Guitar from the Stratosphere

[lungimsam]

"There’s another BritEnglish pronunciation “Jag-wah”. The “wah” is lilted in a way to form a third syllable."

I guess there's another way - I say "Jag-wah" with no "lilt". Two syllables. Of course, growing up in MA, I also don't pronounce the "r" in "park", or in "car", or in many other words!

walrus

We’ll definitely have to add “Jag-wah” to the third US pronunciation.
Do y’all speak the “Kings English” up there? Or is that only in New England? In Maine they have all those hard R sounds.
Down here we like to make fun of the MA accent: “pahk the cah in Hah-vahd yahd”.

 

[adorshki]

I didn't crop out of some shame, it was a visual thing, like an art thing, to accentuate the positive body shape that has me bewitched.

This being posted in Non Guild Gear, the suggestion to get Guild gear non sequitur but just in order not to crop this nearly indescribable headstock had me doubly puzzled ;[

I'd probably saw it off before something or someone got hurt, nevermind cropping it in a photograph ;[] It should have a guard on it, and I speak from experience with pointy headstocks, lethal to themselves and those around them.

Killer deal on a Pilot bass there btw, tempting, now that the seed has been planted ;[]

Except that this is offset, asymmetric, the Strat/P Bass aren't considered to be and I remain unconvinced about the asymmetric body shapes. A short lived affair with a Jazz Bass didn't change my mind at all.

You been hangin' out with RayK lately, huhh?

 

[adorshki]

If I had a Fender Jaguar I would call it a “Jag-you-uh”, like Orson Welles said the name in “The Most Dangerous Game” old time radio production. Not the usual Amer-English “Jag-why-er” or “Jag-war”. There’s another BritEnglish pronunciation “Jag-wah”. The “wah” is lilted in a way to form a third syllable. Sort of like “Jag-wah-uh”. But I think the Welles pronunciation best expresses the speed and power of the animal. I wonder how the Fender company pronounced it?

Drives me nuts!!! We're such philistines! There is no "why" in Jaguar. It's just because they can.

A lot like Guild, now that I think about it.

 

[lungimsam]

The Fender Jazzmaster has the fanciest of all your Fender headstocks.

 

[Boneman]

I always said it with two syllables, Ja-gwar , where the Ja has the pronunication like in Jack, not Jah, and gwar would rhyme with far, not or.

 

[lungimsam]

Are you from south of the mason-Dixon?

 

[kitniyatran]

I am, and I've always said it that way

 

[lungimsam]

That is much cooler sounding than Jag-why-er (three syllables) that we say here in the Baltimore area!