Correct pronunciation of Dacia

Andy From Sligo

OK sorry, trivial post - but over here in Ireland I hear its called Day-see-ah in the Irish adverts but had a UK radio station on the other day and in the advert the guy kept saying Day-chia

so, what'll it be?

DaveyDave

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

OK sorry, trivial post - but over here in Ireland I hear its called Day-see-ah in the Irish adverts but had a UK radio station on the other day and in the advert the guy kept saying Day-chia

so, what'll it be?

I understand not saying VolksVagen or Matzudah due to the language but it's odd how Dacia is pronounced different between Ireland and the UK.

In different languages though it seems to matter. I asked for water in the Netherlands once and she didn't have a clue, close enough to vah-ter to be fair.

The German woman in the video below could teach me pronunciation all day long...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnUA96wGcA

kyote00

In france, its Das ia

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

OK sorry, trivial post - but over here in Ireland I hear its called Day-see-ah in the Irish adverts but had a UK radio station on the other day and in the advert the guy kept saying Day-chia

so, what'll it be?

EPAndlee

I assumed its pronounced sh-i-te

Tuco88

Audi and Renault.

Arthur Daley

Ah got 1 or 2 correct anyway. Always thought it was 'Portia' for a Porker.

Can never see BMV taking off.

Dia1988

I think Dacia is pronounced RENAULT. (Re-Nault)

mikeecho

I thought it was
DASH-ee-ah

Or

Day-she-ah

Or

Shhh-eye-it

Or

Datch-ee-ah

I've no idea

mikeecho

Dia1988 wrote: »

I think Dacia is pronounced RENAULT. (Re-Nault)

Should that not be :

Reean - ohh




On a side note, I once drove a German half way to crazy by insisting that it was BMW, where he was saying BMV.

ahh. The Germans. ... great sense on humour

Guy:Incognito

I'll tell you what it isn't, ****ing aw-dee.


If in doubt, assume the people that own the company are right. If you dont know what way the higher ups in Dacia ( or Renault if the dont have seperate higher ups) , go with the local ads ( that'll be aw-dee everywhere for some of you, you know who you are)

colm_mcm

Romania people I know pronounce it dah-chee-ah

colm_mcm

colm_mcm wrote: »

Romania people I know pronounce it dah-chee-ah

As above - when I was in Romania it was pronounced like that.

When top gear were there they showed a local ad that prounced it like that.

Tenigate

colm_mcm wrote: »

Romania people I know pronounce it dah-chee-ah

Good enough reason to pronounce it Dasia.

CrankyHaus

It's from the latin word for Romania so the original Latin would be the most correct pronunciation.

According to the first Google response I got that's Day-Sha but I have no idea if that's right.

The Rape of Lucretia

Its pronounced Saoirse.
It’s not Say-or-see or Seer-say or Sor-cery but it probably should be…it’s Ser-sha, like inertia

OldMrBrennan83

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Leonard Hofstadter

DaveyDave wrote: »

I understand not saying VolksVagen or Matzudah due to the language but it's odd how Dacia is pronounced different between Ireland and the UK.

No different to how Peugeot is pronounced really, our ads always refer to them as 'Pew-jhoe', but the UK ads always refer to them as 'Per-jhoe'.

I thought 'Dat-chee-ah' was the correct pronunciation, not 'Dah-see-ah' as I have seen on some recent ads and definitely not 'Day-see-ah' as popularised by Clarkson, May and Hammond.

cavemeister

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

OK sorry, trivial post - but over here in Ireland I hear its called Day-see-ah in the Irish adverts but had a UK radio station on the other day and in the advert the guy kept saying Day-chia

so, what'll it be?

It's Da-see-ya

cavemeister

captainspeed wrote: »

No different to how Peugeot is pronounced really, our ads always refer to them as 'Pew-jhoe', but the UK ads always refer to them as 'Per-jhoe'.

I never know if Porsche is pronounced "Porsh" or "Porsha"

Arthur Daley

cavemeister wrote: »

I never know if Porsche is pronounced "Porsh" or "Porsha"

Portia according to the german in the video.

Isambard

It's hard to be definitive when many ads over the year on Irish Tv and radio have perpetuated wrong pronounciations, as someone said Ren-alt and Ordy

Cordell

Da - like in me da - my dad
chi - like the chi energy
end it with a short a. Not an [ei], but a haaaaaa, but short.

If that's so important.

Guy:Incognito

Patww79 wrote: »

Datcha the ads say.

The UK ads do, the Irish ads don't.

Andy From Sligo

Isambard wrote: »

It's hard to be definitive when many ads over the year on Irish Tv and radio have perpetuated wrong pronounciations, as someone said Ren-alt and Ordy

yeah i say ren-o and ordi ....

ren o clio ...

ordi as in VW Ordi ...

Al di as in the supermarket...

lid EL for the supermarket ... not lye del ....

OldMrBrennan83

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JohnBoy26

Patww79 wrote: »

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Our pronunciation of peugeot is closer to being correct than the uk's pronunciation.

