Meg-O?

[Sideshow Spock]

I'm a bit younger than many folks here, but still in all, I cant comprehend the mispronounciation....my childhood is ingrained with the tagline: "Byyyyyyy MEGO!"

It sounds like you're confusing your taglines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daG-0KkirDI&NR=1

Mego was just "by mego", short and sweet.

Let's be honest, unless you saw and remember the mego ads, you're going to pronounce the word "meg-o". Because "meg" is a word (or peg, or keg, or beg, etc etc) and "meeg" is not. And of course because of the Lego association too.

[Iron Mego]

I don't recall ever hearing it pronounced correctly when I was a kid. And I'm sure I saw the commercials. It was always Mego-like-Lego to me, and now I have a hard time saying or even thinking of it as Mee-go.

[toys2cool]

I gotta admit i still say it that way and always will I don't know why, it was the way collectors use to say it when I was a kid and it always stuck

[Mr.Krusher]

This has probably been mentioned here over the years, but anyway...

Whats the deal with people pronouncing Mego as "Meg-Oh" as in Lego? I have heard this a LOT recently via toy reviews and toy-based websites, and it perplexes me. I'm a bit younger than many folks here, but still in all, I cant comprehend the mispronounciation....my childhood is ingrained with the tagline: "Byyyyyyy MEGO!"


Just WEIRD is all...