The Vee-hickle Pronounciation Thread

[gricer]

Before this thread gets out of hand:

 

Dnepr: duh-NYIEH-pruh

Dacia: DAH-cheeah

Porsche: POR-sheh

Peugeot: puh-ZHOH

Isuzu: ee-SOO-zu

Citroen: SIT-roh-en

Auris: OR-iss

Daewoo: Day-OOH

[Rod/b]

Audi: OW-DEE or ORR-DEE, as the Seppos like to say?

Daewoo: DAY-OO, or DAY-WOO?

Hyundai: HI-UN-DIE or HI-UN-DAY?

Evoque: Evoke, or Evock?

 

People who call the Ka a "KAY AY" should be forced to drive one and nothing else for the rest of their life.

[STUNO]

And now try to work out..

NISSAN STAGEA

Even the Nissan dealers seem not to be in the know !

[messerschmitt owner]

  Rod/b said:

Daewoo: DAY-OO, or DAY-WOO?

that'll be the day-oo as the adverts used to say!

[ashmicro]

Daewoo Electronics had a plant in my town, and the Korean folk from there told me it is indeed "Day-oo"

 

Apparently, Hyundai have actually got a policy on the pronunciation of its name, market dependent. "Hee-yoon-day" for the US, for example, and "High-un-dai" for the UK. I didn't get that from the local car dealer either, but from my favourite muiscal instruments shop!

[Cavcraft]

Volkswagens, Volks waggons or Seen tax?

 

Mondeo, Mundano or nasty plastic tat?

 

Iveco, I veeco, I Vecko or shit?

[Vin]

My Italian speaking Auntie told me Iveco was pronounced E-vetch-oh.

[ashmicro]

^^ Correct. Confused me the first time I heard it, when some plank crashed one at the site.

[michiel]

  flat4alfa said:

  michiel said:

  ashmicro said:

Vanden plas, with the s pronounced is apparently correct as I'm told it's Dutch. Michiel?

Si, es correcto.

Guillaume van den Plas was Belgian. His family spoke Flemish - therefore it is a 'Plas'.

 

I stand semi-correcto'd!

[triang1]

Buggery bollocks - Everyone knows Porsche is pronounced Portia in Germany- but I will always say Porsh because I'm not some overhairdooed housewife trying to get one up on the neighbours by calling it 'My Portia'.

 

Similarly Paris is Paris , not Paree as the French say it, Rome is Rome, not Roma etc etc.

 

Lancia is supposedly Lan-CHI-a but bollocks if I'm pronouncing it that way.

[scooters]

Van De Plas was indeed a Walloon - I do enjoy correting people who insist on the plaaaaaaa

 

 

Legend has it that the Mitsubishi Starion should have been called the Stallion but when the Japs briefed the western marketing team they obviously pronaounced it Star -ion as the 'l' is tricky for our nippon friends....it stuck....probably a load of ballacks though!

[flat4alfa]

That's good, because it's 'Lan-cha'

 

 

Nissan Stagea = 'nee-san stay-jia'

 

Volkswagen = 'volksvargen'

 

Daewoo is definitely 'day-oo'

[John F]

  triang1 said:

Buggery bollocks - Everyone knows Porsche is pronounced Portia in Germany- but I will always say Porsh because I'm not some overhairdooed housewife trying to get one up on the neighbours by calling it 'My Portia'.

 

+1 on that. Likewise with Daimler and Maybach, I'm not going to call them "Dime-ler" and "Migh-bach" unless I'm in Germany, and then I'd probably be saying "ein grosses Bier, bitte!" instead.

 

Although Audi is only "Owdi" and not "Ordi" for anyone except a mouthbreather or a seppo, which amounts to the same thing.

[triang1]

  flat4alfa said:

That's good, because it's 'Lan-cha'

 

 

 

Wots italian for HPE then? To think I have been mispronouncing it for years

 

Also us silly British folk have been calling BMW BeeEmDoubleyoo for years - Must be wrong - The sausage eaters would say BeeEmDoppelvee surely???

 

Oh the shame

[benwallace]

i had a small angry cockney mate who insisted " it's not Kia it's facking Kiy!!"

[martc]

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Hyundai: HI-UN-DIE or HI-UN-DAY?

 

Do you remember when the "Hy" part of Hyundai was pronunced (at least in the adverts) with a sort of throat clearing growlling sound? - which I guess was the official Korean way of pronuncing it.

[HillmanImp]

I used to pronounce Pursh-o, Phew-jot until the age of 13.

 

Agree with Triang re the pronouncuiation thing. I say it in British. Porsche. I was in Germany last week not Deutschland.

 

However this theory can backfire as I was speaking to a Greek chap in 'Ull a few years back and we could not figure out where he was from. He called his island one name and we called it another. We listed all the islands we had heard of and he did not recognise any of them as they are called something else by the drinks.

[Tayne]

  scooters said:

Legend has it that the Mitsubishi Starion should have been called the Stallion but when the Japs briefed the western marketing team they obviously pronaounced it Star -ion as the 'l' is tricky for our nippon friends....it stuck....probably a load of ballacks though!

 

It's bollocks.

They were going through an astronomy themed period in car naming, Starion comes from star-Orion.

