On 2/27/07 6:51 AM, "Tom Sanders" <tsan7759142@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I hesitated to jump into this because I know full well that a couple of the
> folks offering advice on the pronunciation actually speak Italian and I make
> no claim to. However, I did own a very nice Battaglin for a few
> years...there seem to be two kinds of them...so-so bikes and very nice ones
> with all kinds of allusions to championships won on them...my bike was of
> the latter variety. When I purchased it as the second owner I asked the
> college kid I bought it from how to pronounce it and he said that he had
> asked the distributor and it was pronounced Bat-a (short A
> here)-gleen...slight emphasis on the first syllable. I, and everyone else
> I knew in admittedly backwards Michigan always pronounced it that way
> without anyone ever correcting us. Perhaps we had an Americanism type
> pronunciation going there, but that's my experience with it.
In NorCal, we always heard it referred to as bat-I'-yeen (emphasis on the second syllable, long I, "gl" prounounced as "y").
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