Unicycle Term Pronunciation

General
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I am a unicyclist but I have never talked to one in person. I read and use many common uni terms but recently realized that I don’t really know if I am pronouncing them correctly.

Some of the words I am wondering about are:

Uni
MUni <---- Mostly this one.
Coker

I’m pretty sure about most of these but I just wanted to make sure.

Any others you want to add would be great.

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MUni is pronounced:

“mooneh”

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i pronounce it “myu-nee”

4

plain and simple, (M-youneee) the m then the uni!

5

lol, to each his own. :wink:

6

Myoooo-neee.

But I also say Kyoooo-pon not Kooo-pon (coupon)

And Pirates of the Ka-RIB-ee-yun not Kar-a-BEE-yun (Caribbean)

To me a moonie is

  1. A follower of Rev Sun Yun Moon
  2. A doll that suction-cups to your car window (like Garfield) that when you sqeeze the bulb, he’ll drop his pants and moon other drivers.
7

i’m going to have a seriously giggly weekend…

i say mjoenie
coker is kouker

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Re: Unicycle Term Pronunciation

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:07:58 -0500, “GILD” wrote:

>i say mjoenie

GILD, based on your written English (and that one spoken joke on the
radio) I never doubted you are a native English speaker but this
phonetisation (sp) of MUni makes more sense if it is based on
Suidafrikaans (or Dutch for that matter). So?

BTW, in English I think (and) I say m-you-knee. But in Dutch I say
muu-knee (English fonetisation, although uu signifies a vowel not
occurring in English. In Dutch uu does occur, and also e.g. in French
(u) and German (ue or ü).

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Re: Unicycle Term Pronunciation

You knee
mew knee
co cur / coke er the same sound I just can’t think which is the best way to write it clearly

these are the common pronouciations in england. There are people who are not on the uni scene who will use other variations.

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Uni is yoo nee, as in university, universal, uniform, unicycle.

MUni is like uni with an M, so Myooni.

Coker rhymes with poker, stoker, joker

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Re: Re: Unicycle Term Pronunciation

The word Muni (MUni) comes from England. Take the English’ word for that one. Coker is a tire company in the US. That name is also pronounced as has been described.

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how bout yuni?

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Yuni, as i understand it, rhymes with uni and Muni, but with a Y…

[yew-knee] but of course, these are all one-syllable words, so trying to break them up phonetically dosen’t really do it justice.

now that I think of it, Yuni and uni sound pretty much the same… unless I am mistaken.

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Yuni, muni, uni. Each has two syllables. Yup, even for one-wheelers.

Yuni is pronnounced the same as uni. Kind of a problem when people don’t realize you’re talking about a brand… :slight_smile:

So sometimes I’ll call the brand “Why-yoo-nee” to make it clear what I’m talking about.

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Re: Unicycle Term Pronunciation

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:07:25 -0500, “johnfoss” wrote:

>So sometimes I’ll call the brand “Why-yoo-nee” to make it clear what I’m
>talking about.

Please make sure that you’re not asking “Why uni?” and then leaving
the impression that you don’t have an answer :slight_smile:

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