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BirdsOfPreyDave
06-10-2009, 08:25 PM
I asked the dining reservation CM to repeat herself several times. I still didn't get it.

Sounded like she was saying something like sign-eee. Can that be right?

I've been saying it like Santa without the 't'. (Rhymes with the last 2 syllables of Savannah -- as in Georgia.)
lmb
06-10-2009, 08:29 PM
We ate there when it first opened and the cast members pronounced it with the emphasis on the second half of the word, e.g. sa NAH
dianeschlicht
06-10-2009, 08:48 PM
Sa-NAH is what I have heard also, but it COULD be Sa NAH AH too. I'm just not sure if Swahili does the double "a" like the polynesians do or not.
Sammie
06-10-2009, 10:02 PM
According to the Disney Files magazine: sah-NAH

It is Swahili for artwork.
drusba
06-10-2009, 11:02 PM
It is sa-nah and in swahili the emhasis can go on either syllable
SamSam
06-10-2009, 11:02 PM
Saw-Nah
Brave teacher
06-11-2009, 10:17 AM
suh nah is how they pronounced it there last week.
Pig Pen
06-11-2009, 03:16 PM
Well that cleared things up...;) :rotfl2:
BirdsOfPreyDave
06-11-2009, 06:17 PM
Well that cleared things up...;) :rotfl2:LOL, that's what I was thinking.

That, and an old Monty Python sketch...

"It's spelled Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove."
Micca
06-11-2009, 06:24 PM
If you get a massage and a steam bath you didn't say it right.;)
thesupersmartguy
06-11-2009, 06:35 PM
Yes Sah-NAH.
tecodis
06-11-2009, 06:41 PM
suh nah is how they pronounced it there last week.

When I was there a CM, looked like a mgr, at the Sanaa podium said "Welcome to " SUH NAY.
(rhyming with "duh" then "day")
:confused3
kaffinito
06-11-2009, 06:52 PM
If you get a massage and a steam bath you didn't say it right.;)

:lmao:
JenSop
06-11-2009, 09:43 PM
I've also understood it to be "sah-NAH"

Now, I have no training in african languages, but I have extensive training in european language diction (two degrees in classical voice will do that.) The letter "A" in almost every language is pronounced "ah." So that's why I took it to have "ah" vowel pronunciation. But then they also confirmed that in the Disney Files magazine. FWIW!