Originally Posted by OLDYELLR

So why would an American want to pronounce Nishiki the Japanese way when most Americans I know pronounce Iraq as Eye-Rack? I've owned Nishikis for 30 years and say Ni-she-kee with the accent on the middle syllable, just like the owner of the bike shop where I bought them did. Most English pronounciations of foreign words are incorrectly accented, so why be anal over getting just one or two right? And how about Campagnolo? I started cycling in England in the fifties and it was always "Campag". When those type of bikes became better known in America a couple of decades later, "Campy" was coined, but it still sounds weird to me.