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Subject: 
Pronunciation
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Date: 
Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:51:36 GMT
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I am just clueless on this one. What is the right way to pronounce "Znap"

Is it "Z"-nap, Snap, or do you blend the "Z" into the "nap" for an awkward
word that sounds like snap but with a "z" in place os the "s."

Anyone have the answer?

-Nick
(like "sick" but with an N)
(leave the rest alone)



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Pronunciation
 
(...) My personal opinion is option 3: blend the "Z" into the "nap" for an awkward word that sounds like snap but with a "z" in place os the "s." It's not that awkward once you get used to it. No more awkward than the word "awkward" itself. But what (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.znap)
  Re: Pronunciation
 
(...) I wondered that too when it came out. I'd gotten to calling it "zuh-NAP" (only faster, like "synaptic nerve cell" :) Suzanne said that LEGO pronounces it "snap" (as in "snap together"). I think the Z is there in place of a would-be S for (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.znap)
  Re: Pronunciation
 
(...) As you've probably surmised by now, there is no one answer. But I ran into a gaggle of Lego reps at the Redwood City TRU recently (there were about six of them) and they pronounce it the last way you describe: `blend the "Z" into the "nap" for (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.znap)

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