It's exactly the same thing as you saying you don't ask for a Kleenex, but you would ask for a Coke. Hoover, Jacuzzi, Sellotape, Velux, Kleenex and Coke are all brand names. As is American Express, or Amex for short.
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How do you pronounce Amex?
- Thread starter seagullmouse
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It's exactly the same thing as you saying you don't ask for a Kleenex, but you would ask for a Coke. Hoover, Jacuzzi, Sellotape, Velux, Kleenex and Coke are all brand names. As is American Express, or Amex for short.
I worked at the American Express for 10 years from 1970 and it was referred to as Am Ex, including by most American visitors. Some Americans who visited, referred to it as Ay Mex, quite possibly because they didn't realise it was a contraction of AMerican EXpress but also because the sound "ah" in some American dialects sounds like "ay" or "eh". example: "Ah liurve in Virginieh in Aymayrica". Since then I've heard many British people pronounce it Ay Mex, and it's annoying, but then, so much of Britain is turning into a new Aymayrican state!
welshseagull
New member
- Jul 12, 2011
- 25
Got to be Amex as in Ham. Never heard the American railways refered to as Aimtrack.
thony
Active member
I wouldn't rely on how Americans pronounce things. After all, they pronounce 'lift' as 'el-luh-vay-tuhr' ;-)
If the stadium, Falmer.
If the company/card/ etc idk what the pronunciation should be, but I pronounce it Ay-mex becasue It just sounds / comes easier to me that way.
Even if the word comes from a contraction of American and Express and logically it should be Amm-Ex, it still comes easier as Aymex to me.
Maybe because it becomes a new different word than its original and so it can be pronounced on its own merits, as it were. As a word on its own Amex would be pronounced Ay-mex. For it to be pronounced Ah-mex it would have to be spelled Ammex. As a contraction of American and Express it may be pronounced Am-Ex.
I think either pronunciation is correct, there is no one way. Your own choice.
Tomato Tomato.
If the company/card/ etc idk what the pronunciation should be, but I pronounce it Ay-mex becasue It just sounds / comes easier to me that way.
Even if the word comes from a contraction of American and Express and logically it should be Amm-Ex, it still comes easier as Aymex to me.
Maybe because it becomes a new different word than its original and so it can be pronounced on its own merits, as it were. As a word on its own Amex would be pronounced Ay-mex. For it to be pronounced Ah-mex it would have to be spelled Ammex. As a contraction of American and Express it may be pronounced Am-Ex.
I think either pronunciation is correct, there is no one way. Your own choice.
Tomato Tomato.
Perfidious Albion
Well-known member
Quite honestly, does it matter? Seems to be an American v British thing , a question of dialect .
I still find myself calling it The Goldstone in unguarded moments….
I still find myself calling it The Goldstone in unguarded moments….
- Nov 15, 2006
- 4,259
Corrected for youQuite honestly, does it matter? Seems to be an American v British thing , a question of dialect .
I still find myself calling it The Goldstone in senior moments….
Unless you are a Trumpster and then it is pronounced 'Mericahn. 'eM'ex" then.
5Ways Gull
È quello che è
I pronounce it Ahhhmex with a slight French accent. But then I am a pretentious twat.
scented douche?
Probably, when he's referring to Toe-may-toes and Poe-tay-toes.
- Mar 23, 2023
- 2,129
I thought it was renamed the American Express community stadium?
WTF is that all about?
I assume they scrolled through every thread on the board until they found a subject that they felt particularly strongly about.
I don't see any other logical explanation.
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
In the rename they dropped word community. Its now the American Express stadium
TWOCHOICEStom
Well-known member
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
F.U.N.E.X?
S.... V.F.X.
F.U.N.E.M?
S.... V.F.M.
(One for the oldies perhaps...)
S.... V.F.X.
F.U.N.E.M?
S.... V.F.M.
(One for the oldies perhaps...)
- Nov 3, 2015
- 3,460
Then it should be 'Muhhrrx, surely?
Dave the OAP
Well-known member
American express
America
therefore Amex
America
therefore Amex