Stagea Pronunciation

[EGA41T]

I was looking through a High Performance Imports mag (Issue 37) and in the stagea article it says that in japan our beloved stagea is pronounced "Stay-Jah"

I have always pronounced it "Stay-Gee-Yah"

How do you pronounce it?

[AMS]

I think alex would be the best to answer this

[beastien]

I was told by the guy i bought mine from (who has been to Japan) that it is pronounced Stay-Jah.

[Terminal]

I said Stay-Gee-Yah, but the Gee is a soft g, not like in gorilla, but like in stage.

[EGA41T]

I think alex would be the best to answer this

and why is that?

[sy300]

I pronounce it 'Stay-Gee-A', but I've heard it pronounced 'Staj-Ee-A'.

As they say, 'A Stagea by any other name still goes as well as a Stagea' (ripped off from some guy called W Shakespere)

[munchstagea]

I go for "Stay-Gee-Yah" but have heard "Staj-e-yah" Interesting word as there is no real cut and fast way to pronounce it I guess... or maybe there is...

[Terminal]

The phonetic way the japanese pronounce it is "Suteyjia", food for thought

[AMS]

and why is that?

I remember a while back Alex was upping people for not pronouncing it right

[Ska]

Just download and listen to the Japanese M35 TV Advert in my "Hepas of pics of my Stagea" thread here:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...showtopic=89991

It's a link in the first post

[EGA41T]

well "Stay-Gee-Yah" it is then hey?

[AMS]

Meh

[-FUZZY-]

Volvo seems to roll off the tounge so much easier.

Edited March 4, 2006 by [ STAGEN ]

[KR.15.YS]

i've always pronounced it stay-jah

[Ska]

You say tomato, I say tamato....

[Rezz]

God... I wish I got a dollar everytime HPI magazine made these sweeping staements about Japan...

Take it from me, I've had more experience in Japan than the whole HPI staff put together:

It's Stay-gee-ah.

In Japanese, they write ステージア... now see that hyphen? It elongates the 'tay' sound in Stagea. Because it's elongated, it's possible that the 'gee-ah' part sounds like 'jah' if said really quickly, but that doesn't mean it's pronounced 'Stay-jah'... nor by a long shot.

And to those car import guys that go to Japan 3 - 4 times a year... I bet their Japanese lanuage ability ranks up there with their J-girl picking up skills

[funkymonkey]

su-tae-gi-ya is how the japanese say it, but that's a japanisation of "Stage-A", which according to the original development and concept doco's is what it was derived from (apparently indicative of Advanced Stage or some shit). So to be correct to its origins it's a "stage-ay", but I always find myself calling it a "staaaaaygeeyah" or more often "stag" and "volvo".

[wagon]

I say stayja, its not as if we call a skyline shky-rine

More often than not its the stag tho.

[AMS]

Yeah I call it Stag most of the time

[AlexCim]

Yes, yes i am the right person to ask!

haha

its hard to write pronounciations over the internet, but its best written "Stay-gee-ahh"

NOT

Stahh-geeee-aah

Stag-ee-ah