bxer
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Apr 17, 2012 19:49:13 GMT
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Interesting this, there are lots of cars out there with an alpha numeric title, 240Z, MR2, A4 etc. In my usual "shout loud enough and they're bound to understand you" way, I assume that the English pronounciation is universal. Never mind Porsche, how does a German speaking person say 911? You've picked a classic! ;D MR2 in French is em arr deux which sounds like merde, aka poo-poo
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Apr 17, 2012 20:34:21 GMT
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You've picked a classic! ;D MR2 in French is em arr deux which sounds like merde, aka poo-poo Poor Toyota, I bet Midship Runabout 2-seater would sounded a lot better in French.
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Apr 17, 2012 21:01:52 GMT
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Cinquecento. Chinese-chonky. Sinkwee-sent-oh. Chin-qway-chen-toe. Sank. Chink. The list of what I heard people call my poor car was endless. Same with Qashqai. Many people try hard on this but fail, a lot of them speak the q like in question. preferred clarksons version of this,what was it again? oh yeh,Kumquat lol ;D talking of clarkson...Kias cee'd...is it cee(pause)dee..or seed...or C apostrophe D Oh and its soo-ba-roo i have an ad with it on somewhere
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1984 Subaru GLF Hatch 1983 Skoda 120LE Super estelle 1977 Subaru DL Wagon 1978 Datsun 120Y Coupe 1995 Skoda favorit estate
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Apr 17, 2012 21:17:16 GMT
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indeed, vast sales of these have been lining my pockets and funding my retro toys for years. ;D
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dw1603
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Apr 17, 2012 21:49:34 GMT
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Oh and its soo-ba-roo I have an ad with it on somewhere not Scooby-Doo then?
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Raoul Duke
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It is, how you say...Raoul Duke
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Apr 17, 2012 21:50:22 GMT
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Here's a weird one - how come in America it's "AACK-yew-rah", and to everyone else it's "Hon-duh"?
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...a redder shade of neck on a whiter shade of trash...
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dw1603
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Apr 17, 2012 22:08:47 GMT
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Here's a weird one - how come in America it's "AACK-yew-rah", and to everyone else it's "Hon-duh"? Honda made their name in America selling small, cheap cars. They didn't think that people would be happy to pay big bucks for an up market Honda, so they invented Accura. Toyota did likewise with Lexus and Nissan (Knee-san?) have Infinity.
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Raoul Duke
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It is, how you say...Raoul Duke
@raoulduke
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Apr 17, 2012 23:38:01 GMT
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Here's a weird one - how come in America it's "AACK-yew-rah", and to everyone else it's "Hon-duh"? Honda made their name in America selling small, cheap cars. They didn't think that people would be happy to pay big bucks for an up market Honda, so they invented Accura. Toyota did likewise with Lexus and Nissan (Knee-san?) have Infinity. Funny though - you'd have thought that if any market was going to be subject to brand snobbery, it would be the UK? Plus, I remember when Lexus launched here, everyone knew at the outset that they were just rebranded Toyotas, so I wonder why they went to the trouble. They all seem to have done OK out of it though, so what do we know?
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...a redder shade of neck on a whiter shade of trash...
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dw1603
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Honda made their name in America selling small, cheap cars. They didn't think that people would be happy to pay big bucks for an up market Honda, so they invented Accura. Toyota did likewise with Lexus and Nissan (Knee-san?) have Infiniti. Funny though - you'd have thought that if any market was going to be subject to brand snobbery, it would be the UK? Plus, I remember when Lexus launched here, everyone knew at the outset that they were just rebranded Toyotas, so I wonder why they went to the trouble. They all seem to have done OK out of it though, so what do we know? Honda have always projected themselves as a premium brand in the UK, so there was no need for an upmarket label. Toyota and Nissan were both a bit more modest about their status. When the Lexus LS400 came along it had a serious effect on sales of the Honda Legend, so people obviously weren't that bothered about the Toyota link. Infiniti doesn't seem to be having much impact on the UK market at all. It was quite common to find people importing used JDM Toyotas and re-badging them as Lexus, I seem to remember that Toyota UK took action to discourage that.
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Infiniti took a curious time to launch in the UK - they are faced with a recession, fuel prices and you almost can't give big cars away.... Also don't they sell though Nissan dealers? Lexus sold though its own dealer network has "prestige" whereas going into the Nissan dealer is still going to buy a Nissan really. And Nissan never has had much luck selling its larger cars here in volume.
