Mispronunciation of car make/model
Discussion
I know it's petty but it makes my teeth itch when watching a car show and the presenter insists on saying the car name wrong! Example last nights Top Gear. Yeah i know he's a yank but ffs Le Blanc you are in the UK now it's Fiat ( fee-ut) not ( fay-yaght). His pronunciation of Abarth was way off too.
Mike Brewer made me want to slap his chubby face in when he droned on about a Camaro( cam-aero) calling it a (cam-are-o) over and over again. Cock!!
Clarkson just grips my st though with Volkswagen( volks-wagon) calling it (vowks-vagen). And a Cobra (co-bra) a (cob-ra).
Am i the only person that is bothered by this?? Dear God please say i'm not .I know i have issues but come on, they just sound wrong!
Mike Brewer made me want to slap his chubby face in when he droned on about a Camaro( cam-aero) calling it a (cam-are-o) over and over again. Cock!!
Clarkson just grips my st though with Volkswagen( volks-wagon) calling it (vowks-vagen). And a Cobra (co-bra) a (cob-ra).
Am i the only person that is bothered by this?? Dear God please say i'm not .I know i have issues but come on, they just sound wrong!
SebastienClement said:
DAHHHHTHCHAR
Almost everyone British gets that wrong. It should be somewhere between "day-sha" and "day-shuh", arguably with a very short "t" after the "y" in both cases. And anyway OP, Volkswagen should be pronounced something like Volks-vaagen; there's definitely no "w" sound in there.
Edited by kambites on Monday 20th March 20:08
Porsche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RLg0xw_4bo
Not a Porsh
Not a Porsh
Edited by jjr1 on Monday 20th March 20:12
SebastienClement said:
DAHHHHTHCHAR
kambites said:
It should be somewhere between "day-sha" and "day-shuh", arguably with a very short "t" after the "y" in both cases.
delta0 said:
We pronounce it Day-see-ya. It is actually Dat-che-a.
I was sitting in a Pareee cafe and wondering how we were going to sort out this particular name. kambites said:
SebastienClement said:
DAHHHHTHCHAR
Almost everyone British gets that wrong. It should be somewhere between "day-sha" and "day-shuh", arguably with a very short "t" after the "y" in both cases. And anyway OP, Volkswagen should be pronounced something like Volks-vaagen; there's definitely no "w" sound in there.
Edited by kambites on Monday 20th March 20:08
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