[Futuramic]

  Tayne said:

  scooters said:

Legend has it that the Mitsubishi Starion should have been called the Stallion but when the Japs briefed the western marketing team they obviously pronaounced it Star -ion as the 'l' is tricky for our nippon friends....it stuck....probably a load of ballacks though!

 

It's bollocks.

They were going through an astronomy themed period in car naming, Starion comes from star-Orion.

 

I know.

 

But : Star-Ion; Stare-ee-On; Starry-On (Ooh Matron). There could be others.

 

Esca-Layed or Esca-Lard?

 

From Japan again: Prime-Era; Pree-Mare-A; Prime-Mare-A. I've heard them all. So much more complex than "Bluebird".

 

Skimmy-Tar or Simmy-Tar. I plump for the latter.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I don't agree with the corrupt pronounciation on foreign things. There are anglicised words for countries and major cities, that's different from pronouncing something foreign verbatim in English. It is bad enough with cars, but it drives me completely mad when you're trying to watch a world cup match between two European and/or S. American teams (no Korean/Arabic names to confuse people with), and the British sportscaster manages to fuck up the name of every single player on the pitch.

 

I pronounce Magnette like vignette- stressing the second e.

 

The 't's in Peugeot and Renault are silent, you don't pronounce 'em.

 

Chamade is pronounced like Sham - mad (with a single 'm' obviously).

 

AFAIK, Dnepr is pronounced somewhere between Dneepr and Dnyepr.

 

German's dead easy to pronounce as it's just a matter of reading it out. 'Sch' is just a heavy 's'...as in shite! Also, there is no 'o' in Audi. It's A (pronounced as in apple) - U (as in pompous) di.

 

A trickier one is Skoda...whose real name is Å koda, which is also read as the 'sh' in shite (what a happy coincidence )

 

What confuses me most is the acronyms. If we say Bee Em Double-u, shouldn't we also say Ef I A Tee?

[John F]

  triang1 said:

Also us silly British folk have been calling BMW BeeEmDoubleyoo for years - Must be wrong - The sausage eaters would say BeeEmDoppelvee surely???

 

Nope, it's pronounced "Bay-Em-Vay" in Tschermany.

 

In German, V is pronounced "Fow" and W is pronounced "Vay". So VW is Fow-Vay, which is something else I'm not prepared to say in Blighty lolz.

 

PS Dnepr is definitely pronounced Dn-yEpp-rh.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

  John F said:

Nope, it's pronounced "Bay-Em-Vay" in Tschermany.

 

That's the pronunciation in Greece, too (presumably due to the fact that the Greek alphabet lacks a 'w').

[wuvvum]

  Luxobarges_Are_Us said:

What confuses me most is the acronyms. If we say Bee Em Double-u, shouldn't we also say Ef I A Tee?

Not really - FIAT is pronouncable as a word as it has vowels in it. BMW doesn't, and unless you're Polish words made up entirely of consonants are awkward to pronounce.

[Rocket88]

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A trickier one is Skoda...whose real name is Å koda, which is also read as the 'sh' in shite (what a happy coincidence )

 

Err bollocks. Shkoda fanboi now protesting virulently...............

[ProgRocker]

Having viewed some of reich967 's ads on YouTube and one episode of Judge Judy, Toyota's Celica is pronounced 'Sellick-a' in the US whereas I have been pronouncing it 'Seleek-a'

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

  colc said:

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A trickier one is Skoda...whose real name is Å koda, which is also read as the 'sh' in shite (what a happy coincidence )

 

Err bollocks. Shkoda fanboi now protesting virulently...............

 

What's wrong with shite?

[stormee]

Try this: http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/

To listen klick on the blue bar, works fine!

[pompei]

I've come across a few folk who pronounce Toyota Tee Yoto and Mitsubishi Mit Si Bushi.

 

I once nearly upset a woman I know who had a Celica; I asked have you still got your Celica, she thought I said "Silly car" ...

[MK5 Escort]

When I was little, I thought Iveco was 'I've-coe' . I’ve always called it an 'I-vecco'.

 

As for Ka,it's simply been 'Ka'. It's never been 'car' nor a 'K-A' to me. A Focus isn't a 'F-O-C-U-S' for instance...

 

A Porsche is a 'poor-sh'. I've never did the '..sher' bit at the end. That pronunciation makes my toes curl whenever I hear it! Seems to have been a thing which has been an increasing trend within the last ten years or so. I honestly never heard anyone say the 'sher' bit until then.

 

Mitsubishi - Mike Brewer says 'Mit-sye-bushy'. A what, Mike ?! To me, it's a 'Mit-su-bish-ee' or being lazy - 'mits-a-bish-ee'.

 

Perouda - It was a 'per-odour' to me originally, but now near enough everyone calls it a 'per-odd-jew-a'.

 

My grandfather used to pronounce Fiesta as 'fees-ter'!

[triang1]

Blimey the Yanks are right and we are wrong

 

Jaguar is Jag-war

 

Origin of JAGUAR

Portuguese, from Tupi jawára large carnivore

First Known Use: 1604

 

Trouble is this sort of debate can disapear up it's own arse

 

Bollocks - it's Jag-u-ar .