Transfers, Decals, and pronounciation of Deckals/Deecals

[Adam1701D]

For me, an old home-counties lad, it's always been "Dekkle"

Now back to playing with my Daypol Class 68

[Newportnobby]

While I was typing something onto this forum today, my phone's stupid supposed intelligence inserted the word 'lower' instead of 'power.'

So why are those two words pronounced differently?

Nooooo!! Please let's not go down the road of querying that sort of thing e.g. words ending in '......ough'

[weave]

I agree with @Newportnobby  otherwise we'll be having rows about rows of Peaco wagons which surely should be pronounced Pecko 

I'll get my Ko-at.

[Invicta Alec]

Transfers or dekkals, whichever you prefer.

But dee cals?? Not on this side of the Atlantic mate! 

Alec.

[Ali Smith]

By the miracle of YouTube I've just listened to "Lick my decals off, baby" by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. It's definitely deecals. Not that I consider this to be definitive, just something else to consider. I still call them transfers anyway.

[Newportnobby]

Hardly surprising and definitely not conclusive as Captain Beefheart is/was American

[Adam1701D]

I've always thought it was transfers for railways and decals for planes and other plastic kits.

[dannyboy]

Nooooo!! Please let's not go down the road of querying that sort of thing e.g. words ending in '......ough'

Don't you just love the English language though ......... sorry. 

[Yet_Another]

So, following the dictionary route, one finds:

décalquer 'transfer a tracing'

as the word from which decal, through a few portmanteaux and abbreviations, is derived. Although the modelling use of the word is not covered in the dictionary definitions.

However, if you take décalquer as the origin, then the correct pronuciation (or is that pronounciation?) is day-cal, as in déja-vu.

But let's face it: the English only pronounce French words correctly when pointing out how badly the Americans do it.

[Ted]

Transfers or dekkals, whichever you prefer.

But dee cals?? Not on this side of the Atlantic mate! 

Alec.

Wait, I thought the yanks said 'deK-als'?

Like 'soD-er' instead of 'sol-der'.

[chrism]

Transfers or dekkals, whichever you prefer.

But dee cals?? Not on this side of the Atlantic mate! 

Alec.

Wait, I thought the yanks said 'deK-als'?

Like 'soD-er' instead of 'sol-der'.

Don't they realise that that's where Thomas and friends live?

[port perran]

Definitely transfers in this neck of the woods.

[Bob G]

Definitely transfers in this neck of the woods.

I thought the Cornish for transfers was treusworrans.
There is no Cornish for decal. And that's quite right too.

Come to think of it, Treusworrans sounds just like a Cornish junction station where you can of course transfer....

[Tank]

I've always said 'deckals' as well.  And I can't get used to saying 'Daypol', so say 'Dappol'.   

[njee20]

See I've always said Day-pol (because it was Dave and Polly who started it), but then most people seemed to say Dappol, and being the sheep I am I find myself slipping towards Dappol.