Ti-Mega - how do YOU pronounce the Ti?

Ti-Mega: How do you pronounce the Ti?

  • Tee

    Votes: 4 5.6%
  • Tie

    Votes: 54 75.0%
  • Tee Eye (T.I.)

    Votes: 14 19.4%

  • Total voters
    72
WandsworthRouleur":341jprc8 said:
Matt70":341jprc8 said:
Ti is the chemical symbol for titanium on the periodic table, where it's pronounced 'tee eye', surely that's a good enough precedent for how to say it?.
Came here to say just that. Anyone pronouncing Ti-Mega differently clearly didn't do chemistry at school!
Ah, but it's not representing a 'symbol' here in an equation. It is probably the shorthand word representation of Titanium which is also Ti after the symbol as I explained. Which is pronounced as your accent would say just the Ti part of Titanium.
That is how it is pronounced in all the scientific, research and engineering places I have been.
In the same way Aluminium is pronounced Al or Alu.
 
FluffyChicken":243u595z said:
WandsworthRouleur":243u595z said:
Matt70":243u595z said:
Ti is the chemical symbol for titanium on the periodic table, where it's pronounced 'tee eye', surely that's a good enough precedent for how to say it?.
Came here to say just that. Anyone pronouncing Ti-Mega differently clearly didn't do chemistry at school!
Ah, but it's not representing a 'symbol' here in an equation. It is probably the shorthand word representation of Titanium which is also Ti after the symbol as I explained. Which is pronounced as your accent would say just the Ti part of Titanium.
That is how it is pronounced in all the scientific, research and engineering places I have been.
In the same way Aluminium is pronounced Al or Alu.

Agreed, given there's also Cro-mega I think we can assume the Ti, Al or Cro is just an abbreviation of the everyday cyclists term for the type of metal
 
I can't believe I missed this thread........


Had a night of this discussion all ready :LOL: Are you convinced fella ?
 
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
 
Surprised that no-one has mentioned TI-Raleigh - the old Raleigh road racing team - which of course is pronounced Tee Eye Raleigh, because TI stands for Tube Investments which was Raleigh's parent company at the time.
 
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