Most people who buy those kinda cars new (or approved used) are proper snobs.
Thats why my old da always bought Jags in the end, and made statements like "BMWs are just bought by common people with a bit of money who don't know any better" etc.
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MWF
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Honda made their name in America selling small, cheap cars. They didn't think that people would be happy to pay big bucks for an up market Honda, so they invented Accura. Toyota did likewise with Lexus and Nissan (Knee-san?) have Infinity. Funny though - you'd have thought that if any market was going to be subject to brand snobbery, it would be the UK? Plus, I remember when Lexus launched here, everyone knew at the outset that they were just rebranded Toyotas, so I wonder why they went to the trouble. They all seem to have done OK out of it though, so what do we know? Branding is weird like that, but in all fairness it does only tend to be the enthusiasts who know (and care about) the connection. US consumers aren't so much brand snobs as very loyal to US made products, buying an early Japanese car in the US was seen as a buying from the enemy and also the cars didn't really fit with the US car ethos, they were small and economical. And lets not forget that it was hardly anything new, GM had been trading under various targeted brands, both regional and sector orientated for decades prior.
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jdmini
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Apr 18, 2012 19:31:55 GMT
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How do you say Delica?
I'd imagine it's said der lisa. A friend tells me it's a del licker.
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Apr 18, 2012 20:12:25 GMT
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I'd say d'leaker.
How about trueno?
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I've got Rovers.
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Apr 18, 2012 21:44:52 GMT
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How do you say Delica? I'd imagine it's said der lisa. A friend tells me it's a del licker. I was under the impression it was the latter way. As if you were fondling an Only Fools And Horses character with your tongue.
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...proper medallion man chest wig motoring.
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barrett
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Apr 18, 2012 23:09:33 GMT
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'Delica' rhymes with 'Celica' does it not? Of course that doesn't really help as people seem to have great trouble getting that one 'right' too. I actually spent ages the other day trying to decide what was correct after I saw one when I was wandering about. I don't know how correct it actually is, but I say de-leeka/ se-leeka. Here's another one for the German chaps, how does one say 'Taunus' ? I always say 'tour-nus' but it could just as easily be 'tow-nus' (tow as in cow)
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Somebody find me a Watling. £££ waiting! (Seriously, I want a Watling. Help me plzzzzz)
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L300 (or L400). ;D
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I've always pronounced Talbot as Tall-bot, but I often hear tal-bot with a short "a". Just variations in English pronunciation.
The French however seem to say talboh, which isn't really correct since the brand started in Britain and was named after Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the Earl of Shrewsbury.
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The Doctor
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'Delica' rhymes with 'Celica' does it not? Of course that doesn't really help as people seem to have great trouble getting that one 'right' too. I actually spent ages the other day trying to decide what was correct after I saw one when I was wandering about. I don't know how correct it actually is, but I say de-leeka/ se-leeka. Here's another one for the German chaps, how does one say 'Taunus' ? I always say 'tour-nus' but it could just as easily be 'tow-nus' (tow as in cow) funny, in the Netherlands we say Sáylica and Dáylica And indeed Taunus is pronounced as tow-nus , also in Germany.
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Apr 20, 2012 13:21:07 GMT
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Talbot depends on which Talbot company you mean? I recall from their TV adverts its TAL BOT. Tal as in talisman or taliban and bot as in robot. All hard vowels. Very yorkshire. There is a French Talbot from way back when which I guess would be Tal-boh Tall-Bot just sounds like someone trying to be posh, innit
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RobinJI
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"Driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
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Apr 20, 2012 13:44:44 GMT
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I think some confusion comes from what should be considered correct. It's not always going to be correct to mimic the pronunciation of the originating country, or the person it's named after, language evolves and varies. I'm pretty sure we can all agree that Mt' Everest is pronounced Ever-est, but it's named after a man who pronounced his own name Everest as Eve-rist. I wouldn't say that automatically makes Ever-est wrong.
As for aluminium/aluminum, I see Americans insisting on using aluminum as being as correct as them insisting on continuing to use imperial measurements. It came first, but it's since been widely acknowledged that it doesn't make as much sense, and as such the international convention has accepted the modern version, with America insisting on being stubborn and not accepting it.
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