Header basically says it all: how does one pronounce “muni”?
moonie? or myoonie?
As I plan to start looking for parts with which to build one, I figured I ought
to know. Thanks!
Peter
ps: somebody was asking about learning to ride. Has anybody out there been in my
position? I knew how to ride about twenty years ago, from ages about nine
through twelve. But I haven’t been on one since. My uni-ing friend from that
time in my life said that he has since ridden one without problems; should I
figure that it’s like the platitude about riding a bike, or should I plan on
taking a long time to relearn? Sorry for the long ps–probably should’ve
been a separate post. 8^o
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>ps: somebody was asking about learning to ride. Has anybody out there been in > my position? I knew how to ride about twenty years ago, from ages about > nine through twelve. But I haven’t been on one since. My uni-ing friend > from that time in my life said that he has since ridden one without > problems; should I figure that it’s like the platitude about riding a bike, > or should I plan on taking a long time to relearn? Sorry for the long > ps–probably should’ve been a separate post. 8^o >– >'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’'’ Peter >Kittle, dogsbody | "The revolution is just pdkittle@darkwing.uoregon.edu | a >t-shirt away." http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~pdkittle | --Billy Bragg >
I went for about three years without riding. When I started again, I was
extremely wobbly for about five minutes, then only a bit unstable for half an
hour, then I was almost as good as before.
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In a message dated 95-11-11 03:42:01 EST, you write:
>ages about nine through twelve. But I haven’t been on one since. My uni-ing >friend from that time in my life said that he has since ridden one without >problems; should I figure that it’s like the platitude about riding a bike, or >should I plan on taking a long time to relearn?
>From what I’ve seen in my experience, your brain never forgets, but your body
might. In other words, you may be rusty, but it will come back to you quickly.
Get out there and ride!
John Foss, President International Unicycling Federation unicycle@aol.com
P.S. Where are you? I’m in the Sacramento area. Anywhere near you?
>Sorry I have been so slow in getting to this but I have not been in touch with >Duncan Castling and as he invented the name “Muni” thought I should really get >the definitive answer from him. He says it is said “MUENI” (that u has an >umloute on it!), the problem with saying it “Moonie” which is the easy way is >the connection with the moonie church. The new pashley moutain unicycle from >Pashley might be called the Muni (Duncan has developed it). > >Bye Rgr >----------------------------------------------- >Roger.Davies@octacon.co.uk Cleveland UK >----------------------------------------------- >
Um, I don’t understand. Now we need to know how to pronounce “MUENI”. If the
umlaut is meant to separate the vowel sounds, this presumably makes it MOO-EHNY,
which is just weird. On the other hand, is it meant to be pronounced as German?
In which case I don’t know how to pronounce that either. Or is it meant to be a
guttural version of MUHNI, which I would probably spell MEUHNI?
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Just in case anyone cares, __ _ here’s how I say Muni (myoo’ne).
|| | | _ -> ne sounds like the word knee
|| | __
|| |-> oo sounds like the o’s in boot
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||-> y sounds like the y in yes
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|-> m sounds like the m in mum
The “mu” in Muni sounds the same as the “mu” in the word “muse”.
The first syllable rhymes with __ _ the first syllable of unicycle
(yoo’ni-si-kel).
Peter Kittle <pdkittle@darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>Header basically says it all: how does one pronounce “muni”? > > moonie? or myoonie?
I’d say add an M in front of UNICYCLE (YOU-NEE-SII-KEL), but don’t change the
way the U of UNICYCLE is pronounced, we would thus have MYOU-NEE-SII-KEL. Thus
MUNI should be pronounced MYOU-NEE (myoonie).
>ps: somebody was asking about learning to ride. Has anybody out there been in > my position? I knew how to ride about twenty years ago, from ages about > nine through twelve. But I haven’t been on one since. My uni-ing friend > from that time in my life said that he has since ridden one without > problems; should I figure that it’s like the platitude about riding a bike, > or should I plan on taking a long time to relearn? Sorry for the long > ps–probably should’ve been a separate post. 8^o
Just imagine not having ridden a bicycle for twenty years. One can expect to be
very rusty and unsure of oneself, but it probably will only take a few minutes
practice to get one’s confidence back and be riding all over. However, it may
take a few weeks or even months of practice to regain one’s former level of
skill on the unicycle.
In essence, once riding a unicycle has been mastered, one never forgets how to
ride a unicycle.
I would say Mew-knee (-: Still if you adopted the term IKE instead of Uni,
you could say Mike… or if you said icycle it would become Micycle Ah
Ha ha hahah… ahem… sorry.
Trev.
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