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Delica? is the "i" pronounced like "e" or does it sound like the "i" in "it"? I always thought the latter, when a guy I met yesterday asked me about my Deleeca.

In japanese it would be 'lee'. But then the L would actually be a cross between an L and an R, and the 'ee' would be very short. so if you used japanese pronunciation it would actually sound quite odd.

Interesting. Shows the limits of the roman alphabet: you can read a word and not know how it sounds. I will now say Dereeca like I should.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that Delica was actually a contraction of "Delivery Car". So to add to the confusion, I sometimes use this as well.

Yeah its a contraction of Delivery Car, the Japanese are fond of loanwords from english, and they will then modify them to suit their native kana set which is the equivalent of an alphabet crossed with a syllabary, so a lot of english words become bastardised to the point they are often unrecognisable, another example is Starwagon, which is written as スターワゴン or SUTAAWAGON, but it wont be pronounced as wagon, more like wah, and gone.

We have talked about this before and I haven't changed my way of saying and thinking it since:
http://www.delica.ca/forum/pronunciation-2226.html

I usually pronounce it like "delica-tessen".

konadog wrote:We have talked about this before and I haven't changed my way of saying and thinking it since:
http://www.delica.ca/forum/pronunciation-2226.html

Wow, I was just idly curious, and look what deep, dark waters I stumbled upon. You never know what lurks inside the black box of the forum, when one dares to peek.

Rattlenbang wrote:

konadog wrote:We have talked about this before and I haven't changed my way of saying and thinking it since:
http://www.delica.ca/forum/pronunciation-2226.html

Wow, I was just idly curious, and look what deep, dark waters I stumbled upon. You never know what lurks inside the black box of the forum, when one dares to peek.

Hah! It's true, and now we've got a few years recorded there are a lot more of those dark half forgotten corners.

The whole Delivery Car thing is all I need to know to pronounce it 'Deh-Lih-Cah'. Or just Deli for short.

Make mine a L400 LWB

...which would still give us a contracted name pronounced 'Deh-lih-cah'.

Del - ee - ka sounds better...

I just call them 'Deli'.

That's it!!