How do you pronounce Saiga ?

[rosewood]

say-what

 

[Leatherhead]

Video guy has a fake accent.

 

[BangBang]

Why mess around trying to figure it out when we've got a resident expert?

Jeddak

 

[Jeddak]

Sounds to me like 3 syllables: Sigh (or Cy) + a + gaa (or the first half of gun without the N sound).

This. Sigh-gah. Two syllables. Russian сайга́ has only two vowels, "a", hence just two syllables.
Emphasis on the last syllabus (that's what the apostrophe over the last "a" is in сайга́).
Name of an antelope in the Central Asia. Russian letter "a" makes only short "ah" or long "aaaah" sounds. Never "ae" sound. My pet peeve is mispronouncing сайга́ as SAYga.

 

[timbgtm]

This. Sigh-gah. Two syllables. Russian сайга́ has only two vowels, "a", hence just two syllables.
Name of an antelope in the Central Asia. Russian letter "a" makes only short "ah" or long "aaaah" sounds. Never "ae" sound. My pet peeve is mispronouncing сайга́ as SAYga.

I was close. I've always pronounced it ( say- gagh) oh well.lol

 

[Joshua223]

What about FRANCHI?

After meeting Biker I think I might be mispronouncing Taurus too.

 

[Kahrnut]

What about FRANCHI?

"Frankie".

 

[Kahrnut]

Some folks call Datsun DAT-SUN some DOT-SON....lol

What's a 'Datsun'?

 

[BangBang]

What's a 'Datsun'?

 

[Joshua223]

"Frankie".

Heard
frankie
fr-ahn-kE
fr-ahn-sE
fr-ahn-chE
fran-sE