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questions about car pronunciation?
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Have you ever considered that you're the one ****ing it up? Because you are. Do you see an 'a' at the end of 'Porsche'?
It's "POR-shuh". The 'e' at the end is pronounced, but most certainly not even close to an 'a' sound.
Listen to this. The fourth word is Porsche, and as you can plainly hear it's "POR-shuh". (The seventh is also a car maker: "FOLKS-vah-ghen" is the correct way to pronounce Volkswagen. I think more people have a problem spelling Volkswagen than pronouncing it though: there is one 'o' in Volkswagen, not two. It's not "Volkswagon".)
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I say it like "B M W"
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ultrabeatI've yet to meet a person who can pronouce a french manufacturer
Renault= Renn-oh
Peugeot= Purr-jo
Citroen= Sit-tren
Renault is pronounced "ruh-NOH". What most people tend to screw up is the 'e'. 'Ren' is not pronounced like the bird species "wren".
Peugeot is pronouned "puh-ZHOH". Again, what most people tend to screw up is the first syllable. I've often heard it pronounced "POO" and "PYOO", and neither is correct. 'Peu' rhymes with the 'Re' from Renault.
Citroën is by far the hardest. It's pronounced "SIH-tro-ahn". The key to pronouncing this correctly is knowing what to do with the "tréma" accent (the two dots above the 'e': known in English as dieresis and in German as "umlaut"). A tréma is used on 'e', 'i' or 'u' when any of the three is placed next to another vowel, and both vowel sounds are to be pronounced. For example, "Noël" (Christmas) is pronounced "no-EL", not the English "NOAL". It has two distinct syllables, 'No' and 'ël', because of the tréma. As such Citroën is composed of three syllables, not two, because of the tréma.
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a lot of people say celica i pronounce it saleaka i like that cuz it makes it sound... well sleak,but my brothers freind "mr.rice" and his liscence says that to who owns a show celica pronounces it cell-ika
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Have you ever considered that you're the one ****ing it up? Because you are. Do you see an 'a' at the end of 'Porsche'?
It's "POR-shuh". The 'e' at the end is pronounced, but most certainly not even close to an 'a' sound.
Listen to this. The fourth word is Porsche, and as you can plainly hear it's "POR-shuh". (The seventh is also a car maker: "FOLKS-vah-ghen" is the correct way to pronounce Volkswagen. I think more people have a problem spelling Volkswagen than pronouncing it though: there is one 'o' in Volkswagen, not two. It's not "Volkswagon".)
My bad... you have the correct pheonecitc. That actually is how I say it... I'm just terrible when it comes to putting down pheonitics... phonix was NOT my friend when I learned to read
"uh" is the end sound I meant...
And by most people saying it wrong, they just say "porsh" and just completely ignore the e at the end there...
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Can any one say Messerschmitt or Daihatsu?
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Mesh-er-shhmit
Die-hat-sue
Die-hat-sue
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according to Fifth Gear its
"Con-ig-zeg''
Con (artist) ig (Iggy Pop) zeg (Zig zag)
Koenigsegg.
Porsche = porsh-uh
Celica = sell-ee-kuh
Scion = psi-on
Audi = somewhere between owdie and awdee
The easiest way I find is to just listen to the way the dude on the car commercial of that particular brand says it. My neighbour loves Toyota (as do I) and he says "Sell-ih-kuh" whereas I say ''Sul-ee-kuh". Who knows. Maybe a war will break out over pronounciations. Lets start a "American vs Canadian vs British Spelling" thread. watch what happens.
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I always thought it was Por-shShobThaBob
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I want to set the record straight on two I noticed were pronounced wrong:
Nissan/nis-sun or maybe ne-sun(ne like the neon)
Mazda/ma-tsu-da There shouldn't be "z" in the spelling, but it's kinda cool.
I have an question for anyone who speaks German. I was told Germans don't pronounce the "z" a "z", but more like "tsu". Therefore benz should be pronounced ben-tsu. My American friend begs to differ, he says ben-zu.
How about Mercedes. I pronounce it mer-say-dees, but I've no idea how its pronounced in German.
Nissan/nis-sun or maybe ne-sun(ne like the neon)
Mazda/ma-tsu-da There shouldn't be "z" in the spelling, but it's kinda cool.
I have an question for anyone who speaks German. I was told Germans don't pronounce the "z" a "z", but more like "tsu". Therefore benz should be pronounced ben-tsu. My American friend begs to differ, he says ben-zu.
