Here's one which amuses me as much as it irritates me. The Ford Ka. No, nothing to do with the diminutive Fiesta platform supermini, not its reliance of the puishrod Endura engine - I actuallyy quitye like the Endura, not its propensity to munch its way through front lower wishbone bushes every 30,000 miles. Not really, nor even the fact that its a car Ford designed to sell for £4000 that they then decided they could get away with charging nearer £7000 for at launch...
Nope. None of this.
Its the name.
What kind of a silly donkey came up with Ka as a name for a car? You see the correct pronunciation of Ka is "car". Its as dumb as a Hewlett Packard deciding to call its next range of PCs "Computer". Regardless of how you spell it Ka = Car = car. And thats just wrong.
Which leads to my actual gripe: The multitudinous and multifarious mispronunciation of the designatory appellation pertaining to the diminutive automobile and its equally dinky name...
The one which raises my rag, gets my dander up, you know, generally inspires my rancour is when people (usually of the geezer pursuasion) insist on calling it the Kay-ay. "Yeah, like the missus got er sel won o dem Ford Kay-ay like innit"
fvckwit neanderthals.
It is the explicit convention in the English language that a drop capital formation implicty indicates a word in is whole and natural format.
Do these people also speak of a Ford Eff-Eye-Est-Tee-Ay? We're not talking about nookie in front of the kids here people!
Or is it that the Ka is an evil that dare not speak its name. Is it like the Candy Man or even Betelgeuse? Say it outloud three times and "poof" theres a Ford Ka and you have to spend the next 90 minutes battling pish poor special effects and dubious CGI to send it back to the Ford dealership of the Underworld where ti belongs, before it consumes the whole world mwuh ha ha ha hahahahaha!!!!!
(that was an evil laugh by the way, if you didn't get the phonetics going on there)
Nope, dumbasses of the world unite and spell sh!t out.
Ka is a word. It isn't one in common use in the English language, or indeed in any language (although English would be the only language it is a phoneym for "automobile")
Interestingly it is actually an ancient Egyptian word, it means the immortal creative life-force or spirit which the Egyptians believed was a tangiable element which could live on after your death in the mortal realm due to the physical remnants of your earthly life. It was for this reason that the Pharoes built great temples, dedicated both to the Gods who they must honour but also dedicated ot their own Ka which would continue to be cellebrated and recognised long after their death. Such buildings were called a "Temple of a million years" and also there is a term "hall of eternity" which I understand to be much the same thing but where the Ka is revered as part of an existing temple. Its why they were such prolific builders. Anyway, I digress...
I still reckon Ka is a stupid name for a car, and it feels "wrong" to pronounce it "car" so those of us who don;t just spell it out like we can even read a two letter word out loud ourselves unaided (spit, pah, meh!) are left with a choice - how to pronounce it without looking like a turdbrain.
Saying "car" is right but just makes you look, sound and feel like a turdbrain. (see above)
Some people seem to try and form the word right in the back of their throat and say "Kaaarrrggh" like they are gargling spit (or worse...)
A mate of mine owned one and made a sound not dis-similar to a crow when declaring the make and model of his vehicle. Its a Ford Kaw. Entertaining. But not even close.
I am one of those folks who put a kind of Yorkshire inflectuon to it, hard vouls and staccato"Kah". I know its wrong. I know it as I say it so I have extended it to some kind of breathy (and decidedly gay sounding ) "Kaaahhhhhh" almost as if I was about to say "Carry" but died two letters in and my voice is carried out to the Elysian Fields on one last breath....
Interestingly and utterly unrelatedly I saw an executive housing development called Elysian Fields not so long back. Should really be an old peoples home or sheltered housing development with a name like that....
Which brings me onto the last one I have spotted which is when peopletrie to do a posher sounding version of the above. Comes out all "Kaaahhhhhrrr" still with that "hhh" rising from the back of the throat but in a softer purring voul sound. I've tried this but I just sound like I'm a ubercamp cross between Leslie Phillips and your worst homoerotic nightmare - and I'm on the pull.... No. Not right at all.
Its two frikkin letters, how hard can it be people.
Meh.
