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02 March 2006

So how do you pronounce MeCha, then? →[More:]

post by: SassHat at: 17:47 | 30 comments

Meh - ka?

Mee - ka?

Mech - a?

posted by SassHat 02 March | 17:48

I always say "mek-a" and picture all of us as animated robots stumbling into things.

posted by goatdog 02 March | 17:52

Like giant robots from Japan

posted by pieisexactlythree 02 March | 17:53

I guess it would be "correct" to pronounce it meh cha (as in meta chat).

However, I call it meka in my head.

Dodgy/Taz...?

posted by porpoise 02 March | 17:53

meh-cha (like charcoal)

posted by flopsy 02 March | 17:54

I say it like Mick in "Miss You" when he's talking about those Puerto Rican girls. Jon, you know what I'm talking about.

posted by Eideteker 02 March | 17:55

It's "mee-chah" to me.

posted by me3dia 02 March | 17:57

Like flopsy. Meh-cha. And meh-fee, meh-tah, ask me. ;-)

posted by mygothlaundry 02 March | 18:02

Meh-Cha. Mee-Fie, Ask-Me, Meh-Ta, Mow-Fie.

posted by matildaben 02 March | 18:06

Just don't call it late to dinner.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 02 March | 18:06

"mee cha"

(which, in my head, lines up with "mee fye" and "mee tah" and "ask mee", but not "metachat" or "metafilter.")

But wtf do I know? I'm pretty damn new around here.

posted by dersins 02 March | 18:08

Meff-ie

posted by flopsy 02 March | 18:10

Meh-cha, Mee-fee, Meh-Ta, Ask-Mee-fee, Mo-Fee

I also pronounce the following wrong: No-kia (instead of Knock-ia), Lie-nix (instead of Linnix).

And a friend of mine in California says "mee-mee" for "meme", while I say meem. Which is correct?

posted by tracicle 02 March | 18:11

Meem. Huh, I always said Noh-Kia but what do I know, I thought it was Japanese initially.

posted by matildaben 02 March | 18:15

"mee-cha" as in "Pleased to meecha!"

posted by tommasz 02 March | 18:18

For some reason kiwis pronounce it "knock-ia". I learned of the brand in the States and when I came back here I was some kind of freaky freak who couldn't say Nokia properly.

posted by tracicle 02 March | 18:18

Meem like gene.

Wait, or was that Jean? Eugene.

Mee-fie, Ask-mee, Meta, Fee Fie Foe Fum.

posted by porpoise 02 March | 18:20

Meh-cha.
Meem.
Tuh-may-toe.

Noh-kia is correct, not knock-ia, if we're going by Japanese pronunciations...

posted by Specklet 02 March | 18:35

Yeah, but it's a Finnish company.

posted by matildaben 02 March | 18:35

Same as MGL. And Nokia with a Finnish accent.

posted by nomis 02 March | 18:52

I have yet to say it aloud, but if I did, it'd be Meh-cha.

posted by krix 02 March | 19:02

Here's my take on that whole mess:

Mee - Fie

Ask - Me

Meh - Ta

Mecka

posted by SassHat 02 March | 19:04

Mecca. For it is a holy place.

posted by jrossi4r 02 March | 19:39

Meka leka hi, meka hiney ho!

posted by wendell 02 March | 19:39

I pronounce it "Sheeeet-Bullah"

(actually that's how you say swedish meatball in Swedish, praise jah)

I say it like Eideteker and Mick Jagger. Meeetcha.

posted by Divine_Wino 02 March | 21:28

Mee chah. Meh kah never occured to me.

posted by deborah 02 March | 22:23

Meh. Since no one knows I'm a dog and all I can say is WOOF!, I'll play along.

It's MeeChah.

posted by Doohickie 02 March | 22:40

I say meh cha. Except I don't really say meh cha, 'cause who would I say it to?

posted by taz 03 March | 02:25

The first time I saw Mecha I thought "mecca? what the hell is that?" and then I realised the person was referring to this site.

I don't say mecha ever, even though I have discussed the site on occasion. The saving of one syllable hardly seems worth it. If I did say it out loud it would be mee-cha - but I won't. Ever.

When I was at a mefi meetup in London I pronouced mefi as mee-fee and got some very strange looks. Mef-fee just sounds weird to me, like something posh drunks would say to each other "Pass me the methy darling, it's so intoxicating!"

posted by dodgygeezer 03 March | 04:25

Mecha, as in mechanism, which we, as denizens of the site, are. Spofi rhymes with loafy (if "loafy" is actually a word). I cast the ostrakon at the blue a while ago so it doesn't much cross my lips, but I said it Meffy before it was lost.

posted by Hugh Janus 03 March | 08:55

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