Titleist

[HartleyHare]

This is starting to bug me now (probably a sign of impending madness) .

Why is Titleist pronounced titelist???
Why isn't it said like it's written????

 

[SS2]

Titleist

If you treat the -ist suffix as in Final-ist, you get Title-ist.

A final-ist is someone in a final, a Title-ist is someone in a title (or playing for a title, perhaps).

Does that make any sense?

 

[toyboy54]

good point HH,you,ve given me something to think on in bed tonight(rather than that beauty of that 6 iron on Sunday drawing into the left to right wind on the par 3 14th...oh, the way it flew and curved and rolled to 8 feet........of course I missed the putt AND THE ONE BACK!!!)Thank you for diverting my thoughts!!!

 

[HartleyHare]

Titleist

If you treat the -ist suffix as in Final-ist, you get Title-ist.

A final-ist is someone in a final, a Title-ist is someone in a title (or playing for a title, perhaps).

Does that make any sense?

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH...................
now i understand, thankyou for your words of wisdom.
i shall no longer constantly correct my mate, like an overzealous schoolteacher.

 

[viscount17]

It gets pronounced 'Tite list' because of the unusual combination of sounds and unusual/awkward emphasis in 'Title ist'

It's no different from a lot of compounded words (particularly in French) where final vowel sounds are dropped and the preceding consonant is slurred onto the next vowel

 

[Cernunnos]

I've herd it pronounced bothe title-ist & Tite-list

Seems to me the brits pronounce it Title & the yanks Tite.. I certainly pronounce it title...ist

I know one chap who actually pronounces it Tittle...ist... Enough to make me titter a bit ....rofl.

 

[Parmo]

No idea, it took me 2 months when I first started to be able to pronounce Srixon.

 

[mrobbie]

I've had someone ask me from another fairway whether I had see their "tit-least"...

I'll stick with "tight list", or as mine are more affectionately called, the spanners.

 

[Sam]

I had always assumed that the name's origin was German i.e. titleist (tit lyst) with pronunication changed for obvious reasons. There are a number of US firms (non golf) using that name where title-ist wouldn't make much sense.

 

[Cernunnos]

MaxFli is another good one, is it pronounced Max - Fly, or Maxi - Fly... I tend to pronounce it the latter way as Maxi-Fly, but know its probably the incorrect way of pronouncing it. There again I could't give a fig "I prefer it my way" ala Lord of war

 

[grumpyjock]

For 40 years I called them TiT lis as that was what the old man called them, German rubbish better with Dunlop rubber.
Always played with Slash n grin in the old days now play with Nike, do you pronounce it with or without the accent?
Same with Srixon how do you pronounce that?

 

[TonyN]

Nike: no ee on the end.

Srixon: is Srick-son

Titleist: Title-ist

I hate when people call Callaway Golloway and Stableford Stapleford, well maybe not hate but you know what I mean.

 

[toyboy54]

Sorry guys,have gave up on this one and gone back to Sundays 6-iron(if just feels better-------and less brain taxing)Hope you all sleep tight!!!!!!!!

 

[viscount17]

Nike should pronounce the e, it is Greek (but then they pronounce Zeus as zay oos).

 

[Basher]

For the record, what I call them:

Nike - Nye k eh
Titleist - Tight list
Srixon - Srickson
Mizuno - Mi zoo no, I've heard some people call it Mizonu!