Stupid question for Watanabe

[Timewaster]

How DO you pronounce your username?

 

What an a bee?

Water Nabe?

Wah Tan Abe?

Wot Arna Bee?

Wot A Nabe?

 

It has been bugging me for ages!

[Guest]

Watt on Earthy.

[seth]

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[warren t claim]

[Lord Sterling]

I've heard it pronounced Wata Nay Bee a few times. When I first saw the name I thought it was Wata Nabe.

 

Wata Conundrum.

 

Just checked online, apparently its pronounced Wa ta na beh, Watanabe is apparently the fifth most common Japanese surname.

 

Kind of sounds like you've got a Mancunian accent when you say it though.

[trigger]

Watanabe (渡辺 "cross border") is the fifth most common Japanese surname.

 

The first to be named Watanabe were kuge (court nobles), direct descendants of the Emperor Saga (786-842).

[dollywobbler]

Not Rant-on-a-bit then?

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Troy Queef.

[Guest]

Troy Queef.

 

You really don't want to let that little snipe go, do you?

 

Give it a rest.

[Timewaster]

I'm no further forward.

 

Wat an abbey

[Guest]

How DO you pronounce your username?

 

Wah Tan Abe?

?

 

It has been bugging me for ages!

 

I normally use this one. It's a very common surname in Japan (in the same way Ferrari is in Italy). I chose it as a user name (instead of 'dugong') because I had several sets of RS-8s at the time and thought it appropriate. A really cheap set appeared a couple of years ago and I bought them for my Celeste - and then I sold them to bodieanddoyle from RR to help pay a tax bill.

 

There's an advert here that demonstrates the phonology:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3w_6XU1Kic

 

I miss being dugong sometimes - it was a good band name, until we discovered another band in Leeds with the same title. They were better than us, too.

[ChinaTom]

In Japan, it would be Wah Tah Nah Beh with more or less equal stress on each syllable, but you'd get away with a little extra on the Nah.

 

The "Beh" bit needs to be pronounced in the same way as a Yorkshireman finishes the word charity - chari teh.

[Guest]

Wah-tah-naa-naa-na-na-naa, na-na-na-na-naa, all right, all right!

 

[Barrett.in.the.USA]

Because I'm too lazy to google it, dya know if the Watanabe sports/racing cars were built by the same chaps who did the wheels? I assumed they were but if it's such a common name they might actually be totally unconnected.

 

You can file this under 'stuff I never needed to know'

[Cavcraft]

Jon is actually a Geordie and used to work in the library in the home for the dangerously bewildered. 'Watanabe' is short for 'What's It ganna be' and his surname is Howayman.

[Station]

In the early 90's, Watanabe contracted Jon and fitted their wheels to him and he was then taken out and driven at high speeds on their own test circuit (which shaped like a cactus). He often reached speeds of 200mph. A catastrophic accident where Jon hit the high speed bank before careering out of control, finally hitting the opposing tyre bank and then exploding into flames cut his wheel testing days short.

[Guest]

In the early 90's, Watanabe contracted Jon and fitted their wheels to him and he was then taken out and driven at high speeds on their own test circuit (which shaped like a cactus). He often reached speeds of 200mph. A catastrophic accident where Jon hit the high speed bank before careering out of control, finally hitting the opposing tyre bank and then exploding into flames cut his wheel testing days short.

 

You forgot Mooby Magazine.