For some retro content here;s the car which apparently inspired the designers....
sjgphotography.fotopic.net/p24913497.html
(right click disabled)
and some Hippies in some mud in 1968
Nope. None of this.
Its the name.
What kind of a silly donkey came up with Ka as a name for a car? You see the correct pronunciation of Ka is "car". Its as dumb as a Hewlett Packard deciding to call its next range of PCs "Computer". Regardless of how you spell it Ka = Car = car. And thats just wrong.
Which leads to my actual gripe: The multitudinous and multifarious mispronunciation of the designatory appellation pertaining to the diminutive automobile and its equally dinky name...
The one which raises my rag, gets my dander up, you know, generally inspires my rancour is when people (usually of the geezer pursuasion) insist on calling it the Kay-ay. "Yeah, like the missus got er sel won o dem Ford Kay-ay like innit"
fvckwit neanderthals.
It is the explicit convention in the English language that a drop capital formation implicty indicates a word in is whole and natural format.
Do these people also speak of a Ford Eff-Eye-Est-Tee-Ay? We're not talking about nookie in front of the kids here people!
Or is it that the Ka is an evil that dare not speak its name. Is it like the Candy Man or even Betelgeuse? Say it outloud three times and "poof" theres a Ford Ka and you have to spend the next 90 minutes battling pish poor special effects and dubious CGI to send it back to the Ford dealership of the Underworld where ti belongs, before it consumes the whole world mwuh ha ha ha hahahahaha!!!!!
(that was an evil laugh by the way, if you didn't get the phonetics going on there)
Nope, dumbasses of the world unite and spell sh!t out.
Ka is a word. It isn't one in common use in the English language, or indeed in any language (although English would be the only language it is a phoneym for "automobile")
Interestingly it is actually an ancient Egyptian word, it means the immortal creative life-force or spirit which the Egyptians believed was a tangiable element which could live on after your death in the mortal realm due to the physical remnants of your earthly life. It was for this reason that the Pharoes built great temples, dedicated both to the Gods who they must honour but also dedicated ot their own Ka which would continue to be cellebrated and recognised long after their death. Such buildings were called a "Temple of a million years" and also there is a term "hall of eternity" which I understand to be much the same thing but where the Ka is revered as part of an existing temple. Its why they were such prolific builders. Anyway, I digress...
I still reckon Ka is a stupid name for a car, and it feels "wrong" to pronounce it "car" so those of us who don;t just spell it out like we can even read a two letter word out loud ourselves unaided (spit, pah, meh!) are left with a choice - how to pronounce it without looking like a turdbrain.
Saying "car" is right but just makes you look, sound and feel like a turdbrain. (see above)
Some people seem to try and form the word right in the back of their throat and say "Kaaarrrggh" like they are gargling spit (or worse...)
A mate of mine owned one and made a sound not dis-similar to a crow when declaring the make and model of his vehicle. Its a Ford Kaw. Entertaining. But not even close.
I am one of those folks who put a kind of Yorkshire inflectuon to it, hard vouls and staccato"Kah". I know its wrong. I know it as I say it so I have extended it to some kind of breathy (and decidedly gay sounding ) "Kaaahhhhhh" almost as if I was about to say "Carry" but died two letters in and my voice is carried out to the Elysian Fields on one last breath....
Interestingly and utterly unrelatedly I saw an executive housing development called Elysian Fields not so long back. Should really be an old peoples home or sheltered housing development with a name like that....
Which brings me onto the last one I have spotted which is when peopletrie to do a posher sounding version of the above. Comes out all "Kaaahhhhhrrr" still with that "hhh" rising from the back of the throat but in a softer purring voul sound. I've tried this but I just sound like I'm a ubercamp cross between Leslie Phillips and your worst homoerotic nightmare - and I'm on the pull.... No. Not right at all.
Its two frikkin letters, how hard can it be people.
Meh.
For some retro content here;s the car which apparently inspired the designers....
sjgphotography.fotopic.net/p24913497.html
(right click disabled)
and some Hippies in some mud in 1968
;D
Ford badge on teh key, paint em all Red, give em one engine, easy to tell people what you have all teh memory stimulations are there. 
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