Mispronunciation of car make/model
Discussion
I have to say I find most Americans on YouTube seem to over-pronounce most European marques. It grates when I hear:
Boo-gorrrrrrr-deeeee - Bugatti
Laugher raah-ree - LaFerrari
Maaarrrsa-raaaaaaah-tee - Maserati
Roll sroyce - Rolls Royce
Loadus - Lotus
Kneeson - Nissan (OK, that's Japanese)
In fairness, our pronunciations of some of their marques probably sound weird to them due to our shorter snappier vowel sounds and our harder consonants - Brit: "Ford/Dodge", US: "Faaawwwwd/Daaarrj".
Plus they probably pronounce a lot of spanish-derived words better than us (ever tried to order a Subway sandwich involving "hallapinnio" and "chuh-poh-tlay", only to receive a confused "What? D'ya mean JALLAPEEENO and CHUPPOTTLE")
Boo-gorrrrrrr-deeeee - Bugatti
Laugher raah-ree - LaFerrari
Maaarrrsa-raaaaaaah-tee - Maserati
Roll sroyce - Rolls Royce
Loadus - Lotus
Kneeson - Nissan (OK, that's Japanese)
In fairness, our pronunciations of some of their marques probably sound weird to them due to our shorter snappier vowel sounds and our harder consonants - Brit: "Ford/Dodge", US: "Faaawwwwd/Daaarrj".
Plus they probably pronounce a lot of spanish-derived words better than us (ever tried to order a Subway sandwich involving "hallapinnio" and "chuh-poh-tlay", only to receive a confused "What? D'ya mean JALLAPEEENO and CHUPPOTTLE")
Mondeo Vignale to any self respecting Catchphrase watching Englishmen of a certain age is;
Mon-dee-o Vig-nail or if you are from Yorkshire Vig'n-ale
not
Mon-day-o Vig-narl-ay or whatever it is that motoring journalists say. Anyway, what was wrong with Ghia, I mean Gear for posh Fords?
I actually take great delight saying things how they are written and make no attempt to Jonny foreigner it. This is especially true and important when you realise that with many foreign langauges they are actually speaking like Yoda, the nutters. But many of their women look and smell nice when wearing linger-ree and a dash of ver-sais perfume.
The only exception to these rules if if you are Sean Bean, or is it Shorn Born or is it Seen Been? He can do what he wants. Bet he can even say Grand Pricks without batting an eyelid.
......now, where is that "a bit council" thread gone.
Mon-dee-o Vig-nail or if you are from Yorkshire Vig'n-ale
not
Mon-day-o Vig-narl-ay or whatever it is that motoring journalists say. Anyway, what was wrong with Ghia, I mean Gear for posh Fords?
I actually take great delight saying things how they are written and make no attempt to Jonny foreigner it. This is especially true and important when you realise that with many foreign langauges they are actually speaking like Yoda, the nutters. But many of their women look and smell nice when wearing linger-ree and a dash of ver-sais perfume.
The only exception to these rules if if you are Sean Bean, or is it Shorn Born or is it Seen Been? He can do what he wants. Bet he can even say Grand Pricks without batting an eyelid.
......now, where is that "a bit council" thread gone.
tash' - the latter from an Italian, who could have been taking the pee. 
kambites said:
swerni said:
Germans pronounce "v" as "f"
The German "V" is very definitely not the same as our "F"; it varies a bit by region but to my ear it's closer to a "v" than an "f", it's too... I suppose thinking about it it's more like "fv".I suppose this is one of the problems; we try to shoehorn a continuum of sounds into 26 discrete letters.
kambites said:
donkmeister said:
Kneeson - Nissan (OK, that's Japanese)
I believe that's closer to being correct than our own pronunciation? https://youtu.be/3l8xFCLB1m8
Most interesting there is Mazda...everyone here would say "Mas-dah", but in Japanese it's "mat-su-dah"
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