HuCard (Who Card or Hugh Card) You decide!

[JoshTurboTrollX]

That's it!  I'm sick of you Owl lovin' Who Card speakers! Time to put your sillyness to rest!!

Vote HuCard!!

[CrackTiger]

You forgot Huckard.

https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?msg=291064

[JoshTurboTrollX]

crap, you're right....

[jtucci31]

Hugh like Huey Lewis 

[Ergot_Cholera]

I would have assumed that Americans would pronounce the'U' sound soft (like tube pronounced toob), whereas in the UK we would be more inclined to pronounce the 'U' hard (tube=choob).

[NecroPhile]

Huey, bitch!

[bob]

turbochip

[ChuChu Flamingo]

who

[Gentlegamer]

Hugh like Huey Lewis 

[esteban]

Hew.
Card.

[geise]

Pronounced hue

[synbiosfan]

Who card is up there with pronouncing nes and snes like a word. First time I heard that I laughed at the Game Stop employee. I usually at them anyhow tbh.

[Otaking]

Hou Karado desu.

[wildfruit]

Who card is up there with pronouncing nes and snes like a word.

It's all the rage in pal land
Shoryhewken karado

[CGQuarterly]

I pronounce it "hugh card", but if the "Hu" is from "Hudson", then I guess it should be "huh card"...

[synbiosfan]

Who card is up there with pronouncing nes and snes like a word.

It's all the rage in pal land
Shoryhewken karado

Never heard my cousins say that but I like the British pronunciation of aluminum.

[Otaking]

My Bitches and Hoe Card

[xcrement5x]

Hew.
Card.

Pronounced hue

Same as these guys, my thinking is it's always been like what you would expect HU to sound like like in Japanese, since it's from Hudson, but therein lies the weirdness. 

Even though it's spelled HUDSON on everything, the JP spellings I have ever seen for the company are ハドソン (or HADOSON). Which is like, okay that sounds like Hudson but now I'm really confused.

Who card is up there with pronouncing nes and snes like a word.

It's all the rage in pal land
Shoryhewken karado

Never heard my cousins say that but I like the British pronunciation of aluminum.

What gets me more is the British or Australians who pronounce Sega as "SEE-GAH".... le wut?

[Arkhan Asylum]

You ever hear the British people that say "koe nay mee" for Konami?

lol it is awful.


In any event, it's Hew (hyoo, hugh) Card.  They even say "hewcard" in the Japanese commercials...

https://youtu.be/Ax_eLjSg13k

Mystery solved.   

[NecroPhile]

The round eye kids say it like that, but the adult voiceover dude says hucardo.

[Ergot_Cholera]

I am a Britisher and I have never heard anyone pronounce SEGA as SEE-GA. It has always been pronounced SÉ-GA to me (it even informs you how to pronounce it at startup in some games). Also Konami is pronounced as it should be KO-NA-ME.
Your information source is unreliable.

[Arkhan Asylum]

The round eye kids say it like that, but the adult voiceover dude says hucardo.

He says "hyuu cardo"..

you deaf

[Arkhan Asylum]

Your information source is unreliable.

My information source is your fellow countrymen talking like jackasses on their shitty YouTube channels.

Let me see if I can track some down.

[Arkhan Asylum]

KUHNAYMEEEEE

lol.

[Gentlegamer]

I am a Britisher and I have never heard anyone pronounce SEGA as SEE-GA. It has always been pronounced SÉ-GA to me (it even informs you how to pronounce it at startup in some games). Also Konami is pronounced as it should be KO-NA-ME.
Your information source is unreliable.

Aussies definitely say SEE-GAH

[Psycho Punch]

It's pronounced both ways even in official HADASAN stuff...

[esteban]

NEW CHALLENGE:

Say HUE KARD x20

I can't do it without fumbling over the sounds and generating babble by 15/16 iterations...

[_Paul]

I am a Britisher and I have never heard anyone pronounce SEGA as SEE-GA. It has always been pronounced SÉ-GA to me (it even informs you how to pronounce it at startup in some games). Also Konami is pronounced as it should be KO-NA-ME.
Your information source is unreliable.

My and my friend used to pronounce it SEE-GA. To us, the megadrive was the '16-bit SEE-GA' for a while. Then, we corrected ourselves once we knew better i.e. after there were actually speech samples in the games.

[esteban]

I am a Britisher and I have never heard anyone pronounce SEGA as SEE-GA. It has always been pronounced SÉ-GA to me (it even informs you how to pronounce it at startup in some games). Also Konami is pronounced as it should be KO-NA-ME.
Your information source is unreliable.

My and my friend used to pronounce it SEE-GA. To us, the megadrive was the '16-bit SEE-GA' for a while. Then, we corrected ourselves once we knew better i.e. after there were actually speech samples in the games.

