Porsche pronunciation
At ADS-L this week there's been discussion about pondian differences in pronouncing the name of the German car. Damien Hall of U Penn first suggested that UBlish is "porsh" and USlish is "por-shuh."...
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I say Porsh.I don't attempt German pronunciations for Audi or Volkswagen, I wouldn't dream of coming over all Italian for Fiat, and the notion of calling Seat esseat would never occur to me.
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And how do you pronounce Fiat? Standard for Leftpondians is Fee aht, which is certainly as close to the Italian as Por shuh is to the German.
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I suppose I pronounce it something like this, fee-ut.I'm not saying there's any rhyme or reason to it, but for those of you who do see a rhyme or reason to the way you do it, I'd be most interested in...
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I pronounce it Porsh-ah because it is a family name and that it how the family pronounces it.I'm not a Trekkie, but I am reminded of an episode when a temporary commander keeps saying Data's name as...
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"I pronounce it Porsh-ah because it is a family name and that it how the family pronounces it."Similar reasoning should prescribe a pronunciation for Cadillac: but should we try to utter the name as...
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It matters not how you pronounce it - it's how you flaunt it. The envious know it means 'porsche out, starlet home.'Buy one, get the other free!
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Similar reasoning should prescribe a pronunciation for Cadillac: but should we try to utter the name as it was pronounced by the famous Cadillac 300 years ago, or would it be sufficient to take a poll...
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I don't attempt German pronunciations for Audi or VolkswagenThen we'd all be saying "fauw vay". That wouldn't be good.
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"Porsche Out, Starlet Home"If Eliza is still taking motto entries, this one would have my vote.
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Does anyone know how Hyundai should correctly be pronounced? Standard uslish seems to be hun-dee, which strikes me as highly improbable, but I know nothing about Korean.
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I don't speak Korean but I looked at the Korean Web page for Hyundai and according to its spelling in Korean I believe it should be /hjVnd&/ approximately, where /j/ is like "y" (consonant) in...
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Yeah, that's close to what would have been my guess, with hyun- as the first syllable, and -dI (like the English "die", rhymes with "I") as the second. Dunno about TV ads--I never watch.
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Dave, if you choose to ignore the acquired knowledge and expertise of those who have run promotional competitions for whole threads here, then go ahead and adopt Porsche out, starlet home as the...
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The pronuciation's of Fuchsia and Afghan, Afghanistan. Afghanni are very interesting to me. They are a source of argument in newspapers and bars.
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I heard a quote from an executive of the Hyundai company in response to being questioned about the pronunciation. He said, "We don't care how you pronounce it as long as you buy it."
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GPP. In Australia Hyundai was first pronounce Hi un die. "Say Hi to Hyundai". It was changed soon after to something like Hyun Day. That pronunciation has survived.
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I found it in hangul. Brad B's pronunciation is pretty close.In SAMPA it's [hjVndE].Edit:Brackets added for SAMPA consistency.
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Indeed, I usually don't hear the 'y' (hun-day) unless I'm watching a rally with euro announcers (hi-un-die). Never hun-dee though. I've heard Humvee though.
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