OldMrBrennan83

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Andy From Sligo

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

Our pronunciation of peugeot is closer to being correct than the uk's pronunciation.

yeah but poo Joe ! ... naw, purr Joe innit

EDIT: purr zshow ...

JohnBoy26

Patww79 wrote: »

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The do. I think they pronounce it poo-joe in america.

JohnBoy26

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

yeah but poo Joe ! ... naw, purr Joe innit

No we say Pew joe. The americans call it poo joe.

Andy From Sligo

pugh pugh barney mcgrew cuthbert dibble grub ....

Andy From Sligo

at least everyone can pronounce Ford OK ...

Isambard

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

No we say Pew joe. The americans call it poo joe.

and it should be per-show

JohnBoy26

Isambard wrote: »

and it should be per-show

No.

JohnBoy26

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

at least everyone can pronounce Ford OK ...

People in the uk usually don't pronounce the r in ford.

demanufactured

Datcha

Andy From Sligo

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

People in the uk usually don't pronounce the r in ford.

eh? - so they say fod??? fod escort ...

Andy From Sligo

anyone know why we had to adopt the name Opel over here in Ireland and not Vauxhall ? (once made in my lovely hometown) - I have always wondered that .

When I had an old Opel Corsa over here in Ireland my mate in the UK had a Vauxhall Nova - both the exact same car ...

This is something I fond odd, because they actually changed the pronunciation themselves.

In the early advertisements (on the Radio, anyway) around the launch of the cars, they were called 'Darcha' and then they changed them to 'd'arse-ya'.

Which I thought was odd, because, although 'd'arse-ya' is probably easier for the average dumbed down irish man who can't pronounce Peugeot, 'Darcha' sounds much better and more prestigious (in my opinion).

Andy From Sligo

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

eh? - so they say fod??? fod escort ...

I'd have thought certain UK accents would actually pronounce it Fawd.

Fann Linn

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This is something I fond odd, because they actually changed the pronunciation themselves.

In the early advertisements (on the Radio, anyway) around the launch of the cars, they were called 'Darcha' and then they changed them to 'd'arse-ya'.

Which I thought was odd, because, although 'd'arse-ya' is probably easier for the average dumbed down irish man who can't pronounce Peugeot, 'Darcha' sounds much better and more prestigious (in my opinion).

Logan.

Fann Linn

Fann Linn wrote: »

Logan.

Darcha Wolverine. Much more aggressive.

Yer Da sells Avon

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

anyone know why we had to adopt the name Opel over here in Ireland and not Vauxhall ? (once made in my lovely hometown) - I have always wondered that .

When I had an old Opel Corsa over here in Ireland my mate in the UK had a Vauxhall Nova - both the exact same car ...

They used to sell Vauxhalls here (and Opels in the UK) and they both had completely different ranges. But then, in the 1970s and 80s, General Motors, who owned both companies, started replacing Vauxhall models with re-badged Opels. Both were still sold alongside each other for a while, but eventually GM decided to stop marketing Opels in the UK (presumably because Vauxhall was a respected British brand, and not 'bloody German') and stop marketing Vauxhalls in Ireland (because the cars were all essentially Opels anyway, and presumably also because 'German engineering' had a better reputation).

I think that's all fairly correct anyway.

Andy From Sligo

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

They used to sell Vauxhalls here (and Opels in the UK) and they both had completely different ranges. But then, in the 1970s and 80s, General Motors, who owned both companies, started replacing Vauxhall models with re-badged Opels. Both were still sold alongside each other for a while, but eventually GM decided to stop marketing Opels in the UK (presumably because Vauxhall was a respected British brand, and not 'bloody German') and stop marketing Vauxhalls in Ireland (because the cars were all essentially Opels anyway, and presumably also because 'German engineering' had a better reputation).

I think that's all fairly correct anyway.

oh right interesting - thanks

Noveight

Da-see-Ah

Or something like that.

Andy From Sligo

Then of course we have a conflict between San - dare - oh! and sander - oh!

Why is life so complicated? ...

Andy From Sligo

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Then of course we have a conflict between San - dare - oh! and sander - oh!

Why is life so complicated? ...

I've actually never heads the sander-oh pronunciation.


I dunno why that reminded me of this, but I remember when I was getting the car NCT'ed about 2 years ago in Dublin, some wagon of a yoke came into the desk with her car keys and yer man asked 'what car is it?'.


To which she casually replied, whilst holding the keys up to shoulder height: "a B-M fiver." (presumably a BMW 5 Series).

I don't know if she just bought the car and thought she was the dogs bollocks or something because of it, but you could almost feel the room cringing with embarrassment, and yer man behind the desk kinda looking at her with a hesitantly blank look on his face.

I always remember that at random times.

fancy pigeon

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Then of course we have a conflict between San - dare - oh! and sander - oh!

Why is life so complicated? ...

San-dare-NO

Isambard

and is it Can-yonero or Canyon-ero ?











F series

fancy pigeon

Isambard wrote: »

and is it Can-yonero or Canyon-ero ?











F series

"12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tonnes of American pride!

Can-yonero, Canyon-ero"

colm_mcm

Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts