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[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

I've never known how to pronounce "JNCO". Is it an acronym or an initialism?

J-N-C-O? Joonko? Janko? Jinso?

[-] jcs@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I always heard it pronounced as "Jean Co."

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

…WHAT.

I’ve always pronounced it, and heard it pronounced by every single person ever— “JINKO.” Like, pronouncing it exactly the way it’s written. J’n-KŌ

Were you all alive in the 90s? I mean, like, old enough to be around the age this person in the post was? Or is “JEAN-co” the modern way the kids are saying it?

[-] jcs@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Well, I was in middle school in the late 90s when these were popular, so I suppose I'm in the demographic. I dunno, the difference between "jean" and "gin" is somewhat subtle when you say it quickly, and I never gave it much thought.

[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah you are more correct to how the average 7th grader said it in 1997.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I was in 10th grade in '97 but I can confirm that people called them "jinkos" However, in different accents that would be close to "jeancos," though I think anyone who called them that would have been called a poser.

[-] Vacationlandgirl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

In New England we said gin-ko. Never saw an ad for them though, so have no idea if we were right!

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

we said gin-ko

Is that G as in gif or gif?

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I see what you did there, and I love it. That said, I also grew up in New England... and everyone I knew pronounced it jin-ko.

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