Typo?

[udo]

Why does GR use "Piko" when the name is "PIKO"

PIKO Spielwarren GmbH

Udo

[altterrain]

Why does GR use "Piko" when the name is "PIKO"

PIKO Spielwarren GmbH

Udo

 Its probably Rene's fault 

-Brian 

[IRONHORSE77]

No, It's because some of the membership would say quit yelling.

Chuck

[vsmith]

Why is F.I.A.T. (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) called Fiat? same difference.

 

[udo]

Because it is PIKO. Not an Italian auto.

"All rights reserved. PIKO is a registered trade mark."

Should we say Usa Trains or Aristo-craft?

Udo

[Snoq. Pass RR]

"Should we say Usa Trains or Aristo-craft?" - Actually people do say Aristo-craft unlike its name's correct spelling Aristo-Craft.

Same kinda thing goes with why do people spell Bachmann with only one n such as Bachman.

Different people say and spell thing differently.

[altterrain]

Because it is PIKO. Not an Italian auto.

"All rights reserved. PIKO is a registered trade mark."

Should we say Usa Trains or Aristo-craft?

Udo

Spelling it "Piko" is only one step of a vast Western Hemispherial conspiracy to slight the EU and establish American dominance in the toy train market.

Some of the other steps already implemented

-Forcing LGB to spend millions of dollars on American copyright icons like Disney, Coca-Cola, and Peanuts characters instead of spending money on creating model trains the market would actually buy.

-Tempting Europeans by flooding the market with American prototype 1:29 big shiny diesels and 1:20.3 three foot narrow gauge steam locos.

-Promoting May 10th as National Train Day (nationaltrainday.com) see u there!

-Brian

 

[udo]

establish American dominance in the toy train market.

Is that North America or South America?

I was hoping for a response from someone at G.R.. I think this is their site.

[tangerine-jack]

I think the colour of the tyres on the locomotives are off centre.

We could type in PIKO, but that is harder to type than Piko.  I agree with the conspiracy theory.  Just because we Americans have over 1500 nuclear weapons we feel we can call PIKO "Piko", or Aristo-Craft "Aristo-craft".  Dang, we even call the English "Brits" and petrol "gas". 

Bottom line is that when I see "Piko" I know it's "PIKO" and not "Butter Roll".  I see modelers call a company "Plasser" when it is "Plasser-Thauer" or "Plasser America (or UK, India, Australia etc)"  Um, so what is the issue here?

[udo]

so what is the issue here?

I think the issue was a question for the staff of GR. Please don't bomb me Mr. Army man.

[tangerine-jack]

so what is the issue here?

I think the issue was a question for the staff of GR. Please don't bomb me Mr. Army man.

 

My apologies troll.

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Why all the sweat and swivit about the case of the letters??? It pronounces the same either way!  machx nix to me!

Udo, you must be a rivet counter; therefore, you will never be happy in G scale!

 But then I guess it's a matter of whose ox is being gored!

[kstrong]

It pronounces the same either way! 

Okay, is it PEA-KO, or PIE-KO?

Later,

K

[arkansasrailfan]

It pronounces the same either way! 

Okay, is it PEA-KO, or PIE-KO?

Later,

K

PEE-co. say it like that properly(and no im not trying to be funny- seriously(that was meant to be funny(no -not was I said first(never mind))))
but Porshe is supposed to be pronounced Por-SHUH.

[udo]

Okay, is it PEA-KO, or PIE-KO?

Ahh, here is the man that writes the review. Why not PIKO?

Udo

[Anonymous]

[EMPIRE II LINE]

 

[cabbage]

Not to state the obvious it is probably down to how they have their text software set up. Thus PIKO becomes Piko as it is not notorised as a "proper noun". I do quite lot of typing in both English, French and German and I am very aware of how companies like their letters -some of which have to capitalised for legal reasons.

viz:

Software AG. Thompson SA, Siemens GMBH, Messrs Plessey Ltd, and Messrs Thorn PLC.

