I"m with you, Fred, I've always called it "TAK-you-mar". Like you, it's likely so ingrained that I"ll never change.
Maybe I should just stick to "Tak". <vbg> And like most English speakers (I think), it's always been "ah-SAH-hee". Maybe that's why it's just "Pentax" now... cheers, frank Fred wrote: > Thanks, Ken, for the correction - <g>. Of course, I've been saying > "TAK-you-mar" for so many years that it'll be difficult for me to > change, but I'll try... > > Hmmm... I'm also wondering here just how many of us English > speaking Pentaxers have been mispronouncing Takumar all these years > - am I the only one? > > Fred -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer