I'm actually asking about the numerals. Different languages must treat model numbers differently. 1950 =I say 19 50. 502 =I say five oh two. Both American stoves. So is 123 = 1 23 in Swedish or one hundred twenty-three or one two three? For all I know, the sales pitch was "easy as 1 2 3!"
At least I'm vindicated about the pronunciation of Husqvarna. I get so tired of hearing it said as Huskavarna or Huskyvarna.
"Five oh two. is totally incorrect. It should be: Five Zero Two. Oh is a letter not a number. Zero is a number. lance
That differs probably from person to person. I'm sure some say 'one twenty-three' and some go 'one, two, three' but everyone that I have heard saying Svea 123 is saying it like 'one hundred twenty-three'. I do so myself. Or actually the 'one' is generally skipped to say just 'hundred twenty-three' in reality. Just as the Optimus 111 is 'one hundred eleven' or 'hundred eleven'. Since it's a model number, it should undoubtedly be said in your own language. But if you would like to hear how it sound in Swedish nevertheless, just paste etthundratjugotre or hundratjugotre into the text field in the program I posted above ( http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html ), choose the voice 'Swedish - Erik', and you can hear how it sounds.
Image how ignorant every T. V. and radio new caster sounded in the '08 (0h eight) elections! Never heard any of them or anyone say the "eight" or "zero eight" candidates.
Thanks for the native perspective. I'd rather say it the way it is said in its country of origin than another way. Hundred twenty-three it is from now on for me!
Hmmmmm. So interesting what people think in their head versus how things are really said. (Hey, that rhymes!) Case in point: My family and I read several of the Harry Potter books and then listened to them on audio book by Jim Dale, who has performed all of the books. Known as the man of a thousand voices and also from the UK. The audio was brilliantly done, but it also taught us the true pronunciation of the names in the books, according to the mother tongue. How surprised we were to hear the names of Hagrid (I used to say HAY GRID) and Hermione (I used to say HER MEE OH KNEE) and others. I adopted the correct pronunciations right off but by dang my family wasn't going to, at least for a little while, until they saw the movies! Soon after, the names came out correctly from all their pretty little mouths. My point is, I'll probably say the incorrect pronunciations or number sequences in my head since I will probably never 'hear' the correct ones, unless by chance I meet one of you chaps or see a movie where the actors are constantly saying SVEE! By the way, I like calling my 502 - five oh two! I think the way some people say or pronounce things without an audio reference is due to syllabic economy. The fewer the syllables the better on some things. For example, 111 could be hundred 'n' eleven. That's 7 syllables, where one-eleven is 4 syllables. There's also ease of saying words over syllabic economy so instead of one-one-one at 3 syllables you say one-eleven because it's easier to say. The following are examples of how I like to say the stove numbers. I'm definitely not trying to tell you that they are correct, I'm just showing the way I say them in my head as I read everyone's posts... 123 = one-two-three 111 = one-eleven 111B = one-eleven-B 111T = one-eleven-T 210 = two-ten 80 = eighty 71 = seventy-one 502 = five-oh-two 425 = four-twenty-five M-1950 = M nineteen-fifty M-1942 = M nineteen-forty-two 96 = ninety-six 97 = ninety-seven 99 = ninety-nine 8R = eight-R 11 = eleven 43 = forty-three 550B = five-fifty-B 501 = Bee-Oh-Em-Bee 235 = See-Are-Ay-Pee (PakKook) and so on, ad-nauseum. sam
As a rule i do not say 5 0 2 as five zero two but rather as Five Oh Two. But when written and to keep the written words less confusing i will definately type it as five zero two, or with the numerals, because that is the most correct way of doing so. lance
30-06, thirty-aught-six 00 Buck, double-aught-buck 12/0 Reel, twelve-aught reel 502 Stove, five-aught-two stove 0+0=0, aught plus aught equals aught
i can tell you now , it is not pronounced SahVayYah. it is Svee Uh. i repeat... Svee Uh. ask the people who make the stove. but of course if you listen to most of the pronouncitions on you tube you will hear all sorts of gibberish. glad i cleared that up. buzz
https://www.howtopronounce.com/svea/ BUT ... Like Abraham Lincoln said: "Do not trust everything you read on the internet."
