Confirmed It's Nike-y not Nike

It's something that everyone has asked at least once in their lives. Now we can finally clear up all doubts on the matter Nike. But look at the situation well, starting from the beginning:

Greek pronunciation: "Ni-che"

The famous and revered winged goddess, aka Nike of Samothrace was the source of inspiration from which the company has created its " Swoosh" representation of the wings of the goddess, created by graphic designer Carolyn Davidson in 1971. But despite the rise the name has always been pronounced as. From here the beginning of a never-ending battle phonetics : it says "Na-ik" or "Nai- ki"?

The pronunciation of the name of the giant sports Beaverton is one of the great questions of our century, a never-ending debate that involved all really a matter linguistics quai resolved today after fifty years thanks to the curiosity of two students of the School of Advertising Design and Art Direction, Ben Martin and Kendal Peters sent a letter asking him to Phil Night circle the correct pronunciation of Nike or Nikey.

Having said that this is the answer :

"Dear Mr. Knight, we are writing to ask you to help us solve an issue that could answer one of the biggest questions of a person's life. When someone refers to his great institution, is pronounced "Ni-ke "or" Ni-key"? If you could circolettare the correct form and return us this letter in the envelope included we would be infinitely grateful . this will help us eradicate forever the gaffe of Nike.