UNLESS they were writing to the company in an official legal capacity they can quite honestly call the company and it's products "Piko". Having a lot of "German" in my normal day to day work I do follow "germanic" style thus you will note that I do not capitalise my signature -as it is not my real name. It is the one I "adopted" at age 14 when we came to England. Curiously enough it has become a common German name after Herr Schumacher's series of F1 wins....

regards

ralph

Addendumn: I note that you used GmbH rather than the EU legally correct GMBH -was this a "typo" on your part?

[EMPIRE II LINE]

Not to state the obvious it is probably down to how they have their text software set up. Thus PIKO becomes Piko as it is not notorised as a "proper noun". I do quite lot of typing in both English, French and German and I am very aware of how companies like their letters -some of which have to capitalised for legal reasons.

viz:

Software AG. Thompson SA, Siemens GMBH, Messrs Plessey Ltd, and Messrs Thorn PLC.

UNLESS they were writing to the company in an official legal capacity they can quite honestly call the company and it's products "Piko". Having a lot of "German" in my normal day to day work I do follow "germanic" style thus you will note that I do not capitalise my signature -as it is not my real name. It is the one I "adopted" at age 14 when we came to England. Curiously enough it has become a common German name after Herr Schumacher's series of F1 wins....

regards

ralph

 

Velly Intelllllessting.....

[udo]

Addendumn: I note that you used GmbH rather than the EU legally correct GMBH -was this a "typo" on your part?

Hello ralph, (Rolf?)

No, it is not a typo. It was a cut and paste from the PIKO web site.

I understand your story, but I am still more interested as to why GR does it.
My cousin is also a Ralph, but long before Schumacher. By this theory all German children would be named "Michael", the best Schumacher. With 91 wins to the 6 for Ralph. I am watching F1 qualifying for Turkey as I type, so there may be errors.

Udo

[Anonymous]

Is this racial?

Toad

[cabbage]

No, it has to do with how people express themselves. I am the least racial person you would ever meet. I am part Canadian (maman was franco phone), my father was German, I was born in Rhodesia. I married a girl from Singapore. We have differing religious upbringings -I am Jewish Reform church. She is Jehovahs Witness.

English is our only common language...

regards

Rheinhard Manfried ben Brades

[Anonymous]

Danke,

Wihelm von Fuchs

[vsmith]

Piko

PIKO

Fiat

FIAT

Pee-ko

Pie-ko

To-may-to  To-mah-to....Lets call the whole thing off...

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Challie Chan #2 son say Piko-Piko-peeko-pieko who care?  We all know what is meant!

[kstrong]

Most style guides say to capitalize the first letter of corporate/brand names when the word is pronounceable (Wal-Mart, Xerox, Maytag), and use all caps where the name/brand is a series of individually pronounced letters (LGB, CSX, FBI), regardless of the case used in the corporate logo. Since Piko is pronounced as a word (PEA-koh) as opposed to "Pea Eye Kay Oh," it gets lumped into the first category. It's easier to read, and by capitalizing only the first letter, it tells the reader to pronounce the word as a word, not a series of letters. There are--naturally--going to be exceptions to this, but that's the rule I follow when writing articles and reviews.

Many model railroad companies are expressed in all caps in their logos, but upper/lower case in print. Piko--despite their use of all caps on their own web page--is likewise written in upper/lower case on most dealer sites and publications, including Gartenbahn Profi, the German garden railway magazine.

Later,

K

[udo]

"Pea Eye Sea Oh,"
the German garden railway magazine.

Thank you for your reasons and reply. A small note, in English it is "Pee Eye Kay Oh" and GP is "a" German garden railway magazine.
Garten Bahn is better!

Udo

[Anonymous]

So has this been over a goofy ole German thing?

[kstrong]

D'oh! It is "kay." Sorry 'bout that. Corrected it above...

Later,

K

[ttrigg]

All this fuss over a couple of "uncapatilized" letters.  Come on guys, have a brew

and run a train