How do you pronounce it?

[finn17]

Strange...

Sea-mon would never, ever have occurred to me either....

...and, to my ears that sounds verystrange too.

 

[Modderrhu]

I\'m with dauber and Hoblit. I read it as seamon and pronounce it as k\'mon. But when mentioning it to someone else, it\'s \'coolmini\'.

 

[wiccanpony]

lol the teens in this house pronounce it \"those crazy people who refuse to grow up\":drool: lol

 

[spazzy]

I believe that if it was spelled C\'MoN then it would be a hard C as in Cool, but seeing as how there is no apostrophe there, I pronounce it as the letter C.

 

[Ritual]

So it\'s \"Sool Mini or Not?\" then? lol

 

[Drake Farstrider]

I pronounce it with the hard C as well, the other just sounds wierd.

Well the vote looks rather one sided at this point.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Back in the day, Sturmy used to call it see-mon whereas I, as a Welsh chap, saw it as \'K\'. You see, in P Celtic, the \'C\' is like your English \'K\'. Very easy

 

[ipaintminis]

c\'mon through and through.

 

[Ebonbuddha]

Exactly why I do it. Teaching English for almost five years has broken alot of terrible habits. Now if I can only improve my typing.

Originally posted by spazzy
I believe that if it was spelled C\'MoN then it would be a hard C as in Cool, but seeing as how there is no apostrophe there, I pronounce it as the letter C.

 

[finn17]

Why on Earth..

....would there be an apostrophe there???

What would that signify???

It\'s an acronym..you don\'t put apostrophes in acronyms.

Otherwise you could have things like the F\'BI or the C\'IA :beer:

EDIT: Actually you might want to put an apostrophe after an acronym to signify possession as in, \"it was the CIA\'s fault\".

 

[automaton]

Well, when I first came to the site, I used to call it \'come-on\' to myself. But then when I ran into some others who knew the site they were all calling it \'seamon\', so I thought I had better change because \'seamon\' was the cool way to say it, and I would sound like an idiot calling it \'come-on\'! haha

I\'m afraid that mean that I am stuck in the \'seamon\' camp though, because that\'s what I now used to saying.

But to tell the truth, most of the time I just say \'cool mini\' like eric and earkham.

 

[philologus]

I get strange looks when I wear my \"CMON U\" T-shirt. I have to explain that it\'s Cool Mini or Not. Then I have to explain what that is, then sometimes why grown-ups play with toy soldiers etc.

Thanks for the shirt Becca.

As for pronunciation those of my peeps who look at this site and I usuallly say Cool mini.
The two choices in the survey sound either like a bodily function or a bodily fluid.

 

[Chern Ann]

While lots of people are on this thread I thought I\'d hijack it to ask everybody to upload their personal pictures into their profiles (click on my name on the left to see an example). You can do it from Your Account page.

AND... I always think and pronounce it as coolmini.

 

[supervike]

I put my ugly pic up!

 

[Ogrebane]

We have a tennis player in Oz whose catch cry is Come ON!!!.

Cant have that now Sea mon for me.

But Im also with Chern I say Coolmini more often.

 

[funnymouth]

im a \"sea mon\"er. no idea why...sounds more natural & distinct....no....nope...no idea why.

 

[Ogrebane]

Oh and Chern I uploaded a pic. Cool idea. As are all the new smileys. Thanks for that.

 

[DrEvilmonki]

Originally posted by Ogrebane
Oh and Chern I uploaded a pic. Cool idea. As are all the new smileys. Thanks for that.

Jesus I didn\'t know chopper painted minis!

 

[Ebonbuddha]

Since people will not say it correctly, I will just call it Comono

 

[bayrodney]

Sea Mon just sounds Kinky

...Its got to be Come-on!