Poll: How do you pronounce Porsche?
02-07-2008, 11:48 PM
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Poll: How do you pronounce Porsche?
02-08-2008, 12:45 AM
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If you watch the video posted earlier of the man himself, how can you say it any differently? If you listen to Mr. Porsche say his own name, there you go.
As far as the whole miz-our-eee vs. miz-ur-ah argument...I think that is more of an example of dialect. Porsche without the "e" sound at the end is simply an incorrect pronunciation of someone's last name regardless of where you are from.
In Tennessee, there is a county spelled Maury. The rest of the world pronounces it "maaahr-ry" (as in Povich) while the poor demented souls that live there insist it's "Murray". There's also a town named Santa Fe in Tennessee. Everyone else in the world ends the sound of that town with the sound "fay" while the poor demented souls that live there insist it is "Fee". These are good examples of people letting dialect incorrectly dictate the pronunciation of the obvious while the rest of the world thinks they're an idiot. If you choose to own a Porsche and call it a Porsch, that's your choice, but you know it's wrong. Does it bother you if people mispronounce your first or last name? It does me...
Hope that didn't sound too harsh, but I have never heard anyone actually admit they know they say it wrong yet still continue to do it.
Either way, it's your car. Call it a VW if you want.
As far as the whole miz-our-eee vs. miz-ur-ah argument...I think that is more of an example of dialect. Porsche without the "e" sound at the end is simply an incorrect pronunciation of someone's last name regardless of where you are from.
In Tennessee, there is a county spelled Maury. The rest of the world pronounces it "maaahr-ry" (as in Povich) while the poor demented souls that live there insist it's "Murray". There's also a town named Santa Fe in Tennessee. Everyone else in the world ends the sound of that town with the sound "fay" while the poor demented souls that live there insist it is "Fee". These are good examples of people letting dialect incorrectly dictate the pronunciation of the obvious while the rest of the world thinks they're an idiot. If you choose to own a Porsche and call it a Porsch, that's your choice, but you know it's wrong. Does it bother you if people mispronounce your first or last name? It does me...
Hope that didn't sound too harsh, but I have never heard anyone actually admit they know they say it wrong yet still continue to do it.
Either way, it's your car. Call it a VW if you want.
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02-08-2008, 07:00 AM
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If you are afflicted with a hare lip or some other speech pathology issue, practically any semblance to the correct enunciation will be graciously accepted .... even 'porch': othewise, Porsche is expected .... 
02-08-2008, 07:46 AM
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Neither...It's PORSH-uh
Hear it for yourself here: http://german.about.com/library/media/sound/words_a.mp3
Hear it for yourself here: http://german.about.com/library/media/sound/words_a.mp3
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