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Old 01-18-2004, 02:39 PM
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Always was curious about this.
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How do you pronounce it?
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Old 01-18-2004, 02:44 PM
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Old 01-18-2004, 02:51 PM
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The way they pronounce it in the commercials: "porsha"
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Exactly! All words in German that end in "e" are pronounced like an "a". We have been down this road many times.
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Looking at my receipts... I can only justify one pronunciation....

"POOR - SHA"

Worth every and drop of blood spent!!!

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Sorry,

Meant to say "worth every dollar and drop of blood spent!"

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Originally posted by Chris Prack
Exactly! All words in German that end in "e" are pronounced like an "a". We have been down this road many times.
Not necessarily, there are many words that end in e that dont end in an english ah sound.

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e is pronounced e, and in all the commercials I've heard it's Porsche. Do you mean to tell me that they've spelled the name wrong on all the cars that left the factory, and it shuld've been Porscha?
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Porsche is a TWO SYLLABLE Name.

It sounds like Porscha but it's actually Porsche with an EH not AH.
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No they have spelt it right. I am merly saying, not every word in German that ends in e has the "ah" sound at the end.

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This is almost as bad as my trying to explane the pronunciation of Fuchs.

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Hehe. Don't think you have a sound equvivalent to the German "chs"-sound.

We did have this discussion before and I'm positive we agreed on Porsch-uh.
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"This is almost as bad as my trying to explane the pronunciation of Fuchs.

-Christian"

How do you pronounce Fuchs or rennlist for a mater of fact ?
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