't matter a bit, but this IS the "off-topic" board.