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What d'you say ?PYOOJOE or purrgeot ?
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07-12-2005 2:02pm#1
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Being able to pronounce French words properly doesn't make you posh.BoozyBabe wrote:Spent about 10 minutes trying to decide how you spell it, but gave up!!!!
1st one!
We're Irish, not posh!!!
(Sorry to all the 1000's I've just offended!!)
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testicle wrote:It's correctly pronounced like Purr-Jo, same as they do in France
one anyway....
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bounty_hunter wrote:Being able to pronounce French words properly doesn't make you posh.
Ah, I know that, but (don't know about Dublin) out in the country, if you were to pronounce it like the French, people would 1st look at you like you had 2 heads & then laugh at you for 'having notions about yourself'
Same goes for saying Ow-di, it's awdy
But anyway, what am I talking about:-
Where I'm from, the elders talk about fleur (floor), deur (door), cowl (cold), vit (vet), lathlanians (I think it's a new nationality:- a cross between latvians & lithuanians, or something) etc, etc, so it's not like we can pronounce anything anyway!! 0 -
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fatboypee wrote:here's the reverse/antithesis, how do you say Mercedes ??? MerSEEDez or mersaydees ? Phonetically correct its MerSEEDez but I'd say mesaydees....
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fatboypee wrote:here's the reverse/antithesis, how do you say Mercedes ??? MerSEEDez or mersaydees ? Phonetically correct its MerSEEDez but I'd say mesaydees....
I say Merc then everyone's happy
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seamus wrote:I moved it. I'd say it has something to do with motoring, seeing as how these car people are rather fickle about their pronunciations. Besides, I own a pee-ew-zhjo PeeeeeyooooJoe......
It occured to me to post it here initially but thought better of it as its not particularly 'serious' subject for moters........0 -
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Wot about DayWoo ? oh, no need, they've been re-badged as crapsler, err, chrysler.... (first pronunciation was probably correct )....
That'll be the Day-woo....
Off topic, does anynoe get damnably narked by that Hyundai add ? Oh how long for touch-radio where i can reach in and shake the narrator of the ad gently by the throat..:D Hyundai-Ads..."Annoying People..."....0 -
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MercMad wrote:You can see why Ford chose to call one of its madels a .........KA !!
Yep, tacky choice of name tho. Good to drive I hear ? handling's supposed to be superb (seen Dead, Me & in a Ka in the same sentence notwithstanding o'course ) 0 -
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el tel wrote:Sure Cizeta is pronounced 'chay-setta' and what a tenuous excuse to insert a picture or three!
long live the 70's super car... .... 0 -
dundalk cailin wrote:Also its a peugeot 'three hundred and seven' not a 3-0-7 FYI
Only if you say it in french.
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Well, I know that the proper way to pronounce it is like Purr-show (like the way the Brits do. You hear them every week saying it like that on Top Gear and the like and I believe that actually is the right way to say it) but, personally, I've always pronounced it Pu-show or Pu-joe and I'm not about to change and go all posh, dammit! I'm proud of my culchie ways of pronouncing things! Sure, dat was deh the way I was rared!
I have always pronounced Renault the correct way, though (Ren-oh) as opposed to the way the likes of my father and uncles always have (Ren-ault). Must be a generational thing, I guess.
Okay, here's one for all ye now, though. What about the Subaru Impreza? I believe the proper pronounciation is Im-pret-za (like what the Brits do say) but I've always called it the Im-pray-za. I know my pronounciation is wrong but, for some reason, I just can't get out of the habit of calling it the Im-pray-za. I always have and always will. Just curious, does anybody else here call it the Im-pray-za?0 -
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The english people you see on Top Gear etc. only pronounce it correctly because they don't roll their 'r's. If they rolled their 'r's they'd probaby pronounce it more like most Irish people.
By the by, most germans say 'Benz; or less frequently 'Daimler', never 'Merc' but sometimes Mercedes and Volkswagens are VW (pronounced fow-vay). Audi is as has been pointed out 'owdi' but is not German but Latin!
Here's the classic; Por-sheh or porsh??? 0 -
You pronounce the "e" in German so its Porscheh !
Its a complex business this car naming thing because the names dont always, or ever, conform to the rules of the English language. Regarding the Impreza, if were two "Z's" as in pizza then it would be Impretsa..............but there 'aint !
As has already been pointed out Peugeot is actually pronounced " pe gio" but if you listen to a French person saying that with their accent there does sound like there is an "R" in there. The English, trying to be correct, have takjen the easy way out and instead of contorting their tongues they just pronounce it as though there IS an "R" in it ! ( Make sense ?? )
As far as Mercedes goes, its originally a French name with both the grave and the accent on the "E" but that is now missing from the name. So the question is should we ask the Germans how to pronounce it or should we Anglicise it and pronounce all three "E's" the same way, making the name as short as possible ??
How about this one..............the famous, but defunct German mark long since associated with Audi (Owdi)............wait for it......
HORCH
Answers on a postcard, and a virtual tenner to the first one who get it right !0 -
MercMad wrote:You pronounce the "e" in German so its Porscheh !
Its a complex business this car naming thing because the names dont always, or ever, conform to the rules of the English language. Regarding the Impreza, if were two "Z's" as in pizza then it would be Impretsa..............but there 'aint !
As has already been pointed out Peugeot is actually pronounced " pe gio" but if you listen to a French person saying that with their accent there does sound like there is an "R" in there. The English, trying to be correct, have takjen the easy way out and instead of contorting their tongues they just pronounce it as though there IS an "R" in it ! ( Make sense ?? )
As far as Mercedes goes, its originally a French name with both the grave and the accent on the "E" but that is now missing from the name. So the question is should we ask the Germans how to pronounce it or should we Anglicise it and pronounce all three "E's" the same way, making the name as short as possible ??
How about this one..............the famous, but defunct German mark long since associated with Audi (Owdi)............wait for it......
HORCH
Answers on a postcard, and a virtual tenner to the first one who get it right !
HORCH is pronounced as Horch (Hear in German) and as in the song that goes "Horch was kommt von draussen rein"
As far as car names go, anything is better than Pajero which is w@nker in Spanish.0 -
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