How do you say Sega?

[GBA]

There's two types of names people call Sega. One is Say-ga the other is See-ga. How do you say it? I say it the Say-ga way :p

[Professor Go]

SUCK-ee

[Matt]

Just say it's full name "Service Games" lol

[Nintendo Survivor]

i dont say it either way. i say it Seg-a, but at this point i'm willing to go along with Professor Go's pronounciation

[Pinch the Pooh]

Seh-guh, like Nathan. I like Sega a lot. They brought me PSO and that is a reason to love them. So what if the only thing theyve done right was PSO and SoA:L. At least those games are teh roxorz

[barn-z]

Just listen to the beginning of any Genesis game and it says it for you, Saaaaay-gaa!

[prime_timer]

I say it really fast like on the shinobi commercial 'SEGA!'

[Shoxx]

It's supposed to be "Say-ga" but I say "Seh-ga" like most of us do.

[Serj]

Say-ga

[Lovebird]

saaaaaaaaaaaaaay-gaaaaaaaa....yep, that's exactly how it's pronounced, and if you don't say it like that then you aren't saying it....lol...

[Just Gabriel]

Well, here's the (short) story around the pronunciation:
As most of you know, Sega stands for Service Games (a company that primarily made arcade cabinets, the most popular early ones being games like Hang On! and Space Harrier) Now, if you pulled together Service Games, you'd get something like Suh-Gey. However, the pronunciations of vowels in Japan are as follows:

a- as in car
i- like "ee"
u- like "oo"
e- as in hey
o- "O"

So, they took the English spelling of Service Games and pronounced it in Japanese dialect, making "Se" sound like "say" and "Ga" aound like "guh". So it officially is pronounced like "say-guh" (think the old genesis/megadrive games: "Saee-gaaa")

haha, now you guys gone and made me wanna play sonic. *throws Mega Collection in the 'cube*

[King_O.F]

wow......that's deep

[Wh|tE gUy]

...who the hell says see-ga?!

[ef bee eye]

i do

[GBA]

Originally posted by Wh|tE gUy
...who the hell says see-ga?!
My friend does, and so does my brother. I was wondering what way you guys say it because I wanted to know which was the most popular way of saying it.

[Rensa]

I say Seega now, although when I lived in England I used to say Sayga (it's just a different accent, really). I don't know anyone who says SEGA with a short 'e' (if you were using the Japanese syllables, you would most definitely not say "say-guh"; it'd be "se-ga")

[Just Gabriel]

no, no, "say-guh" is just an english approximation of the japanese pronunciation of the word. Trust me :D

[Monkeylord]

Despite what is sang at you at the begining of virtually every Sega game, I've always said SeeGah and I always will... Cos Arm from Saaahf Lunnin, int I squire!

Gawd blimey Mary Poppins! Shakes me 'and fer luck. I gots me a pain in me gulliver!

[karter316]

Uh, english please?

[Rensa]

Originally posted by Gabriel-GCA
no, no, "say-guh" is just an english approximation of the japanese pronunciation of the word. Trust me :D

Yeah, I remember that well ^_^

[Monkeylord]

Originally posted by karter316
Uh, english please?

That was English, squire!

[mario]

i say it like it does on the old genesis games, like nathen does.

[Neo_Hawke7]

I, like many others, pronounce it Say-Gah.