How do you pronounce "Mavic"

janiejones said:

hello,

is it m -av-ic (the av as in have) or is it Mar-vic?

Whatever, as long as you keep that French accent! 😉

may-vick, and in Germantown they say mah-wick.

I've only ever heard it pronounced "ma-VEEK" with the accent on the 2nd syllable and a twinge of that French nasal attitude.

I pronounce it like.
Man only Ma
vic like Victor
Ma vic
[Mawic]

janiejones said:

How do you pronounce "Mavic"?

Anyway you want to Janie. It's your prerogative.

A neighbor of mine who is French\Suisse pronounces it Mai-veek.

lw
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Bob Ross said:

I've only ever heard it pronounced "ma-VEEK" with the accent on the 2nd syllable and a twinge of that French nasal attitude.

Ditto.

graf zeppelin said:

Ditto.

LOL ! Zeps, I have never heard it pronounced that way before... Ditto? 😄 😄

lw

lwedge said:

Anyway you want to Janie. It's your prerogative.

Thank you for spelling prerogative correctly!

DiabloScott said:

Thank you for spelling prerogative correctly!

Yes sir.

Hey Scott, you haven't been playing with matches around any bay area oil refineries have you. 😄

Did the Mt. Diablo territory get smoke from the fire ?

lw

lwedge said:

Yes sir.

Hey Scott, you haven't been playing with matches around any bay area oil refineries have you. 😄

Did the Mt. Diablo territory get smoke from the fire ?

lw

Heard about that Richmond "shelter in place" this morning on the radio... that's quite a distance and a couple valleys away from Diablo though; no smoke around here. I'd rather live next to a nuke plant than a refinery.

i say mah-vic or maa-vic

Bob Ross said:

I've only ever heard it pronounced "ma-VEEK" with the accent on the 2nd syllable and a twinge of that French nasal attitude.

Is the correct answer. Have a biscuit.

I pronounce Mavic: "oh-ver-PRICED". 😄

I bypassed reading this thread for a while, but then I got curious.

I pronounce it like maverick without the R sound... I have no idea if I pronounce it properly, but you asked. 😄

Perhaps someone should start a cycling web site with all of the proper brand name pronunciation... Since I assume your real question is, "What is the correct pronunciation of Mavic?"

Or maybe it is a good topic for a wikipedia article. It is definitelty an interesting issue with the international flavor of the cycling industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavic

How about that? MAVIC is actually an acronym for Manufacture d'Articles Vélocipédiques Idoux et Chanel! 🙄

sogood said:

en.wikipedia.orgMavicOpen ↗

How about that? MAVIC is actually an acronym for Manufacture d'Articles Vélocipédiques Idoux et Chanel! 🙄

Which means since it's not an actual word, you can pronounce it any damned way you please.

I think I'll have that biscuit now. 😄

I think I'll have that biscuit now. 😄[/QUOTE]
Yes you can have it - what type would you prefer?.

I always liked that Aussie humor. 😎

sk8ar said:

I pronounce it like.
Man only Ma
vic like Victor
Ma vic
[Mawic]

who knows/cares ?...

never really bothered about it...for me , its either mav-itch or mav-ic ( in "strayan"😉 depending on how many coffees I've had...rarely gets a mention on TV anyway other an as "neutral service" (does it really matter?)...