Countach pronounciation

[wolfracesonic]

Is it just me, but when I was but youth I always seem to remember pronouncing Countach as 'Cown-tack' when playing top trumps or debating top speeds etc with my mates (200 mph apparently, but only if you remove the wing). Then I heard it on TV pronounced 'Coontash' one day and my whole existence was called in to question, so was I the only person in the '70s, 80s
saying 'Cown-tack'? Discuss.

[Magic919]

It's pronunciation. HTH.

[daemon]

wolfracesonic said:

Is it just me, but when I was but youth I always seem to remember pronouncing Countach as 'Cown-tack' when playing top trumps or debating top speeds etc with my mates (200 mph apparently, but only if you remove the wing). Then I heard it on TV pronounced 'Coontash' one day and my whole existence was called in to question, so was I the only person in the '70s, 80s
saying 'Cown-tack'? Discuss.

Was always 'Coontash' for me.

Did you not notice any of your friends giggle when you said CownTack?

[LuS1fer]

As a lad, most people I knew called it a Cown-tash but I believe Coon-tash is correct.
Then again, in the early 70s, many people called certain German cars Or-dees.

[mybrainhurts]

daemon said:

Was always 'Coontash' for me.

In spite of the racist, hairy top lip connotation.

[webby23]

Count-atch for me.

[kambites]

I always pronounce it "coon-tash" with the "oo" being quite soft. I think strictly speaking the correct way to say it is "cun-tash", though?

[toppstuff]

wolfracesonic said:

Is it just me, but when I was but youth I always seem to remember pronouncing Countach as 'Cown-tack' when playing top trumps or debating top speeds etc with my mates (200 mph apparently, but only if you remove the wing). Then I heard it on TV pronounced 'Coontash' one day and my whole existence was called in to question, so was I the only person in the '70s, 80s
saying 'Cown-tack'? Discuss.

It is ash / Coontash, always has been. Always will be.

Your whole existence and love of the car has been based on not even getting the name right.

Was Renault known as 'Ren-alt" and Peugeot "Pew-got" at the same time?

I recall Nestlé was known as "Ness-alls" at the time as well.

We were all heathens. Bloody foreign names.

[mybrainhurts]

webby23 said:

Count-atch for me.

Sorry, old boy, but they didn't invent the Italian language for you...

[Council Baby]

ash

[wolfracesonic]

Thanks for the grammar lesson Magic919, just popped my PH forums cherry so be gentle with me. Wonder if I've been pronouncing
pronunciation wrong as well all these years.............?

[mybrainhurts]

Steady on...

[eltax91]

Council Baby said:

ash

This

[E38Ross]

koon-tash for me

[rsv696]

webby23 said:

Count-atch for me.

Me too