You Say Bocker, I Say Backer
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:32 am
Which is it, Rickerbacker or Rickenbocker? What's your pronunciation? I've heard it 50/50 so far.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 1:51 am
Backer
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 4:03 am
Mr. Rickenbacker preferred backer, that's good enough for me.
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 6:30 am
backer
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:51 am
backer, boy they sure must talk funny in Pa.
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 8:06 am
I've said it before, I'll say it again: I think people say "Bocker" because of the high exposure of one Orville Redenbacher ("or my name isn't...").
If you would like to pronounce it "authentically," it'd be something like RIKE-in-BOCHH-er. I do believe it'd be spelled different too.
Backer it is.
If you would like to pronounce it "authentically," it'd be something like RIKE-in-BOCHH-er. I do believe it'd be spelled different too.
Backer it is.
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 8:24 am
I pronounce it bahker.
Is there a such a thing as a wrong pronunciation?
Is there a such a thing as a wrong pronunciation?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 8:30 am
There was some discussion of this a while back about what was what...
Kenny Howes got the low-down from John Hall himself, and maybe he will re-play the story here for us.
As stated in Richard Smith's book the original ancestoral spelling for the name was Richenbacher(Rye-Ken BOCK-er) but somewhere along the line it was Anglecized to Rickenbacker(Rick-en-BACK-er)---there was also a story of something being misspelled and a decision was made to stick with it(Kenny will have to chime in on this...)
Kenny Howes got the low-down from John Hall himself, and maybe he will re-play the story here for us.
As stated in Richard Smith's book the original ancestoral spelling for the name was Richenbacher(Rye-Ken BOCK-er) but somewhere along the line it was Anglecized to Rickenbacker(Rick-en-BACK-er)---there was also a story of something being misspelled and a decision was made to stick with it(Kenny will have to chime in on this...)
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 8:38 am
For more on this, see also this somewhat humorous thread from the Nick Thiel board:
http://www.voxtalks.com/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=VT14&Post=325&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session=kennyhowes.106149039040915
http://www.voxtalks.com/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=VT14&Post=325&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session=kennyhowes.106149039040915
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 9:00 am
Robert, how many ways can you pronounce Robert?
Robert
Robert
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:48 am
We have a restaurant here named "Chez Robert" I always thought was pronounced as spelled. I was once corrected (and laughed at) by an ex-girlfriend who pronounced it "Shay Roh-bay."
Then again, she pronounced "Lyons" as "Lee-on." She laughed at me that time too.
BTW: I broke off the relationship.
So anyway, that's 2 for "Robert"
Then again, she pronounced "Lyons" as "Lee-on." She laughed at me that time too.
BTW: I broke off the relationship.
So anyway, that's 2 for "Robert"
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:52 am
Almost forgot - I pronounce it "bocker" although I know it's not correct. But, nobody laughs at me when I do ...
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 11:48 am
I've always said "bocker", but since buying my first in 2001, I say "backer".
That's the way RIC says it, so that's the way I'll say it. Who'd know better than them!
That's the way RIC says it, so that's the way I'll say it. Who'd know better than them!
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 11:50 am
Sorry, double posted by mistake!
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:02 pm
When my great-great-grandfather, Adam Klaassen, immigrated to the U.S.A. from Germany in the early 1800s, he changed the spelling of the family name to Clauson. It's pronounced klah-son, the same as it was in the original German. I've heard it prounounced (and seen it spelled) a gazillion differnt ways.