Meg-O?

[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...

[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

[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.

[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.

[HardyGirl]

As I've said, I was really into the commercials, even though I didn't have a lot of them. I have never said Meh-go, it's always been MEEE-go.

[Mr.Krusher]

As I've said, I was really into the commercials, even though I didn't have a lot of them. I have never said Meh-go, it's always been MEEE-go.

Exactly. Like I said: "Byyy MEGO" remains in my head from youth. (As does that ad that shows Penguin's nose being shoved in the mud, and the announcer saying "Mr. Fantastic, with the power of invisibility..." ...HUH??) "By Mego" "From Mego"...etc etc..to ME it would be like pronouncing those older Kenner ads "New Stare Wurs Collection from Keaner"...it just sounds wrong somehow..

Although I can try and understand, it will always seem very STRANGE to me to hear it pronounced 'meg-oh'....I dunno....maybe its just me..

[sauce]

George's Version of Mennen

[Mr.Krusher]

George's Version of Mennen

"Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy MEGO!" I SWEAR that in at least a couple of those TV spots the announcer stretches the yyyyyyyy....listen to ALL of them....

As to 'Costanza', ughhh, I dunno if its because I was raised in NY or what, but I cant stand that character...I'd pop him in the jaw! I MIGHT be able to hang out with 'Kramer' and the 'Soup guy', but NOT George...

[Cmonster]

I've always called 'em; Meegs.

And this place is the Megmuzz or just the Muzz.

I have nicknames for everyone and everything...

SC

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I always said Mee-go. When I first started collecting in my late teens, everyone I'd come across would always tell me I pronounced it wrong. I knew I didn't because I could remember the commercials, and finally after a couple of years I got tapes of the old commercials and proved I was right! I still come across lots of collectors and dealers who say it differently and I don't bother to correct them, to each their own. Usually I'm just happy to find someone interested and willing to talk about Megos!

[Brown Bear]

I have always called it May-go and still do, even tho I know it's wrong. I never saw the commercials as a kid, prob b/c I was born in 75, so I read it on their backs and pronounced it the same as lego.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

"You say potato and I say pitato, you say tomato and I say timato..."

[Zemo]

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

Same here.

[Cmonster]

Wow, kinda seems like we got just as many Megs here as Meegs...

SC

[Gorn Captain]

I always said "May-Go" (basically the Dutch pronounciation), and find it very hard to stop doing that.
We also say "Lay-Go" instead of "Leggo". What can I say, we're foreign!