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Joined: October 2004 Posts: 56
| Adamas.....is it A-dom-mus ( like upon us) or A(long A like apple)-duh-mus (like fuss) ? Went to get Adamas strings today. Sales guy corrected my pronunciation. Now I wonder if I have been pronouncing this guitar wrong for about 20 years without being corrected even once before today. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15682
Location: SoCal | The first is correct. How were you saying it? |
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Joined: June 2002 Posts: 1614
Location: Converse, Texas | uh-DOM-us. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15682
Location: SoCal | That's how I've always said it. |
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Joined: June 2002 Posts: 1614
Location: Converse, Texas | I've heard some uninformed people refer to them as "uh-DUMB-ass" until they play them... |
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Joined: October 2004 Posts: 56
| I am ashamed to say how I was pronouncing it. It was not correct. I guess that is what I get for asking a Texan guitar center sales guy about that Pretty Blue guitar like Nancy Wilsons on the top row. I went in there at least 4 differnt times to play it and talked to at least 3 diffrerent salesmen. They all pronounced it the same way. I love and miss my home town of Dallas, but sometimes I wonder why. |
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Joined: June 2002 Posts: 1614
Location: Converse, Texas | P2PH: Not ALL of us Texans mispronounce uh-DOM-us guitars. I heard a guy in North Cartolina pronounce it "ADD-uh-muss..."
I think we need to send Paul Wag there to correct them... |
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 Joined: January 2002 Posts: 14127
Location: 6 String Ranch | and then there's a-DAM-iss which is also wrong. You got it right.
See, hang around here and you'll get learnt to talk right and even how to pick some too. |
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Joined: May 2002 Posts: 651
Location: Australia | The Aussie way tends to be A-dar-mus. |
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