Talk:Wooden Shjips

Pronunciation

The article says "pronounced shyips" - but what does this actually mean? It could easily be pronounced with 'sh-yips' (with y acting as a consonant), 'shy-ips' (with y acting as a vowel) or something else. Can we have some IPA instead? --David Edgar (talk) 10:39, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

From an interview with Noisey:Let’s get the dumb question out of the way first. Explain the “j.” Nash Whalen: There’s several different reasons for it, one of them being that we wanted it to look Swedish. There were Swedish psych bands from the ’60s and ’70s that we were really into and we wanted to pay tribute to them. Then “Wooden Shjips” was a Jefferson Airplane song—and Crosby, Stills and Nash did it too—so it’s a California psychedelic song as well and putting the “j” in bridged those two influences. Practically, the “j” is nice because it makes the name unique and less likely that someone else has it and easy to find on Google. And it confuses people and makes them notice the name and go, “What’s up with that ‘j?’ Is it silent? Do I say ‘shi-jips?’ Or do I just say ‘ships?’” best regards, IP 78.55.170.246 (talk) 14:38, 7 June 2018 (UTC)