How about Mercedes. I pronounce it mer-say-dees, but I've no idea how its pronounced in German.
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So, I was watching an auction on TV about a month ago & they were talking about how Countach is pronounced. I can't remember which auction it was, but as it turns out it is pronounced coon-talk.
I think it depends on where you are. Different locales pronounce things differently, and they're all correct.
The Toyota Prius, for example.. In America, it's "pree-us". In England, it's "pry-us".
Countach for me has always been "coon-tosh", but I think the Brits call it "coon-tash".
Gallardo I think is always "gah-yar-doe"
I think Celica is like the Prius, either one works... in America, it's "sell-ick-a", in England it's "sell-eek-a"
Took me forever to call Porsche by their proper name. Used to always be just "porsh" when I was growing up. Lazy Americans.. hehe.
Renault= Renn-oh
Peugeot= Purr-jo
Citroen= Sit-tren
I used to always get these three wrong until I started watching Top Gear.. hehe. It used to be "reh-nalt", "pew-joe", and "sit-ro-en". I can usually get Renault right, I always get Citroen right (that one's easy), but Peugeot sometimes still gives me trouble. And according to Firebird (going back and reading more of the thread) I'm still wrong.. hehe. I guess the Brits don't get it right, either. Now that I read what Firebird wrote, it looks like I've actually been saying it correctly all these years.. "sit-ro-en" seems close enough.
The Toyota Prius, for example.. In America, it's "pree-us". In England, it's "pry-us".
Countach for me has always been "coon-tosh", but I think the Brits call it "coon-tash".
Gallardo I think is always "gah-yar-doe"
I think Celica is like the Prius, either one works... in America, it's "sell-ick-a", in England it's "sell-eek-a"
Took me forever to call Porsche by their proper name. Used to always be just "porsh" when I was growing up. Lazy Americans.. hehe.
Renault= Renn-oh
Peugeot= Purr-jo
Citroen= Sit-tren
I used to always get these three wrong until I started watching Top Gear.. hehe. It used to be "reh-nalt", "pew-joe", and "sit-ro-en". I can usually get Renault right, I always get Citroen right (that one's easy), but Peugeot sometimes still gives me trouble. And according to Firebird (going back and reading more of the thread) I'm still wrong.. hehe. I guess the Brits don't get it right, either. Now that I read what Firebird wrote, it looks like I've actually been saying it correctly all these years.. "sit-ro-en" seems close enough.
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NEE-sahn
There is no 'u' in Mazda. Mazda is supposedly both a reference to the Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda (pronounced "MAZ-dah"; the first 'a' akin to the 'a' in 'apple') and an anglicization of Jujiro Matsuda's name (pronounced "MAHT-soo-dah", with the last two syllables pronounced very quickly). "Mazda", as far as I know, is pronounced "MAHTS-dah" in Japan.
There is no 'u' in 'Benz'. The German pronunciation is 'BENTST', but it sounds so close to the English 'Benz' it's not really a big deal. As far as I know the German say 'Mercedes' along the lines of "mehr-SEE-dees", but if you want to get picky 'Mercedes' is a spanish name anyway and therefore should be "mair-SAY-days".
Audi is another interesting one. In German it's 'OW-dee', but it's really a Latin word, pronounced in Latin a 'AW-dee'.
Jaguar is also borrowed from another language. An Englishman would cringe if he ever heard "JAG-yoo-ah" pronounced "JAG-wire", as is often said in the United States. Canada and the northern US have a middle-of-the-road pronunciation, "JAG-wahr". The word 'jaguar' is really borrowed from Spanish, and it's pronounced in Spanish as "hah-GWAHR". The Spanish borrowed the word from the Guarani, a group of aboriginals from the regions in Brazil surrounding the Amazon. The Guarani named the jungle-going cat "yaguar" (yah-WAHR).
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I'd rather say it's being pronounced "bents". Actually it sounds exactly like the word "fence" with a "b" instead of the "f", so that'd be "bence".Firebird
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Most Britons couldn't pronounce a foreign word if their life depended on it.
Some are pretty good, but most are pretty bad. Then again, I've found many are only half-decent at English, depending on where they're from.
It's like the episode of Family Guy where Stewie teaches Eliza how to say "The life of the wife was ended by the knife", and "Hello, how do you do?".
There really are people who say "The LOYFE of the WOYFE was ended by the NOYFE", and "ELLAOW, AOW do you do?"
"It's an 'H' sound! 'Hah'. 'Hah'."
