Ohhh-meee-guh

.. or ..

Oh-me-guh

???

 

Depends on where you live and to what boutiques you go to, I've heard different pronuncifications at different shops.

Just like tomato v tomato, you can say it any way you like, nobody will castigate you.

Well, maybe the WUS pedants would.

 

Someone else's post highlighting Daniel Craig's pronunciation (Oh-meee-guh) in Casino Royale got me wondering. ..surely as ambassador to the brand they'd have taught him how it's properly pronounced prior to this product placement moment (or maybe they did).

 

The pronunciation of the Greek letter is quite different from country to country, at least we have the two I know well.

UK: oh-meg-ə
US: oh-mey-gə

I would guess that Omega themselves don't mind as long as their customers are happy, and will let different regions choose their own pronunciations.

And regarding the James Bond reference, I am certain this would have been discussed a lot by Omega themselves. James (the character) would surely have pronounced it the British way, but most of the film's audience are probably familiar with the US way. So they went for marketing over realism. Remember thinking it was a bit strange when I saw it.

 

Confused too many variations and I don't think they're just to do with where you're located on the planet either

I used to be an Om- egga

Now I'm an O'meega

But maybe the rise of Buddhism and Irish Bars are having to much of an influence on British culture and impacting my pronunciation -maybe I'm way off on how I say it?
Omegaaaaad! Help is required! Social embarrassment may ensue due to poor etiquette and you know how hung up on that us Brits are!

All the best

Nathan

 

It's pro-noun-see-ay-shun.

And Omega (oh-may-ga).

But then, I'm a mid-atlantic Yorkshireman. There aren't many of us who can't remember what the English for cilantro is but can still remember how to bowl a googly.

 

It's a Swiss brand so theoretically either a French or German pronunciation would be correct...it's still much easier to pronounce than Jaeger Le Coultre...which should be something like Je-Jerr Le Coultre and not Yaeger le Coultre.

I prefer oh-mi-guh (sounds classier), but I think these days oh-may-guh is more common.

I am pretty sure that any variation will be understood at your local AD / OB

 

I say it the same way Bond says it - Oh-MEE-ga.

But it's interesting that when Bond gets dubbed into whatever language this is, it's more the American way - Oh-MAY-Ga...

 

I'll pronounce it in whatever phonetic combination required to get Eva Green's attention

 

Roger that. In fact I'd call it a Ca-SI-o if that's what it took...

 

After a few Jager shots, I think it's pronounced shysher lacoup.

Omeega, omayga, doesn't much matter in these parts. If people say to me nice watch, I say thanks it's a Rolex . [emoji16]

 

Although O mee ga is how it's most commonly pronounced over here. My understanding has always been that O may ga is correct.

 

Say, is that an Omeega on your wrist?



What? You say its an Omayga?


Oh my god, its a Rolex!

 

I think it was Shaw who said "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." That must have encouraged at least one marque to put pronunciation guides in their advertising to the US market:

 

If you invert the O and A, you have:

A MEE GO

 

Three Amigos Omegas

...cough!

 

ōˈmāɡə

 

Based on some pronunciations such as:

oh r - m EE - g aa

We can deduct the brand Omega is derived from the word HORMIGA, which is ANT in Spanish..
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Which begs to wonder why the Omega sign was used versus the picture of an ANT ?!
.

 

In terms of US / UK pronunciation

'Aluminium' still presents........challenges………as indeed does…'Caribbean'

 

And don't forget 'asphalt' or Jaguar