Mispronunciation of car make/model

[Section 8]

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!

[SebastienClement]

DAHHHHTHCHAR

[kambites]

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

[delta0]

We are just as bad in the U.K. Hyundai, Hi-yun-die is how we pronounce it. It is actually pronounced Hyun-dae. Dacia is another. We pronounce it Day-see-ya. It is actually Dat-che-a.

[jjr1]

Porsche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RLg0xw_4bo

Not a Porsh

Edited by jjr1 on Monday 20th March 20:12

[anonymous-user]

Mitsibushi
Citreon

[JeremyH5]

Astin Martin

Another Clarksonism

[Cold]

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.

[Fastpedeller]

Robin reliant Argh! Its a RELIANT ROBIN

[lord trumpton]

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

It's actually 'folks vaargen' and means peoples car

[Loyly]

A lot of Scottish people pronounce 'Peugeot' as 'poo-zhee-oh' or just 'poo-sho-', strangely.

[Lefty]

I've heard Mongs pronounce Audi as Oddy. As in Audio but without the O.

[Matt-il77s]

Does anyone actually know how to pronounce Ka?

I always thought the ford EcoSport was eco as in economic, but the radio advert pronounces it as echo-sport

[Master Bean]

TVR Chimaera.

[kambites]

lord trumpton said:

It's actually 'folks vaargen' and means peoples car

The German v/f is an odd one to my very British ear; it's sort of somewhere between the two.

[Johnny 89]

Matt-il77s said:

Does anyone actually know how to pronounce Ka?

I always thought the ford EcoSport was eco as in economic, but the radio advert pronounces it as echo-sport

It's actually a Ford K A (kay aay)

[Mercury00]

Mike Brewer again with mitsi-bushy.

[Lefty]

Master Bean said:

TVR Chimaera.

Tee Vee Arr Kai-May-Ra

Never heard anyone pronounce it wrong? Unless I am and everyone I know is too?

[Hackney]

Lefty said:

I've heard Mongs pronounce Audi as Oddy. As in Audio but without the O.

But haven't you just proven their case for them?

[delta0]

Lefty said:

I've heard Mongs pronounce Audi as Oddy. As in Audio but without the O.

I hear a lot of Americans pronounce it like that. Should be more like Ow-dee, as we pronounce it here.