I used to call a certain game "Cheenah Warrior" because a friend  pronounced it that way and I assumed he knew something that I didn't. Note: He was a dumbass, but that still didn't raise any red flags. I didn't actually own TG-16 yet, let alone the game. We said "Cheenah" for a few months (between console launch and XMAS, when I finally bought TG-16).

I am a semi-intelligent person. I still don't understand why it took me so long to realize the obvious.

I would love to tell you that I was I intentionally applying a Spanish pronunciation to an obviously English word...but I wasn't.

My dad had really bad sleep apnea and he would gasp for breath in the middle of the night. It sounded just like: "SEEEGAH!"

I am pretty certain he was an agent of FEKA.

[Bloufo]

There's a youtuber whose pronunciation of it is "H" "U" "card".

Aussies definitely say SEE-GAH

They really do. lol

If you have trouble with it just think of the proper pronunciation (according to the man himself) of Steven Seagal's surname, and lose the "L" at the end.

So you'd go something like: "SAY-GA".  Close enough.

[Ergot_Cholera]

KUHNAYMEEEEE

lol.

Yes, you found an example. What a dull monotone voice.

[wildfruit]

All the kids at school said see gah. This lasted well into the mid 90s.

[MisterCrash]

I thought that the Japanese character for "Hu" (ふ or フ) was pronounced "fu". Is there a chance it should be "FuCard"?

Only slightly joking... I realize the Hu in HuCard comes from Hudson, which is spelled with a ハ.

Anyway, I've always gone with hyu'-card.

[Psycho Punch]

Fuckard.

[_Paul]

ShueCARD

[Bloufo]

Dunno about now, but back in the day she was well fit.

[esteban]

PiCARD


Make it so...

[HuMan]

Hue - Card for me too.

[exodus]

In any event, it's Hew (hyoo, hugh) Card.  They even say "hewcard" in the Japanese commercials...

Beat me to it. It is officially Hyoo card, even though:
- Japan has a "Hu" sound, though it sounds more like "foo"
- Hudson in Japan is pronounced "Hadason"

Anyone who says "whocard" or "Konaymee" or "Sea-gah" or "Merry-oh" should like... figure out how to say stuff.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Yeah, if you were going with the pronunciation of "Hudson", they'd be saying HahCards, lol

[xcrement5x]

All the kids at school said see gah. This lasted well into the mid 90s.

I think it makes sense for why it happened in the UK (I think that's where you're from), because the SMS was so big over there people saw the name and just made their own interpretation of how it was supposed to be pronounced.  It wasn't until the MegaDrive came out and you had the SEGA chant in the beginning of Sonic that most people probably knew how to pronounce it.

[Gentlegamer]

All the kids at school said see gah. This lasted well into the mid 90s.

I think it makes sense for why it happened in the UK (I think that's where you're from), because the SMS was so big over there people saw the name and just made their own interpretation of how it was supposed to be pronounced.  It wasn't until the MegaDrive came out and you had the SEGA chant in the beginning of Sonic that most people probably knew how to pronounce it.

I wonder how did I know how to pronounce it long before Sonic? I don't remember much if any Master System TV ads in US to teach me. Years later when I had a real SMS I was surprised that the BIOS start up has the Sega jingle, though not voiced. I didn't realize how old it was.

[NecroPhile]

ShueCARD

Heh, that's awesome. 

[wildfruit]

I mean this advert says say-gah but I guess I never saw it or paid attention.
Also what a bargain

[xcrement5x]

Wait, there was Toys R Us in the UK?!  My mind is thoroughly blown at this point.

[wildfruit]

Wait, there was Toys R Us in the UK?!  My mind is thoroughly blown at this point.

According to their website since 1985. My earliest memory of one is seeing an Atari lynx for the first time so early 90s I guess. I remember they hung games in vga style acrylic cases rather than on shelves.

[Keith Courage]

I pronounce it "hugh card", but if the "Hu" is from "Hudson", then I guess it should be "huh card"...

I prefer calling it a Huh card.

[schadenfreude]

Yep, even the Japanese Wikipedia page for HuCARD agrees with the "hue" pronunciation:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/HuCARD

HuCARD（ヒューカード）

Another fun fact: CD-ROM² is pronounced "CD ROM ROM":

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM2

CD-ROM²（シーディーロムロム）

[_Paul]

Fun fact: My brother's character in the Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG was called Shidi Rommu. I was called HuCARD.

[esteban]

Fun fact: My brother's character in the Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG was called Shidi Rommu. I was called HuCARD.

Shut up.

Does your brother do any art stuff, these days?

Didn't you two create sprites back when you were youthful and British?

Or...am I remembering incorrectly?

Yep, even the Japanese Wikipedia page for HuCARD agrees with the "hue" pronunciation:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/HuCARD

HuCARD（ヒューカード）

Another fun fact: CD-ROM² is pronounced "CD ROM ROM":

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM2

CD-ROM²（シーディーロムロム）

As long as those entires weren't authored by undercover FEKA agents, we should be OK.