Comments on: How do you pronounce “Moleskine”?

By: Lanika

Lanika — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:42:13 +0000

mole-sky-n (pronouncing the “skine” as if it were like “mine”)
I used to pronounce it mole-skin, but that’s just because I didn’t notice the E at the end of the actual name.

By: marc

marc — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:18:12 +0000

try this: 6hv7c4 (@ tinyurl…)
great video! should do this with other brands

By: Mireia

Mireia — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:23:58 +0000

Mall
es
keane

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:34:51 +0000

I have updated Wikipedia with the appropriate citation and an attempt to render the Italian version in IPA syntax.

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:43:24 +0000

I think I’m going to say it the fancy Italian way. Is that not were the company is from?

Bu I think Bo has the right question:

“How do you pronounce “Eyjafjallajökull”?”

I’ve been working hard on trying to say it the correct way now for days!

By: Shane the Tailor

Shane the Tailor — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:23:02 +0000

Before I watched the video I was pretty sure I knew how it should be pronounced… now I’m not so sure!

By: Scribble on Everything

Scribble on Everything — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:20:34 +0000

I guess they’ve changed their story in the past 5 year since I emailed the company. Well I guess it keeps people like us talking about it.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:21:10 +0000

I used to say “mole skin”, but now I pretend to be fancy by saying “moe-la-skeen-eh”, eh?

By: yael miller

yael miller — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:18:20 +0000

thanks for sharing that, @neuralien! very interesting factoid.

By: neuralien

neuralien — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:49:56 +0000

Straight from the Moleskine website:

“Many Moleskine users send us enquiries as to which is the correct way of pronouncing the word “Moleskine”. The answer is: there is no predetermined answer.

Moleskine® is a brand name with undefined national identity. And that’s the way we like it. As a literary name, it was used by British travel writer Bruce Chatwin in his book “The Songlines”, referred to the little black notebooks he usually bought from a stationery store in Paris.

Everyone should feel free to pronounce it as he/she prefers. Enjoy.”

http://www.moleskine.com/about_us/news/moleskine_pronounciation.php

By: Morgana D'Almeida (Brazil)

Morgana D'Almeida (Brazil) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:32:13 +0000

I pronunce
- mo(of cow, or mow)
- les (like lês, a close “e” not like “let”)
- ki (kee)
- ne

By: robert

robert — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:41:44 +0000

An excellent example of how non-English languages treat vowels and dipthongs in a way that isn’t fully understood by native English speakers, who aren’t used to the idea of ‘pure’ vowels that are always pronounced the same.

By: golosinavisual

golosinavisual — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:14:03 +0000

Molejkine (spanish with a particular accent from a little town of Alicante)

By: Blaze

Blaze — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:06:21 +0000

|ˈmōlˌskin|

By: ChrisFizik

ChrisFizik — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:36:40 +0000

Austin Powers: Yes, nice to mole you–meet you! Nice to meet your mole! Don’t say mole.
…
Austin Powers: Moley-moley-moley-moley-moley!

By: April

April — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:30:22 +0000

Moe-luh-SKEE-nuh

By: Skyler

Skyler — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:02:45 +0000

Mole-skin

By: Bo

Bo — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:16:31 +0000

How do you pronounce “Eyjafjallajökull”?

By: Scribble on Everything

Scribble on Everything — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:47:32 +0000

Funny, the first time I bought a Moleskine my writing partner and I argued this very same thing. We ended up emailing the company for the official pronunciation, they said it was mole (like the animal) skin (like your the stuff on your body). But like true americans we didn’t consider the other parts of the world.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:21:03 +0000

MOLE-skin