TN Mike said:
I don't understand why anyone would care if a person calls it umax or micro.. might as well also be called the muMax (miMax) as that's the actual Greek pronunciation, from where we get the µ from.. I didn't have my detector a week and I bet four people asked if I knew what the µ meant....
Well, Mark, Jack Gifford picked a name for his detectors just like out parents do for us. When first introduced it was explained in the catalogs and manuals and flyers that it was pronounced [size=small]micro[/size]MAX, so that's why I care.
The subject thread by Welgund asked about "A Umax Bandito" and the 'U' was incorrect, the 'max' should have been 'MAX', and the 'Bandito' should have been 'Bandido.' The Tesoro choice was to use the '[size=small]micro[/size]' electronic term for that symbol and it was clearly explained. Tesoro used American English and Hispanic names for their detectors, not Greek, so a Greek pronunciation wouldn't be correct.
If you had four people ask what the 'µ' meant, then it was apparent they wanted to know a correct term or name for it, and that is '[size=small]micro[/size]' for '[size=small]micro[/size]MAX.' Way back when, there were a lot of Tesoro Dealers, and they read the literature and letters from Tesoro and most of them dealt directly with consumers and kindly explained what the 'µ' was and how to say the correct name for the detectors. As time has passed, there are far fewer metal detector Dealers, of any brand, and more purchases are made via the Internet and, as we hear with many mis-pronounced names of many models of many brands, it can get confusing. At times it also gets frustrating.
So, Mark, it's only right to make sure we use a proper name, because it just isn't right, ... therefore,
Mike, ... to call some person or some thing by an incorrect name.
Monte
