/skaip/ OR /skaipi/

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How can we say it (Skype)?
Is it /skaip/ OR /skaipi/?

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I say /skaip/
 

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hmmm!!!!
I say that too...but you have heard as /skaipi/, haven't you?
 

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well, I have.
I was even corrected many times when I said /skaip/!
 
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Hmmm...
Maybe by people who thought you were talking about sneakers / plimsols.
Joking apart, it might be a sort of "asssimilation" with the brand name.
 

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I have heard a few people say /skaipi/, and I agree with Alain about the most likely reason. ;-)
 

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Maybe...:roll:
 

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I've always said /skaipi/, and was quite surprised to hear people say /skaip/. For me it probably comes from living in Spain, where you pronounce all the letters in a word.
 
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Actually, at the beginning of the success of the brand in France, most people pronounced the name /naik/ , just like "Mike" or "Spike".
A final "e" in a word is never sounded /i/, and if it had been sounded, it would have been like the Greek word for victory, nikê /nike/, in which case it would have been very awkward since it sounds exactly the same as "niqué" which is a slang word everybody understands and which means "f***ed", or "busted", depending on the context.
Not a very good name for a trade mark over here, is it?...
 

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In some Arabic forums, they say /skaip/, I mean they transliterate it in a way that is pronounced /skaip/.

BTW, is the second /i/ stressed:?:
 

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When I have heard it as two syllables, the stress was on the first.
 
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