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Offline solarityTopic starter

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How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« on: July 30, 2018, 07:19:18 pm »
I have watched a lot of videos and seen people pronounce the name differently. Is this another sod - der vs. sol - der? I watched so much of eevblog that I started saying sol - der w/o realizing it and people here kept correcting me ><.


Edit: TL;DR; Hakko is pronounced Ha Co
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Re: How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2018, 07:21:44 pm »
Do you want to be an american or a worldly traveller?

Also, aegis: eh-gis vs eeee-gis.
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Re: How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2018, 07:27:57 pm »


Looks like Hakko themselves say "Haw-ko" -- which makes sense if they're a Japanese company, in which case it'd be more like "haw(small pause)ko" when spoken in Japanese.
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Re: How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2018, 08:02:23 pm »
In Germany, the correct pronouncement of Hakko would be either Ersa or Weller ;)
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Offline solarityTopic starter

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Re: How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2018, 08:06:38 pm »
Do you want to be an american or a worldly traveller?

Also, aegis: eh-gis vs eeee-gis.

'Merica!

LOL, don't really know which one is the American version, though according to the next post, both of what I am suggesting is wrong 0_o.

I guess I would rather call it what the company calls themselves. I don't like it when people pronounce my name incorrectly. :)

Granted this does not same them from a horrible UI for my FX-888D. It is an amazing Iron other than the UI. Though it is annoying when you are a newb and you try to change the temp, then you press a button and you see ADJ or "All your base are belong to us", instead of CAL for celebrate! Then there is the U for United States and A for Asia. Apparently C and F is to much for them. It is like running a marathon and giving up on the last mile. Well at least it looks nicer, though I would trade the nice looks for a better UI.

 
 

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Re: How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2018, 08:49:58 pm »
In Germany, the correct pronouncement of Hakko would be either Ersa or Weller ;)

Here in the colonies, it is pronounced Metcal!
 
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Re: How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2018, 02:24:35 am »
Hock-o never even occurred to me. It figures that would be the correct pronunciation.
 

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Re: How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2018, 05:36:07 am »
It never occurred to me that anyone would pronounce it any other way. With double consonants after the vowel you won't get the long a pronunciation. That's basic English I remember learning back in 1st or 2nd grade.

Perhaps the rules are different in UK English, I don't really know.
 

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Re: How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2018, 06:15:42 am »
Looking at the name in Japanese (白光), it literally translates to 'white light'. (白 is 'shiro' or the colour white, 光 is 'hikari' or light/shine/sparkle/my son's middle name)

The pronunciation of that in Japanese is Ha-Ko, said staccato with just a slight extension of the 'o' sound.
(Ha as in Hat, Ko as in Copper)
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Re: How do you pronounce Hakko? - Hack Co vs. Hay Co
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2018, 01:23:21 pm »
Really insightful, so I shall start calling it Ha Co as the two other ways I have heard it are different than the official way.

 


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