how do you pronounce "ibanez"?

[van_halen]

probably 1 of the most mis-pronounced words in guitardom. it's voting time

 

[9000]

i Ba Nez . this should be right imo :mrgreen:

 

[LadyInTears]

eyebanez
as said by petrucci

 

[ryancrl]

I believe its eye-ber-nez.

Thats what Paul Gilbert always says.

 

[mus]

Thanks van_halen!

I used to pronounce it as eee-ba-nez until I heard Petrucci saying it as eye-ba-nez.

 

[nabeelmashren]

maybe the angmohs pronounce it differently?

 

[mus]

^ Maybe. I keep both in mind just in case either pronunciation people don't understand.

 

[theliverevolution]

Ee-Bah-Nez is the way I remembered it

 

[imkeith]

i believe it's eye ber nez
or atleast most of the videos are pronounced this way

 

[teleplayer]

i pronounced it as eye-ber-nes. Lol.

 

[imkeith]

lol believe it or not i got laughed at pretty much by a friend of mine few years back when i was all green and i pronounced it as eebanes lol haha so yea i feel it's good to make threads like this to clarify and to avoid the embarrasment

 

[kerplunk182]

I've heard eee-bar-nizzz

 

[theunknown]

lol at option 3

 

[dudelove]

eye bainz eye bainz!!!

 

[imkeith]

i got laughed at when i pronounced it as eye bains lol

 

[hecklerkoch]

So, the ang mohs pronounce Iraq as "Eye Rack" and we should do the same too...?

 

[ShadowsDiamond]

u got fetish for voting threads don u...

 

[mrforum]

eee-ba-naise

 

[hecklerkoch]

Anyway, according to Wikipedia, it's pronounced as 'aɪbænɛz', so if I'm not wrong, it's supposed to sound like I as in I and you, Ban as in I ban you from entering, and Nez as in bird's nest but with a 'z'.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English

 

[freakboy]

yup. definitely pronounced as eye-ber-nez.