How do you pronounce Ikea?

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

And more importantly, how should one pronounce Ikea?

I Keee AA

eye key ya

If you're my mum, then like 'ickier'.

Sigh.

lol . I have always said EYE-KEE-AH. When I met Dh he referred to ikk - ee -a's (!). He now says it my way

and so do our children. And his from his previous relationship. And so on unto the nth generation...

funny though - I know someone from Denmark and she pronounces it, 'ICK EE AHH'

Who knows Place is scary

I think the swedish way is something like ick-ay-ah.

But most Brits I know say Eye-kee-ah.

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mike ear rhymes with it

Lidl is officially pronounced Leedle - I just can't

It always sounds so silly when my mum (not Swedish in the least) says Ick - kay - ya. I was mentally comparing it to 'pitsa' for 'pizza' and her other annoying ones.
You mean she is right?

In Germany we pronounced it aye-kay-a

Will practice the proper Swedish way now

I say eye-kee-ah but I'm not surprised to hear that's not how the Swedes pronounce it.

Like Ponders says, Lidl should be prounounced Leedle but that's not how we say it in English...not how I say it anyway

On a similar note, how do you say Addidas? With the stress on the first syllable or the second (A-dee-das). I've heard it said both ways.

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Danish friend says ick - ee- uh.

I say eye-kee-a because I'm not Swedish. I also say Paris even though the French say Par-ee. This is because I would be called (justifiably) a knob head if I started saying Par-ee.

Exactly Quickdrawnmcgraw.

Pruners, I think the Italian pronunciation of pizza sounds more like pitsa than peetsa. I say peetsa anyway though

It's ick-ay-ah, but pronouncing it that way is poncey unless you're swedidh.

swedish, obv

Another Eye Kee Ah here.

Although ds calls it Eye Eye Kee A.

if you're my friend,then it's Eye -eek -ee, but she does that deliberately

One shouldn't mention it at all - it marks one out as being the sort of person who has to buy their own furniture.

Ick - ee - ah is correct, but everyone calls it I - Key - Ah, non?

My mum and I both call it Ick.